Art Break: Bridget R. Cooks

Name: Art Break: Bridget R. Cooks
Start: 2025-11-06T12:30:00-05:00
Location: 5600 Mayflower Hl, Waterville, ME, United States, Maine 04901

Schedule

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

5600 Mayflower Hl, Waterville, ME, United States, Maine 04901 | Waterville, ME

Join us on the first and third Thursday of each month during the academic semesters to spend time with a work of art on view in the Colby College Museum of Art's galleries. This week, Bridget R. Cooks, scholar and curator of American art, will facilitate a conversation focusing on the exhibition, Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali.
Art Break programs are grounded in the practice of slow looking, an educational approach that asks people to give patient, immersive attention to a work of art as a way to make connections and create meaning for yourself. These looking experiences are facilitated by museum staff, interns, community collaborators, and special guests.
Bridget R. Cooks is a scholar and curator of American art. Her research focuses on visual art by African Americans, Black visual culture, and museum criticism. She serves as Chancellor’s Fellow and Professor of African American Studies and Art History at the University of California, Irvine. She is core faculty in the PhD Programs in Visual Studies and Culture and Theory. Her books, articles, and essays can be found widely across interdisciplinary academic publications and art exhibition catalogues. She is most well-known as the author of the book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum (UMass, 2011) which received the inaugural James A. Porter & David C. Driskell Book Award in African American Art History.