Museum of Art

Lecture presented by Anne Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and co-author of This is A Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Goodyear will discuss how portraiture evolved largely as a genre based on mimesis to one stressing conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Artists considered range from Georgia O’Keeffe and Marcel Duchamp to Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono. Cosponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Director of the Arts. Free

To commemorate World AIDS Day and Visual AIDS 2016 Day With(out) Art, the Middlebury College Museum of Art screens Visual AIDS’s COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a 65-minute video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. COMPULSIVE PRACTICE will demonstrate the place of technology, self-expression, critique, and community in the many decades and the many experiences of artists and activists living with AIDS. Please note that seating is limited.

The Museum opens at 10:00AM today. Please join us!

The Museum opens at 10:00AM today. Please join us!

Peter Plagens, painter, novelist, and art critic for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, will discuss life as an art critic and answer questions from the floor.

Sponsored by Meet the Press, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Program in Creative Writing, the Museum Studies Gift Fund, the Johnson Enrichment Fund for Art History, the Program in Studio Art, and the Director of the Arts.

Join us as artist and geographer Timothy Case talks about the process and message of his environmental photography. Student curators of the exhibition will also be present to talk about the experience of curating “Landscaped” in just eight weeks during the MuseumWorks summer internship program. Light refreshments provided. Photo by Timothy Case. Marin County, April 2014. Digital inkjet print.

Get out of the library and into the Museum! You bring your laptop and work—we provide coffee, healthy snacks, outlets, and stress-relieving coloring sheets of objects in the Museum’s collection. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Free

This exhibit is comprised of approximately 100 photographs of African Americans from the exhaustive yet little known collection of George R. Rinhart, one of the foremost collectors of American photography. Selected images range from daguerreotypes created in the 1840s to photographs of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Many of these images have never been previously exhibited. Free

This exhibit is comprised of approximately 100 photographs of African Americans from the exhaustive yet little known collection of George R. Rinhart, one of the foremost collectors of American photography. Selected images range from daguerreotypes created in the 1840s to photographs of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Many of these images have never been previously exhibited. Free

This exhibit is comprised of approximately 100 photographs of African Americans from the exhaustive yet little known collection of George R. Rinhart, one of the foremost collectors of American photography. Selected images range from daguerreotypes created in the 1840s to photographs of the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Many of these images have never been previously exhibited. Free