2017–2018 Events Calendar
If you prefer paper, a PDF of our 2017–2018 Exhibitions and Events will be available here for download in late August.
Thursday, September 14
Opening Reception for Fall Exhibitions: A Story of Art, and Land and Lens
Opening Reception
Time: 5:00pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art
Carrie Anderson and Kirsten Hoving
Friday, September 15
The Burn
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:15pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Jane Fulton Alt, photographer
Friday, September 22
The Soviet Century: 100 Years of the Russian Revolution
Opening Reception
Time: 6:00pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art
Friday, September 29
Fridays at the Museum: Land and Lens
Gallery Talk
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125 and Museum
Kirsten Hoving, Charles A. Dana Professor of Art and Architecture
Tuesday, October 10
'I placed a jar': poetry, porcelain and place
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Concert Hall
Edmund de Waal, ceramic artist and award-winning author
Thursday, October 12
Seeing the World, as the First Step Toward Saving It
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Concert Hall
Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar
Friday, October 13
Fridays at the Museum—A New Acquisition: David Teniers the Younger’s “Cabinet Painting” of Titian’s Rest on the Flight to Egypt
Gallery Talk
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Tuesday, October 17
Visualizing Renewable Energy
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
Jamey Stillings, Photographer
Friday, October 20
Fridays at the Museum—Glenn Andres: An Architectural Perspective on the Mahaney Center for the Arts
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Glenn Andres
Friday, October 27
Fridays at the Museum: A Story of Art
Gallery Talk
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art
Carrie Anderson, Assistant Professor of History of Art, and her students
Friday, November 3
Fridays at the Museum—Ancient Egypt at Middlebury College: Art, Religion, Reception
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Shalom Goldman, Pieter Broucke, and Rebekah Irwin
Tuesday, November 7
David Maisel, Photographer
Artist Talk
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
David Maisel, Photographer
Saturday, November 11
Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party
Members-Only Dinner
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby and Museum
Friends of the Art Museum
Friday, November 17
The Soviet Century: Artistic Propaganda in Service of the State
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Rebecca Mitchell, Assistant Professor of History
Friday, December 1
Fridays at the Museum—Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings: Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art Video Series
Video Screening
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art Video Series
Friday, December 8
Fridays at the Museum: Photographer Jim Blair, “The Past is Prologue”
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Jim Blair, Photographer
Friday, January 19
Fridays at the Museum: A Fayum Portrait from Roman Egypt
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Caroline Knapp ’18
Friday, February 16
Fridays at the Museum—“[She Is] Beautiful”: the Double Pipe in Greek Music, Religion, and Vase Painting
Performance/Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Damascus Kafumbe, Pavlos Sfyroeras, and Pieter Broucke
Tuesday, February 20
Medardo Rosso: Opening the Door to Modern and Contemporary Sculpture
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Sharon Hecker
Friday, March 9
Fridays at the Museum: James Whistler, Walter Greaves, and the Invention of the Nocturne
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Friday, March 16
Making Connections: Power & Piety and the Middlebury College Museum of Art
Gallery Talk
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Middlebury College Museum of Art
Carrie Anderson, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Friday, March 23
Fridays at the Museum—Middlebury’s Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Ávila: Artist, Patron, and Context
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125 and Museum
Dr. Jessica Boehman, CUNY LaGuardia Community College
Wednesday, April 4
Colonial Latin America: A Crossroads Between East and West
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Dennis Carr
Friday, April 6
Fridays at the Museum—Caveat Emptor: The American Historical Portrait in the Early Twentieth Century
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Richard Saunders, Museum Director and Professor of History of Art and Architecture
Wednesday, April 11
Wolfgang Buttress: Art and Nature
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Wolfgang Buttress, artist
Thursday, April 12
Cameron Visiting Artist Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist
Artist Talk
Time: 4:30pm
Location: Twilight Auditorium
Artist Mark Dion
Friday, April 13
Fridays at the Museum: Ancient Greek Coins at the Museum
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Simone Edgar Holmes ’20.5
Friday, April 27
Fridays at the Museum—Fish Story: An Artistic Vision of Industry
Illustrated Lecture
Time: 12:30pm
Location: Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 125
Laurel Rand-Lewis ’20, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern
Sunday, April 29
Film Screening of “Human Flow” by Ai Weiwei and Live Webcast of Q&A with the Artist
Film Screen/Artist Q&A
Time: 4:45pm
Location: McCullough Student Center, Wilson Hall
Ai Weiwei, Artist
Sunday, May 6
Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Supper and Presentation of Arts Awards
Members-Only Dinner
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Kirk Alumni Center
Friends of the Art Museum
Friday, June 29
The 2018–2019 event schedule is still in the planning stages, but we hope to announce a slate of new events before the end of June.
NEW EVENTS COMING BY
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