Wednesday, September 12

Built to Educate: The American Art Museum

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Dr. James A. Welu, Director Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum

Thursday, September 13

China Modern: Designing 20th Century Popular Culture

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221

Maggie Clinton, assistant professor of History, and Thomas E. Moran, John D. Berninghausen Professor of Chinese

Wednesday, September 19

Architecture as Art House: Museums for a New Generation

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Ann Beha, Founder and President, Ann Beha Architects

Friday, September 21

International Politics and Economics Symposium: “From Deng to Dollars: The Political Economy of China’s Rise”

Symposium
Time: 12:15pm
Location: McCullough Social Space; and McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 216

Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University; Yasheng Huang, professor in international management at the Sloan School of Management, MIT; and Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Saturday, September 22

Friends of the Art Museum tour of the Rock of Ages Quarry, Barre, Vermont

Bus Tour
Time: 9:00am
Location: Bus Trip to Barre, Vermont

Friends of the Art Museum

Friday, September 28

Off the Wall—Informal Discussions About Art: “Camera Work: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, and Company”

Art & Lunch Discussion
Time: 11:00am
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art

Kirsten Hoving, Charles A. Dana Professor of Art and Architecture

Wednesday, October 3

History in the Making: Building the Hallmark Photographic Collection

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Keith F. Davis, Senior Curator of Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Wednesday, October 24

Censorship 2.0: Museums in the Participatory Age

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Christopher Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and Director of the Museum Studies Program, Connecticut College

Tuesday, October 30

**Canceled** American Political Cartoons: Their Impact on Political and Social Events and on the Spread of Ethnic and Racial Stereotypes

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221

**Canceled** Donald Dewey

Saturday, November 3

Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party

Members Dinner
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art and Mahaney Center for the Arts Lobby

Friends of the Art Museum

Wednesday, November 14

Case Studies in Art Conservation

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Tom Branchick, Director and Conservator of Paintings, Williamstown Art Conservation Center

Friday, November 16

Off the Wall—Informal Discussions About Art: “Book of Hours”

Art & Lunch Discussion
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art

Eliza B. Garrison, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture

Wednesday, November 28

Critical Mass: How Reviewers Influence Museums (and vice versa)

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium

Lee Rosenbaum

Wednesday, January 30

Black, White, and Beautiful: Silver Prints from the Museum Collection

Gallery Talk
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art

May Mantell, Visiting Professor of Studio Art

Tuesday, February 12

Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

Juliette Bianco, Assistant Director, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Director of the Arts, Middlebury

Friday, February 22

Off the Wall—Informal Discussions About Art: “Monkey Business”

Art & Lunch Discussion
Time: 12:15pm
Location: MCA Room 125 and Middlebury College Museum of Art

Cynthia Packert, Christian A. Johnson Professor of History of Art

Thursday, February 28

Finding a Missing Saint in Fifteenth-Century Bruges: The Bearded Monk in the Middlebury Triptych by the Master of the St. Ursula Legend

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125

Paul Monod, A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History

Tuesday, March 5

Digging Deep: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125

Friday, March 8

Off the Wall—Informal Discussions About Art: “Louis Kahn on the Acropolis”

Art & Lunch Discussion
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art

Pieter Broucke, Director of the Arts, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, and Associate Curator of Ancient Art

Thursday, March 14

Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Dana Auditorium

Edward Burtynsky, Photographer

Tuesday, March 19

Italian Stoneworkers in Vermont, 1880–1915

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125

Ilaria Brancoli Busdraghi, Visiting Professor of Italian

Thursday, April 4

Ercole Ferrata and the Art of Learning to Carve in Bernini’s Rome

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125

Dr. Jessica Boehman

Friday, April 12

Off the Wall—Informal Discussions About Art: “Fabergé”

Art & Lunch Discussion
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art

Adrian Kerester, Robert F. Reiff Intern

Tuesday, April 16

Photographing Quarries

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125

Don Ross, Photographer

Sunday, May 5

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Supper

Members Dinner
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Kirk Alumni Center

Friends of the Art Museum

Friday, June 7

Edward Hopper in Vermont

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:00pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

Bonnie Tocher Clause, Author of Edward Hopper in Vermont

Thursday, June 27

Where Art Meets Life: Edward Hopper Viewed by his Biographer

Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

Gail Levin