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A Conversation With Artist Jedd Novatt

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History of Arts and Architecture
In conjunction with the installation of Jedd Novatt’s non-representational sculpture Chaos Xaxis on the lawn between Route 30 and the southeast façade of the Axinn Center, the artist engages attendees in a discussion of his work. Sponsored the Johnson Visual Arts Residency Program Fund, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and the Committee on Art in Public Places.

Johnson Classroom 204

Free
Open to the Public

Toshiko Mori: Dialogues in Architecture

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History of Arts and Architecture
Toshiko Mori is a Japanese architect and the founder and principal of New York-based Toshiko Mori Architect, PLLC. Mori is known for her “concern with material innovation and conceptual clarity.” Her projects include the A.R.T. New York theater, the canopy at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Pembroke Hall at Brown University, exhibit design at MoMA and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and numerous residential projects in the United States, Taiwan, China, and Austria.

One Big Home screening

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History of Arts and Architecture
Join Andrea Murray’s Architecture and the Environment course in a viewing of the movie One Big Home:

Gentrification comes in many forms. On the tiny island of Martha’s Vineyard, where presidents and celebrities vacation, trophy homes threaten to destroy the island’s unique character.

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Music & Conversation with Lonnie Holley

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History of Arts and Architecture
Please join us in the Johnson Memorial PIT space to enjoy music and conversation with artist and musician Lonnie Holley. Holley’s music, like his art, defies classification — haunting vocals, keyboards, and new renditions of songs with every performance. Similar to the spontaneous nature of his sculptures, Holley’s music is somewhere between, and perhaps beyond, Sun Ra and spoken-word poetry. It has been described by The New York Times as “spacey [and] ethereal,” full of “fragile, anachronistic beauty and…weirdness.”

Johnson Atrium

Medardo Rosso: Opening the Door to Modern and Contemporary Sculpture

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Museum of Art, History of Arts and Architecture, and Italian
Dr. Sharon Hecker, art historian, curator, and leading scholar of Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), author of A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture. Dr. Hecker considers the artist’s work, his unusual casting techniques and exhibition strategies, as well as his influence on modern and contemporary artists.

Sponsored by Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of Italian

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Cameron Visiting Artist Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

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Museum of Art, Studio Art, and History of Arts and Architecture
Known best for his elaborate installations and fantastical curiosity cabinets, which often merge surprisingly disparate objects classified and arranged as so many incarnations of rare species, Mark Dion’s art questions distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences. He returns to campus on the occasion of the Museum exhibition of prints created by the Cameron Family Arts Enrichment Fund and students in Hedya Klein’s Silkscreen and Intaglio classes.
Open to the Public

The Burn

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Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Photographer Jane Fulton Alt will discuss her photographic project, The Burn, for which she photographed controlled burns conducted by ecologists on the Illinois prairie, as well as her latest project, Fire and Water. In conjunction with Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Free
Open to the Public

The Jina as King or the Jina as Renouncer: Seeing and Ornamenting Temple Images in Jainism

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History of Arts and Architecture
Public lecture by John Cort, Professor of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. John will talk about the sectarian differences between the Digambar Jains and Shvetambar Jains. He will focus on disagreements concerning: the biographies of the 24th Jina Mahavira; whether a true monk should be naked or can wear white robes; and whether or not women can directly attain liberation. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Johnson Enrichment Fund. Free.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Middlebury's Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila: Artist, Patron, and Context

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Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Middlebury’s terracotta relief The Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila has been attributed to Tommaso Amantini, a Baroque sculptor trained in Bernini’s circle in Rome, on the basis of a similar, signed relief in Vienna. Dr. Jessica Boehman of CUNY LaGuardia Community College will link both reliefs to high-profile church patrons in Le Marche, Italy. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public