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
Keith F. Davis, Senior Curator of Photography, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, discusses the formation of the Hallmark Corporation Collection of Photography, now a part of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art collection. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Committee on the Arts in conjunction with HARC 0248, a new introductory course about art museums.
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
Christopher Steiner, Lucy C. McDannel ’22 Professor of Art History and Director of the Museum Studies Program, Connecticut College offers the fourth in a series of talks about issues in the museum world. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture and the Committee on the Arts in conjunction with HARC 0248, a new introductory course about art museums.
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
**Canceled as a result of Hurricane Sandy** Donald Dewey is the author of twenty-five books, including The Art of Ill Will: The Story of American Political Cartoons, as well as hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles published throughout the world. He has written acclaimed biographies of actors James Stewart and Marcello Mastroianni, and has been awarded the Nelson Algren Prize for Fiction.