5 November 2009

• NEW! Three Special Arts Lectures, Today and Tomorrow

  Come hear three inside perspectives on the arts as we present just-announced lectures by architectural historian Glenn Andres, printmaker Colin Matthes, and Performing Arts Series director Paul Nelson. They're all free and open to the public.

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• Vermont Confronts Modernism: Modernism Confronts Vermont

  
  

  Glenn Andres, Christian A. Johnson Professor of Art, gives a public lecture about Vermont’s architectural embrace of and reaction to the modernist agenda of the mid-to-late twentieth century – from mainstream importations to local interpretations that say much about the state’s self image and its attitudes toward its built environment.
  
  Thursday, November 5, at 7:00 P.M., in the Johnson Building, Room 304. Free

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• Cameron Print Project: Works in Progress

  
  

  Please join Cameron visiting studio artists, faculty, and students for an informal discussion on the Cameron Print Project. Master printer Colin Matthes gives a brief talk about his own work with participants; while visiting artist Kati Heck and student collaborators display works in progress.
  
  Friday, November 6, at 4:00 P.M., in the Johnson Memorial Building, Johnson Gallery. Free

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• Paul Nelson Speaks on the Performing Arts Series' 90th Anniversary

  
  

  This season, we celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Performing Arts Series. Hear about the Middlebury appearances of world-class performers such as Yo-Yo Ma, Murray Perahia, Paul Robeson, Oscar Peterson, Duke Ellington, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the New York Philharmonic, Andres Segovia, Urban Bushwomen, the National Theatre of the Deaf, Ravi Shankar, Pilobolus, Louis Armstrong, B. B. King, Arlo Guthrie, Mary Pickford, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the Emerson String Quartet, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra.
  
  Friday, November 6, at 7:15 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221. Free

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• More Events This Weekend

  
  

  Don't forget the other arts events this weekend-- though they were previously announced in ArtsMail, they're still big news-- the concert by the Pavel Haas Quartet Friday night at 8;  screenings of Steven Soderbergh’s epic film "Che" on Saturday at 3 and 8; the Friends of the Art Musuem's annual Purchase Party on Saturday at 5:30; and the Music Department's Affiliate Artist Collaborative Concert on Saturday night at 8.

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