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Gallery Talks by February Graduates

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Museum of Art
On the eve of their graduation, senior History of Art & Architecture majors Kelsey Follansbee’16.5, Alex Gimbel ’16.5, Ennissa Martin ’16.5, and Carolina McGarity ’16.5 share their research on pieces in the Museum’s collection. Works on view will include an American photograph, an Indian drawing, a Flemish Book of Hours, and a Dutch portrait. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. (Please note that there will be no Fridays at the Museum event on February 10, while the College is on academic break. Join us for our next Friday event on February 17.) Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Walking Tour of Public Art

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Museum of Art
Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Emmie Donadio and Director of the Arts Pieter Broucke offer a one-hour walking tour of Middlebury College’s outstanding collection of public art. Bring questions and comfortable walking shoes, as this tour will go off the beaten path! Tour departs from the Museum’s lobby, rain or shine. Free

Find out more about the racing boat currently moored in the pond behind the Center for the Arts in this final installment of the Spring 2017 Fridays at the Museum series.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Theatricality and Taboo: A Look at Kara Walker's Silhouettes

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Museum of Art
J Finley, Assistant Professor of American Studies, will discuss works from Kara Walker’s monumental print cycle Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), exploring how the artist uses theatricality, citation, and satire to remind viewers of the importance of looking back. What does the appropriation of the format of the 19th-century silhouette enable us to see, and what kinds of interventions is Walker making? Seating is limited; please arrive early. Free

Part of the Fridays at the Museum series.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Remembering the material: Medardo Rosso's Bimbo Malato

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Museum of Art
Phoebe Mitchell ’17 and Eddie Vazquez, Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, will have a conversation in the Cerf Gallery rooted in Medardo Rosso’s use of wax as a sculptural material that will also address the communicative implications of his artistic strategies of repetition and hybrid materiality. Seating is limited; please arrive early. Free

Part of the Fridays at the Museum series.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Gallery Talk: The Bodies of "American Faces"

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Museum of Art
What can we learn from looking at how bodies are depicted in the portraits included in the exhibition American Faces: A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity? What meanings does the body carry, and how have artists grappled with its representation? Join Ellery Foutch, Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program, for a conversation about the bodies of American Faces, from a publicity image of conjoined twins and nineteenth-century celebrities Chang and Eng Bunker to caricatures of President Obama. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited; please arrive early.

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art

Open to the Public

Friends of the Art Museum Road Trip to St. Gaudens National Historic Site and the Hall Art Foundation

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Museum of Art
7:30 a.m. Burlington Departure–570 Shelburne Rd, Burlington 8:15 a.m. Middlebury Departure–Mahaney Center for the Arts Parking Lot Join the Middlebury College Museum of Art Friends as they tour the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, and the Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont. RSVP by Friday, October 14. Trip includes: Round trip chartered bus transportation; Admission and guided tours to both venues; Introductory remarks on Augustus St. Gaudens by Dr. Ellery Foutch, Middlebury College Assistant Professor of American Studies; Lunch, Snacks, and water on the bus.
Open to the Public

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Supper

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Museum of Art
Members of the Friends of the Art Museum and invited guests gather to celebrate the year in review, welcome incoming officers and trustees, and present awards for distinction in the visual arts. Membership information: 802.443.2309 or museum.middlebury.edu.

Photo Credit: Jonathan Blake

Kirk Center

Please contact Mikki Lane at (802) 443-2309 for fee information.

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Meeting and Supper

Sponsored by:
Museum of Art
Members of the Friends of the Art Museum and invited guests gather to celebrate the year in review, welcome incoming officers and trustees, and present awards for distinction in the visual arts. Membership information: 802.443.2309 or museum.middlebury.edu/support/membership.

Kirk Center

$40.00 per person
Closed to the Public

First Folio! The Book That Gave us Shakespeare

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Museum of Art
William Shakespeare’s First Folio—the first complete collected edition of his plays, and one of the world’s most influential books—is coming to Middlebury as part of a national tour marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. Middlebury hosts a month-long exhibition and series of performances, workshops, speakers, film screenings, family events, and a Folio Festival on the evening of Thursday, February 18. For details visit http://shakespeare.middlebury.edu. Free First Folio!

Mahaney Arts Center, Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery

Open to the Public