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News and Events

Upcoming Events

  • photos of artists, side by side

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

    Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

    Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • black and white photograph of the artists

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: 27 Breaths

    27 Breaths is a live music and movement piece created and performed by composer and musician, Mathew Evan Taylor, and choreographer and dancer, Laurel Jenkins. In close proximity Taylor and Jenkins Inhale/Exhale, Push/Pull, never simply breathe…

    Shows at 2:15pm and 6:15pm.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • photo of the artist holding a saxophone

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: In the Moment

    At this very moment,
    You’ve breathed molecules
    First produced by Cyanobacteria epochs ago
    How does this make you feel?
    Does it sound like this?

    Shows at 2:00pm and 6:00pm.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public

  • New Directions Arts Festival: Meet & Greet

    Join us for cider and cookies and meet the faculty and students of the New Directions Arts Festival. The Festival is an interdisciplinary performance with music, dance, visual art, and theatre, led by Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor (Music), Michelle Leftheris (Studio Art), Laurel Jenkins (Dance) and Michole Biancosino (Theatre).

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Open to the Public
  • photos of artists, side by side

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

    Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

    Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • silhouette of person from behind

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Inner Landscapes

    Inner Landscapes is a performance practice developed by Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and Nives Sertic, a projection artist based in Croatia. Middlebury College’s New Directions Spring Arts Festival will present the second iteration of this work which began when Sertic and Jenkins met as artists-in-residence last year at Cite des International Arts in Paris, France. This intimate work submerges the body in worlds of color. Original sound is played live by Matthew Evan Taylor and costumes are by Mac Melrose.

    Shows at 2:30pm and 6:30pm.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • black and white photograph of the artists

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: 27 Breaths

    27 Breaths is a live music and movement piece created and performed by composer and musician, Mathew Evan Taylor, and choreographer and dancer, Laurel Jenkins. In close proximity Taylor and Jenkins Inhale/Exhale, Push/Pull, never simply breathe…

    Shows at 2:15pm and 6:15pm.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • photo of the artist holding a saxophone

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: In the Moment

    At this very moment,
    You’ve breathed molecules
    First produced by Cyanobacteria epochs ago
    How does this make you feel?
    Does it sound like this?

    Shows at 2:00pm and 6:00pm.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • person holding a picture frame in front of an ocean landscape

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Student Faculty "Happening"

    An interdisciplinary performance with music, dance, visual art, and theatre. Student participants from will be featured from these classes: Intro to Dance, First Year Seminar: Collaborating Across the Arts, Digital Studio, Acting 1, Collaborative Improvisation, and How To Improvise. Led by Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor (Music), Michelle Leftheris (Studio Art), Laurel Jenkins (Dance) and Michole Biancosino (Theatre).

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public

Recent Past Events

  • Opening: Leila Scanlon “Bad Food” - A Senior Exhibition of Pastels on Paper

    An art exhibition of my senior thesis work at the Center Gallery in McCullough. The show will run from Jan. 29 through Feb. 3 and will culminate in a public opening at 4 pm on Feb. 3. My artworks are figurative pastel drawings that mix humor with surrealism. These selected pieces result from my last semester at Middlebury. I will be available at the opening to discuss the work, explain my thought process, and answer any questions. This event has been organized by the Program in Studio Art.

    McCullough Center Gallery

    Open to the Public

  • Leila Scanlon “Bad Food” - A Senior Exhibition of Pastels on Paper

    An art exhibition of my senior thesis work at the Center Gallery in McCullough. My artworks are figurative pastel drawings that mix humor with surrealism. These selected pieces result from my last semester at Middlebury. I will be available at the opening to discuss the work, explain my thought process and answer any questions at a reception on Feb. 3 at 4 pm. This event has been organized by the Program in Studio Art.

    McCullough Center Gallery

    Open to the Public

  • Leila Scanlon “Bad Food” - A Senior Exhibition of Pastels on Paper

    An art exhibition of my senior thesis work at the Center Gallery in McCullough. My artworks are figurative pastel drawings that mix humor with surrealism. These selected pieces result from my last semester at Middlebury. I will be available at the opening to discuss the work, explain my thought process and answer any questions at a reception on Feb. 3 at 4 pm. This event has been organized by the Program in Studio Art.

    McCullough Center Gallery

    Open to the Public

  • Leila Scanlon “Bad Food” - A Senior Exhibition of Pastels on Paper

    An art exhibition of my senior thesis work at the Center Gallery in McCullough. My artworks are figurative pastel drawings that mix humor with surrealism. These selected pieces result from my last semester at Middlebury. I will be available at the opening to discuss the work, explain my thought process and answer any questions at a reception on Feb. 3 at 4 pm. This event has been organized by the Program in Studio Art.

    McCullough Center Gallery

    Open to the Public

  • Leila Scanlon “Bad Food” - A Senior Exhibition of Pastels on Paper

    An art exhibition of my senior thesis work at the Center Gallery in McCullough. My artworks are figurative pastel drawings that mix humor with surrealism. These selected pieces result from my last semester at Middlebury. I will be available at the opening to discuss the work, explain my thought process and answer any questions at a reception on Feb. 3 at 4 pm. This event has been organized by the Program in Studio Art.

    McCullough Center Gallery

    Open to the Public

Program in Studio Art

Johnson Memorial Building
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT 05753

Michaela Davico, Coordinator

Johnson 314

(802) 443-3136

mdavico@middlebury.edu

Hedya Klein, Director and Chair

Johnson 411

(802) 443-3437

hklein@middlebury.edu