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

At the celebratory opening for this exhibit, co-curators 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, discuss the artist’s career and the process of organizing the exhibition. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Friends of the Art Museum.

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

Christian A. Johnson Professor of History of Art Cynthia Packert offers a lively discussion of a recently acquired late eighteenth-century Indian painting that depicts a dramatic event from the Hindu epic the Ramayana. The talk will begin in MCA Room 125 before moving to the Museum. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. Free to College ID card holders; community donations welcomed.

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

A. Barton Hepburn Professor of History Paul Monod discusses the mystery identity of one of the figures in the museum’s early Renaissance panel painting. Cosponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.