February 07, 2003

Contact: Sarah Ray



802-443-5794

sray@middlebury.edu

Posted: February 7, 2003

MIDDLEBURY,

VT - An art show titled “Mary Smyth Duffy: Retrospective”

will take place Feb. 17-22 in the Johnson Memorial Building Gallery on

the Middlebury College campus. A reception marking the show’s opening

will be held Monday, Feb. 17, from 5- 9 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday,

the Gallery will be open from 12-3 p.m. Johnson is located on Château

Road off College Street (Route 125). The show and the reception are free

and open to the public.

Mary

Smyth Duffy, former director of Middlebury College’s May Belle Chellis

Women’s Resource Center, popularly know as Chellis House, died last year

on Sept. 17 at the age of 46. Her husband, Middlebury College Lecturer

in English David Bain, and her two children, Mimi and David, survived

her. Mentor, political activist and artist, Duffy touched the lives of

many different constituencies at the College and in the community.

On

display at the exhibit will be works from throughout her career, beginning

with her years in graduate school until the time of her death in 2002.

Artwork in the show will not be available for purchase.

The

show is sponsored by several Middlebury College organizations: the Women’s

and Gender Studies Program, Ross Commons and the PALANA Center.

For

more information, contact Deborah Grant, director of Middlebury College’s

Chellis House, at 802-443-5937.