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Gertrude Abercrombie’s Autobiographical Surrealism Traverses Dreams and Reality

Oil on canvas painting by Gertrude Abercrombie. In a surreal setting, a woman in a coral dress holds a thread in a dim room with a cat, a table, and a funnel.

A Year When Art Was Everywhere

A woman looking at an etching

The Late Martha Diamond Gets Deserved Appreciation in a New Exhibition

Black and white photograph of artist Martha Diamond

Alex Katz Honored at White House Ceremony

Artist Alex Katz receiving a National Medal of Arts in a White House ceremony

“Alive and Kicking” Packs a Playful Punch at the Colby College Museum of Art

Installation view of “Alive and Kicking,” including Gladys Nilsson's Rounding Rosie’s Ring: Dance, You Fools, Dance, 2024. Charcoal, graphite, chalk, marker, and wall paint.

Lunder Institute @ Colby College Museum of Art

Jacqueline Terrassa, Carolyn Muzzy Director of the Colby College Museum of Art, introduces the panelites during the Lunder Institute at Colby College Museum of Art symposium on “What is the state of American Art?” on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, in Studio 1 in the Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts.

She said she painted her ‘perceptions.’ This is what Martha Diamond meant.

Oil painting by Martha Diamond of buildings

In Memoriam: Dorothy Lichtenstein (1939–2024)

Dorothy Lichtenstein with a self-portrait painted by her late husband Roy Lichtenstein

Colby, Community, and Connection

Adam D. Weinberg gives a speech after being awarded the Jette Award for Leadership in the Arts during the Museum Summer Luncheon on Saturday, July 13, 2024.

Meet Our 2024–25 Fellows

Dwayne Tomah Named a 2024 Lunder Institute Fellow

2024 Lunder Institute Fellow Dwayne Tomah

Colby Museum Announces Four New Team Members

New Colby Museum exhibition offers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of celebrated, departed art magazine Esopus

Stack of Esopus magazines with a white background. The top edition reads "Boom!" across the cover/

Jessa Rae Growing Thunder Named a 2024 Lunder Institute Ossorio Fellow

Artist Jessa Rae stands in front of a full classroom, her arm raised as she instructs the group.

We are Going on the Road! Announcing Lunder Institute @

Art review: Range of Indigenous art on display at Maine colleges

Installation view of Painted: Our Bodies, Heart, and Village.

Meet Our Spring 2024 Fellows

Lunder Institute 2024 Fellows

Recapping the Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village Symposium

Art gallery with a sculpture and two landscape paintings on display.

Colby Museum of Art Welcomes New Members to the Board of Governors

View of the Colby Museum and surrounding campus at sunset. Miller Library seen in the background

Art review: In juxtaposed shows, Colby displays two sides of its collection

Oil on glass painting by Rebecca Salsbury James depicting in silhoutte a single white flower in a snark vase, framed by red curtains