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Wondering About Wonder: Hindu Temple Ritual, Aesthetics and Creativity

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, History of Arts and Architecture, Religion, Sociology/Anthropology, South Asian Studies, and International & Global Studies
Through her decades-long ethnography of Hindu temple rituals in the city of Bangalore, India, Tulasi Srinivas analyzes wonder as an anthropological concept; moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder- a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. In this talk, Srinivas asks— What is the purpose of wonder and how does it link with creativity? Can it inform our practices of ethnography, our understanding of India, and of ourselves?

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Explore the Bauhaus school in Dessau in virtual reality! Create a performance on the Bauhaus stage, make a sculpture in one of the school’s workshops, get a glimpse of student life, and explore the architecture of the Dessau building, inside and out. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Explore the Bauhaus school in Dessau in virtual reality! Create a performance on the Bauhaus stage, make a sculpture in one of the school’s workshops, get a glimpse of student life, and explore the architecture of the Dessau building, inside and out. Free
Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Explore the Bauhaus school in Dessau in virtual reality! Create a performance on the Bauhaus stage, make a sculpture in one of the school’s workshops, get a glimpse of student life, and explore the architecture of the Dessau building, inside and out. Free
Open to the Public

Virtual Bauhaus

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Explore the Bauhaus school in Dessau in virtual reality! Create a performance on the Bauhaus stage, make a sculpture in one of the school’s workshops, get a glimpse of student life, and explore the architecture of the Dessau building, inside and out. Free
Open to the Public

Tintoretto at 500: Celebrating a Venetian Renaissance Master

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
Robert Echols ’69, curator of landmark retrospective shows in Venice and Washington, honors the 500th anniversary of the birth of Jacopo Tintoretto with a new assessment of the painter and his contribution, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the organization of a major international art exhibition. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Thinking Big, Designing Small: Turning Constraints into Architectural Opportunities

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
Cameron Visiting Architect Lecture, Elizabeth Herrmann, AIA (President, Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design):
Thinking Big, Designing Small: Turning Constraints into Architectural Opportunities
Architect Elizabeth Herrmann is founder of the award-winning, Bristol, Vermont firm, Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture + Design. In this lecture, she will discuss recent work, her approach to design and practice.

Sponsored by the Cameron Visiting Architect Program and organized by the Architectural Studies Program

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Thesis Art Exhibition

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
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Students enrolled in ART 700 exhibit works in various media in this culminating exhibition, showcasing the work of advanced students completing semester long independent studio art.  

Johnson Atrium

Sonic Preservation of the Berlin Wall

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
Pamela Jordan of the Netherlands’ HEAD-Genuit-Foundation analyzes the Berlin Wall as a sonic infrastructural space. Propaganda broadcasts, guard dogs, gunfire, and sirens were violent, auditory markers along the barrier. The patent differences in the two sides’ soundscapes coerced silence on the East, actively demarcating a territory of surveillance and hostile control. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Sarah Laursen lecture Pageantry and Power: Gold in the Realm of Women during China's Six Dynasties and Tang Periods

Sponsored by:
Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs and History of Arts and Architecture
International and Global Studies Colloquium lecture “Pageantry and Power: Gold in the Realm of Women during China’s Six Dynasties and Tang Periods” by Sarah Laursen, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College. Lunch is free for current Middlebury College students/faculty/staff; $5 for others; RSVP by 4/29 to rcga@middlebury.edu.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

Open to the Public