Colby College Museum of Art

05/23/2026

Happy graduation weekend, Colby Seniors! 🎓

Commencement season is all about celebrating the incredible achievements of our students, like those featured in the Senior Art Exhibition 2026—the culmination of capstone projects for senior studio art majors.

Today is your final opportunity to view the exhibition! Stop by the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street between 11 a.m.–7 p.m. And if you see a graduating senior, be sure to congratulate them on their hard work!

05/22/2026

“Global Crossings: Selections from the Lunder Collection” closes at the Colby Museum on June 7.

Spanning cultures and millennia, this exhibition features over 40 highlights from the Lunder Collection, ranging from the year 618 to 2019.The exhibition offers a rare chance to see artists including Ai Weiwei, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, and Rembrandt in a single space.

🔗 Plan your visit via the link in our bio!

05/19/2026

Learn more about the exhibition: https://museum.colby.edu/exhibitions/senior-show-2026

Graduating artists celebrate a year of intense focus at the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art

05/18/2026

Happy International Museum Day! ✨

As a leading teaching museum and a hub for American art since 1959, the Colby College Museum of Art creates spaces for access, meaningful engagement, and joyful connection through art.

This work—from global scholarship to local community programs—is only made possible by you, our friends and visitors.

If you’ve enjoyed time in our galleries, consider supporting us in this year’s ’s Best of Maine awards! And if you haven’t, come experience our permanent collection and path-setting exhibitions—always free and open to all. ❤️

✔️ Vote in the museum category at this link: https://vote.downeast.com/arts-and-culture/museum
🗓️ Polls close June 12

05/15/2026

⏰ These are your final two weeks to see “Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond” before it closes on May 31.

The exhibition brings together more than forty works by twenty-five artists who have embraced collage as a medium or a conceptual strategy in their work. Through their incorporation of everyday materials—from scraps of paper to photographs to fragments of fabric—the works on view reveal the medium of collage to be inherently approachable and open-ended.

Installation view of “Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond,” Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine 2026. Photo: Bret Woodard

05/14/2026

This , in observation of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we are focusing on CHamoru artist Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco’s work “Tai Ulu.”

This self-portrait is a powerful meditation on cultural survival. By depicting himself without a head, Siongco invokes the ancient CHamoru tradition of venerating the skulls of ancestors—a sacred practice that was condemned and forbidden by Spanish colonizers in the late 17th century.

Through the integration of photography, woven works, and traditional tattoos, Siongco demonstrates that while outward customs may be suppressed, the underlying values of lineage and respect remain unbreakable. He views his own body as a bridge, acting as both a culture bearer and a future ancestor.

“Tai Ulu,” along work by more than forty other artists, will be featured in “Imagining an Archipelago: Art from Cuba, Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Their Diasporas,” opening at the Colby College Museum of Art on July 11.

Roquin-Jon Quichocho Siongco, Tai Ulu, 2021. Photograph on canvas and woven works. Courtesy the artist

05/13/2026

Who is excited for Community Day 2026 🙋

Join us for a packed day of creativity and fun! This year, Community Day will feature:

📚 Gallery Storytime

🎨 Artmaking with 2026 Lunder Institute for American Art Fellow Maria de Los Angeles and Thea Canlas

🌯 Food: Falafel Mafia, Taco the Town, Sojourn Water Ice, Borderlands Coffee, Stonefox Creamery, Jay's Dumpling Truck, Colby Hot Dog Stand, and more!

🎯 Lawn games

🎵 Live music with Bomba De Aqui

As always, Community Day is free and open to all.

Visit this link to learn more: https://museum.colby.edu/events/community-day-2026

05/12/2026

The Colby College Museum of Art’s presentation of “By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth” explores the multilayered sites of Allen and Benner Islands, whose landscapes were shaped extensively by her (1921–2020).

The exhibition spotlights newly commissioned works by Mandy Lamb, Linda Nguyen Lopez, Elaine K. Ng, and Claire Pentecost, created in response to their time in residence on the islands.

Pairing these commissions with paintings by her husband, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009), as well as Betsy Wyeth’s archival, and ephemeral materials, the project reveals how people and places can mutually transform each other.

“By Design: The Worlds of Betsy James Wyeth” is co-organized by and presented simultaneously at the Colby College Museum of Art, , and , in association with the .

📍 The exhibition will be on view at the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center through November 2.

Mandy Lamb, Untitled (ghost), 2024, Inkjet print. 10 × 15 in. Courtesy the artist

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day 🌷 Celebrate the day with a visit to see Alex Katz’s “Mother’s Day,” currently on view in “Everyday Devotions: Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation and Beyond.”

Between 1955 and 1960, Alex Katz created collages that playfully transformed hand-colored paper into restrained yet evocative scenes and landscapes.

Katz is also a dedicated collector of collages by other artists. Over the last twenty-five years, he has gifted numerous important examples to the Colby Museum through the Alex Katz Foundation.

Alex Katz, Mother’s Day, 1959. Cut paper on paper, 3 ¾ x 7 ½ in. (9.5 cm x 19 cm). Colby College Museum of Art, Gift of the Alex Katz Foundation, 2011.009 © 2026 Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

05/08/2026

The Colby College Senior Art Exhibition 2026 is now open at the Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art! 🎓✨

This exhibition highlights the capstone projects of our studio art majors Alison Angley, Myles Braverman, Celia Buetens, Maria DiBari, Colin Flood, Katy Jane Hardenbergh, Vivian Hu, Owen Kany, Elodie Koo, Molly Lakritz, Shayna Purow, Julia Reilly, Alex Reitman, Anna Reynolds, Charlotte Turner, Lexi Villamin, and Claire Welch.

On view through Saturday of Commencement weekend, the exhibition marks the culmination of these seniors’ creative work at Colby. The installation is accompanied by a publication featuring artists’ statements and essays written by students in AR356 Contemporary Art Criticism.

🗓️ On view through May 23.