Arts

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An artist rendering of The Hub

Major Gift Creates a New Arts “Hub” For Waterville

Colby College has received a $1-million commitment from Mark W. Hubbert ’79 to name “The Hub,” a dynamic new space at the planned Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street.
Teresa McKinney

Arts and Community Leader Named Diamond Family Director of the Arts

A leader in arts programming and community engagement at the Juilliard School in New York, Teresa D. McKinney, has been chosen after a national search to lead the development of an integrated arts experience between Colby and Waterville as the founding Diamond Family Director of the Arts. McKinney comes to…
Maya Lin, Disappearing Bodies of Water: Arctic Ice (Detail), 2013. Vermont Danby marble on granite base (AP 1/1) 48 x 46 x 52 in. (121.92 x 116.84 x 132.08 cm) The Lunder Collection. © Maya Lin, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Climate Conversations—In Our Galleries

Encounters with Art Sharon CorwinCarolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art One day last spring, a group of students came to the Colby Museum of Art to study and discuss Maya Lin’s sculpture Disappearing Bodies of Water, Arctic Ice (2013). It was exciting and…
Lauren Bon, Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy. Glass neon, metal brackets, 72 x 174 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles.

A New Definition of American Art

With great fanfare, Colby announced the creation of the Lunder Institute for American Art in 2017. Established with a gift by Life Trustee Paula Crane Lunder, D.F.A. ’98 and Life Visitor Peter Lunder ’56, D.F.A. ’98, the institute was envisioned as a place for scholarship, creativity,…
Students engage with guest performers during an interactive class within the Colby Museum of Art.

Diamond Family Funds New Position to Integrate the Arts at Colby College and in Waterville

Colby College is establishing the Diamond Family Director of the Arts to integrate new and emerging arts programming on campus and in the local community, further establishing Colby and Waterville as vibrant destinations for the arts.
Will Hochman ’14

Welcome to Broadway

The Sound Inside costar Will Hochman ’14 talks about chasing your dream—and ending up on stage with Mary-Louise Parker
From colors to martial arts to music, children from Waterville and surrounding cities had their initial exposure to Chinese language and culture at Colby.

For Kids’ Sake

On Mayflower Hill, summer is a season for learning—and fun
Person on stage

Tech’s the Thing

Performing arts meets technology to stage a story of our times
Marion Thompson Osborne, Colby Class of 1900 (Mrs. Duncan Matheson) with speculative voiceprint. 2004-5. Mixed media (charcoal, monoprinted oil paint) on paper. 44 x 30”

Ground Breaker

Marion Osborne Matheson, Class of 1900) was the first African-American woman to graduate from Colby.
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907

Intersection

Sometimes an iconic image is misunderstood.