Media Coverage

Variety interviewed Jun Fang, visiting assistant professor of sociology, for an article discussing the relationship between Hollywood and China’s film industry. Fang is authoring the forthcoming ethnography “When China Meets Hollywood” and provided expertise on the potential impacts on the film industry.

Artforum published a major review of Bob Thompson: This House is Mine before the final week of the exhibition. “What is needed, now and going forward, is for these powerful images to be widely seen,” the author writes. The show will travel around the country after closing at Colby on Jan. 9, 2022. 

Assistant Professor of English Sarah Braunstein was included in a discussion on Maine Public. Along with her colleagues in the Starfish Writing Group, the authors discussed the importance of the creative collaborative process.

As Maine colleges prepared for the return to campus, Colby came out on top for its diligence in safety protocols to combat Covid-19. Both WGME-TV and the Portland Press Herald shared articles covering this topic.

An NYC developer has plans to turn an abandoned mill in downtown Waterville into affordable housing and commercial space, reports the Morning Sentinel. The article also mentions Colby’s contributions to the city’s revitalization, including the Lockwood Hotel and the Greene Block + Studios.

Hyperallergic published a review of the Bob Thompson exhibition currently on view at the Colby College Museum of Art. The writer noted that, “This House is Mine … is a triumph in scale and curation, and the abundance of provocative imagery poses new questions regarding his legacy.”

In a list of top things to do around the Boston area, the Boston Globe included the Colby Museum of Art exhibition Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, which is currently on view through Jan. 9, 2022.

In its video story "Art by the incarcerated," CBS News included an exhibition in Portland last fall co-curated by Olivia Hochstadt '21 that was a part of the statewide initiative Freedom & Captivity, spearheaded by Catherine Besteman, Colby’s Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology. "What surprised me the most was how kind the people I met were: respectful, courteous," said Hochstadt, who last summer landed an internship with the nonprofit Maine Prisoner Advocacy Coalition that took her inside the Maine State Prison to hold weekly art classes.

Naser Al Madi, assistant professor of computer science, was interviewed by NBC affiliate News Center Maine about his latest work to increase the accuracy of eye movement monitoring for security purposes. In the story, he commented on how eye movement could replace passwords for “something like Google Glass where we don't have a keyboard and mouse.”

Bob Thompson: This House is Mine received an honorable mention in Hyperallergic's "The Best of 2021” top art exhibits list. The piece described the show as the first major retrospective on the artist and noted that he “deserved a revival of this scale and quality.”