Museum of Art

Janis Staggs, Associate Director of Curatorial and Publications at New York’s Neue Galerie, discusses the work of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele in the context of the nude female body and its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Presented as part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

Gennifer Weisenfeld, professor of art history and visual studies, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University, analyzes selected examples of aesthetically coordinated interior and clothing designs from the work of celebrated Japanese designer Saito Kazo (1887–1955). Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Presented as part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

Wentao Zhai ‘17 discusses the museum’s Roman child sarcophagus, the topic of his independent research, addressing the depiction of the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus as a means of exploring the relationship between Classical Antiquity’s two major cultures. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art, sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

Juliana E. Dunn ’19.5, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern

Professors Pieter Broucke (History of Art and Architecture), Shalom Goldman (Religion), and Stephen Trombulak (Biology) team up for an interdisciplinary contextualization of the late-period Egyptian bronze ibis figurine recently acquired by the museum. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions about Art.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders.

Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Emmie Donadio surveys the museum’s collection of art seen and unseen. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art, sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders

The Friends of the Art Museum welcome friends both old and new to view the fall exhibits, The Art of Storytelling: Five Tales from Asia, Then and Now; and Naked Truth: The Body in Early 20th Century German and Austrian Art. Hear brief remarks by Richard Saunders, museum director, and Sarah Laursen, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and curator of Asian art. The Middlebury College Friends of the Art Museum were established in 1969 to support the college art collection and the Museum’s educational programs. Many of the works they have acquired are on permanent exhibition.

Pieter Broucke, professor of history of art and architecture and associate curator of ancient art, recounts the multiyear quest that resulted in the reattribution of one of the museum’s earliest acquisitions from German artist Hans Von Aachen (1522–1615) to Orazio Samacchini (1532–1577), an influential Mannerist artist from Bologna. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby. Presented as part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions About Art. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided.

Celebrate the installation of Chaos Xaxis, a sculpture by artist Jedd Novatt, with a ceremony beginning at 4:30 p.m. and a reception immediately following.

Join us at the museum for free food, drinks (21+), live music and student-led tours of the current exhibition American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity.