History of Arts and Architecture

Come and celebrate Johnson Memorial Building’s 50th Anniversary with a lecture on the history of the building delivered by former professor Glenn Andres, followed by associate professor John McLeod, who will discuss the upcoming renovation of the building. Reception to follow with refreshments.

Annabelle Selldorf is the Principal of Selldorf Architects, a 70-person architectural design practice that she founded in New York City in 1988. Selldorf Architects creates public and private spaces that manifest a clear and modern sensibility to enduring impact. Since its inception, the firm’s design ethos has been deeply rooted in the principles of humanism. At every scale and for every condition, Selldorf Architects designs for the individual experience. Creating buildings and spaces that bring people together and foster community is fundamental to the firm’s work.

Do you love art? Come meet the faculty from the History of Art & Architectural Studies faculty at this information session, and hear more about our major and minor requirements.

Mark Aronson, painting conservator at the Yale Center for British Art, Louis Kahn’s last building, will discuss the ways in which architecture, light, and the lighting interact with each other, how they influence the way in which paintings age, and how a conservator must negotiate a balance between the scientific understanding of light, the aging of works of art, and the way in which audiences like to see them. Co-sponsored by the Johnson Endowment Fund.

Photo Credit: Henry Robert Morland (British, 1730-1797), The Ballad Singer, ca. 1764 (detail)

Artist talk with Dario Robleto-The Poetry of Prisms: Awe as a Form of Knowledge in Art and Science

This epic film by renowned artist Ai Weiwei is a detailed and heartbreaking exploration of the global refugee crisis. Captured over the course of a year in 23 countries, the film follows a chain of urgent stories that stretches through Afghanistan, Greece, Iraq, Kenya, Mexico, Turkey, and beyond. From teeming refugee camps to perilous ocean crossings to barbed-wire borders, ‘Human Flow’ witnesses its subjects’ desperate search for safety, shelter, and justice. (2017, dir. Ai Weiwei, 140 min.) Free and open to the public.*

Take a painting break. Yinglei Zhang, will be holding drop-in Chinese painting workshops. Workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff. Sponsored by the Johnson Enrichment Fund.

Take a painting break. Yinglei Zhang, will be holding drop-in Chinese painting workshops. Workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff. Sponsored by the Johnson Enrichment Fund.

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.

Shahzia Sikander, the Pakistani-born internationally acclaimed artist who now resides in New York City, will join in a conversation about the meanings and context of Sikander‘s newly installed glass mosaic. Perennial Gaze is the newest addition to Middlebury College’s renowned Public Art Collection.   A reception will follow the talk. FREE