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On view now through August 10
Wafting on a Heavenly Breeze: Hand-Painted Kites from China
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery
A plethora of dragons, phoenixes, snakes, bats, and mythical figures fill the sky in this exhibition of hand-crafted kites using traditional materials—bamboo, paper, and silk. The majority of these kites come from Weifang, the birthplace of kite making.
This exhibition was formerly scheduled to open in the Mahaney Center for the Arts lobbies on April 3. Now that the show has moved inside the Museum, one kite will hang in the lobby to welcome visitors as they arrive, and guide them toward the Museum of Art. Free
On view now through August 10
Art Now: Recent Acquisitions in Photography and Film/Video
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery
For the past eight years, the Project in Contemporary Photography and Film/Video has offered students the opportunity to help select works of art for the Museum collection. During the spring, Art Now installations feature videos by Tracy Moffett, Jacco Olivier, and the Swiss team of Fischli and Weiss, along with photographs by Roger Ballen, Bernd and Hilla Becher, and Robert Mapplethorpe, among others. Free
On view now through August 10
Tombs, Temples, Palaces, and Tea: The Social Roles of Ceramics in Asia
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Robert F. Reiff Gallery
This exhibition explores the practical and social uses of ceramics in Asia. Asian ceramics are the most varied in the world: they have been used for vessels, ritual objects, sculpture, and for even architectural ornament. They are also unrivaled in technical quality and in their sheer volume. We invite you to explore the wonderful world of clay transformed.
This exhibition is curated by students in the fall 2007 College Writing Course on Asian ceramics taught by Colin Mackenzie. Free
On view through August 10
Ancient Mediterranean and Early European Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Lower Gallery
On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Free
On view through August 10
European and American Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art, Cerf Gallery
This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the Museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Free
On view through August 10
Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art
This installation features a wide range of East Asian ceramics, including Chinese ceramic funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E.–220 C.E.) to Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. Korean celadons and Japanese tea ceremony wares will also be represented. Free
June 14, Saturday
Omaret Yakobean (The Yacoubian Building) [Arabic]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M. , Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
June 21, Saturday
Abduction: The Megumi Yakota Story [Japanese]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
June 22, Sunday
Potomac Theatre Project:
Crave and Somewhere in the Pacific
2:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theatre
Showing of work in progress; for mature audiences. The Potomac Theatre Project, a professional theatre company affiliated with Middlebury, presents its 22nd season this summer. The 2008 season represents an important change for the company and the Middlebury community. Prior to the shows’ July run in New York City, the company rehearses in Middlebury from June 10–June 22, with this informal showing of the works at the close of rehearsals. Free
June 22, Sunday
Potomac Theatre Project:
Scenes from an Execution
2:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 232
Showing of work in progress; for mature audiences. Showing of work in progress; for mature audiences. The Potomac Theatre Project, a professional theatre company affiliated with Middlebury, presents its 22nd season this summer. The 2008 season represents an important change for the company and the Middlebury community. Prior to the shows’ July run in New York City, the company rehearses in Middlebury from June 10–June 22, with this informal showing of the works at the close of rehearsals. Free
June 27, Friday
Carillon Concert: Amy Heebner ’97, City Carillonneur, Albany, NY
4:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Presented as part of the 23rd annual Summer Carillon Series. Free
June 28, Saturday
Still Life [Chinese]
7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A screening of the Language Schools’ International Film Festival. All films subtitled in English. After each 7:00 p.m. screening, filmgoers are invited to participate in a film discussion in English in Sunderland 100. Free
June 29, Sunday
Concert: Amir Milstein and Band
5:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Presented by the School of Hebrew. Free
June 29, Sunday
Capoeira, African-Brazilian Martial Art
7:30 P.M., McCullough, Juice Bar
This performance is presented by the Portuguese School. Free