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  • The Architecture of Music

    Eric Whitacre Lecture
    “The Architecture of Music”
    Featuring a live performance from the Middlebury College Choir

    Grammy Award-winning composer and conductor, Eric Whitacre, is among today’s most popular musicians. His works are programmed worldwide and his ground-breaking Virtual Choirs have united over 100,000 singers from more than 145 countries. In this lecture, Eric will discuss his music and process through the lens of Architecture, exploring how the two art forms overlap and inform each other. 

    Free and open to the public

    Middlebury Chapel

    Open to the Public

  • Amy Smith Public Lecture

    Disiecta Membra: What can small and broken black-figure pots tell us about festivals in ancient Athens?

    An analysis of the ceramics of Classical Athens known as ‘late black figure’ has begun to reveal that they served very important functions for participants in the ample festivals in ancient Athens. In this talk Prof. Smith will reveal the clues—shape, size, and images—that point to the festival use of these small and fragmentary vessels that are found in abundance in Mediterranean excavations and the storerooms of museums.

    Mahaney Arts Center 209

  • Claire Grace Public Lecture

    photo:Judy Chicago, Purple Atmosphere, Santa Barbara California, 1969

    Air and Danger circa 1970: Judy Chicago’s Southern California Atmospheres

    Mahaney Arts Center 125

    Open to the Public

  • Photographer in a Foreign Land: Kevin Bubriski’s Documentary Projects in Nepal, Tibet and Xinjiang

    Kevin Bubriski’s fifty year career as a documentary photographer began in the mid 1970s with his years in the Peace Corps as a community water supply technician in Nepal’s remotest mountain villages. He has returned to Nepal numerous times, done extended documentary work in South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia and the USA and has published a number of photographic books. He will be speaking retrospectively about his work in Nepal, the USA, Syria, Tibet and Xinjiang.

    Johnson Classroom 204

  • Objects of Wonder: Makings from across the Middlebury campus

    Objects of Wonder
    In the upcoming exhibition Objects of Wonder, students, faculty, staff, and alumni offer an intersection of research, art, history, and academia. These objects are curious snapshots-sneak peeks at the varied interests and endeavors present across this campus. Free and open to the public. Johnson Exhibition Gallery, Johnson Memorial Building room 208.

    Johnson Gallery/Crit (208)

    Open to the Public

  • Film Screening: "Human Flow" by Ai Weiwei

    Over 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war in the greatest human displacement since World War II. “Human Flow,” an epic film journey led by the internationally renowned artist Ai Weiwei, gives a powerful visual expression to this massive human migration. The documentary elucidates both the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. All are welcome at this free event.

    Axinn Center 229

    Open to the Public

History of Art and Architectural Studies

Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Michaela Davico, Coordinator

Mahaney Arts Center 118

(802) 443-3136

mdavico@middlebury.edu

Edward Vazquez, Chair

Mahaney Arts Center 212

(802) 443-5764

evazquez@middlebury.edu

Pieter Broucke, Architectural Studies Track Head

(802) 443-5227

broucke@middlebury.edu