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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.