Mead Art Museum at Spring 2019 Featuring Exhibitions

Abstraction: Fleeting Nature: New Acquisitions at the Mead Selections from the Collection New acquisitions of works by Leon Polk Smith Permanent collection works exploring how artists use featuring gifts by Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Class of 1984, landscape to comment on a range of ideas, from religion and and the Leon Polk Smith Foundation individualism, to nation-building and the environment

On view now through February 17, 2019 On view March 5–July 14, 2019

Fragmented Identities: The Gendered Constructing Collage Roles of Women in Art Through the Ages Permanent collection works that showcase the technique and usage of collage across media in the twentieth and Works examining the ways women have been depicted twenty-first centuries or represented themselves across media, centuries, and the globe On view March 5, 2019–January 5, 2020

On view now through February 17, 2019 Paste, Stick, Glue: Views from the Eastern Front: Constructing Collage in Russia Russian Modernism and the Great War Tracing the development and use of collage and photomontage in Russian art from the avant-garde to contemporary, Presenting works by Russian avant-garde artists and symbolist in conjunction with Constructing Collage at the Mead poets to explore the ways in which Russian modernists engaged with themes of war, violence and destruction during On view March 4–June 2, 2019 World War I at Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Webster Hall

On view now throughFebruary 17 at Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Webster Hall Dimensionism: Modern Art Dimensionism: in the Age of Einstein Modern Art in the Age of Einstein Timing Is Everything This groundbreaking exhibition explores how scientific This exhibition is made possible with generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Permanent collection artworks from across centuries, advances in the twentieth century influenced modern art continents, and media that visualize concepts of time the Terra Foundation for American Art, Arts at Amherst, Hall and Kate Peterson Fund, On view March 28–July 28, 2019 On view now through March 3, 2019 and the Wise Fund for Fine Arts. Hall Walls: Tatiana Potts Constructing new architectural worlds with printmaking and Thursday, March 28, 2019 paper sculpture On view through December 2019 Keynote Lecture by Curator of American Art Vanja Malloy Stirn Auditorium | 5–6 pm For more information on exhibitions, please visit: www.amherst.edu/mead/exhibitions

Exhibition Opening Reception Academic Year Hours: Mead Art Museum | 6–7 pm Tuesday–Thursday, Sunday: 9 am–Midnight Friday: 9 am–8 pm Free and open to all! Saturday: 9 am–5 pm To stay up to date follow us: On view March 28–July 28, 2019 Monday: Closed @meadartmuseum #meadartmuseum

Admission: Always FREE

Cover: Barbara Hepworth, Project for Wood and Strings, Trezion II, 1959. Mead Art Museum. Helen Lundeberg, Self Portrait, 1944. Zimmerli Art Museum. Announcing four new January programming initiatives at the Mead!

This spring, the Mead is launching four program series responding to resonant social issues, exhibitions on view, and intriguing questions in art and culture. While every program will be distinct, we encourage you to join us for a longer conversation by attending more than one in a series.

Art x Science With Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein as our launchpad, these programs will bridge the perceived gap between the arts and the sciences. We will visualize the cosmos, connect art to wellness, and use chemistry to bring new insights into culture and heritage.

Games at the Mead Art Museum, October 2018. My Mead Don’t let the white walls and (sometimes) quiet galleries give you the wrong impression. The Mead is your friendly, backyard art museum! Bring your friends, Weekly Events family, and neighbors and join us as we turn the galleries into spaces for art and wellness, fun, community conversations, study breaks, and, of course, food. Saturday Close-Looks at the Mead Stop by the Mead to find new connections among works on view with student museum educators. Each week we’ll focus Open Curriculum on different themes that bring student interests to the fore. Join Amherst College’s inspiring faculty for special Come back every week for a fresh perspective on the works on classes taught in our galleries and open to the public. view in our galleries. Be sure to check our website and People from all ages and educational backgrounds are Facebook page for updates on weekly topics. Collecting 101 Students at the Mead Art Museum, January 2019. welcome! Keep an eye out for new additions to this #Re-Centering program series. Free and open to all! Collecting 101 Presentations & Public Vote Re-Centering February 9, 16, 23 March 2, 23, 30 You’re invited to cast your vote for which work of art the Mead should acquire. Listen to presentations from students enrolled Museums have a unique power and responsibility to April 6, 13, 20, 27 in the interterm class “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art for the Mead” and choose the one you find most compelling. The Mead will shape public perceptions of beauty, history, and culture. May 4 purchase whichever artwork wins the popular vote. Over the past decade, museums have started to build 1–1:30 pm at the Mead Art Museum a toolkit for redressing colonialist, racist, and exclusionary This program is made possible with generous support from the Trinkett Clark Memorial Acquisition Fund and the Center for practices. How does that play out at the Mead? Community Engagement. #Re-Centering #MyMead These programs tune into re-centering work at the Mead—through panels, programs, and community Free and open to all! inclusive projects. Friday, January 18, 2019 | 6–7:30 pm Mead Art Museum February March Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein Opening Keynote & Reception Faculty Teaching in the Museum Symmetry in Art & Science Discover the Join us for a keynote talk with American Art Curator Workshop Part II All are invited to the Mead for a talk on symmetry with Amherst Lost Art of Concentration Vanja Malloy as she explains her pioneering research College Assistant Professor of Chemistry Chris Durr. Join us to Do you teach at one of the Five Colleges? Join us to learn more Join us for a series of conversations and close-looking sessions on Dimensionism, an art movement during the early learn more about a chemist’s perspective on symmetry, struc- about how to make the most of the Mead’s collection of more designed to help visitors gain focus and clarity through extended twentieth century in which American and European ture, and time. Attendees will walk away with a greater under- than 19,000 artworks and cultural objects in the classroom. looking at art. We’ll provide tips and techniques to help you hone artists responded in their work to the air of excitement standing of how scientific principles play out visually in our Kindly RSVP to Danielle at [email protected] by Friday, your observational acumen and deepen concentration at this from the scientific discoveries happening around them. galleries. #ArtxScience #MyMead February 1, 2019, so we can prepare accordingly. Space is limited. series of morning programs. Tea will be served. Presented in After the talk, come experience this first-of-its-kind exhi- #MyMead collaboration with Amherst College Human Resources. bition at the opening reception. This program is offered Free and open to all! #ArtxScience #MyMead with support from Arts at Amherst. Thursday, February 21, 2019 | 7–8 pm Free and open to Five College faculty #ArtxScience Mead Art Museum Friday, February 8, 2019 | Noon–1 pm Free and open to all! Mead Art Museum Friday, March 1, 2019 | 10–11 am Free and open to all! On Appreciating and Understanding Close-looking led by Mead Head of Education and Mellon Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 5–7 pm Curator of Academic Programs Emily Potter-Ndiaye with guided Keynote will begin at 5 pm in Stirn Auditorium, with reception to follow at the Mead. Galentine’s Day: African Art with Nichole Bridges reflection by Stephen Butler. and Rowland Abiodun A Celebration of Friendship Friday, March 8, 2019 | 10–11 am Nichole Bridges, Class of 1997, is the associate curator for Meditation and mindfulness led by Molly Kitchen with guided Join us for a waffle breakfast to celebrate platonic friendship African art and the associate curator overseeing the Department reflection by Stephen Butler. and the closing of Fragmented Identities: The Gendered Roles of of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the Saint Women in Art Through the Ages. This program is offered with Paste, Stick, Glue: Constructing Collage Louis Art Museum. All are invited to a conversation with Friday, March 22, 2019 | 10–11 am support from Amherst College’s Human Resources Activities Bridges and Rowland Abiodun, the John C. Newton Professor Guided looking with Amherst College Artist-in-Residence in Russia Opening Reception Committee. of the History of Art and Black Studies at Amherst College. Macon Reed with guided reflection by Stephen Butler. All are invited to the opening of Paste, Stick, Glue: Constructing #Re-Centering #MyMead #Re-Centering #MyMead Collage in Russia at the Amherst Center for Russian Culture. This Mead Art Museum show, organized by Acting Curator of Russian and European Art Free and open to all! Free and open to all! Galina Mardilovich aims to showcase the technique and usage Wednesday, February 13, 2019 | 8–10 am Friday, February 22, 2019 | 5–6:30 pm of collage across media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Mead Art Museum Mead Art Museum Timing Is Everything Exhibition Closing Concert: A Broadway Cabaret Free and open to all! Monday, March 4, 2019 | 5–7 pm Black Arts at Amherst Matter Festival Join us for a performance by members of the Amherst College Listening, Hearing, and the Human: Symphony Orchestra, led by Senior Lecturer in Music and Amherst Center for Russian Culture at Webster Hall, 2nd Floor, Artist Talk by Stephen Vitiello All are invited to view works of art and watch performances by Director of Instrumental Music Mark Swanson. Musicians will Amherst College black student artists from Amherst College. Join us for salon- Listening, Hearing, and the Human, taught by Associate Professor present music from Rent, West Side Story, Merrily We Roll style viewing of visual art, followed by a night of live music, of Music Jeffers Engelhardt and Associate Professor of Music Along, Annie, Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof and many other shows. Linefork Screening followed by spoken word, dance, and more! This program is the brainchild Darryl Harper, asks us to think about listening and hearing as No tickets necessary. Seating is limited and first come, first of Zoe Akoto, Class of 2021, and offered in collaboration with Q&A with Director Vic Rawlings culturally specific practices that are guided by particular histo- served. This program is offered in collaboration with the the Amherst College Multicultural Resource Center, Department ries, identities, technologies, and other factors. All are invited to Amherst College Music Department and the Amherst Join Listening, Hearing, and the Human, taught by Associate of Black Studies at Amherst College, Amherst College Black a talk by sound artist Stephen Vitiello, followed by a discussion Symphony Orchestra. Professor of Music Jeffers Engelhardt and Associate Professor Student Union, Student Activities, AAS, and the UMASS Amherst led by Professors Engelhardt and Harper. This program is made #MyMead of Music Darryl Harper, for a screening of Linefork, which Center for Multicultural Advancement and Student Success. possible with support from Amherst College Departments of presents the story of banjo legend Lee Sexton. Professors #Re-Centering #MyMead Anthropology and Sociology and Music and Arts at Amherst. Free and open to all! Engelhardt and Harper will lead a conversation and Q&A #MyMead #MeadOpenCurriculum Sunday, March 3, 2019 | 7–8 pm with the film’s director Vic Rawlings. This program is made Free and open to all! Mead Art Museum possible with support from Amherst College Departments of Sunday, February 24, 2019 | 7 pm–Midnight Free and open to all! Anthropology and Sociology and Music and Arts at Amherst. Mead Art Museum Wednesday, February 20, 2019 | 12:30–2pm #MeadOpenCurriculum Mead Art Museum Free and open to all! Thursday, March 7, 2019 | 7 pm Keefe Campus Center Theater April

Dimensionism: The Stars on Screen Gallery Talk with Vanja Malloy Join us for a screening of short science films from the 1920s and ’30s. Stay for a conversation with Vanja Malloy, curator of Learn more about Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of American Art; Hannah Goodwin, assistant professor of film and Einstein at a gallery talk with Curator of American Art Vanja media studies at Mount Holyoke College; and Kate Follette, assis- Malloy. Malloy’s groundbreaking research on the Dimensionist tant professor of astronomy. This program is supported by the Manifesto is the backbone of this pioneering exhibition. This Arts at Amherst Initiative, Amherst College Program of Film and program is offered with support from the Arts at Amherst Media Studies, and Amherst College Department of Astronomy. Initiative. #ArtxScience #MyMead #ArtxScience Free and open to all! Free and open to all! Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | Noon–1 pm Wednesday, April 17, 2019 | 7–9 pm Mead Art Museum Stirn Auditorium

Innovation and Invention: Cross Cultural Exchange Through Art: A Conducting Recital by Ellen Mutter An Interactive Workshop Join us for an hour-long concert pairing choral music with sto- Sol LeWitt, Nine Part Modular Cube, 1978. Mead Art Museum. Are you studying abroad, traveling this summer, or interning ries of scientific advancements presented by graduate associate in a new place? Join us for an evening with Head of Education in Music, Ellen Mutter, Class of 2018. This performance will Emily Potter-Ndiaye to learn how to use art as a tool for under- explore the links between scientific and artistic innovation from Herbert Matter, Mercedes Matter Dancing, 1937. Stanford University Libraries. standing and connecting with new cultures and unfamiliar places. Dimensionism Scholars Day Palestrina and Galileo to Philip Glass and Einstein. The recital #Re-Centering #MyMead features students and faculty from Amherst and Smith Scholars of art and science are invited to dive deeper into Colleges. No tickets necessary. Seating is limited and first Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein with Curator Free and open to all! come, first served. This program is offered with support from Red Eye Black Tie + Spring Formal of American Art Vanja Malloy. Participants will experience Tuesday, April 23, 2019 | 7–8 pm the Amherst College Music Department and Arts at Amherst. The Mead Art Museum commissioned contemporary artists to a day of close-looking, gallery talks, and presentations by Mead Art Museum #ArtxScience #MyMead create works for three sites at Amherst College. Join us to meet guest lecturers. Space is limited to invited guests, but if you the artists, explore our makerspace, and participate in live would like sign up for our wait-list, please email Danielle at Free and open to all! art-making all day long on the Mead’s sculpture quad. Come [email protected]. This program is offered with Wednesday, April 3, 2019 | 7–8 pm back to see the artists’ final creations and celebrate the arrival Dimensions: support from Arts at Amherst. Mead Art Museum of new art on campus. The day will close with Spring Formal for A Body-Mod Non-Binary Fashion Show #ArtxScience #MyMead Amherst College students. This program is offered in collabora- tion with Amherst Association of Students, Campus Activities Queer Resource Center Education Coordinator Estaban Uceda, Free! Seeing the Moon in Islamic Traditions Board, Student Activities, and Facilities. Class of 2019, is launching a capstone project that centers Monday, April 29, 2019 Join us for a conversation with Amherst College Muslim #Re-Centering #MyMead queer, trans, and non-binary fashion. All are invited to a body- Mead Art Museum Student Association and Advisors to learn more about the lunar mod fashion show and a conversation about how fashion can calendar and moon sightseeing in Islamic traditions leading up Free and open to all! be a tool for empowerment. Offered in conjunction with Queer to the month of Ramadan. People of all religions, beliefs, and Friday, April 12, 2019 Resource Center, Women’s and Gender Center, Multicultural experience levels are invited to attend. This program is offered Live art-making | 10 am–4 pm Resource Center, Amherst College Department of Theater & in conjunction with Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Spring Formal for Amherst College Students | 9 pm–Midnight Dance, & Amherst College Department of Sexuality, Women’s, Einstein with support from the Office of Religious and Spiritual Mead Art Museum and Gender Studies. Life and the Muslim Students Association. #Re-Centering #ArtxScience #MyMead #ArtxScience #Re-Centering Free and open to all! Free and open to all! Thursday, April 25, 2019 | 7 pm Wednesday, April 10, 2019 | 7–8 pm Mead Art Museum Mead Art Museum May

May the Fourth Be With You: N+1 Community Day at the Mead All are invited to the Mead for an afternoon of art and experi- mentation. We’ll explore art and ideas about the universe and participate in hands on activities in Dimensionism: Modern Art in Age of Einstein. Join in an immersive sound experience with Jake Meginsky, artist and visiting lecturer in the Department of Theater & Dance. This program is offered with support from Arts at Amherst. #ArtxScience #MyMead #MeadOpenCurriculum

Free and open to all! Activities designed for ages 8+ Roberto Matta, Genesis, 1942. National Gallery of Art. Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 1–3 pm Mead Art Museum Decoding the Cosmos with Museum Photographing the Universe with Educator Fred Venne Visiting Professor of Astronomy All are invited to track the movement of celestial bodies at Michael Stage Amherst College’s Bassett Planetarium with Museum Educator Join us for an evening of stargazing and photography. All are Fred Venne. Please meet at Bassett Planetarium.* This program invited to view the cosmos through telescopes and learn about is inspired by Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein how the photoelectric effect makes it possible to take color and offered with support from the Arts at Amherst Initiative photographs of the universe. May the fourth be with you! and the Beneski Museum of Natural History. This program is inspired by Dimensionism: Modern Art in the #ArtxScience Age of Einstein and offered with support from Arts at Amherst, Amherst College Science Center, and Amherst College Free and open to all! Department of Astronomy. Sunday, May 19, 2019 | 3 pm #ArtxScience Bassett Planetarium

Free and open to all! *This is not an accessible building. We apologize for the Saturday, May 4, 2019 | 8:30–10 pm inconvenience. Amherst College Science Center

Study at the Mead

Throughout reading period and finals week, we will offer bot- Image credits in order of appearance: Barbara Hepworth, Project for Wood and Strings, Trezion II, 1959. Oil, gesso, pencil on board. tomless coffee, evening snacks, and, of course, massages to 7 1 14 /8 × 21 /8 inches. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Gift of help you destress. We also have comfy chairs, plenty of outlets, Richard S. Zeisler (Class of 1937). © Bowness. Helen Lundeberg, Self Portrait, 1944. Oil on great lighting, and extra tables to give you an inspirational canvas. 17 × 28 inches. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Gift of The Lorser Feitelson and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Foundation. © The Feitelson / place to work and study. Lundeberg Art Foundation. Photo: Peter Jacobs. Games at the Mead Art Museum, October 2018. #MyMead Photo: Maria Stenzel. Collecting 101 Students at the Mead Art Museum, January 2019. Photo: Danielle Amodeo. Herbert Matter, Mercedes Matter Dancing, 1937. Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Gift of Richard Templeton (Class of 1931). Sol LeWitt, Nine Part Modular Cube, 1978. Balsa wood. Free and open to all until Midnight! 3 1 1 22 /8 × 22 /4 × 22 /4 inches. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts. Thursday, May 9–Thursday, May 16, 2019 Roberto Matta, Genesis, 1942. Oil on canvas. 28 × 36 inches. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Mead Art Museum D.C.; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Hôtel de l'Étoile: Grand Hotel Fontaine), 1953–1955. Mixed media. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts; Gift of the C and B Foundation. Pablo Picasso, Young Girl in an 5 1 Armchair, 1917. Gouache and black ink over graphite on wove paper. 12 /8 × 8 /4 inches. Speed Art Museum, Louisville. Purchase, Museum Art Fund. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Right: Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Hôtel de l'Étoile: Grand Hotel Fontaine), 1953–1955. Mead Art Museum. Back Cover: Pablo Picasso, Young Girl in an Armchair, 1917. Speed Art Museum.