In October, following the retirement of our long-time Events and Programs Coordinator Mikki Lane, the museum hired Caitlin Harder as her successor. As Caitlin begins her third month in the position, she sits down with Robert F. Reiff Curatorial Intern
Duke Riley, No. 382 of the Poly S. Tyrene Memorial Maritime Museum (2023)
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
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Piranesi and the Greatness of Rome: An Ancient Cinerary Urn Restored and Augmented
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture A Quixotic Personality Born in Venice in 1720, Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an archaeologist, architect, and artist active in the second half of the
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The Friends’ Most Recent Gift: A Gothic Coffret with Woodcut of Saint Roch
At the museum’s first in-person Purchase Party since 2019, the Friends voted to support the acquisition of a rare Gothic coffret dedicated to Saint Roch and adorned with a woodcut print depicting the saint. Coffrets were boxes made to carry
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Wired Up
This summer, shortly following Reunion weekend, we received a note from an anonymous Middlebury alum with a brief account of personal musings they had shared with friends detailing their impressions of Fred Eerdekens’ illuminated copper wire installation some need some feed… which is mounted above the museum’s reception desk.
MuseumWorks 2022: In Person
After two successful years of running a fully online summer internship program, the staff of the Middlebury College Museum of Art were pleased to host five paid interns on campus from 26 June–19 August 2022. During this time, interns learned
Shahzia Sikander’s The Perennial Gaze Takes Pride of Place in the Axinn Winter Garden
In 2019, the Committee on Art in Public Places, at the behest of Cynthia Packert, Christian A. Johnson Professor of History of Art, enthusiastically pursued the acquisition of The Perennial Gaze by renowned contemporary artist Shahzia Sikander. This stunning mosaic,
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MuseumWorks 2021: A Virtual Introduction to Museum Themes, Issues, and Careers
MuseumWorks 2021 From 21 June–30 July 2021, fourteen Middlebury College undergraduates participated in MuseumWorks, the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s paid summer internship and professional development program. The goal of MuseumWorks is to help students learn about available career paths
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Neo-Sumerian Record Keeping: A Cuneiform Tablet Fragment from a Mesopotamian Archive
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture In the fall of 1996, the Middlebury College Museum of Art received a gift from John Paul Wallach, Middlebury alumnus from the class of
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Piecing Together Cultural Context: Ancient Greek Painted Pottery Sherds
By: Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art and Professor of History of Art and Architecture The Middlebury College Museum holds a collection of some thirty Ancient Greek pottery sherds that as small primary sources greatly enhance the teaching and
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