The current installation in the lobby of the Colby Museum of Art features works by Thaddeus Mosley, Nabil Nahas, and Sherrie Levine that draw on the formal qualities of
In the Galleries: Representations of Migration
In her book Borderlands/La Fontera: The New Mestiza (1987), Chicana theorist, scholar, and poet Gloria Anzaldúa states that “The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta [an open wound] where the
Poems in Conversation with the Work of Andrew Moore
For this assignment, Intro to Creative Writing students learn to make metaphors using Andrew Moore’s photograph, Courtyard, former Cass Technical High School building, as inspiration. Through a series of generative-writing
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
Art + Conversation: Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making 1948–1960
Watch Elizabeth Finch and Marshall N. Price, co-curators of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 discuss the little-known early career of the Pop art legend and their collaborative work on
Man with a Flowered Coat: Once Nameless, Now Known
Editor’s note: close looking by Matthew Brown ’24 led to new, or rediscovered, associations between a portrait in the Colby Museum’s collection and several others in museums worldwide. The visual connections Brown
Art + Conversation: Another World is Possible
Watch Elizabeth Jabar, inaugural Director of Civic Engagement and Community Partnerships at Colby College, and co-founder of Hinge Collaborative, and Olivia Fountain, Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow at Colby College
Unseen Violence in Judy Glickman Lauder’s Photography
Content warning: this article is about the Holocaust and photographic documentation of the Holocaust.
Content warning: this article is about the Holocaust and photographic documentation of the Holocaust. Judy Glickman Lauder, whose photographic career began in the 1970s, is best known for her
The Sea in a Jug: Selected Labels from the Colby course “Reading Images”
The students in AR 101W: Reading Images have each spent the semester studying a single work of art in the Sea in a Jug exhibition. These labels are condensed versions of their visual analysis
Art + Conversation with Kifah Abdulla
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