Mead Art Museum at Amherst College 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.