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WFVX Bangor, an ABC TV affiliate, interviewed Professor of Art Véronique Plesch about her research on Maine’s South Solon Meeting House, which is covered in frescoes. “The interesting thing about these frescoes, which were done by contemporary artists, is they were given free reign about the topic they covered. The only rule is it had to be religious,” she said. This fall, Plesch will teach a class that will create a website based on research about the frescoes.
Architizer published a story about Colby’s Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center (HAARC), noting that it is “rooted in Colby’s guiding ethos and values, supporting individual and collective growth through physical and mental health, and encouraging teamwork and community through sport and competition.” HAARC was also included in the shortlist of World Architecture Festival Awards, which highlights “the most bold, beautiful and innovative projects from around the world.”
Catherine Besteman, the Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology, was featured on the New Books Network discussing her latest book, Militarized Global Apartheid. "Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order," New Books Network writes.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch will deliver a lecture titled "Le Grand Siècle: Art at the court of the Sun King" as part of the Blue Hill Bach festival. Plesch's lecture on Friday, July 15, at 1 p.m., will discuss "the magnificent painting, sculpture, architecture, and landscaping of 17th- and early 18th-century France."
The New Yorker has published the poem "A Theory of Human Origin," written by poet Marianne Boruch, the 2022 Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence at Colby College. "Though she knew no English, / or only little, I could put my small hand into / her leather glove to read," the opening stanza reads.
In an article discussing Travel + Leisure magazine’s recent featured story on Colby’s Lockwood Hotel, Mainebiz connected the hotel with Waterville’s revitalization, noting that city officials are excited to see “some national press about the pending opening and all the investments in downtown.”
In the story about things to do around Boston, the Boston Globe highlighted the Colby Museum’s Andrew Wyeth: Life and Death exhibition, commenting that it “is the first public presentation of recently rediscovered drawings that Wyeth made in the 1990s of his own funeral,” which creates “a deeper look at the nature of artistic meditation on mortality.”
Assistant Professor of English Dyani Johns Taff wrote a guest blog post titled "Europa into the Waves: John Dee and Meandering Research" for the The Collation, Folger Shakespeare Library's blog. "Research feels nonlinear, like tracing a spiral, or a meandering river, or possibly like following ants’ pheromone trails, squiggly lines that crisscross each other and yet create a navigable chaos central to the ants’ communication," Taff's opening lines read. Taff was the Omohundro Institute-Folger Shakespeare Library Fellow for 2021-2022.
Professor of Art Véronique Plesch contributed an essay titled “Plein Air and Beyond” to the 2022 summer issue of the Maine Arts Journal: UMVA Quarterly, in which she "considers the tension between faithful rendering of a vista and artistic practice and license and, along with it, the motivations for capturing a particular landscape." Plesch also wrote the introduction to this issue, "Beyond Plein Air," making a point to discuss every contributor in the issue.
Travel + Leisure magazine published an extensive article about the Lockwood Hotel and its connection to Colby, noting that, “By creating places for locals and those affiliated with the college, this initiative aims to improve quality of life downtown, while also transforming the city into an arts and culture destination.”