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Music & Conversation with Lonnie Holley

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
Please join us in the Johnson Memorial PIT space to enjoy music and conversation with artist and musician Lonnie Holley. Holley’s music, like his art, defies classification — haunting vocals, keyboards, and new renditions of songs with every performance. Similar to the spontaneous nature of his sculptures, Holley’s music is somewhere between, and perhaps beyond, Sun Ra and spoken-word poetry. It has been described by The New York Times as “spacey [and] ethereal,” full of “fragile, anachronistic beauty and…weirdness.”

Johnson Atrium

Medardo Rosso: Opening the Door to Modern and Contemporary Sculpture

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art, History of Arts and Architecture, and Italian
Dr. Sharon Hecker, art historian, curator, and leading scholar of Medardo Rosso (1858-1928), author of A Moment’s Monument: Medardo Rosso and the International Origins of Modern Sculpture. Dr. Hecker considers the artist’s work, his unusual casting techniques and exhibition strategies, as well as his influence on modern and contemporary artists.

Sponsored by Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Department of Italian

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

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

Sponsored by:
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

The Burn

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Photographer Jane Fulton Alt will discuss her photographic project, The Burn, for which she photographed controlled burns conducted by ecologists on the Illinois prairie, as well as her latest project, Fire and Water. In conjunction with Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Free
Open to the Public

The Jina as King or the Jina as Renouncer: Seeing and Ornamenting Temple Images in Jainism

Sponsored by:
History of Arts and Architecture
Public lecture by John Cort, Professor of Asian and Comparative Religions at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. John will talk about the sectarian differences between the Digambar Jains and Shvetambar Jains. He will focus on disagreements concerning: the biographies of the 24th Jina Mahavira; whether a true monk should be naked or can wear white robes; and whether or not women can directly attain liberation. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Johnson Enrichment Fund. Free.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Middlebury's Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila: Artist, Patron, and Context

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art and History of Arts and Architecture
Middlebury’s terracotta relief The Ecstasy of St. Teresa of Avila has been attributed to Tommaso Amantini, a Baroque sculptor trained in Bernini’s circle in Rome, on the basis of a similar, signed relief in Vienna. Dr. Jessica Boehman of CUNY LaGuardia Community College will link both reliefs to high-profile church patrons in Le Marche, Italy. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

The Palace of Sans-Souci in Milot, Haiti: The Untold Story of the Potsdam of the Rainforest

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History of Arts and Architecture
Using unpublished archival sources and a photographic survey undertaken in 2017, this talk by Gauvin Alexander Bailey reconstructs the circumstances, influences, and builders of this extraordinary monument to demonstrate its position at the nexus of a global network of cultures at the dawn of Caribbean and Latin American independence. A History of Art and Architecture event. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public

Migration of Memory: Annu Palakunnathu Matthew

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History of Arts and Architecture
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will present her photo-based work, which is a striking blend of still and moving imagery. Her work is influenced by her experiences of having been born in England, raised in India, and now living in the United States. Her work draws on archival and family photographs as a source of inspiration for exploring memory, cultural assumptions, and national identity. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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