Museum of Art MUSEUM OF ART

Children making art in the MAC Cafe

Museum Tours and Family Art Activities

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art

Families and visitors ages 5 and up are invited to enjoy a variety of free activities, including sketching and hands-on art making inspired by works from the Museum’s collection. Stop by the MAC Lobby to create your own artwork, play family-friendly art-themed BINGO, and participate in guided gallery drawing experiences.

Student tour guides will be stationed throughout the galleries, ready to share insights, answer questions, and chat about their favorite works in the collection.

Mahaney Arts Center Cafe

Free
Open to the Public

Film Screening - Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural American

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art

Vanish is described as a “eulogy for a rural way of life that is disappearing, but it also serves a clarion call for all of us to preserve what’s left and what matters.” The screening will be followed by a Q&A and a reception with photographer and producer, Jim Westphalen. 

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public
Michelangelo Lovelace in 2001, in front of a self-portrait. Photograph by Herb Ascherman Jr.

Brick by Brick: The Life and Career of Michelangelo Lovelace

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art

In this lecture, Dr. Jeffrey Katzin of the Akron Art Museum will share insights gained from his experience curating the exhibition Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life, which debuted in Akron and is now on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Katzin will discuss Lovelace’s intensively dedicated fusion of art and life, his simplified but powerful style, and his resonant approaches to politics and Black identity.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

Open to the Public
bowls of snacks

MAC Stressbusters: MAC Snacks and Museum Strolls!

The Mahaney Arts Center invites students to grab a friend and take a break from the end-of-year push with tasty treats in the MAC’s beautiful upper level atrium available 10AM to 5PM Tuesday May 5 to Friday May 8. And after a quick energy boost, why not take a relaxing stroll around the museum!  The Middlebury College Museum of Art is open 10AM - 5PM Tuesday to Friday and 12-5PM Saturdays and Sundays and is always free!

Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby

bowls of snacks

MAC Stressbusters: MAC Snacks and Museum Strolls!

The Mahaney Arts Center invites students to grab a friend and take a break from the end-of-year push with tasty treats in the MAC’s beautiful upper level atrium available 10AM to 5PM Tuesday May 5 to Friday May 8. And after a quick energy boost, why not take a relaxing stroll around the museum!  The Middlebury College Museum of Art is open 10AM - 5PM Tuesday to Friday and 12-5PM Saturdays and Sundays and is always free!

Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby

bowls of snacks

MAC Stressbusters: MAC Snacks and Museum Strolls!

The Mahaney Arts Center invites students to grab a friend and take a break from the end-of-year push with tasty treats in the MAC’s beautiful upper level atrium available 10AM to 5PM Tuesday May 5 to Friday May 8. And after a quick energy boost, why not take a relaxing stroll around the museum!  The Middlebury College Museum of Art is open 10AM - 5PM Tuesday to Friday and 12-5PM Saturdays and Sundays and is always free!

Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby

bowls of snacks

MAC Stressbusters: MAC Snacks and Museum Strolls!

The Mahaney Arts Center invites students to grab a friend and take a break from the end-of-year push with tasty treats in the MAC’s beautiful upper level atrium available 10AM to 5PM Tuesday May 5 to Friday May 8. And after a quick energy boost, why not take a relaxing stroll around the museum!  The Middlebury College Museum of Art is open 10AM - 5PM Tuesday to Friday and 12-5PM Saturdays and Sundays and is always free!

Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby