This virtual program offers a glimpse into calligraphy, one of the art forms featured in the exhibition, The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian
Art of Empire
Anti-racist protests across the globe have precipitated the long overdue removal of many public monuments in recent weeks. For over a decade, the British artist Hew Locke has interrogated Victorian
Sailors’ Souvenirs: Cultural Appropriation Across the Globe
Sarah Timm, Manager of Interpretation at the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine, discusses objects from MMM’s collection that were collected by Maine captains and crews during their stops in ports
Art + Conversation: River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames
Justin McCann, Lunder Curator for Whistler Studies at the Colby College Museum of Art, offers a virtual tour of the River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames exhibition, featuring a
Art + Conversation: Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing
Sarah Duff, assistant professor of history at Colby College, and Diana Tuite, Katz Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, discuss the Queen Victoria figurehead in the Colby Museum collection and
2016 Miles and Katharine Culberston Prentice Lecture: Leonardo Drew
On October 27, 2016, artist Leonardo Drew presented the Museum’s annual Prentice Lecture with a discussion of his recent work and Number 104 (2005), which was at that point on view
Hew Locke on Here’s the Thing
On February 20, 2020, Hew Locke spoke at the Colby College Musuem of Art in connection with the opening of his solo show Hew Locke: Here’s the Thing. His wide-ranging talk
The Permanence of the Temporary: A Call for a Sustainable Art Movement
The neon message by Lauren Bon in the foyer of the Colby Museum of Art insists that “Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the
Baked Alaska: Hope in the Time of Disaster
This essay is adapted from an assignment in the Colby College course Environmental Humanities: Stories of Crisis and Resilience, taught by Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Environmental Humanities Christopher Walker. The exhibition Occupy Colby featured
Gallery: I Am Not a Stranger photo corner
I Am Not a Stranger: Portraits by Séan Alonzo Harris posed a series of questions: who are the people we see everyday, and how do we get to know them? What