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Power & Piety: Spanish Colonial Art

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Museum of Art
Drawn from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, founded to enhance the appreciation of art from Latin America, this exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s. Co-organized by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, and Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Power & Piety: Spanish Colonial Art

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Drawn from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, founded to enhance the appreciation of art from Latin America, this exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s. Co-organized by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, and Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Power & Piety: Spanish Colonial Art

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Drawn from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, founded to enhance the appreciation of art from Latin America, this exhibition reveals the great wealth of the region from the late 17th century until the 1820s. Co-organized by the Museum of Biblical Art, New York, and Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Opening Day for Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift

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Museum of Art
The museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. This exhibition surveys documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Among the photographers included are Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Stettner, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Opening Day for 1968: The Whole World Is Watching

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Museum of Art
1968 was a year of upheaval and transformation—a year in which national and international events spawned intense vocal expression and protest. This exhibit, through the lens of art, music, and literature, looks back 50 years to consider the issues that transformed American society. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery

Free
Open to the Public

Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party

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Museum of Art
This annual signature event of the Museum Friends is the occasion for the group to determine what addition it will make to the museum collection. With lively and informative presentations by Student Friends, the decisions are never easy—but they’re always good! Members only, RSVP required. Membership information: 802-443-2309 or museum.middlebury.edu.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Membership information: 802-443-2309 or museum.middlebury.edu

Wolfgang Buttress: Art and Nature

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Museum of Art
Wolfgang Buttress—an award winning artist who works with public and private space, and creator of The Hive at Kew Gardens, London, an aluminum honeycomb-like structure that reacts in real time to the vibrations of a nearby bee hive—will talk about how art can explore, express, and inform our relationship with the ‘natural’ world.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Franklin Environmental Center.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Visualizing Renewable Energy

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Museum of Art
Jamey Stillings has been photographing the earth for several decades with a particular interest in projects related to conservation and sources of renewable energy. Among his documentary projects are a study of the Hoover Dam (published in 2011) and the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert. His photographs are included in the Library of Congress and many other public as well as private collections.

The Museum will be open to lecture attendees until 6:30.

Sponsored by the Johnson Visual Arts Residency.

Mahaney Arts Center 221

Free
Open to the Public

Medardo Rosso: Opening the Door to Modern and Contemporary Sculpture

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

Seeing the World, as the First Step Toward Saving It

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Museum of Art
With reference to images in the exhibition Land and Lens, Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben discusses recent ways of seeing provided by today’s satellites and scientific instruments. With our enhanced ability to visualize the earth in all its glory and pain, McKibben speculates on ways we might learn to protect it. Presented in conjunction with the Museum exhibit Land and Lens. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public