Media Coverage

Jacqueline Terrassa, the Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art, was featured in a delightful Q&A for the recent summer edition of Maine Homes by Down East magazine.

A major review by the Boston Globe of new exhibitions about Pueblo art led with the Colby Museum’s Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. The article notes that the show is “quietly radical,” offering “a glimpse into what the future might look like” for engaging with Native American art.

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates was included in a New York Times story about clean energy. The article, which looked at impediments for converting to renewables, referenced how she is “studying ways to communicate…about offshore wind proposals.”

An article in the New York Times highlighted the Colby Museum for its work with native communities in its exhibition Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts and Village, which offers Pueblo perspectives on the Taos Society of Artists, an Anglo-American group.

Colby’s President David A. Greene was featured in an important story by the Boston Globe on how leading colleges are responding to recent attacks on the liberal arts. In the article, he talked about how “a strong democracy depends on people who … will actually fight for understanding truth,” and that we need to make the liberal arts “more accessible because it is so powerful.”

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Alison Bates and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stacy Doore were featured in a story by Digital Journal about their community-engaged wind-energy research. In the article, Bates explains how they’re using virtual reality and “trying to give voice and provide an avenue for people who may not be able to participate in public engagement processes and decision-making.”

Forbes highlights the importance of Virgil Ortiz’s work currently on view as part of the Colby College Museum of Art’s Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village exhibition.

Art Daily highlights works by renowned female artists Agnes Pelton and Edmonia Lewis as among the Colby College Museum of Art's newest acquisitions.

Nature unpacks the importance of the James Webb Space Telescope’s most recent black hole observations, highlighting the research of astrophysicist and Associate Professor of Astronomy Dale Kocevski.

Maine’s leading newspaper, the Portland Press Herald, published a front-page feature story on the Colby Museum of Art’s new exhibition Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. The article included commentary on how the show is a “landmark,” and that it is “potentially a really exciting model for museums going forward.”