ARTS AT AMHERST SPRING 2017 Exhibitions & Events
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EXHIBITIONS DAVID BREWSTER: QUIXOTIC ENCOUNTERS Jan. 19–March 19 Frost Library Mezzanine CULLEN WASHINGTON: OD MATTER Jan. 31–March 3 Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m. 105 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery MEAD REIMAGINED: TAKE 2 Through Spring 2017 Opening reception: Thursday, Feb. 9, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum The opening of MEAD REIMAGINED: TAKE 2 marks the continuation of previous exhibitions with new rotations of artworks, and the debut of two new exhibitions: • Accumulations: 5,000 Years of Objects, Fictions, and Conversations • The American Collection: Two Centuries of Art at Amherst College • Art from Africa: A Selection of Works Given by Amherst Collectors and Scholars • From Russia With Love: Selections from the Thomas P. Whitney, Class of 1937, Collection of Russian Art • Precious: Finding the Wondrous in the Mead’s European Collection • Rotherwas Project 2: Kota Ezawa, Gardner Project Revisited • Seeing Single Channel Video: Amherst Film and Media Studies Faculty Selection STUDIO EXHIBITION March 20–April 7 Opening reception: Thursday, March 23, 4:30 p.m. 105 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION April 24–May 21 Opening reception: Thursday, April 27, 4:30 p.m. 105 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery David Brewster, Frozen Spillway II, 40 x 48 inches, Oil on Mi-Tientes, 2015.
JAN
TEAM MEAD PRESENTS CREATE & CURATE: VOTE FOR THE MEAD’S NEXT ACQUISITION! Thursday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m. Mead Art Museum SENIOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE THESIS: ANTHONY NARAG ’17 AND TOMAL HOSSAIN ’17 Friday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall
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OD MATTER LECTURE AND OPENING RECEPTION WITH CULLEN WASHINGTON Thursday, Feb. 2, 4:30 p.m. 115 Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall SENIOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE THESIS: REBECCA RUESCHER ’17 AND WILLIAM SANDEL ’17 Friday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall FICTION READING: ALEKSANDAR HEMON Monday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main St., downtown Amherst) Chiara String Quartet, performing Feb. 11. Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco.
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SPRING EXHIBITIONS OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, Feb. 9, 5:30–7:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum M@A CHAMBER SERIES MASTERCLASS: CHIARA STRING QUARTET Friday, Feb. 10, 4–5:30 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall M@A CHAMBER SERIES: CHIARA STRING QUARTET Saturday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall FICTION READING: MARCUS BURKE Wednesday, February 15, 2 p.m. Frost Library, Center for Humanistic Inquiry (2nd floor) “BIG LOVE,” SENIOR PROJECT BY LAUREN CARTER ’17 IN THEATER & DANCE Thursday, Feb. 16–Saturday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m. Written by Charles Mee Directed by Yagil Eliraz Holden Theater Admission FREE, reservations recommended: 413-542-2277 A NIGHT WITH ARTIST RICO GATSON Thursday, Feb. 23, 5 p.m. Mead Art Museum TALK BY ART HISTORIAN AND CURATOR KELLIE JONES ’81 Thursday, Feb. 23, 8 p.m. Stirn Auditorium AMHERST COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE: MCBRIDE FESTIVAL Saturday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall
MARCH
A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST ALISON SAAR Wednesday, March 1, 5 p.m. Mead Art Museum LITFEST 2017: AMHERST COLLEGE’S SECOND ANNUAL LITERARY FESTIVAL featuring Chris Bachelder, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Zadie Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Thursday, March 2–Saturday, March 4 Various locations at Amherst College Details: amherst.edu/go/litfest FIVE COLLEGE DANCE CONCERT Thursday, March 2–Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m. Kirby Theater AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CHORAL SOCIETY COLLABORATION Saturday, March 4, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall MAGIC TRIANGLE JAZZ PERFORMANCE: THE OGJB QUARTET Sunday, March 5, 7 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall FICTION READING: SABINA MURRAY Wednesday, March 8, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main St., downtown Amherst) PAINTING LANDSCAPES IN THE GALLERY WITH PROFESSOR DAVE GLOMAN Tuesday, March 21, noon Mead Art Museum SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL Wednesday, March 22–Saturday, April 8 Various locations at Amherst College Details: amherst.edu/arts/festival
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SENIOR MUSIC PERFORMANCE THESIS: EUGENE LEE ’17 Wednesday, March 22, 5 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall FICTION READING: JAMES HANNAHAM Wednesday, March 22, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main St., downtown Amherst) REIMAGINING THE GREEKS: CONTEMPORARY AND CROSS-CULTURAL APPROACHES TO GREEK TRAGEDY Thursday, March 23–Saturday, March 25, 4:30–9:30 p.m. Location TBA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 23, 4:30 p.m. 105 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery M@A CHAMBER SERIES: PAUL LEWIS, PIANO Friday, March 24, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall M@A CHAMBER SERIES MASTERCLASS: PAUL LEWIS Saturday, March 25, 10–11:30 a.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall FACULTY ARTS SHOWCASE, A SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL EVENT Friday, March 31, 6:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum Zadie Smith headlines the Amherst College Literary Festival, March 2-4. Photo by Dominique Nabokov.
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FOOL MEAD ONCE: FAMILY & COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE Saturday, April 1, 1–3 p.m. Mead Art Museum M@A CHAMBER & PARALLELS SERIES: QUICKSILVER Saturday, April 1, 7 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall M@A PARALLELS SERIES: BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT Sunday, April 2, 3 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST KOTA EZAWA Wednesday, April 5, 6 p.m. Mead Art Museum FILM SCREENING: SIXTY SIX Wednesday, April 5, 7:30 p.m. Followed by Q&A with filmmaker Lewis Klahr Stirn Auditorium FICTION READING: KAROLINA WACLAWIAK Wednesday, April 5, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main St., downtown Amherst) “EVERYDAY PARTITIONS: SOUTH ASIA IN CONTEMPORARY ART,” a lecture by Sonal Khullar, associate professor of Art History at the University of Washington Thursday, April 6, 4:30 p.m. 115 Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall SENIOR PROJECT IN THEATER & DANCE BY LAUREN HORN ’17 Thursday, April 6–Saturday, April 8, 8 p.m. Holden Theater Admission FREE, reservations recommended: 413-542-2277 M@A PARALLELS SERIES: DAKHABRAKHA Friday, April 7, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall
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THE ARTS PARTY, A SPRING ARTS FESTIVAL EVENT Saturday, April 8, 8 p.m. The Powerhouse GLEE CLUB PERFORMANCE Sunday, April 9, 3 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall RAPAPORT LECTURE IN CONTEMPORARY ART: ARTIST RACHEL ROSE Thursday, April 13, 4:30 p.m. 115 Fayerweather Hall, Pruyne Lecture Hall POETRY READING: NATHANIEL MACKEY Thursday, April 13, 8 p.m. Amherst Books (8 Main St., downtown Amherst) AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERT Saturday, April 15, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall “ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR ENGAGEMENT AT THE COLLEGE ART MUSEUM: THE VIEW FROM HARVARD,” a lecture by Dr. David Odo, Harvard University Art Museums Thursday, April 20, 4:30 p.m. Mead Art Museum “ENGAGING WITH THE ART MUSEUM: THE CLASSROOM AND BEYOND,” a roundtable discussion with Dr. David Odo, Harvard University Art Museums Friday, April 21, noon Mead Art Museum (Lunch provided) M@A CHAMBER SERIES: DAWN UPSHAW, SOPRANO, AND GILBERT KALISH, PIANO Friday, April 21, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall Rachel Rose, still from Everything and More, 2015. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Film, Video, and New Media Committee. Rose delivers the Rapaport Lecture in Contemporary Art on April 13.
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M@A CHAMBER SERIES MASTERCLASS: DAWN UPSHAW AND GILBERT KALISH Saturday, April 22, 10 a.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall CONCERT CHOIR SPRING CONCERT Saturday, April 22, 5 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall AMHERST COLLEGE JAZZ ENSEMBLE CONCERT Saturday, April 22, 8:30 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall WOMEN’S CHORUS SPRING CONCERT Sunday, April 23, 1 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall TEAM MEAD PRESENTS STUDENT ARTS SHOWCASE II Tuesday, April 25, 8 p.m. Mead Art Museum A CONVERSATION WITH ARTIST VITALY KOMAR Wednesday, April 26, 5 p.m. Mead Art Museum SENIOR THESIS EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, April 27, 4:30 p.m. 105 Fayerweather Hall, Eli Marsh Gallery AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERTO OPEN DRESS REHEARSAL Thursday, April 27, 8 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall “NOTE THE SELF,” STUDENT GROUP DANCE UNDER THE DIRECTION OF PAUL MATTESON Thursday, April 27–Saturday, April 28, 8 p.m. Holden Theater Admission FREE, reservations recommended: 413-542-2277 Paul Matteson, Five College Assistant Professor of Dance, and Jennifer Nugent, Visiting Lecturer in Theater and Dance. Student dancers perform under Matteson’s direction April 27-28.
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AMHERST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CONCERTO CONCERT Friday, May 19, 7 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall CHORAL SOCIETY COMMENCEMENT CONCERT Saturday, May 20, 9:15–11 p.m. Arms Music Center, Buckley Recital Hall
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An image from Sixty Six, a 12-part anthology of short films by cut-and-paste animator Lewis Klahr, screening April 5.