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
Category: Exhibitions
Student Impressions: The Photography of David Plowden
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
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Swan Song: Ken Pohlman Reflects on 37 Years of Museum Design
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
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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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Meaningful Juxtapositions: Reshaping our Permanent Collection Galleries
Since, as a result of pandemic safety measures, the Museum is physically closed to the public until March of 2021, our staff are taking advantage of the continued closure to rethink substantially the ways in which we contextualize and display
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Race in the Woman Suffrage Movement: What the Sources Reveal and Conceal
By: Amy Morsman, Professor of History This time last year, the Museum opened a new exhibition entitled “Votes…for Women?” I served as curator of that exhibit, but I had considerable help, not only from an extraordinary team of talented museum
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Another Summer in the Books
Summer comes and goes very quickly here in Vermont—blink and you’ve missed it, as some would say—and like the season itself, our summer exhibits vanish with a similar haste, like a Fumé Blanc that you wish would have lingered just a bit longer on your tongue. As I watch the works come off the wall and go back into storage or back to their lending institutions, I often find myself wishing that I had spent more time with them, and inevitably I turn to the exhibit’s comment book to absorb others’ insights about the show as a way of allowing it to hang a little longer in my mind’s eye.
Lovely Filth
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.
Life is Like a Bowl of Chocolate
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