In January, artist and filmmaker Bill Morrison joined The Lantern for a Zoom interview to reflect on the Colby Museum’s fall downtown exhibition, Bill Morrison: Cycles and Loops.
Playscape PLAYlist
Inspired by the works in the exhibition Playscape: Contemporary Art from the Colby Museum’s Collection, Museum staff Andrew Witte brings together examples of auditory kitsch from the past 100 years.
In the Galleries: Interpretations of Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow
In summer 2023, with support from the Terra Foundation for American Art’s Collection-in-Residence Program, Colby College Museum of Art student interns developed wall labels for Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Boy with Cow.
Open Letter to Colby
In his last article as Lantern Writer-in-Residence, Dominic Bellido ’24 writes to the larger Colby community about a collection of Indigenous artifacts found on Allen Island, Colby’s new “island campus”.
“Visible upon the Invisible”: A Postcard and George Inness
“Beauty depends upon the unseen – the visible upon the invisible.” – George Inness [1] I joined Postcrossing, a postcard exchange site that allows you to send and receive postcards
Colby Museum Student Photographer Creates Photo Essay Inspired by Recent Studio Visits with LIAA Residential Fellows
Museum student photographer Amanda Mao ’26 reflects on her experience photographing the current cohort of Lunder Institute for American Art Residential Fellows Heather Flor Cron, Tessa Greene O’Brien, and Dylan
Lunder Institute Senior Fellow Oscar Santillán Inspires Colby Student’s Audiovisual Essay Exploring Non-human Intelligence
Colby student Hang Phan ’26 shares final project from Jan Plan course Antimundo, taught by Lunder Institute Senior Fellow Oscar Santillán This course is about the future; the future here
Dancing in Mirrors: Alex Katz, Race, and the Guggenheim Trip
After attending a symposium on Alex Katz at the Guggenheim Museum, Dominic Bellido ’24 critically reflects on how race and representation in the collections shape student engagement with the Colby
How to Paint with Sound
In this article, Lantern Writer-in-Residence Dominic Bellido reviews the Painting with Sound installation that took place in All in One: Selections from the Alex Katz Foundation last December, with an introduction from
Questions and Answers: Interview with Colby Museum Curatorial Intern Mary Bevilacqua
During the Fall 2022 semester while working for the Colby Museum as a Curatorial Intern, Bevilacqua was tasked with curating a small selection of works on paper for the chest