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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Studio Art Thesis Presentations and Art Exhibit opening.

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.

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.