Media Coverage

Sports outlet Sportico featured Colby's new Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center in a story that was also picked up by Yahoo! Sports. “This building is the best in its class, the best in the country of its kind. And it gives us an extraordinary advantage,” President Greene told Sportico. Vice President and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics Mike Wisecup also noted that Colby is “serious about athletics and the importance it has in our education.”

"Everything Now: Lessons From the City-State of Los Angeles," a new book by Rosecrans Baldwin '99, was recently reviewed in the New York Times. "To write the definitive book about Los Angeles would be impossible," stated the story. "In 'Everything Now,' the novelist ... doesn’t try. And in not trying, he may have written the perfect book about Los Angeles."

Dr. Anna O'Keefe and her husband, Brandon O'Keefe, 2007 graduates, were featured in the Morning Sentinel article "Dental practice powered by Colby alums moving to Oakland’s FirstPark." The office will include the latest technology, state-of-the-art air filters, and room to expand. Building from the ground up was the only way to go, said Anna O'Keefe. “Our goal is to do it all really well.”

CultureType reported that Brooklyn-based artist Dread Scott was recently named senior fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art. Scott, who says he “makes revolutionary art to propel history forward,” will be at Colby for the 2021-22 academic year. CultureType is an online resource focused on visual art from a Black perspective, exploring the intersection of art, history, and culture.

Steven Simon, professor of international relations, weighed in on U.S. and Israeli relations for the New York Times. "There are fundamental differences that have emerged in the relationship that will be difficult to reverse, especially as American politics becomes increasingly polarized," and "it will be hard under foreseeable circumstances for Israel to recapture the wall-to-wall loyalty of the Democratic Party,” Simon told the Times.

NewsCenter Maine interviewed Josh Kim '22 about his latest venture, The Cubby, the first online student-art marketplace where artists keep 100 percent of the profits. The Cubby was founded by Kim specifically for college students to help them gain visibility for their art.

Master Drummer Messan Jordan Benissan, applied music instructor in African drumming and director of the African Drumming Ensemble, was featured in a video on Maine Public's "Assignment: Maine" series. Originally from Togo, West Africa, Benissan has been teaching drumming at Colby since 1999. He's also a restauranteur, operating Me Lon Togo Bistro in Camden.

An Art Daily article reported on the opening of the new exhibition at the Colby College Museum of Art, Inside Out: The Prints of Mary Cassatt. The show "highlights Cassatt’s creative process and her fearless experimentation," Art Daily said, and includes "a selection of rare trial proofs that document her first forays into printmaking. Cassatt’s trial proofs and early-state impressions reveal her step-by-step process. As viewers look at them, they’ll see her learning and taking risks, fearlessly innovating and experimenting, and in doing so creating some of her most intimate and captivating works of art." The exhibition remains on view through Nov. 1, 2021.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, provided commentary to the Portland Press Herald on the significance of Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday. Gilkes said the holiday will "generate conversation about African American history and the discovery that it is a lot more complex than we realize."

Patrice Franko, the Grossman Professor of Economics and Director of Global Studies Program, shared her insights with the Globe and Mail for an article about the drop in the number of Canadian tourists traveling to New England and the connection between Maine and Canada. “We share histories,” she noted, “[and] in a way, that border was not a border.”