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VOGUE published a feature article on Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, which will open at the Colby Museum of Art this summer and was co-curated by Lunder Curator of American Art Sarah Humphreville.
Upcoming festivals will be screening films by Assistant Professor of Art, Digital Media Taka Suzuki, including The Hungry Ghost & The Earthshaker, which features the voice of Gary Green, professor of art, and performances by AB Brown, assistant professor of performance, theater, and dance; Arisa White, associate professor of English, creative writing; and Audrey Shakespear, former visiting assistant professor of art. It will screen at the Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, Ill., which runs March 27-29 and at the Athens International Film & Video Festival in Athens, Ohio, which runs April 7-13. Additionally, Suzuki's film the shape of an unlit horizon will screen at the Portland Panorama Film Festival in Portland, Ore., which runs April 10-20.
Associate Professor of English Megan Cook has won a New England Humanities Consortium Seed Grant for her project titled "A Mid-career Medievalist Working Group." This grant will support the creation of a biannual working group of mid-career medievalists at NEHC member institutions. Cook's plan is to provide an opportunity for mid-career literary scholars focusing on the Middle Ages to meet and share scholarly work in progress. The goal is to strengthen community and facilitate intellectual exchange and collaboration among medievalists in New England.
| NBC's Rob Caldwell interviewed Maine playwright Bess Welden of Colby’s Performance, Theater, and Dance Department about the debut of her multi-award-winning play Madeleines. Now showing at Portland Stage through March 23. |
Colby men’s and women’s hockey teams compete in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) semifinals.
Newsweek featured research by Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy Dale Kocevski in a round-up of the six most “remarkable” and “surprising” James Webb Space Telescope discoveries. Kocevski is leading a study on "Little Red Dots,” a phenomenon thought to be a new class of galaxies.
The School of Art + Art History + Design of the University of Washington selected Tanya Sheehan, the Ellerton M. and Edith K. Jetté Professor of Art, as the 2025 Kollar Lecturer in American Art. Sheehan's lecture, titled "Public Art, Public Health: Jacob Lawrence and the Murals of Harlem Hospital,” took place Feb. 27, 2025, on the UW Seattle campus. This talk explored the significant connections between the federally funded murals painted in Harlem Hospital in the late 1930s and the images of health and medicine in Harlem created by artist Jacob Lawrence. It considered how and why a commitment to the publicness of Black care took shape more fully in Lawrence’s private images than on the walls of the municipal hospital.
A top story in Maine this week, Associate Professor of Economics James Siodla led a pioneering study with the Maine Policy Institute that explores the impacts of housing policies in the state and offers recommendations for change. The report has drawn widespread attention from the media across the state.
The contemporary poetry magazine Plume published the poem "Domestic" by Adrian Blevin, professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program. The poem begins, "Another word for kid is it. You always love but do not always like it. / The fathers throw up their hands like weeds in a brawny wind to forsake it. / Even in your mind when it’s middle-aged with a belly it is it." Blevins is the author of four collections of poetry.
Artsy published an intimate feature of Gertrude Abercrombie: The Whole World Is a Mystery, a new exhibition co-curated by Sarah Humphreville, Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby Museum. The article explores Abercrombie’s enduring relatable surrealism in the retrospective, which will travel to Waterville in July.