Colby Arts

From 12:30–1 p.m. every first and third Thursday, join us to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art's galleries. Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking, an educational app ...

SPLICE Ensemble featuring Portland Ballet is a concert of world premieres by SPLICE Ensemble! Produced by Colby College Department of Music with the Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance, and Colby Arts Office. The final c ...

Manuel Muñoz is the author of the novel What You See in the Dark and the short-story collections Zigzagger and The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, which was shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He is t ...

Join us on the Colby campus on the evening of Thursday, March 12, 2026, for a talk and Q&A with Laylah Ali, who will present the 2026 Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture. Ali is the 2026 Ossorio Fellow at ...

Our third concert of the season is packed with orchestral favorites! Bright, bubbling operatic melodies dance through The Roman Carnival Overture, by renowned orchestrator Hector Berlioz. Colby’s Benjamin Noyes will perform Dmitr ...

Colby hosts the Portland Ballet each year as a part of an ongoing partnership. This New Works concert will feature the company in newly-developed works created in partnership with Maine artists and arts organizations–including Col ...

Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and teacher. He is the author of the chapbook cycle hum (Sistrum Books, 2025), the poetry collection As If And (New Mundo, 2026), and his work has appeared in APARTMENT, Annulet, Oversound, mercur ...

Drop-in Drawing Session At Colby College Museum of Art Join Luke Johnson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, for facilitated close looking exercises, discussions, and drawing prompts in response to the exhibition Is anything th ...

Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the co editor of six anthologies; the author of poetry collections including Habitat Threshold and his ongoing "from unincorporated territ ...

Movement and dance have been intertwined with jazz for over a century. This concert will feature the Colby Jazz Band in collaboration with the Colby Dance Company, featuring jazz compositions throughout history in a wide range of ...