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Colby Museum Of Art: Faith Ringgold “Story Quilt” Acquired, Bob Keyes
Colby Museum Of Art: Faith Ringgold “Story Quilt” Acquired, Bob Keyes
Colby Magazine
The Colby Museum of Art adds a coveted Faith Ringgold story quilt to its collection.
Illuminated Histories, Laura Meader
Illuminated Histories, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
Artist Maggie Libby ’81 unearths the hidden histories of Colby women with their portraits.
First There Was One, Christina Nunez
First There Was One, Christina Nunez
Colby Magazine
Colby’s first female graduate, Mary Caffrey Low, set a standard for excellence and achievement.
Award-Wining Playwright Bess Welden Amplifies Marginalized Voices, Laura Meader
Award-Wining Playwright Bess Welden Amplifies Marginalized Voices, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
As playwright Bess Welden followed stories filed by her sister-in-law, a photojournalist covering the 2015 migrant crisis in Greece, she was captivated by a photo of an unaccompanied minor. She wondered how anyone could keep an emotional distance from a child like this.
In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader
In Living Color: Newly Discovered Film Shows The Colby Of 80 Years Ago, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
In 1935 Frederick Kinch began making home movies using Kodak’s newly introduced 8 mm camera. He filmed his children, a few hunting trips, and his alma mater—Colby. The film he spliced together from two trips to Waterville has recently surfaced, providing rare moving images of both downtown and Mayflower Hill campuses.
Welcome To Broadway: The Sound Inside Costar Will Hochman ’14 Talks About Chasing Your Dream—And Ending Up On Stage With Mary-Louise Parker, Abukar Adan
Colby Magazine
Will Hochman ’14 made his Broadway debut last month in the New York Times critic’s pick The Sound Inside with Tony Award-winning co-star Mary-Louise Parker. Hochman first appeared in the two-person play, about the relationship between a Yale creative writing professor and her student, last year at the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Freelance journalist Abukar Adan ’17 sat down with Hochman in his dressing room at Studio 54 to discuss his debut, his time at Colby, and his journey to the big stage.
A Good Place For Moral Philosophy: Associate Professor Lydia Moland On The Good Place And Why All Of Her Students Should Be Haunted, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Associate Professor of Philosophy Lydia Moland recently moderated a WBUR CitySpace event featuring producer Michael Schur and actor William Jackson Harper of the NBC comedy The Good Place. The award-winning show is about a character, Eleanor, who is mistakenly sent to “the good place” in the afterlife and then has to figure out how to become a better person. Moland spoke with Colby Magazine Editorial Director Gerry Boyle ’78 about television, morality, and how the most important ideas should fit on a bumper sticker.
A New Definition Of American Art, Bob Keyes
A New Definition Of American Art, Bob Keyes
Colby Magazine
A designated institute dedicated to creativity and scholarly research is a new endeavor for Colby. These kinds of institutes typically are associated with large museums and universities, said Lee Glazer, the institute’s founding director and formerly a curator of American art at the Smithsonian Institution. “We’re still figuring out some of the details, but the vision is evolving,” she said.
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
This Caught Our Attention, Colby College
Colby Magazine
Jackson Pollock, Composition with Masked Forms, 1941. Oil on canvas, 27 3⁄4 x 49 3⁄4 in. Colby College Museum of Art.
For The Love Of Music: Yuri Lily Funahashi Shares The Gift Of Collaboration, Mareisa Weil
For The Love Of Music: Yuri Lily Funahashi Shares The Gift Of Collaboration, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
A virtuoso is quietly going about her business in the classrooms of the Bixler Art and Music Center. Yuri Lily Funahashi, accomplished chamber musician, assistant professor, and Music Department co-chair, is strengthening and inspiring her students’ relationship with music.
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, And What Their Intersection Does And Doesn't Tell Us, Colby College
Colby Magazine
William R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan is the editor of Photography and Migration, a timely collection of essays about photography and its role in portraying this ongoing humanitarian crisis (See P. 38). At Colby she launched the Photography and Migration Project, which draws connections between global migration and Waterville’s history as a destination for immigrants. She spoke to Colby Magazine Managing Editor Gerry Boyle ’78 about the ways photographs shape our perception of migration.
Deep North: Assistant Professor Of Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Sonja Tomas Pushes Students To Confront The Uncomfortable, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
Many of those white students are uncomfortable, Thomas said. “I hear a lot of, ‘I don’t want to say something if it’s not on the right track.’ I have to push back and say, ‘Silence is not a right track either.’”
Bassam Khabieh: Syrian Photojournalist, Bassam Khabieh
Bassam Khabieh: Syrian Photojournalist, Bassam Khabieh
Colby Magazine
Bassam Khabieh is the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow at Colby. A Syrian photojournalist, he has documented the conflict there, including the siege of Ghouta, where he and his family lived.
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Past And Future: Climate Experts Consider Where Our Planet Has Been And Where It Is Going, Colby College
Colby Magazine
In this, the second installment of the Colby Climate Project series, we explore the work of members of the Colby community who working to address this monumental environmental challenge.
Q&A With Richard Blanco, Poet And Visiting Artist, Colby College
Q&A With Richard Blanco, Poet And Visiting Artist, Colby College
Colby Magazine
For the spring 2018 semester, Richard Blanco, inaugural poet at Barack Obama's second inaugration, is the artist in residence at Colby's Lunder Institute for American Art. He's teaching a one-credit course to Colby Students who use works in the Colby museum to teach poetry to area children.
Silence Is Golden: Eschewing Medicine And The Marine Corps, James Ross Finds A Contemplative Path To Fulfillment, Maeve Dolan
Silence Is Golden: Eschewing Medicine And The Marine Corps, James Ross Finds A Contemplative Path To Fulfillment, Maeve Dolan
Colby Magazine
"There are many translators but not many businesspeople in Buddhism, because it's not often seen as a compatible path with a contemplative lifestyle." -James Ross '18
Designing A Future: Silicon Valley-Born Brit Biddle '19 Melds Tech And Art Of Mayflower Hill, Mareisa Weil
Designing A Future: Silicon Valley-Born Brit Biddle '19 Melds Tech And Art Of Mayflower Hill, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
"This education has taught me how to look at a problem and really think about it. And i've been able to balance that out with art." -Brit Biddle '19
Blacklisted But Not Defeated: Jack Foner Returned To Academe After 30 Years And Made Colby A Leader In African-American Studies, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Colby hired Jack Foner and in a single stroke, a then nearly all-white liberal arts college in Maine became home to one of the first African-American Studies programs in the country.
Brilliant: A Gifted Leader And Academic, Marnay Avant Is Ready To Inspire As A Professor Of Color, Mareisa Weil
Brilliant: A Gifted Leader And Academic, Marnay Avant Is Ready To Inspire As A Professor Of Color, Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
"I think it is important to be a professor, especially a professor of color, because you get to inspire and shape the minds of so many people." -Marnay Avant '18
Question And Answer, Elly Bookman
The Right Path: Pandit Mami '14 And Friends Make School Possible Once Again For Children In Freetown, Sierra Leone, Laura Meader
The Right Path: Pandit Mami '14 And Friends Make School Possible Once Again For Children In Freetown, Sierra Leone, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
"You have to explain to them that in the long run this kid is going to be more helpful to you if they're in school than they are selling food in the streets of Freetown." -Pandit Mami '14
The Painter From Maine: From Mountains To The Sea, Marsden Hartley Portrayed His Home State Through The Lens Of His Singular Imagination, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Marsden Hartley left his indelible mark on the art world, traversing America, absorbing influences in Europe, joining the ranks of the greatest modernist painters of his time—and creating a vision of Maine that resonates powerfully to this day.
Jealous Of Genius: Adrianna Paliyenko Unmasks An Effort To Diminish The Work And Roles Of 19th Century Women Poets, Gerry Boyle
Jealous Of Genius: Adrianna Paliyenko Unmasks An Effort To Diminish The Work And Roles Of 19th Century Women Poets, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
The book unmasks a decades-long effort to marginalize women poets by linking genius to the male sperm cell, and women's creativity to masculinity—in effect, minimizing their mark on literature and culture.
From Mayflower Hill To A Global Stage: 'The Maribor Uprisings', A Documentary By Maple Razsa And Milton Guillén '15, Is Attracting International Audiences And Acclaim, David M. Wilson
Colby Magazine
"It's a story about collective protest movements and how to respond to repression by the police. It's something the audience has to grapple with, too." - Associate Professor of Global Studies Maple Razsa
Girl Power: Professor Lyn Mikel Brown On Her New Book, Activism, And "The Power Of The Immediate", Mareisa Weil
Girl Power: Professor Lyn Mikel Brown On Her New Book, Activism, And "The Power Of The Immediate", Mareisa Weil
Colby Magazine
"If we want girls to be part of creating a more just and caring world, we have to give them the opportunity to jump into the fray, right here, right now."
Rewriting History - With Alan Taylor '77, Kate Carlisle
Rewriting History - With Alan Taylor '77, Kate Carlisle
Colby Magazine
"Lets go back to the American Revolution and try to look at it with fresh eyes and a neutral perspective and see what happens when you treat everyone with some respect, and try to understand why they did what they did, rather than put labels on them." - Alan Taylor '77
Book Smarts: In A Digital Age, Professors Work To Save An Ancient Craft And Integrate It Into The Curriculum, Laura Meader
Book Smarts: In A Digital Age, Professors Work To Save An Ancient Craft And Integrate It Into The Curriculum, Laura Meader
Colby Magazine
"The idea of students making things is so important...Making things triggers all kinds of other healthy ways of thinking, processing, problem solving." - Associate Professor of Art Gary Green
Anything But Invisible: Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih Marvels At Supportive Colby While Opening Eyes To Global Suppression, Gerry Boyle
Anything But Invisible: Oak Fellow Khalid Albaih Marvels At Supportive Colby While Opening Eyes To Global Suppression, Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
A political cartoonist with a global web presence was surprised and gratified to find an equally receptive audience at Colby.
A Cosmic Connection: For Anthropologist Catherine Besteman, Reunion With Somali Bantu In Maine Was Life Changing., Gerry Boyle
A Cosmic Connection: For Anthropologist Catherine Besteman, Reunion With Somali Bantu In Maine Was Life Changing., Gerry Boyle
Colby Magazine
Reunited with Somali Bantu families after decades, anthropologist Catherine Besteman chronicles their lives.