Each year the Friends of the Art Museum at Middlebury College recognize those who have made significant contributions to the community, either through their creative endeavors or through support for the visual arts in Addison County. At their Annual Meeting on Sun., May 2, the Friends honored five individuals in five categories.
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Sandi Olivo, curator of education, attended a Museums Advocacy Day, March 22-23, in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the American Association of Museums (AAM)
This highly selective exhibition features some of the best known works in Shelburne Museum’s collection, as well as a number of important but seldom seen paintings. While some of these works have come to the museum in recent years as gifts or purchases, the core of this important collection was formed by Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888–1960), the museum’s founder.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Friends of the Art Museum thirteenth annual Awards for Distinction in the Visual Arts.
This exhibition presents the Greco-Roman debate through the visual materials generated by its preeminent protagonists: prints of Roman antiquities by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and plates from theAntiquities of Athens by James Stuart and Nicholas Revett.
Paintings, prints, and photographs from the Permanent Collection are the basis of this exhibition focused on the idea and the presentation of celebrity.
On Sept. 18, the Middlebury College Museum of Art will open an important exhibition focused on early fifteenth-century Italian paintings and sculptures. Entitled The Art of Devotion: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy, the exhibit brings together fifteen remarkable works from ten different collections, and addresses salient themes such as artistic training and technique, patronage, function, and conservation.
This fall, the Middlebury College Museum of Art presents a Civil War exhibition of art and material culture featuring seventy original woodcuts from Harper’s Weekly and Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.
In early April the Middlebury College Museum of Art hired Christopher Murray of Middlebury to fill its vacant Museum Preparator position.
