Museum of Art

William Shakespeare’s First Folio—the first complete collected edition of his plays, and one of the world’s most influential books—is coming to Middlebury as part of a national tour marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Middlebury hosts a month-long exhibition and series of performances, workshops, speakers, film screenings, family events, and a Folio Festival on the evening of Thursday, February 18. For details visit http://shakespeare.middlebury.edu. Free First Folio!

William Shakespeare’s First Folio—the first complete collected edition of his plays, and one of the world’s most influential books—is coming to Middlebury as part of a national tour marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Middlebury hosts a month-long exhibition and series of performances, workshops, speakers, film screenings, family events, and a Folio Festival on the evening of Thursday, February 18. For details visit http://shakespeare.middlebury.edu. Free First Folio!

William Shakespeare’s First Folio—the first complete collected edition of his plays, and one of the world’s most influential books—is coming to Middlebury as part of a national tour marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Middlebury hosts a month-long exhibition and series of performances, workshops, speakers, film screenings, family events, and a Folio Festival on the evening of Thursday, February 18. For details visit http://shakespeare.middlebury.edu. Free First Folio!

Last chance! Come this week to view the current museum exhibitions, closing Sunday, August 7: Perseverance: Japanese Tattoo Tradition in a Modern World and Paul Strand in Vermont: 1943-1946. Open Tues.-Fri., 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sat.-Sun., Noon-5:00 PM. Free admission.

Last chance! Come this week to view the current museum exhibitions, closing Sunday, December 11: Bloom and Doom: Visual Expressions and Reform in Vienna and Post Pop: Prints of Keith Haring. Open Tues.-Fri., 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sat.-Sun., Noon-5:00 PM. Free admission.

Last chance! Come this week to view the current museum exhibition, closing Sunday, April 23: Untouched by Time: The Athenian Acropolis from Pericles to Parr. Open Tues.-Fri., 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sat.-Sun., Noon-5:00 PM. Free admission.

Last chance! Come this week to view the current museum exhibition, closing Sunday, April 30: American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity. Open Tues.-Fri., 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sat.-Sun., Noon-5:00 PM. Free admission.

Last chance for the two current museum exhibitions, closing Sun. 12/13: Naked Truth: Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German and Austrian Art and The Art of Storytelling: Five Tales from Asia, Then and Now. Open Tues.-Fri., 10:00 AM-5:00 PM; Sat.-Sun., Noon-5:00 PM. Free admission.

Join us for the public screening of “12 Years a Slave” [2013], the Academy Award-winning film based on Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir of the same name. It was Henry Bliss Northup, Middlebury Class of 1829, who rescued Solomon from slavery. The film will be introduced by Associate Professor of History William Hart, whose research of this highly dramatic historical event is in the current Middlebury College magazine. Co-sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Film & Media Culture Department. Free

Join the Friends of the Art Museum for a celebration of the museum’s fall exhibitions. Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Erin Sassin introduces Bloom and Doom, organized with her spring term class on turn-of-the-20th-century art in Vienna, while Curator Emmie Donadio leads visitors through Post Pop: Prints of Keith Haring. Free