From the Archives: A Conversation with David Driskell
While access to the Colby Museum galleries is curtailed, The Lantern will be publishing videos, photos, and reflections from our archives. This is a chance for us to reflect on our rich legacy
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
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
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
SEED-O-MATIC: Inside Fedco Seeds
The SEED-O-MATIC is a vending machine that sells seeds and the soil needed to grow them. This fall, the machine was stocked with the help of Betsy Garrold and Roberta Bailey of