At the end of 2022 the Colby Museum staff were asked to reflect on their favorite exhibitions they saw and the best art books that they read this past year.

Community Voices: Original Soundscapes for “Light on Main Street”
Waterville Alternative High School students created soundscapes and a playlist inspired by the videos on view in the Colby College Museum of Art’s exhibition, Light on Main Street. To listen

How to Call Your Mother
In a series of annotated photographs of his mother, Dominic Bellido ’24 reflects on his relationship to the traditions of family, science, and indigenous Peruvian culture through visual poetry. It’s

Learning to Speak to a Risograph Machine
Dominic Bellido ’24, the Museum’s new Lantern Writer-in-Residence, shares his experience creating color prints with the Risograph machine at the Center for Book & Print in downtown Waterville during the Open House

Finding Artistic Inspiration and Creative Collaboration with a Twelve-Inch Blick 906 Floor Model Etching Press
Christine Zheng, the Mirken Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice, visits the home studios of two local artists, Lucky Platt and Jim Macdonald, to discuss their artmaking practices, community engagement,

Questions and Answers: Interview with Adriane Herman
Editor’s note: Kayla Merriweather, the Colby Museum’s Summer 2021 Black Family Curatorial Intern, interviews artist Adriane Herman, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. I am interested in the interactive nature

Questions and Answers: Interview with Veronica Perez
Editor’s note: Kayla Merriweather, the Colby Museum’s Summer 2021 Black Family Curatorial Intern, interviews artist Veronica Perez, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. Your work often utilizes hair. When we

Notes from the Studio: Lunder Institute Fellow Shares Music Demo
Editor’s Note: Jose Barrionuevo ’16 (Killer Bee) shares an excerpt from astuwiku (it comes together), a piece of music developed during his residency at the Lunder Institute for American Art. “Astuwiku,”

Looking to Lighten Up?
As part of the Colby Museum’s Community Day on July 31st, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow and self-proclaimed “Experience Broker,” Adriane Herman is orchestrating her 4th Emotional Value Auction

Fluid Movements
The Physics of Visitor Movement through an Art Museum
At Colby, I am an art history and chemistry double major minoring in physics, a member of the Museum Student Advisory Board, and a member of Women in Physics. These