February 12, 1998
Middlebury College’s Concert Series Poster Wins
International Award
The International Society for the Performing Arts
(ISPA) has awarded the Middlebury College Center for the Arts
a 1997 Graphics Competition award in the Poster Design: Full Season
category. The College’s winning entry was a poster listing its
Concert Series events for the 1997-1998 season.
Susan Stockton, director of the Center for the Arts,
said “We’re pleased to receive this award. It’s an international
competition and we’re in very good company with other winners
such as The Stockholm Concert Hall and The Royal New Zealand Ballet.”
The poster, which is framed and on display in various
campus locations, including the Center for the Arts, is a symphony
of blacks and deep golds. Featuring a photo of a grand piano
alone on stage in the Concert Hall, surrounded by the Hall’s octagonal
ceiling, triangular-shaped lights and windows, and row upon row
of empty seats, the poster is a striking play of light and dark,
stillness and potential commotion. Below the photo, the concert
series events are listed.
The poster was designed by Kristin Geishecker of
Burlington, Vt.-based Boulder Design and Illustration.