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American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity

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OPENING AND RECEPTION Since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters in the colonies, Americans have created portraits to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish national myths, and honor shared heroes. Whether on canvas, in stone, in bronze, on film, or in binary code, we spend considerable time creating, contemplating, and collecting our likenesses. This exhibit, which brings together 90 portraits from more than 20 collections, explores and explains Americans’ 300-year fascination with images of themselves. Members only event for Friends of the Art Museum.

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

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Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party

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Museum of Art
The annual signature event of the Museum Friends, when the group determines what gift it will present to the museum with its membership funds. Members only, RSVP required. Membership information: 802-443-2309 or museum.middlebury.edu

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

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Museum open!

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In honor of Campus Preview Days, the Museum is open! Please stop by.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

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Making Sense of our Selfie Nation

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Museum of Art
Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art and author of “American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity.” Today selfies are everywhere. In 2015 Snapchat reported that almost 9,000 images were posted to its site each second and of these 5% were selfies. But how has modern technology and the proliferation of the selfie changed how Americans, as well as people most everywhere, choose to retain and share with others images of themselves?

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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Beauty and Self Image

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Museum of Art
Due to unforeseen circumstances, please note this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

This is A Portrait If I Say So

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Lecture presented by Anne Goodyear, co-director of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and co-author of This is A Portrait if I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 to Today. Goodyear will discuss how portraiture evolved largely as a genre based on mimesis to one stressing conceptual and symbolic associations between artist and subject. Artists considered range from Georgia O’Keeffe and Marcel Duchamp to Jasper Johns and Yoko Ono. Cosponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Director of the Arts. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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Video Screening of COMPULSIVE PRACTICE

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Museum of Art
To commemorate World AIDS Day and Visual AIDS 2016 Day With(out) Art, the Middlebury College Museum of Art screens Visual AIDS’s COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a 65-minute video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists who live with their cameras as one way to manage, reflect upon, and change how they are deeply affected by HIV/AIDS. COMPULSIVE PRACTICE will demonstrate the place of technology, self-expression, critique, and community in the many decades and the many experiences of artists and activists living with AIDS. Please note that seating is limited.

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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Museum opens early!

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Museum of Art
The Museum opens at 10:00AM today. Please join us!

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Museum opens early!

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
The Museum opens at 10:00AM today. Please join us!

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Meet the Press: Peter Plagens: "If you think painting is dead, take a look at art criticism"

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Museum of Art
Peter Plagens, painter, novelist, and art critic for Newsweek and the Wall Street Journal, will discuss life as an art critic and answer questions from the floor.

Sponsored by Meet the Press, the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Program in Creative Writing, the Museum Studies Gift Fund, the Johnson Enrichment Fund for Art History, the Program in Studio Art, and the Director of the Arts.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

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