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As a highlight of our inaugural Summer Think Tank: _______American 2023 The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to welcome a cohort of six performance artists: Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Dominique Duroseau, Nyugen Smith, M. Lamar, and Eleanor Kipping. Performance Art takes center stage in contemporary art with many influential Black artists leading the […]
We have had an amazing group of people join us in June and we are very excited to announce our July participants for the Lunder Institute for American Art Summer Think Tank. In July, we welcome a cohort of six performance artists, Ayana Evans, Tsedaye Makonnen, Dominique Duroseau, Nyugen Smith, M. Lamar, and Eleanor Kipping, […]
Since launching the pilot of the Lunder Institute for American Arts chefs in residence program in April, the Lunder Institute has hosted four supper clubs for artists, staff, and students. Our most recent supper club, held on the ground floor of Greene Block + Studios served to welcome three new resident fellows to the Lunder […]
The Lunder Institute for American Art is pleased to announce the first round of participants in our Summer Think Tank: ______ American 2023. Over ten weeks, the Summer Think Tank will foster discussions around creative practice and American identities and experiences. The first of these conversations will kick off in June and involve Visiting Mentor […]
Throughout the summer of 2023, the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art will host the first in what is planned to be an annual convening, The Lunder Institute for American Art Summer Think Tank: __________ American 2023. From June through August at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, the Lunder Institute will […]
The Lunder Institute for American Art is excited to welcome a new cohort of resident fellows to take up residence in Waterville for a summer of collaboration and community building. Established in 2021, Lunder Institute residential fellowships provide artists with spacious studios as well as opportunities for collaboration with Colby College faculty, students, and staff, […]
On Monday, April 10, the Colby College Museum of Art’s Lunder Institute for American Art presented a panel discussion to culminate the work of Lunder Institute senior fellow Oscar Santillán. As one of five awardees of the Holt/Smithson Foundation’s grant prize to create a project around Little Island, Santillán discussed his work with Colby undergraduate […]
On Monday evening, April 3, Taryn D. Jordan, professor of women’s studies at Colgate University, joined chef, food justice activist, artist, critically acclaimed author, and community builder Bryant Terry for a conversation about food inequality, Black food, and history. Terry fights for a more just and sustainable food system. His work illuminates the intersections that […]
The Lunder Institute for American art is excited to announce a pilot chef in residence program. Acknowledging the impact of the culinary arts within the art world, and Colby’s unique position, both figuratively and literally, to the superior culinary community that exists in Maine and, specifically, Portland, the Lunder Institute seeks to create opportunities to […]
On March 16, 2023, multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, a spring 2023 resident fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary curator and co-founder of the culinary collective Ghetto Gastro joined Lunder Institute director Erica Wall for a conversation about their artistic practice. As longtime friends and colleagues, Gaignard and Gray each […]
Thursday, March 16, 6 pm Given Auditorium, Bixler Art & Music Center, Colby College The Colby College Museum of Art and its Lunder Institute for American Art are excited to announce a live conversation between multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard, a spring 2023 resident fellow at the Lunder Institute for American Art, and Jon Gray, multidisciplinary […]
The Lunder Institute for American Art is excited to announce that multidisciplinary artist Genevieve Gaignard will visit for two weeks in the month of March to work with Waterville area students, Colby students, and local community. She will return as a resident fellow for the summer and fall of 2023. As part of her spring […]
The Lunder Institute for American Art is excited to welcome Heather Flor Cron as its newest resident fellow. Cron will take up residence in Waterville in February for a semester of community building and creative collaboration. Established in 2021, Lunder Institute residential fellowships provide artists with spacious studios as well as opportunities for collaboration with […]
We are thrilled to announce that artist Paula Wilson will serve as a Lunder Institute senior fellow and will be the recipient of the 2022–23 Alfonso Ossorio Creative Production Grant. Established in 2019 and supported by the Ossorio Foundation, the Alfonso Ossorio Creative Production Grant provides financial support to artists affiliated with the Colby Museum […]
On November 10, Oscar Santillán presented the 2022 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture live in Ostrove Auditorium on the Colby College campus. The artist spoke about his practice and introduce the research and work that he will be doing at Colby College during the 2022–23 academic year. Santillán is a 2022–23 Lunder Institute […]
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