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Rackstraw Downes, Unfinished

Douglas Perkins — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:07:22 +0000

“The artist who searches for subject matter is like someone who can’t get out of bed without understanding the meaning of life.” –Fairfield Porter When I think about pencil drawings my mind inevitably wanders to Robert Frost’s Mending Wall. “Something … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Museum Accepting Nominations for Middlebury College Student Arts Award

Douglas Perkins — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:23:49 +0000

The Museum is now accepting nominations for currently enrolled Middlebury College students who deserve to be recognized for their outstanding work in or support of the visual arts. Initiated in 1998, the award is given to a Middlebury College student whose artistic ability and contribution to the visual arts at the college is worthy of distinction. In past years the award has been given to studio artists –- sculptors, painters, filmmakers, installation artists –- as well as to an art critic for the Campus. Last year the students who inaugurated M GALLERY were awarded the prize.

Nominations should be accompanied by a nomination form, found here, and must be received by Friday, March 22.

The award ceremony will be held Sunday, May 5 at the Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Friends of the Middlebury College Museum of Art.

For further information, please contact Emmie Donadio, chief Curator, at (802) 443-2240 or donadio@middlebury.edu.

Help the Museum Match a $5,000 Challenge Gift

Douglas Perkins — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 20:29:23 +0000

Faculty and staff, we need your help.

The Middlebury College Museum of Art has received a gift that will match each new membership by faculty and staff, up to $5,000. We’re proud that our Museum is free to the public, but it is not without cost. The exhibits we organize or bring to the College are here for you, our students, and our extended community. Please show your support by joining the Museum. It’s easy to join online, or you can visit the museum’s website for details on other ways to become a member and to learn more about the benefits of membership.

Lovely Filth

Douglas Perkins — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:21:01 +0000

It’s not often that I get to make direct connections between an exhibition in the galleries and the collection of public art that we have on permanent display around the campus. The opportunity is probably there more often than I’m aware, but during my tenure anyway, the times when the similarities have been palpable have been rare. This spring, with Environment and Object • Recent African Art on view in several of our galleries there’s a theme that’s begging to be explored both inside and out. And it’s totally rubbish. Continue reading → Continue reading →

Life is Like a Bowl of Chocolate

Douglas Perkins — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 01:04:51 +0000

This always happens. We put up a fantastic exhibition; the public enjoys it, raves about it even; and then I wake up months later as the show is about to come down and realize that I have yet to spend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Being Richard Dupont

Douglas Perkins — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:15:23 +0000

As I watched our preparators put the finishing touches on the installation that now occupies the museum’s upper balcony—four heads by New York artist Richard Dupont, generous and timely loans from a private collection—my mind was overrun with clichés about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Last Sunrise Over So Inclined

Douglas Perkins — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:00:10 +0000

Stick Huts, Twig Hats, Giant Cones, Whoville Houses. Regardless of what you like to call them, the nine conical interweavings of red maple saplings and grey dogwood that form Patrick Dougherty’s 2007 temporary installation So Inclined will be removed next … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Four Minute Warning to Quilted Destruction

Douglas Perkins — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 05:22:55 +0000

During the 2010–2011 academic year Mica Schlosser ’13 approached the museum with a request that caught my attention. She was hoping to study a photograph in our collection—a gelatin silver print of an Atomic Bomb Explosion by Harold Edgerton from … Continue reading → Continue reading →