the Middlebury College Museum of Art blog
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
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.
There are many ways to interpret a work of art. The museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this pairing of a lustreware tile created by an Ilkhanid
Read More Label Talk: Calligraphic tile and Jean-Léon Gérôme’s sketch for The Whirling Dervish
There are many ways to interpret a work of art, and the museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this stenciling and hand-painted enamel work by Ghanaian artist
There are many ways to interpret a work of art, and the museum’s Label Talk series encourages visitors to reflect upon and voice their own interpretations of specific artworks, such as this photograph of an oil spill by Nigerian artist
Read More Label Talk: George Osodi’s Oil Spill Near Farm Land Ogoni
By: Sarah Briggs ’14, Sabarsky Fellow One of my favorite ways to spend time with a work of art, to look at it closely and understand something new about it, is to make art inspired by it. Sometimes that means
During a 2019 re-installation of an Early Byzantine floor fragment, Museum staff invited three members of our community—an artist, an ecologist, and an archaeologist—to offer their perspectives on this mosaic. Recognizing that there are many ways to interpret a single
Read More Label Talk: Museum Mosaics—One Object, Many Voices
