THEASTER GATES JOINS COLBY COLLEGE'S LUNDER INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN ART

News Desk, Artforum, April 5, 2018

At the end of the three-year appointment, an exhibition of Gates’s work will be presented at the Colby Museum of Art in 2021.

“We feel immensely fortunate to be able to bring Theaster Gates to Colby, to help us realize the ambitious mission of the new Lunder Institute for American Art,” said Colby College president David A. Greene. “Having known Theaster for many years and having witnessed how his innovative work has changed people’s lives, I am thrilled that he will soon add to Colby’s strengths in the humanistic and creative disciplines that are essential to the liberal arts.”

Gates’s appointment follows his four-day residency at the Lunder Institute in 2017, when he visited with Colby College students in a number of classes. The institute was established through a gift of more than $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder, who donated nearly 1,150 artworks to the college in February of last year.