At the Colby Museum’s event, Art&: The Poetics of Atmosphere, Dominic Bellido ’24 read his new poem, “Thinking Of The Key.” Bellido wrote this poem in response to Lorna Simpson’s

Selected Ekphrastic Poetry from the Colby Course “Visual Poetics”
In my Visual Poetics course this January, the students and I explored the intersection between poetry and visual art, including a unit on ekphrasis (a verbal representation of a visual representation). Using

Food Phreaking Issue 04: Seeds
Artists Zackery Denfeld and Cathrine Kramer of The Center for Genomic Gastronomy are two of the artists behind the SEED-O-MATIC, the world’s slowest vending machine, which dispenses unique seeds with

View a digital version of Up in Smoke, a companion to River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames
Click below to view a digital version of Up in Smoke, a companion guide now available in River Works: Whistler and the Industrial Thames. Up in Smoke features an essay by Gail

Inaugural Lunder Institute Artist in Residence Kicks Off
Originally published in the Colby Echo–Theaster Gates joins us on Mayflower Hill as the first inaugural Lunder Institute Artist in Residence.

Water Music
Zao Wou-Ki and Global Music
Music and performing arts were lifelong passions of Zao’s, and in both his personal and professional lives, he surrounded himself with music, performers, and composers.

Artist Attributed
Ruth Henshaw Bascom's Pastels
“The surviving volumes of Bascom’s diary accumulate references to over 1,100 likenesses, and the more than two hundred extant portraits demonstrate her sensitivity to nuances of physiognomy and dress and her facility with a range of materials.”

A Second Skin
Scrimshaw Corsest Busks
Men drawn to the whaling life were promised adventure, but scrimshaw attests that excitement did not dominate the months or years they were out at sea.