Museum of Art

Wentao Zhai ‘17 discusses the museum’s Roman child sarcophagus, the topic of his independent research, addressing the depiction of the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus as a means of exploring the relationship between Classical Antiquity’s two major cultures. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art, sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

Juliana E. Dunn ’19.5, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern

Professors Pieter Broucke (History of Art and Architecture), Shalom Goldman (Religion), and Stephen Trombulak (Biology) team up for an interdisciplinary contextualization of the late-period Egyptian bronze ibis figurine recently acquired by the museum. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions about Art.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders.

Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Emmie Donadio surveys the museum’s collection of art seen and unseen. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art, sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

The Friends of the Art Museum welcome friends both old and new to view the fall exhibits, The Art of Storytelling: Five Tales from Asia, Then and Now; and Naked Truth: The Body in Early 20th Century German and Austrian Art. Hear brief remarks by Richard Saunders, museum director, and Sarah Laursen, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and curator of Asian art. The Middlebury College Friends of the Art Museum were established in 1969 to support the college art collection and the Museum’s educational programs. Many of the works they have acquired are on permanent exhibition.

Pieter Broucke, professor of history of art and architecture and associate curator of ancient art, recounts the multiyear quest that resulted in the reattribution of one of the museum’s earliest acquisitions from German artist Hans Von Aachen (1522–1615) to Orazio Samacchini (1532–1577), an influential Mannerist artist from Bologna. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Presented as part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided.

Celebrate the installation of Chaos Xaxis, a sculpture by artist Jedd Novatt, with a ceremony beginning at 4:30 p.m. and a reception immediately following.

Join us at the museum for free food, drinks (21+), live music and student-led tours of the current exhibition American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity.

Selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Kathe Kollwitz, and others—whose work wrestled with the relationship between the nude body and contemporary morality—are featured in this exhibit, which explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, a time that changed the world’s notions of flesh and blood forever. Presented in conjunction with the 2015 Clifford Symposium, The “good” Body. Free

Selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Kathe Kollwitz, and others—whose work wrestled with the relationship between the nude body and contemporary morality—are featured in this exhibit, which explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, a time that changed the world’s notions of flesh and blood forever. Presented in conjunction with the 2015 Clifford Symposium, The “good” Body. Free