Events

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

UPCOMING EVENTS

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.

2024 Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party

Saturday, November 9, 2024 | 5:00–8:00 PM ET
Atwater Dining Hall, 99 Shannon Street

Join the Friends of the Art Museum as we consider our next gift to the museum’s collection. Assistant Professor of Psychology Mike Dash will present three works of art for possible purchase, and the members of the Friends will vote to determine which work gets added to the collection. The evening will also feature a buffet dinner and cash bar (each event ticket will include one free drink).

If you’re not currently a member of the Friends, be sure to activate or renew your membership to guarantee you’ll be able to vote.

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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.