Realms of Faith: Medieval Art from the Walters Art Museum

September 7, 2008 - January 4, 2009

UPPER JETTÉ GALLERIES

Curated by Véronique B. Plesch, Professor of Art and David L. Simon, Ellerton and Edith Jette Professor of Art

Drawn from one of the largest and finest medieval art collections in the United States, this exhibition of rare and beautiful objects dating from the sixth to the fifteenth century focuses on Christian liturgical practices and personal devotion during one of the most fascinating periods in world history.  This exhibition was organized by The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

 

The Somali Bantu Experience: From East Africa to Maine

October 2, 2008 - November 16, 2008

TEACHING GALLERY

Curated by Catherine Besteman

The Somali Bantu are ethnic minorities forced to flee the civil war in Somalia. Some have resettled in Lewiston, Maine. Despite challenges, these refugees are finding ways to preserve their culture while adapting to life in America. Through photographs from both Somalia and Lewiston, come explore the stories of this extraordinary community.

For more information about the Somali Bantu community visit

http://www.colby.edu/somalibantu

Currents5: t s Beall

October 9, 2008 - February 1, 2009

DAVIS GALLERY

In the fifth installment of currents, an annual solo exhibition dedicated to the work of an emerging artist with connections to Maine, the Colby College Museum of Art presents a new video installation by t s Beall, an American artist living in Glasgow who attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2003. The exhibition consists of a single watchtower surmounted by a rotating platform outfitted with video projectors. From it, circular, scope-like video sequences of landscape imagery drawn from desolate outposts and contested areas are projected onto the walls of the gallery.

Hiraki Sawa

November 6, 2008 - January 25, 2009

THEATER GALLERY

This exhibition presents three videos by the London-based, Japanese-born artist Hiraki Sawa. At once playful and meditative, Sawa’s works show imaginary, often miniaturized worlds animated by such seemingly incongruous elements as airplanes aloft in an otherwise mundane apartment, running and walking figures that evoke the early photographic movement studies of Eadweard Muybridge, and the shadowy silhouettes of animals placidly but persistently en route to somewhere else.