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Lunder Wing at Colby Museum Will Soon Reopen

With the reinstallation of 11 galleries, titled Some American Stories, the museum focuses on expanding narratives to reveal the complexities of the American experience

Erica Wall, director of the Lunder Institute for American Art, right, gestures while talking to some seated people.

Expanding Boundaries Through Conversation

The Lunder Institute Summer Think Tank brings together artists and others in the field of American art

A man in a woman about to embrace near a podium after one receives an award.

Colby, Community, and Connection

At the museum’s Summer Luncheon, the College celebrates two major gifts and honors artists and arts leaders

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Access to Art for All

A promised gift of art will accelerate and enhance Colby’s embrace of ‘living with art’ across campus

A piece of artwork featuring an antique door amended with carvings and a central portrayal of an “everyman,” to which metal cords are attached. Painted figures are to the left and right of the door.

New to the Collection

Among its recent acquisitions, the Colby Museum adds a significant assemblage by Daniel Minter, a print by Edgar Degas, a painted collage by Benny Andrews, and a Martha Diamond painting

Woman looks at Eastman Johnson paintings at the Colby Museum of Art.

An Overdue Exhibition of an Overlooked Painter

On view at the Colby Museum, Eastman Johnson and Maine is the first solo show in the painter’s home state

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Colby Museum Summer 2024 Preview

Current and upcoming exhibitions highlight artists’ deep connections to place, process, and people

Tyerra Osborne '27 (left) and Kat Varner '26 performed as dancers in IN TANDEM: The Unconventional Fashion Experience, a student-created event that took shape thanks to the Lyons Art Lab.

A Fashion Show for Everyone

How student dreams and work were brought to life in IN TANDEM: The Unconventional Fashion Experience

The Triumph of Louise Nevelson

The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury in the Colby Museum’s Jetté Galleries expands our understanding and appreciation of an icon of 20th-century art

A Lot More Inside

In collaboration with Special Collections & Archives, the Colby Museum mounts an exhibition that explains the unique history of Esopus magazine