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Lunder Institute Fellow artist E. Saffronia Downing working with clay

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Artist Lynn Daphne Rudolph performing at The Broad
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Summer Think Tank

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Summer Think Tank participants convening, seated in a circle
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Past Projects, Programs, Partnerships

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Throughout its history, the Lunder Institute has organized a variety of special projects, events, and initiatives in partnership with other institutions and key collaborators.

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Colby Museum’s Lunder Institute for American Art Announces Lunder Institute @ 2027

A rotating gif showing the facades of the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Fisk University Galleries, and Colby College Museum of Art.
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Reimagining American Art on the Global Stage

A medium close-up photograph of Erica Wall, director of the Lunder Institute for American Art, speaking behind a wooden podium with a microphone. She is smiling broadly and looking slightly to the right, illuminated by warm stage lighting against a softly blurred background.
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2026–27 FELLOWSHIPS AT COLBY MUSEUM’S LUNDER INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART

A graphic featuring square headshots of five fellows arranged in two rows against a light beige background. Top row: Matthew Villar Miranda, Jerome Reyes and Ruby Sky Stiler. Bottom row: Alana Dao and meg willing, both labeled "A CLEARING," alongside Gwyneth Shanks.
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Whistler and Colby—Together in London

An oil painting showing the side profile of a woman with long, thick auburn hair facing left. She wears a textured, loose-fitting cream or light-grey dress with vertical folds on the bodice. Her hands are loosely clasped at her waist. She stands against a backdrop featuring a dark wooden balcony or ledge in the lower left, a green landscape with trees in the middle ground, and a cloudy pale blue and grey sky above. The painting has a soft tonalist style with visible brushwork.
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