Fall 2018
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EXHIBITIONS RE-PRESENTING NONOTUCK: PAINTINGS BY ORRA HITCHCOCK AND DAVE GLOMAN Sept. 4–Oct. 29, 2018 Artist Talk and Reception: Thursday, Sept. 27, 4:30 p.m. Mezzanine Gallery, Frost Library (2nd floor) TRANSCENDENTAL CONCORD: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA MCCARTY Sept. 10–Oct. 12, 2018 Opening Lecture, Reception and Book Signing: Thursday, Sept. 13, 4:30 p.m. Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall TIMING IS EVERYTHING Sept. 13, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 13, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum ABSTRACTION: NEW ACQUISITIONS AT THE MEAD Sept. 13, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 13, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum FRAGMENTED IDENTITIES: THE GENDERED ROLES OF WOMEN IN ART THROUGH THE AGES Sept. 13, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019 Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept. 13, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum WORKS BY YOKO ASAKAI Oct. 29–Nov. 30, 2018 Opening Lecture and Reception: Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:30 p.m. Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall
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ROTHERWAS PROJECT 4: YINKA SHONIBARE MBE: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY COLLECTION (ACTIVISTS) Oct. 30, 2018–Feb. 17, 2019 Opening Reception: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum WHISPERS: PAINTINGS BY ALICE THOMAS Nov. 1–Dec. 31, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:30–6 p.m. Mezzanine Gallery, Frost Library (2nd floor) VIEWS FROM THE EASTERN FRONT: RUSSIAN MODERNISM AND THE GREAT WAR Nov. 12, 2018–Jan. 18, 2019 Opening Reception: Monday, Nov. 12, 5–7 p.m. Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Webster Hall (2nd floor) STUDIO HONORS SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION Dec. 10–Dec. 21, 2018 Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall CONSTRUCTING A NEW WORLD: THE SOVIET EXPERIMENT, 1920s–30s Through Oct. 15, 2018 Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Webster Hall (2nd floor) HALL WALLS: TATIANA POTTS Through Dec. 30, 2018 Mead Art Museum Lisa McCarty, Louisa May Alcott’s Desk, Orchard House, 2015. On view Sept. 10–Oct. 12 in the Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall. Image courtesy of the artist.
EVENTS
SEPTEMBER MUSIC DEPARTMENT ORIENTATION SHOWCASE Sunday, Sept. 2, 7:30–8:30 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center MEET AND GREET AT THE MEAD Tuesday, Sept. 4, 3–5 p.m. Mead Art Museum TIME MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SERIES PART I: WHERE DOES THE TIME GO? (for students) Wednesday, Sept. 5, 6:30–8 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in collaboration with the Being Human in STEM Initiative, Student Activities, Student Affairs and the Writing Center
AMHERST ARTS NIGHT PLUS, WITH POP-UP ART EXHIBIT, OPEN MIC FOR WRITERS AND PERFORMERS, AND FEATURED READERS Thursday, Sept. 6, 5–8 p.m. Emily Dickinson Museum MIDNIGHT TOUR OF THE MEAD, LED BY STUDENT MUSEUM EDUCATORS Thursday, Sept. 6, 11 p.m.–midnight Mead Art Museum FACULTY DANCE CONCERT AND DANCE PARTY Friday, Sept. 7, 7 p.m. Kirby Theater JAZZ FACULTY CONCERT Sunday, Sept. 9, 7–8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center OPENING LECTURE, RECEPTION AND BOOK SIGNING: TRANSCENDENTAL CONCORD: PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA MCCARTY Thursday, Sept. 13, 4:30 p.m. Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall
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FALL EXHIBITIONS OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, Sept. 13, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum ADJUNCT FACULTY CONCERT: CHONGHYO SHIN, PIANO Friday, Sept. 14, 7 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center CLOSE LOOKS AT THE MEAD, LED BY STUDENT MUSEUM EDUCATORS Saturdays, Sept. 15, 22 and 29, 1–1:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum AMHERST POETRY FESTIVAL Thursday, Sept. 20–Sunday, Sept. 23 Emily Dickinson Museum and various locations in downtown Amherst Learn more: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival
GALLERY TALK WITH VANJA MALLOY Thursday, Sept. 20, noon–1 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Timing Is Everything
DOUGHNUTS AND DEATH: A BAKER’S DOZEN OF EMILY DICKINSON’S MOST DEPRESSING POEMS Thursday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m. West Cemetery (Triangle Street, downtown Amherst) Part of the Amherst Poetry Festival: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival
SCREENING OF WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY, WITH DIRECTOR MADELEINE OLNEK Thursday, Sept. 20, 9 p.m. Location TBA; visit emilydickinsonmuseum.org for updates Part of the Amherst Poetry Festival: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival
POETRY IN THE PLANETARIUM WITH THE ASTRO POETS (Twitter: @poetastrologers) Friday, Sept. 21, 8 p.m. Bassett Planetarium Part of the Amherst Poetry Festival: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival Choreographer and performer Marilyn Sylla and ensemble during last year’s Faculty Dance Concert. This year’s concert takes place Sept. 7. Photo by Jane Ames.
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SEPT/cont. THE ANNUAL EMILY DICKINSON POETRY MARATHON, A ONE-DAY READING OF ALL 1,789 OF DICKINSON’S POEMS Saturday, Sept. 22, 6 a.m.–9 p.m. Emily Dickinson Museum Part of the Amherst Poetry Festival: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival
LATE NIGHT GARDEN PARTY AT THE EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM FEATURING KIMAYA DIGGS Saturday, Sept. 22, 9 p.m. Emily Dickinson Museum Part of the Amherst Poetry Festival: emilydickinsonmuseum.org/amherstpoetryfestival
AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WELCOMES THE CLASS OF 2022: ¡VIVA MEXICO! Sunday, Sept. 23, 3 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center ARTIST TALK WITH CHLOË BASS Monday, Sept. 24, 7 p.m. Location TBA; visit amherst.edu/arts for updates Organized by Artist-In-Residence Macon Reed
KEEPING TIME: IMPROVISATION WITH STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH (for students) Tuesday, Sept. 25, 11:30 a.m.–12:50 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in collaboration with Thinking Through Improvisation First-Year Seminar and the Arts at Amherst Initiative
TIME MANAGEMENT PROGRAM SERIES PART II: PLANNING THROUGH PROCRASTINATION (for students) Wednesday, Sept. 26, 6:30–8 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in collaboration with the Being Human in STEM Initiative, Student Activities, Student Affairs and the Writing Center
FICTION READING: MONIQUE TRUONG Wednesday, Sept. 26, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst)
ARTIST TALK AND RECEPTION: RE-PRESENTING NONOTUCK: PAINTINGS BY ORRA HITCHCOCK AND DAVE GLOMAN Thursday, Sept. 27, 4:30 p.m. Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library (2nd floor) TIMING IS EVERYTHING WITH EMILY POTTER-NDIAYE, ANDREW W. MELLON CURATOR OF ACADEMIC PROGRAMS Friday, Sept. 28, noon–1 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Timing Is Everything
M@A PRESENTS BROOKLYN RIDER AND MAGOS HERRERA: DREAMERS Saturday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center Tickets required: visit amherst.universitytickets.com or call 413–542–2195 FREE student rush tickets available at the door at 7 p.m.
M@A MASTERCLASS WITH BROOKLYN RIDER AND MAGOS HERRERA Sunday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center Brooklyn Rider and Magos Herrera, performing Sept. 29.
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OCTOBER DIGGING AT THE DICKINSONS’: FINDINGS FROM THE 2018 FIELD SCHOOL IN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Monday, Oct. 1, 6:30 p.m. Emily Dickinson Museum KEEPING TIME: SLEEP SCREENING AT THE MEAD Tuesday, Oct. 2, 6 p.m.–midnight Mead Art Museum Screening of Andy Warhol’s 1963 film Sleep offered in collaboration with the Department of English and the Film and Media Studies Program
BEFORE YOU BECAME IMPROBABLE: AN IMMERSIVE JOURNEY THROUGH THE DICKINSON-HIGGINSON CORRESPONDENCE Thursday, Oct. 4–Saturday, Oct. 6, 6:30–8 p.m. Emily Dickinson Museum Tickets required: visit emilydickinsonmuseum.org
JAZZ@SCHWEMM’S Thursday, Oct. 4, 9 p.m. Schwemm’s Coffee House, Keefe Campus Center CLOSE LOOKS AT THE MEAD, LED BY STUDENT MUSEUM EDUCATORS Saturdays, Oct. 6, 13, 20 and 27, 1–1:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum KEEPING TIME: QUEERING TIME Thursday, Oct. 11, noon–1 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in collaboration with the Queer Resource Center in honor of National Coming Out Day
JAZZ@SCHWEMM’S Thursday, Oct. 11, 9 p.m. Schwemm’s Coffee House, Keefe Campus Center
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ADJUNCT FACULTY CONCERT: WAYNE SMITH, CELLO Friday, Oct. 12, 7 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center ARTIST TALK WITH NANCY NOWACEK Monday, Oct. 15, 7 p.m. Location TBA; visit amherst.edu/arts for updates Organized by Artist-In-Residence Macon Reed
FICTION READING: JORDY ROSENBERG Tuesday, Oct. 16, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst) JAZZ@SCHWEMM’S Thursday, Oct. 18, 9–10 p.m. Schwemm’s Coffee House Backroom, Keefe Campus Center GALLERY TALK WITH MILOSLAVA HRUBA Friday, Oct. 19, noon–1 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in conjunction with the exhibition Fragmented Identities: The Gendered Roles of Women in Art Through the Ages
M@A PRESENTS STEPHANIE HOUTZEEL, MEZZO-SOPRANO Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center Tickets required: visit amherst.universitytickets.com or call 413–542–2195 FREE student rush tickets available at the door at 7 p.m.
M@A MASTERCLASS WITH STEPHANIE HOUTZEEL, MEZZO-SOPRANO Saturday, Oct. 20, 10–11:30 a.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center JAZZ COMBO MASTERCLASS Sunday, Oct. 21, 1 p.m. Arms Music Center Room 7 Macon Reed, still from All The World Must Suffer A Big Jolt, 2017. Reed is Amherst College’s 2018–19 Artist-In-Residence, and has organized artist talks with Chloë Bass on Sept. 24 and Nancy Nowacek on Oct. 15. Image courtesy of the artist.
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OCT/cont. JAZZ@SCHWEMM’S Thursday, Oct. 25, 9 p.m. Schwemm’s Coffee House Backroom, Keefe Campus Center QUEERING REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: ART AND ACTIVISM LUNCH WITH MEGAN SMITH (FOR STUDENTS) Friday, Oct. 26, noon–1 p.m. Women’s and Gender Center, Keefe Campus Center Offered in collaboration with the Women’s and Gender Center
ART AND ACTIVISM WORKSHOP WITH MEGAN SMITH Friday, Oct. 26, 1–3 p.m. Sculpture Courtyard, Mead Art Museum (Rain location: Women’s and Gender Center, Keefe Campus Center) ARTIST TALK WITH MEGAN SMITH Friday, Oct. 26, 4–5 p.m. Mead Art Museum UNCOMMON LITERATURE: READINGS FROM THE LATEST ISSUE OF THE COMMON Friday, Oct. 26, 5–6 p.m. Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library (2nd floor) Wine and cheese reception to follow
FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT: AMHERST COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Friday, Oct. 26, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT: AMHERST COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY Saturday, Oct. 27, noon Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center FAMILY WEEKEND CONCERT: AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MUSIC OF SPAIN! Saturday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center
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FICTION READING: DEBRA MAGPIE EARLING Monday, Oct. 29, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst) OPENING RECEPTION: ROTHERWAS PROJECT 4: YINKA SHONIBARE MBE: THE AMERICAN LIBRARY COLLECTION (ACTIVISTS) Tuesday, Oct. 30, 5–7 p.m. Mead Art Museum Isabel Meyers ’20, intern at Amherst College’s award-winning literary magazine The Common, which hosts a celebration of its latest issue Oct. 26. Photo by Maria Stenzel.
NOVEMBER OPENING LECTURE AND RECEPTION: WORKS BY YOKO ASAKAI Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:30 p.m. Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall OPENING RECEPTION: WHISPERS: PAINTINGS BY ALICE THOMAS Thursday, Nov. 1, 4:30–6 p.m. Friendly Reading Room, Frost Library (1st floor) GOD’S ISSUE: SENIOR HONORS PROJECT WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY DAVID GREEN ’19E Thursday, Nov. 1–Saturday, Nov. 3, 8–10 p.m. Holden Theater SENIOR THESIS MUSIC PERFORMANCE BY SAMUEL CROFF ’19E Friday, Nov. 2, 7 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center KEEPING TIME: COMMUNITY FALL BACK! Saturday, Nov. 3, 1–3 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in collaboration with the Arts at Amherst Initiative and in conjunction with the exhibition Timing Is Everything
M@A MASTERCLASS WITH GABRIELA MONTERO, PIANO Saturday, Nov. 3, 6–7:30 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center M@A PRESENTS GABRIELA MONTERO, PIANO Sunday, Nov. 4, 3 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center Tickets required: visit amherst.universitytickets.com or call 413–542–2195 FREE student rush tickets available at the door at 7 p.m. Jonathon Keats ’94, Millennium Camera (Site Plan), 2015. On view Sept. 13–Feb. 17 in the Mead Art Museum exhibition Timing Is Everything.
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PUERTO RICAN WRITERS SPEAK: FROM THE COMMON’S SPECIAL ISSUE Tuesday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. The Powerhouse Wine reception to follow
ARTS ADMINISTRATION CAREER CLINIC WITH JOHN ABODEELY ’01 (for students) Wednesday, Nov. 7, 7–9 p.m. Mead Art Museum Designed for Five College students and presented by the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning
POETRY READING: CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH Wednesday, Nov. 7, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst) HOMECOMING CONCERT: AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MUSIC OF CUBA AND BRAZIL! Friday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center CLOSE LOOKS AT THE MEAD, LED BY STUDENT MUSEUM EDUCATORS Saturday, Nov. 10, 1–1:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum COMBOS IN THE CAGE FOR HOMECOMING CELEBRATION Saturday, Nov. 10, 3 p.m. Coolidge Cage HOMECOMING CONCERT: AMHERST COLLEGE CHORAL SOCIETY Saturday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center HOMECOMING CONCERT: AMHERST COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE Saturday, Nov. 10, 9 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center OPENING RECEPTION: VIEWS FROM THE EASTERN FRONT: RUSSIAN MODERNISM AND THE GREAT WAR Monday, Nov. 12, 5–7 p.m. Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Webster Hall (2nd floor)
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NOV/cont. KEEPING TIME: MUSICAL SELECTIONS ON TIME, PRESENTED BY THE AMHERST COLLEGE CONCERT CHOIR Wednesday, Nov. 14, 7–8 p.m. Mead Art Museum FICTION READING: AMY BLOOM Thursday, Nov. 29, 8 p.m. Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall
DECEMBER CLOSE LOOKS AT THE MEAD, LED BY STUDENT MUSEUM EDUCATORS Saturdays, Dec. 1 and 8, 1–1:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum CHORAL SOCIETY VESPERS Sunday, Dec. 2, 4 p.m., repeats at 7:30 p.m. Johnson Chapel COLLABORATIONS IN THEATER SHOWCASE AND AMHERST COLLEGE DANCE ENSEMBLE Thursday, Dec. 6–Saturday, Dec. 8, 8–10 p.m. Holden Theater M@A PRESENTS SEQUENTIA: MONKS SINGING PAGANS Friday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center Tickets required: visit amherst.universitytickets.com or call 413–542–2195 FREE student rush tickets available at the door at 7 p.m.
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AMHERST COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT Saturday, Dec. 8, 8 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: MUSIC OF ARGENTINA! Sunday, Dec. 9, 3 p.m. Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center STUDENT JAZZ COMBOS Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 10 and 11, 7 p.m. Arms Music Center Room 7 GALLERY TALK WITH DAVID E. LITTLE Tuesday, Dec. 11, noon–1 p.m. Mead Art Museum Offered in conjunction with Rotherwas Project 4: Yinka Shonibare MBE: The American Library Collection (Activists)
STUDY AT THE MEAD Thursday, Dec. 13–Thursday, Dec. 20 (except Monday, Dec. 17), 9 a.m.–midnight Mead Art Museum Study at the Mead during finals week, Dec. 13–20 (except Dec. 17 when the museum is closed). Photo by Danielle Amodeo.
Exhibitions and events are organized by the Department of Art and the History of Art, Arts at Amherst Initiative, Center for Russian Culture, Creative Writing Center, Emily Dickinson Museum, Film and Media Studies Program, Frost Library, Mead Art Museum, Department of Music, Department of Theater and Dance and The Common literary magazine. All exhibitions and events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Event details & updates: amherst.edu/arts Facebook: Amherst Arts & Museums Twitter & Instagram: @amherstarts Mailing List: amherst.edu/arts/mailing-list
Katja Oxman, Sound of Water Over Rock, 2003. On view Sept. 13–Feb. 17 in the Mead Art Museum exhibition Timing Is Everything.