The 2025 Faculty Biennial: The Conversations and Curiosity Unique to Art

Maya Corrie '29, Colby Echo, September 25, 2025

On September 11, 2025, the Colby College Museum of Art opened its 2025 Faculty Biennial, featuring pieces of a variety of mediums by Alex Nelson, Bevin Engman, Bradley Borthwick, Gary Green, Hannah Subotnick, Luke Johnson, and Takahiro Suzuki. After touring the exhibition, one of my first thoughts was about the form — whether an archival pigment print, a video, an oil painting layered on wood, or any other example of the ample creative media used, the art itself had an ability unlike most of the information we consume: to be involved in a discussion. These artists used personal experiences, beliefs, pasts, and perspectives to forge art that responded to unique sentiments within viewers while telling their own narrative. 
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