Children's Art Informs Museum Exhibits

Laura Meader, Colby News, July 12, 2022

Keys found the perfect partner in award-winning artist Veronica Perez, a former Lunder Institute for American Art Residential Fellow with a penchant for collaborative art-making.

“The first time we met, we just clicked,” Perez said of Keys, who last summer was touring Colby’s Greene Block + Studios, where Perez had studio space. “We were on that same wavelength of wanting to not only build something for the community but build something with the community.”

Led by their shared affinity for community art, Keys and Perez dared to take their partnership one step further by inviting children into the design process.

With support from the Colby Arts Office, the Colby Museum of Art, and the Center for the Arts and Humanities, Perez held a series of workshops this spring for children ages 3-12 to help create pieces of art for three exhibits.