Media Coverage
American Fine Art Magazine shone a spotlight on the Colby Museum’s Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery exhibition, highlighting how the painting’s elements “move in a void of voids, incomplete shadows detached from substance, ghosts of themselves.”
PBS Newshour interviewed Arisa White, associate professor of English (creative writing), about her partnership with the Indigo Arts Alliance, an organization based in Portland, Maine, focused on supporting contemporary Black and Brown artists.
Another measure of Colby's economic impact on Waterville is the wide variety of media that have covered the city's resurgence over the last five years. To that end, the popular men's lifestyle magazine Maxim recently published a story on road tripping through Maine, and as part of the piece, highlighted a visit to the Lockwood Hotel and its restaurant, Front & Main.
InsideHook, a new digital outlet covering lifestyle topics, included Waterville in a story about small-town alternatives for avoiding tourist traps. The piece noted how the city is a breath of fresh air compared to crowded Bar Harbor, and that it’s a “bustling small town, thanks in no small part to its resident campus, Colby College.”
The Colby Museum of Art was featured in Time Out’s “America’s best art museums.” The article noted that the museum is one of the very few in the U.S. with a wing dedicated to the work of a single living artist, Alex Katz. It also highlighted the museum’s strong folk art collection and site-specific works.
Colby alumnus Ken Eisen ’73 was featured in a story about his role in making Waterville "the film hub that it is today." The piece highlighted how he helped create what is now the renowned Maine International Film Festival, and how Colby supported early efforts in shaping the city's film scene.
In a story about becoming the new director of Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, David Watts said he views “Colby as a leader in driving responsible AI development and usage by society,” and that he’s “excited about helping Colby expand how AI is applied, imagined, and regulated.”
In a piece about what to do in Boston and the surrounding area, the Boston Globe highlighted the Colby Museum's exhibition Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which recently opened. The article noted that the show is the first-ever touring survey of the artist's work that "looks to establish her in a canon that left her aside."
The Lockwood Hotel was named one of Travel + Leisure’s Top 10 Best New England Hotels of 2025 as part of the publication’s World’s Best 2025 Awards. The hotel placed sixth with a reader’s score of 94.13, placing the hotel among notable company.
