Press Release Archives
Scylla about to Hurl a Rock
This small Etruscan bronze depicts Scylla, the mythical marine monster that is part female and part fantastic animal. Scylla features ferociously in Homer’s Odyssey, when she snatches six of Odysseus’ men from his ship and devours them.
Power & Piety Exhibit Opening Delayed by Building Issues
As a consequence of the recent period of extended sub-zero weather followed by a thaw, the Middlebury College Museum of Art has experienced an unusual level of condensation in its stair towers. To enable the museum to properly address this issue, it is necessary to delay the opening of the spring exhibit, Power & Piety: Spanish Colonial Art. The exhibit opening has been rescheduled for Friday, March 2 at 4:30 p.m.
Exhibit Looks Back on Ten Years of Visiting Print Artists
Ten Years: The Cameron Print Project displays 29 works of art produced over the past decade in a series of annual collaborations between visiting artists and advanced printmaking students at the College. Prints by students working with Mark Dion, Derrick Adams, Tomas Vu, Kati Heck, and Rona Yefman, among others, will be on view.
Keith Haring, Silence Equals Death
Keith Haring was diagnosed with AIDS in 1988. In the last year of his life he worked to produce imagery surrounding the social activism of the AIDS crisis. Silence = Death is an adaptation of a poster made by a collective of the same name that would eventually become the defining image for ACT UP, an organization created to fight for visibility and an end to the AIDS crisis.
Spanish Colonial Art Lands at Middlebury
Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art opens at the Middlebury College Museum of Art on Friday, January 26. The exhibition is drawn from the private collection of Patricia Cisneros, and the Cisneros Foundation, established in the 1970s to enhance appreciation of the diversity, sophistication, and range of art from Latin America, and to advance scholarship of the material culture of the Ibero-American world, ranging from the ethnographic to the contemporary.
Photographer David Maisel to Speak at Middlebury
In his ongoing, multi-chaptered series Black Maps, David Maisel’s aerial photographs of environmentally impacted sites explore the aesthetics and politics of radically human-altered environments, framing the issues of contemporary landscape with equal measures of documentation and metaphor. His series Lake Project depicts the desiccated Owens Lake in California. The lake, once approximately 200 square miles, now is the largest source of particulate pollution in the United States. Maisel’s talk, Tuesday, November 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 125 of Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, will highlight these and other projects.
Photographer Jamey Stillings Lectures on Energy and the Environment
Santa Fe-based photographer Jamey Stillings will speak on “Visualizing Renewable Energy” on Tuesday, October 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 221 of Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts in conjunction with the current museum exhibition Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment.
Celebrated artist and author Edmund de Waal to Lecture
Edmund de Waal, world-renowned ceramicist and best-selling author of The Hare with Amber Eyes, will lecture on Tuesday, October 10 at 4:30 p.m. in the Olin C. Robison Concert Hall of the Mahaney Center for the Arts. De Waal’s ceramic work is included in the exhibition A Story of Art: Gifts and Bequests from Charles S. Moffett ’67 and Lucinda Herrick, currently on view at the Museum. His talk is in honor of the late Charles Moffett, who for many years was a close friend and collector.
Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben to speak on Photography and Climate Change
In conjunction with the exhibition Land & Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, currently on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will speak about photography and climate change in a lecture titled “Seeing the World as the First Step toward Saving It” on Thursday, October 12.
Museum Exhibit Examines the Environment through Modern and Contemporary Photography
Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment is an exhibition that has been several years in the making. Featuring seventy-one images spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, the works on view come primarily from the Museum’s rich holdings of historic and contemporary photography. Among the wide range of artists represented are historic figures Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Eliot Porter and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as many contemporaries. Among these Jamie Stillings, Richard Misrach, David Maisel, James Balog, and Edward Burtynsky are well known for their concerned image-making.