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.
In her Inaugural Lecture as Isabel Riexinger Mettler ‘39 Professor of Theatre, entitled “Practice as Research: Working in the Academic and Professional Theatre” Cheryl Faraone provides a thirty-five year overview of her work in both theatrical arenas. The talk particularly references the creation of companies, the necessity of collaboration, and the central position of the academic arena as laboratory and gestator of theatre in America. There is particular reference to the Potomac Theatre Project (PTP/NYC), Middlebury’s affiliated theatre company.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Please join us for the 2018-19 Fall Faculty Forum. There will be a series of panel discussions with over 40 faculty participating from Middlebury and Monterey.
Please visit go.middlebury.edu/fallfacultyforum for more details.