Mahaney Arts Center 125

What makes a compelling artist statement? How can you make your CV and creative portfolio stand out? In this workshop, Middlebury Dance Program alumni will share ideas, examples, and leading questions to help you present your artistic self to the world in a compelling and authentic way. Feel free to bring an artist statement draft and/or CV with you or just show up with your curiosity and ideas for your post-graduate artistic career. All are welcome!

This multimedia and multisensorial presentation is in the African and African Diaspora tradition of “call and response” — with images, sounds, film, and movement. We will consider Sensiotics, an approach that centers the crucial importance of the senses, our body-minds and sense-abilities, in our experiences with arts, cultures, and histories. While I focus on the arts of Yoru`ba´-speaking people of West Africa, I believe Sensiotics has global implications. FREE

Join the Conflict Transformation Collaborative, in partnership with Beyond the Page, for the 2nd event in our ’25 - ’26 Conflict and Social Change series. 

Theatrum Pictorium, the first ever catalog of a significant paintings collection, is a profound art historical resource. Eloise McFarlane ’24.5, curator of “To All Art Lovers:” David Teniers and Theatrum Pictorium, will give a talk on her exhibition, which highlights this influential catalogue and invites conversation centered around the collection, preservation, and artistic interpretation of works.

Join us for a lunch time talk! Carrie Anderson (HARC) will discuss the fascinating history of the College Art Museum’s latest textile acquisition: a seventeenth-century damask linen napkin featuring the coat of arms of Prince Maurits from the House of Nassau, the stadholder of the Dutch Republic from 1585 until his death in 1625. Carrie will be joined by Justin Squizzero, Director of the Newbury School of Weaving, who will explain the complexities of weaving damask, which he produces on his 200-year-old Jacquard Loom.

In 2023, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University embarked on an experiment to use AI to curate an exhibition from the museum’s collection. It was the first time a museum had ever done so. The resulting exhibition, Dreams of Tomorrow: Utopian and Dystopian Visions, featured 21 artworks and was on display for six months in the museum’s Incubator gallery. This presentation reflects on the project’s successes and shortcomings, as well as the critical response that the exhibition received.

Assistant Professor Marguerite Lenius will discuss the current exhibition Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking African Art at Middlebury. Participants of the Fall 2025 seminar Exhibiting African Art: History, Theory, Praxis contributed to the exhibition design and content to challenge imposed boundaries which have long influenced global views of Africa.

Following the lecture, a lunch will be served in the Lower Lobby. 

Meet Matt, candidate for Assistant Professor of Theare in Playwrighting, and learn about his career path.

Meet Callie, candidate for Assistant Professor of Theatre in Playwrighting, and learn about her career path. Psst, there will be cider and cookies… 
Callie Kimball is an award-winning, internationally produced playwright, educator, actor, director, and movement coach. Her plays have been produced and developed in New York, Chicago, LA, and DC, at the Kennedy Center, MCC Theater, Lark Play Development Center, Portland Stage Company, Washington Shakespeare Company, Washington Stage Guild, Project Y, Theater at Monmouth, The Drama League, and elsewhere.

Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work examines places, spaces, and moments where social, political, and cultural structures manifest in visible forms, encompassing video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text, and data.