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In early 2025 the Museum welcomed two new staff members — Francisca Drexel and Eloise McFarlane ’24.5 — and we’re finally getting around to introducing them. For this post we asked the two to interview each other. Welcome, Francisca and
Read More New Staff Members: Francisca Drexel and Eloise McFarlane
By: Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture In 2010, the College Museum acquired a white-ground lekythos (Figure 1). Decorated in the so-called “white-ground red-figure” style of vase painting, the lekythos was meant to complement the white-ground black-figure
The museum is delighted to welcome its new Interim Director, Katy Smith Abbott, who began her tenure on March 3. Eloise McFarlane ’24.5, the museum’s new Sabarsky Graduate Fellow, sat down with Katy to get a glimpse into her aspirations
Read More Welcome Katy Smith Abbott, Our New Interim Director
By: Pieter Broucke, Professor of History of Art and Architecture The first acquisition Middlebury’s Friends of the Art Museum pursued on its founding in 1969, was of an Ancient Greek vase decorated by a unknown artist (Figures 1 and 2).
My experience working on An Invitation to Awe by Sophie Maris ’26 I started studying awe in Professor Smith Abbott’s Awe seminar last fall. As I made my way through the semester and continued my work this summer, the way
by Eloise McFarlane ’24.5 Introduction The Middlebury College Museum of Art holds a sizable collection of ancient glass, replete with a variety of common yet remarkable objects. The collection is rooted within rich historical and cultural grounds and provides significant
Read More An Exploration of Middlebury’s Ancient Glass Collection
In March the museum hired Jodi Rodgers as our next Curator of Collections and Director of Engagement. Now that Jodi has had some time to settle into those roles we’re sharing a little Q&A to help our audience get to
This spring students in Sarah Rogers’s History of Photography course were given an assignment: choose one photographic work on display at the museum, assume a first-person perspective—the photographer, the subject of the photograph, or someone on site—and narrate what you
Read More Student Impressions: The Photography of David Plowden
In January, just weeks before he was set to retire from nearly four decades of work as the museum’s designer, Ken Pohlman sat down with Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern Annaliese Terlesky ’23.5 for some Q&A about his time at
Read More Swan Song: Ken Pohlman Reflects on 37 Years of Museum Design
by Annaliese Terlesky ’23.5, Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern In the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s recent exhibition, Tossed: Art From Discarded, Found, and Repurposed Materials (May 26–December 10, 2023), Duke Riley was one of many featured artists who have
Read More Duke Riley, No. 382 of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum (2023)
