Media Coverage

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.”

A video of Visiting Assistant Professor of English Adam Giannelli reading his poem "Stutter" was included in Poets & Writers. A recent winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Poetry, Giannelli is working on a poetry book focused solely on stuttering.

CEO World magazine included Colby in its list of most beautiful college campuses that "everyone would like to be a part of." In addition to noting how Colby's location provides "students with a truly unique Maine experience," the piece referenced the College's "longstanding commitment to the environment," and the newly added Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center.

The Wall Street Journal spoke with Elizabeth Stephens '21 about her experience as an intern and the role it played in helping her secure a job. The article looked at the need to have an internship before graduation and how recruiters believe the pandemic has made interning more important than ever.