Media Coverage
The Portland Press Herald reviewed the Colby Museum’s Radical Histories exhibition, featuring prints by Chicanx artists. On view through June 8, the review highlights how the collection reminds us of the role protest art plays in societal change.
VOGUE published a feature article on Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville.
| NBC's Rob Caldwell interviewed Maine playwright Bess Welden of Colby’s Performance, Theater, and Dance Department about the debut of her multi-award-winning play Madeleines. Now showing at Portland Stage through March 23. |
Colby men’s and women’s hockey teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) semifinals.
Newsweek featured research by Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dale Kocevski in a round-up of the six most “remarkable” and “surprising” James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. Kocevski is leading a study on "Little Red Dots,” a phenomenon thought to be a new class of galaxies.
A top story in Maine this week, Associate Professor of Economics James Siodla led a pioneering study with the Maine Policy Institute that explores the impacts of housing policies in the state and offers recommendations for change. The report has drawn widespread attention from the media across the state.
Artsy published an intimate feature of Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, a new exhibition co-curated by Sarah Humphreville, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby Museum. The article explores Abercrombie’s enduring relatable surrealism in the retrospective, which will travel to Waterville in July.
Colby's Davis AI was featured in as Fast Company article on AI literacy.
Leading health information website WebMD turned to the expertise of Gail Carlson, director of Colby's Buck Lab for Climate and Environment and assistant professor of environmental studies, for an article about how forever chemicals impact mental health. According to Carlson, "some chemicals cause neurological changes" that can be "pathways of anxiety and depression."
NBC’s News Center Maine interviewed Professor of Art and Department Chair Véronique Plesch about the South Solon Meeting House, known for its striking floor-to-ceiling frescoes painted in the 1950s by artists from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Plesch has designed a course around the structure and describes it as one of her “favorite places in the world.”