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Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift

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Museum of Art
The museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. This exhibition surveys documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Among the photographers included are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Stettner, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed. Free
Free
Open to the Public

Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
The museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. This exhibition surveys documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Among the photographers included are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Stettner, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Informal Tour of Museum of Art 50/Fifty: Fifty Years of Collecting Art for Middlebury

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Museum of Art
Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and Glenn Andres, Professor Emeritus of History of Art and Architecture, will lead an informal tour of the exhibit 50 /Fifty: Fifty Years of Collecting Art for Middlebury. Together they will provide background narratives explaining how a number of different objects in the exhibit have become part of the museum’s permanent collection.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Opening Day: Hong Chun Zhang: Hair Story in Charcoal and Ink

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Chinese-born artist Hong Chun Zhang began developing her “hairy” style to explore her personal identity in 2002. Raised among artists, Zhang mastered Chinese brush painting before moving to the United States in 1996. The flowing locks that pervade her artworks connect her to both her homeland and her new American environment. Free

 

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Upper Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Gallery Talk: Collecting Antiquities in the Age of Cultural Repatriation

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Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art holds a compreheThe Middlebury College Museum of Art holds a comprehensive collection of Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman works of art. Pieter Broucke, Curator of Ancient Art, highlights some of the major acquisitions and explains past, present, and future collecting strategies.nsive collection of Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman works of art. Pieter Broucke, Curator of Ancient Art, highlights some of the major acquisitions and explains past, present, and future collecting strategies.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Gallery Talk: Collecting Antiquities in the Age of Repatriation

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art holds a comprehensive collection of Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman works of art. Pieter Broucke, Curator of Ancient Art, highlights some of the major acquisitions and explains past, present, and future collecting strategies.

Space is limited for this event. Please stop by the Museum during open hours to pick up your FREE ticket for this event.  Tickets will be available beginning Tuesday, 3/12, and Tues-Fri, 10-5 and Thursday evening from 6-9pm. Ticket holders will be given first priority for this event.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Friends of the Art Museum Overnight Trip to the Hudson Valley

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
The trip will include guided visits to Olana; Union Church of Pocantico Hills; Kykuit; Lyndhurst; and DIA Beacon. Friday dinner and lodgings will be at the commodious Tarrytown House Estate in Tarrytown.
Professor emeritus of the History of Art and Architecture Glenn Andres will accompany the tour with commentaries and will offer an informational preview of the trip at 7:30 on Thursday March 7 in the Mahaney Arts Center.

Deadline to sign up is Friday, March 15. through the College Box office: www.middlebury.edu/boxoffice

Mahaney Arts Center

$495.00 per person Single Occupancy; $425.00 per person Double Occupancy
Closed to the Public

Free Online Film Screening of Border South/Frontera Sur

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Education Studies, and Anthropology
Fragmented stories from individuals crossing through southern Mexico assemble a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who have disappeared along the trail running from southern Mexico to the US border. “Border South” reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death. (Guatemala, Mexico, USA, 83 minutes. Director: Raúl O. Paz Pastrana.)

Virtual Middlebury

Free
Open to the Public