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
Dr. James A. Welu, Director Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum, offers the first in a series of talks about issues in the museum world. 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.
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
On the occasion of the opening of the Museum’s China Modern exhibition, Maggie Clinton, assistant professor of History, and Thomas E. Moran, John D. Berninghausen Professor of Chinese, discuss the seismic historical changes revealed by the commercial products on view. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Friends of the Art Museum, the Department of Chinese, and the Department of History.
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
Ann Beha, Founder and President, Ann Beha Architects, Boston, Massachusetts, a member of the team responsible for the Center for Art and Education, a new year-round facility at Shelburne Museum, discusses the current state of museum architecture. 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.
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
Three of the world’s leading China scholars will make afternoon presentations in the McCullough Social Space, with Ezra Vogel (Harvard) speaking from 12:15–1:45, Yasheng Huang (MIT) from 2:00–3:30, and Scott Rozelle (Stanford) from 3:45–5:15. In addition, all three will participate in an evening roundtable discussion in McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216 from 7:15–8:30. Offered in conjunction with the Middlebury College Museum of Art exhibition China Modern: Designing 20th Century Popular Culture.
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
In advance of the museum’s spring 2013 exhibition Nature Transformed: Edward Burtynsky’s Vermont Quarry Photographs in Context, the Friends of the Art Museum have organized a bus trip to this extraordinary nearby site. The bus departs from and returns to the Mahaney Center for the Arts Parking Lot. For information contact Mikki Lane, mlane@middlebury.edu, 802.443.2309.
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
In conjunction with the Clifford Symposium, Charles A. Dana Professor of Art and Architecture Kirsten Hoving discusses her collaboration with students in the art history course “Alfred Stieglitz and Camera Work” that resulted in the current exhibition Camera Work: Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand and Company. For this event, lunch is served at 11:00 AM, prior to the talk. 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 accepted.
