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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

Five Minutes with Colby’s Jacqueline Terrassa

Portrait of Colby College Museum of Art's Jacqueline Terrassa, Carolyn Muzzy director, looking at the camera and smiling.

Three ways of looking at Pueblo art

Artwork depicting a figurewith geometric patterns on their face in in black and white

In new exhibition at Colby, Pueblo people tell their own story

Installation view of Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village” at Colby College Museum of Art, highlighting Virgil Ortiz's Omtua.

Works by Agnes Pelton and Edmonia Lewis Among Colby College Museum of Art’s Newest Acquisitions

Oil painting "Being" by Agnes Pelton, a large warm toned orb surrounded by cool, dark blue and black lines.

Museum Open House – Colby College Museum of Art: Painted: Our Bodies, Heart, and Village

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

Colby Museum’s Summer Luncheon Celebrates Community

Shannon Haines, president and CEO of Waterville Creates, receives applause as she walks toward the podium to receive the 2023 Jetté Award for Leadership in the Arts.

The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Donates 186 Artworks and Objects to Museums to Honor the Artist’s Centenary

In an oil painting by artist Roy Lichtenstein titled Death of the General, an abstract painting with geometric shapes depicting five stylized human figures. The background is predominantly red, with various textured patterns and muted colors.

Introducing the Lunder Institute Summer Think Tank

artwork depicting figures and architectural structures

New collection focuses on Indigenous perspectives on the American Southwest

Meet Our Summer 2023 Resident Fellows

Summer 2023 resident fellows Genevieve Gaignard (left) and Papay Solomon.

Waterville Creates president Shannon Haines and conceptual artist Fred Wilson to be honored at annual Colby Museum Summer Luncheon

Conceptual artist Fred Wilson smiles at the camera after receiving the 2023 Cummings Award for Artistic Excellence, holding the award up to the camera.

Things to Do: A comedy at Good Theater, dance at USM and the art of Ashley Bryan

Painting by Ashley Bryan depicting a still life scene of flowers, bottles, vessels, and fruits.