Events

We sponsor a handful of events each semester related to our collections and temporary exhibitions.

UPCOMING EVENTS

fantastical dream image of planets, clouds, and a vintage clock — Dario Robleto (American, b. 1972), *Ancient Beacons Long for Notice (film still)*, 2023, UHD video (53:00). Courtesy of the artist. © Dario Robleto

Ancient Beacons Long for Notice: A Conversation with Dario Robleto

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | 4:30–6:00 PM ET
Mahaney Arts Center, Robison Concert Hall

In his prints, sculptures, and films, multi-disciplinary artist Dario Robleto incorporates a deep fascination with science, history, sound, medicine, and human empathy. His 2024 film, Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, is currently installed at the Middlebury College Museum of Art as part of the exhibit, An Invitation to Awe. He will join Guest Curator Katy Smith Abbott in conversation, as they explore Robleto’s conviction that “awe is a courtship with the unknown.” Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture.

photomicrograph of tears, by Rose-Lynn Fisher — Rose-Lynn Fisher (American, born 1955), *In the end it didn’t matter #65*, 2015 / printed 2024, photomicrograph made with Zeiss light field microscope (c 1960s) and QImaging digital microscopy camera, archival pigment print on Kozo paper, 4 1/2 x 6 inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Purchase with funds provided by the Foster Family Art Acquisition Fund, 2024. © Copyright Rose-Lynn Fisher.

Museum Lecture + Lunch Series: Artist Rose-Lynn Fisher

Friday, November 1, 2024 | 12:30—2:00 PM
Mahaney Arts Center, Room 221 and Lower Lobby

Join us for a talk by Rose-Lynn Fisher, an artist featured in the exhibition An Invitation to Awe, who uses microscope, camera, and mixed media to explore the realms within realms we inhabit, in work that evokes a continuum of interconnections and wonder. Afterward, stay for conversation over a light lunch in the MAC Lower Lobby. Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture.

This event is free and open to all, but $5 donations are welcome.

a painting of Otter Creek in Middlebury, Vermont, by Frederic Edwin Church — Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826–1900), *Otter Creek, Middlebury, Vermont*, 1854, oil on canvas, 16 1/8 × 29 inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont. Gift of Louis Bacon, Class of 1979, 2002.028.

Guest Curator Talk: Kenneth J. Myers

Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 4:30 PM
Mahaney Arts Center, Room 125

The Detroit Institute of Arts has one of the best collections of historic American art in the world, with a particular strength in the period 1660 to 1915. Kenneth Myers, curator of American Art and longtime head of the department of American Art, will discuss the ideas informing the recent reinstallation of the collection which is organized chrono-thematically to highlight ways in which art objects reinforced or challenged culturally dominant assumptions about gender, race, and Americanness.