Minimum Monument: Art as Emergency

Brazilian artist Néle Azevedo brings her internationally known “Minimum Monument” event to Middlebury. With help from students, faculty, staff and members of the Middlebury community, she will install 300+ ice sculptures (little men and women) outside Davis Library. And then we will leave them to melt… or will we? A visual metaphor for climate change, Azevedo’s work challenges the traditional meaning of the public monument: “in the place of the hero, the anonym; in the place of the solidity of the stone, the ephemeral process of the ice.” A community event not to be missed.

Location:  Steps outside Davis Family Library.

Sponsored by Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs; Studio Art; Spanish and Portuguese; Environmental Studies; Franklin Environmental Center; Office of the Vice-President for Academic Affairs; and the Mahaney Center for the Arts