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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.

Drawing On the Wall

Middlebury Magazine — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:53:05 +0000

The American artist Sol LeWitt was widely known in the 1960s for the temporary wall drawings he devised for others to produce per his instructions as part of a growing Minimalism movement.

In what might be the epitome of hands-on learning, a group of art history students installed LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #394 last week as part of their class, “Minimalism: Art, Objects, and Experience,” with professor Eddie Vazquez.

The drawing came to Middlebury’s Museum of Art with a detailed set of instructions, including specifications for materials used and orientation of lines. Museum designer Ken Pohlman and preparator Chris Murray created the pencil grid guidelines, and each student could choose from a limited selection of lines to draw. The whole process took about 50 hours to complete, and the finished product will be on view in the Overbrook Gallery through April 21.

Drawing On the Wall

Middlebury Magazine — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:53:05 +0000

The American artist Sol LeWitt was widely known in the 1960s for the temporary wall drawings he devised for others to produce per his instructions as part of a growing Minimalism movement.

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.