Events

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

upcoming events

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

a deep space flaming star nebula
Ata Anzali, Flaming star in narrowband only [detail]. Courtesy of the artist. © Ata Anzali

Opening Reception: An Invitation to Awe

Friday, September 13, 2024 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby, Dance Theater, and Museum galleries
 

After several years in the works, the Museum is excited to present An Invitation to Awe, curated by Associate Professor of the History of Art and Architecture Katy Smith Abbott in collaboration with her students and colleagues. In this exhibition, older paintings and prints are displayed in conversation with contemporary objects, scientific equipment, and interactive work that compels the viewer to think of how awe is experienced through senses other than sight and to expand their own understanding of where awe lives now. Professor Smith Abbott will give a talk about the making of the exhibition at 5:30pm, followed by hors d’oeuvres and drinks (cash bar) at 6pm.

 

 

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
McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 216
 

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 125 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 Museum invites you to a lecture by Kenneth J. Myers, Byron and Dorothy Gerson Curator of American Art at the Detroit Institute of the Arts (DIA). Since joining DIA in 2005, Myers has served as Head of the American Art Department, and led the team that planned the widely praised reinstallation of the museum’s esteemed collection of American art. He also organized the major traveling exhibition, Frederic Church: A Painter’s Pilgrimage (2017). Myers came to the DIA from the Smithsonian Institution, where he was curator of American art at the Freer Gallery of Art. At the Freer, he organized numerous exhibitions focusing on the work of James McNeill Whistler.