Media Coverage

"Colby graduates were treated Sunday to a poem in their honor by a presidential inaugural poet, who urged them to stay grounded during turbulent times," the Associated Press said in a story about the College’s commencement celebrations and speaker Richard Blanco. The article was also picked up by a wide range of papers across the country, including the San Antonio Express and the San Francisco Chronicle. 

"The feeling of celebration was palpable on Mayflower Hill as speakers emphasized unity and perseverance," the Morning Sentinel reported in an article following Colby's 2021 commencement. The story included comments from President Greene, who told the seniors that this year “every experience mattered, every action was consequential and every friendship and moment of joy was meaningful.”

Mike Wisecup, vice president and Harold Alfond Director of Athletics, was interviewed by Authority Magazine, where he discussed lessons learned from his extensive military experience as a Navy SEAL officer. He also talked about how he applied those experiences during the Covid-19 crisis in his current role at Colby.

A story about photographer Stefan Kohli '18 ran on India's iDiva website. iDiva singled out Kohli for his photographs of the pop singer Ariana Grande's wedding in May. "Meet the 24-year-old Stefan Kohli," iDiva wrote, "who just photographed the couple’s most intimate moments and is definitely becoming one of the hottest young photographers to hit Hollywood." 

The Colby College Museum of Art reopened June 4, the Portland Press Herald reported. The article also highlighted the upcoming summer exhibition, Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, "the first major survey in more than 20 years of the African American figurative painter, who died in 1966 before he turned 30."

The Colby College Museum of Art will reopen to the public June 4, the Morning Sentinel reported. The reopening coincides with the final weekend of the exhibition Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960. "We’ve really missed having a broader swath of our friends and community members in our galleries," Deputy Director Julianne Gilland told the Press Herald.

The Colby College Museum of Art's summer exhibition, Bob Thompson: This House is Mine, was included in the Boston Globe's list of "New England's 10 Hottest Museum Shows for Summer." Of the retrospective, Boston Globe art critic Murray Whyte said, "the painter’s short, incandescent career left a vapor trail across the sky of American art that glowed brightly and faded quickly."

Poet Richard Blanco will be Colby's commencement speaker, the Press Herald reported. Colby's 200th commencement will also "confer honorary degrees on restaurateur Erin French, owner of The Lost Kitchen in Freedom; Nobel Prize-winning geneticist and chronobiologist Michael Rosbash; and Theresa Secord, award-winning Penobscot basket maker and founding director of Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance."

An Art Daily article reports on the recently opened arts collaborative at 18 Main Street in downtown Waterville. The center will provide space for "artistic creation, innovation, and community interaction," Art Daily reports. "The $6.5-million restoration of two historic buildings in downtown Waterville will provide space for interdisciplinary artistic collaborations, and promote the development of creative work by national artists, educators, scholars and students."

A major review in the Boston Globe of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960, currently at the Colby College Museum of Art, described it as a show that is "about Lichtenstein before he became Lichtenstein, and it’s a revelation." The reviewer also referenced the show as offering "a fresh view of an artist" and that it's "unfamiliar, exhilaratingly so."