Events

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

upcoming events

UPCOMING EVENTS

 

Kayla, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts
Rania Matar (Lebanese, born 1964), Kayla, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, 2020, photograph, 19 1/4 x 24 inches. © Rania Matar. Courtesy the artist.

Opening Reception—Rania Matar: SHE

Thursday, February 13, 2025, 5:30 PM
Mahaney Arts Center, Lower Lobby and Museum
 

The photographs of Lebanese Palestinian American artist Rania Matar tell the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt, and the United States. Photographed through car windows, in abandoned buildings, snow-strewn fields, or floating in the Mediterranean Sea, the women collaborate with Matar, sharing a sense of creative agency. These large-scale color photographs portray individuality intimately tied to the histories and connections of place.

The panel discussion portion of this event has been canceled due to artist travel and winter weather. However, the reception will still go on as scheduled, from 5:30–7:00 PM. See the new exhibition, enjoy hors d’oeuvres in the lobby (cash bar), and learn about the exhibit from Curator of Collections and Director of Engagement Jodi Rodgers.

 

 

a white-ground lekythos
Marathon Painter (Greek, active 490–470 BCE), Black-Figure White-Ground Lekythos, c. 490 BCE, terracotta, 9 × 3 1/2 inches. Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Art Acquisition Fund, 1969.019. (Photo: Tad Merrick)

Friends of the Art Museum Annual Dinner

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 5:00 PM
Kirk Alumni Center
 

Join the Friends for our Annual Dinner to drink, dine, vote on member business, and enjoy a special presentation by Pieter Broucke detailing recent research which resulted in the reattribution of a black-figure white-ground lekythos, the first object the Friends’ gifted to the museum in 1969.

Tickets available soon. For more info: museum@middlebury.edu.