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
Questions and Answers: Interview with Bryana Bibbs
Anela Gallegos, the Colby Museum’s Howard A. and Gisele B. Miller Curatorial Intern for Summer 2022, interviews artist Bryana Bibbs, Summer 2022 Lunder Institute for American Art Residential Fellow. 1.
The Faithful Work of Looking Again: In the Gallery with Faith Ringgold’s Coming to Jones Road #4: Under a Blood-Red Sky
Dominic Bellido ’24 reflects on Faith Ringgold’s Coming to Jones Road #4: Under a Blood-Red Sky, a recent museum acquisition currently on view at the Colby College Museum of Art
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,
The “Special Period”: Cuban Artists in the Tsiaras Family Photography Collection
Alex Méndez, the Colby Museum’s Linde Family Foundation Coordinator of Academic Access, shares interpretive content that she developed for Act of Sight: The Tsiaras Family Photography Collection. Curator Beth Finch
Ekphrastic Poetry: “breath left in you”
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
You’re Speaking My Language: Jacob Lawrence’s The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
During the Fall 2021 semester, students in Cultural Encounters: Engaging with Literature and Media (FR128) and The Rise and Fall of Versailles (FR232), created museum labels with a focus on
Questions and Answers: Interview with Julia Arredondo
Yan Xuan, the Colby Museum’s Curatorial Intern for the 2021–2022 academic year, interviews artist Julia Arredondo, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. Xuan’s questions led Arredondo to respond with
Questions and Answers: Interview with E. Saffronia Downing
Yan Xuan, the Colby Museum’s Curatorial Intern for the 2021–2022 academic year, interviews artist E. Saffronia Downing, Lunder Institute for American Art Resident Fellow. 1. Clay appears in
Artist Statements: otherwise, or temporary moves towards utopia
At the conclusion of the 2021 fall semester, the students in Gwyneth Shanks’s course, Performing the Museum, staged a performance exhibition entitled otherwise, or temporary moves towards utopia at the Colby