With its grand reopening, the Colby College Museum of Art will offer a special Community Day Sunday, July 14, featuring activities and attractions for families. Highlights of Community Day include art-making activities, a live band, hourly tours, food, and ice cream from Maine-based Stone Fox Creamery. All activities, which take place between noon and 5 p.m., are free and open to the public. No reservations are required.

"The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College," on view from July 13, 2013, through June 8, 2014, is the first exhibition dedicated entirely to the Lunder Collection. Peter Lunder '56 and Paula Lunder, longtime benefactors of Colby College, promised their collection of more than 500 works of art to the Colby College Museum of Art in 2007, inspiring the addition of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion.

Curated by a team from the Colby College Museum of Art, the exhibition will welcome the Lunder Collection to the museum by featuring more than 260 highlights of 19th, 20th and 21st century American and contemporary art, including works by James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Donald Judd, Louise Nevelson, and many others.

Organized chronologically and thematically, "The Lunder Collection" explores idealized depictions of American mythology, American artists; adoption and transformation of European aesthetic ideals, American landscapes and cityscapes, and subjects such as labor, childhood, camaraderie, and travel.

An accompanying audio guide will provide historical context for many of the works through readings of literature, poetry, and music from the period.

In addition to "The Lunder Collection," the museum will present "Spaces and Places: Chinese Art from the Lunder-Colville Collection" and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; "A Thing Alive: Modern Views from the Marin Collections"; "Nowhere But Here," Art From the Alex Katz Foundation; Alex Katz:" A Matter of Light; American Weathervanes from a Distinguished Maine Collection"; and Process & Place: Exploring the Design Evolution of the Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion.

The Alfond-Lunder Family Pavilion, the newest wing of the Colby College Museum of Art, received silver certification from the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design green-building rating system in June. It is Colby's ninth LEED-certified building, which is more than at any other private college in Maine.

The museum is located at 5600 Mayflower Hill in Waterville. Regular museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 207-859-5600 or visit www.colby.edu.