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Cameron Visiting Artist Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist

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Museum of Art, Studio Art, and History of Arts and Architecture
Known best for his elaborate installations and fantastical curiosity cabinets, which often merge surprisingly disparate objects classified and arranged as so many incarnations of rare species, Mark Dion’s art questions distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences. He returns to campus on the occasion of the Museum exhibition of prints created by the Cameron Family Arts Enrichment Fund and students in Hedya Klein’s Silkscreen and Intaglio classes.
Open to the Public

Jenny Kemp: Artist Talk

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Studio Art
Jenny Kemp’s artistic life uniquely blends of art, business, and family in ways that have positive repercussions for all three. Over the past five years her biologically inspired paintings have achieved an international audience and wide acclaim. Her work was included in the book “100 Painters Of Tomorrow” published by Thames On Hudson in 2014. Simultaneously she and her husband also founded and now run Rare Form Brewery, one of the most successful micro-breweries in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

From Scratch(ing)

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Studio Art
Drawing Lab with New York artist, Brian Novatny, and Studio Arts drawings classes. 9am – noon, 1:30 – 5pm, 7 – 10pm; Join us whenever you can Participants will draw from observation in various locations indoors and out. The project will culminate in a final exhibition in the Johnson Memorial Building. This lab is open to all; no previous drawing experience needed. Materials will be provided. Please refer to postings on the communication board on the door of room 308. The show will remain up for viewing through the second week of October. Free.

Johnson Gallery/Crit (208)

Open to the Public

From Scratch(ing)

Sponsored by:
Studio Art
Drawing Lab with New York artist, Brian Novatny, and Studio Arts drawings classes. 9am – noon, 1:30 – 5pm, 7 – 10pm; Join us whenever you can Participants will draw from observation in various locations indoors and out. The project will culminate in a final exhibition in the Johnson Memorial Building. This lab is open to all; no previous drawing experience needed. Materials will be provided. Please refer to postings on the communication board on the door of room 308. The show will remain up for viewing through the second week of October. Free.

Johnson Gallery/Crit (208)

Open to the Public

Diana Matar: State of a Nation - Photography and Police Violence in America

Sponsored by:
Studio Art, History of Arts and Architecture, and Department of English
For the past year, artist Diana Matar has been photographing at over 200 sites where police violence has occurred in America for a project entitled “This Violent Land”. In this lecture Ms. Matar will speak about how she uses her camera to question not only the romantic photographic interpretation of the American dream, but also the nation’s acceptance of violence against its citizens at a time of deep social and political change.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public

Brian Novatny Lecture

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Studio Art
Brian Novatny will be visiting Middlebury College for a week long drawing intensive residency as a Cameron Visiting artist of the Studio Art program. Brian Novatny earned his MFA at the Yale University School of Art in New Haven, CT (1990) and his BFA at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, OH (1987). December of 2014, Novatny exibited with ADA at The UNTITLED Art Fair 2014 (Miami Beach) and at the Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China.

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Austrian band 'Radian' Performing

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Studio Art
Animation / Concert November 30th, 7pm in Twilight Hall at Middlebury College work from ART 0185 and ART 0200 7pm ART0185 screening of short animations 8pm concert: on dark silent off, RADIAN live visuals by ART0200 Open to the public

Twilight Auditorium 101

Closed to the Public

Adam Ryder: Artist Talk

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Studio Art
Adam Ryder is an artist working in lens-based mediums in Brooklyn, NY. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Photography, Video and Related Media in New York City. He has previously created work in collaboration with Brian Rosa. Ryder also writes about contemporary photographic practice and has contributed to Photograph, American Photo and Popular Photography magazines.

Johnson Classroom 204

Open to the Public

Stirs, haunts, movement: visual ruminations on solitude and grief in apocalyptic time. Gallery show & words from artist

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Studio Art
Gallery show with words from the artist.

After a year of immersing herself in academic literature and art about the apocalypse, Olivia created a photographic series of her personal and bodily interactions with space and apocalyptic time. This photographic series explores haunting, solitude, temporal identity, and grief. Words from the artist will being at 7:30pm and will merge a description of the academic investigations in Olivia’s environmental studies and religion thesis with the personal process of art making in apocalyptic time.

Johnson Atrium

Open to the Public