Amherst Arts

From stunning images of performances and gallery spaces to exciting news about our faculty, student, alumni and visiting artists, the arts at Amherst College can be enjoyed by anyone, anytime, any where. www.amherst.edu/arts

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The Amherst College Theater and Dance Department (@amherstthda) closes its fall season with Dance Ensemble and Collaboration in Theater, performing December 6-8 at 8PM in Holden Theater. . “Intimate Inanimate Responses” is choreographed by the Amherst College Dance Ensemble with Visiting Assistant Professor Danté Brown (@dbwarehousedance). This work features Jasmine Gamboa '19, Matthew Holliday '19, Maya Mizrahi '21, Rebecca Schrader '21, Evelyn Touchette '20E, Leah Woodbridge '20, Orianna Xu '19 and Evan Young '19. . “Moments of Innocence” is a work in progress, created in Collaboration in Theater with Assistant Professor Yagil Eliraz, by Owen Deignan '22, Nicholas Govus '22, Zachary Horwitz '20, Sage Innerarity '22, Heiata Julienne-Ista (Language Assistant) and Brandon Medina '19. . Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended: [phone] . 📸Jiayi Liu #dance #performance #art #studentlife #stage #amherstcollege #amherstarts (at Holden Experimental Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD6wBEhlE3/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5ygmktsmmvm6

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Snapshots from “Intimate Inanimate Responses,” opening TONIGHT. The piece is choreographed by the @AmherstCollege Dance Ensemble with Dante Brown (@dbwarehousedance) and features Jasmine Gamboa '19, Matthew Holliday '19, Maya Mizrahi '21, Rebecca Schrader '21, Evelyn Touchette '20E, Leah Woodbridge '20, Orianna Xu '19 and Evan Young '19. It’s followed by “Moments of Innocence,” a work in progress, created in the course "Collaboration in Theater" by Owen Deignan '22, Nicholas Govus '22, Zachary Horwitz '20, Sage Innerarity '22, Heiata Julienne-Ista (language assistant) and Brandon Medina '19. . Performances are tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8pm in Holden Experimental Theater. Admission is free and open to the public. Reservations are recommended, call the box office: [phone]. . 📸 Jiayi Lui #theater #dance #perform #performance #art #performanceart #stage #contemporarydance #emsemble #danceensemble #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstarts (at Holden Experimental Theater) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrD3tyPBVYe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2a2vio6m58wl

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DECEMBER ARTS PREVIEW . ’Tis the season to celebrate the start of the winter holidays, the end of the academic semester and Emily Dickinson’s birthday! To that end, the Choral Society performs a festival of lessons and carols, Theater and Dance students present original performances they’ve created this semester, and the Emily Dickinson Museum celebrates the poet’s 188th birthday with special tours, activities and Emily’s famous coconut cake. Plus, Music at Amherst presents its final concert of 2018, and Chloe Tausk ’19 presents a senior thesis exhibition of etchings and monotypes made by observing and returning to particular places in Amherst. . Link in bio for dates and deets! #amherstarts #amherstcollege #amherstma #emilydickinson #birthday #poetry #choralsocietyvespers #theateranddance #musicatamherst #sequentia #seniorthesis #artexhibit https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq0W6w7BIme/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vpfniy2gmmty

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Views from the Eastern Front: Russian Modernism and the Great War considers the role of World War I in Russia through the arts 100 years later. Presenting works by Russian avant-garde artists and symbolist poets, it explores the ways in which Russian modernists engaged with the themes of war, violence and destruction during this fateful period. . Join exhibition curator Galina Mardilovich for a gallery talk to learn more about the exhibition on Friday, Nov. 30, from noon to 1pm @amherstcenter4russianculture. . 🖼 Pavel Nikolaevich Filonov, “The Flight into Egypt (The Refugees)” 1918. 📷 Jiayi Lui #russian #art #russianmodernism #exhibition #filonov #painting #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstarts (at Amherst Center for Russian Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqyP4EZBfUw/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5tgdtny4hyaq

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Admission to the Emily Dickinson Museum is free tomorrow, August 24, thanks to the Highland Street Foundation's Free Fun Fridays program! Enjoy self-guided tours and more @emilydickinson.museum from 10 am to 5 pm. During self-guided tours, knowledgeable guides are on hand to answer all questions. On the Museum grounds, a craft tent will feature Dickinson-related art activities and offerings for all ages. A scavenger hunt and a story walk will also be fun ways to explore the gardens and grounds Emily Dickinson loved so much. . . . #freefunfriday #highlandstreetfoundation #emilydickinson #museum #free #fun #friday #amherstma #amherstarts (at The Emily Dickinson Museum)

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Music at Amherst turns 40 this year! Subscriptions are now available for the 2018-19 season, which offers a rich assortment of performances in Buckley Recital Hall @amherstcollege * Mexican-born jazz singer Magos Herrera, regarded as one of the most expressive, beautiful voices and most active vocalists in the contemporary Latin American jazz scene, who joins forces with the omnivorous string quartet Brooklyn Rider for an unforgettable musical journey, reinterpreting classics of the era from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, and Spain, and celebrating such luminaries as Octavio Paz, Federico García Lorca, and Rubén Darío. | Saturday, September 29, 2018 at 8 p.m. * Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Houtzeel, whose performances in the Strauss repertoire have been heralded around the world. | Friday, October 19, 2018 at 8 p.m. * Pianist Gabriela Montero, whose visionary interpretations and unique improvisational gifts have garnered her critical acclaim and a devoted following on the world stage. | Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 3 p.m. * The Sequentia trio, consisting of Benjamin Bagby (voice, harps), Norbert Rodenkirchen (flutes), and Hanna Marti (voice, harp), who'll perform an evening of songs about Fortuna, Dido and Cleopatra, Hercules and the old gods, as they would have been enjoyed by monastic intellectuals around the turn of the first millennium. | Friday, December 7, 2018 at 8 p.m. * Subscribe today: amherst.universitytickets.com #music #concert #performance #stage #magosherrera #brooklynrider #stringquartet #latinamericanjazz #stephaniehoutzeel #mezzosoprano #strauss #gabrielamontero #pianist #improv #sequentiatrio #musicatamherst #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstarts @musicatamherst (at Music at Amherst)

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Emily Dickinson Museum intern Grace Grieve-Carlson is spending her summer re-creating the Dickinson family library. Hear more about her process of research and documentation, and get a special look at some of her favorite objects, during Amherst Arts Night Plus. . Amherst Arts Night Plus Thursday, Aug. 2, @emilydickinson.museum 5-8pm: Pop-up exhibition featuring selections by Grace Grieve-Carlson 7pm: Talk by Grace Grieve-Carlson exploring the importance of the family libraries in understanding the Dickinson legacy . #emilydickinson #poetry #art #amherstarts #amherstartsnightplus #amherstma #emilydickinsonmuseum #library #dickinson #legacy (at The Emily Dickinson Museum)

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#Repost @beneskimuseum ・・・ Happy #fossilfriday ! We’ve been busy cleaning the mounted skeleton of the sabertoothed cat from the La Brea Tar Pits. Come by and see us today from 11 to 4! (at Beneski Museum of Natural History)

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Attention local literature lovers! Award-winning novelist, @amherstcollege grad & #AmherstLitFest 2016 author LAUREN GROFF ’01 will be in the area this summer to give a reading from FLORIDA, her new short story collection that spans characters, towns, decades and even centuries, with Florida—its landscape, climate, history and state of mind—as its gravitational center. . Among those navigating this place are a resourceful pair of abandoned sisters; a lonely boy, grown up; a restless, childless couple; a searching, homeless woman; and an unforgettable, recurring character—a steely and conflicted wife and mother. With shocking accuracy and effect, Groff pinpoints the moments and decisions and connections behind human pleasure and pain, hope and despair, love and fury—the moments that make us alive. Startling, precise, and affecting, Florida is a magnificent achievement. Excerpts available @newyorkermag . LAUREN GROFF, FLORIDA Tuesday, 7/24, 7pm @odysseybookshop (South Hadley, MA) . #laurengroff #florida #reading #book #bookstagram #booklove #bookworm #bookshop #shortstory #literature #literaturelover #amherstcollege #amherstalumni @amherst_college_alumni

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Looking for a cool spot to hang today? The Beneski Museum of Natural History’s air-conditioned galleries are full of incredible dinosaur skeletons and footprints, dazzling minerals and immersive exhibits that tell the history of the local landscape through geologic time. The museum is open until Tuesday–Friday from 11 a.m.–4 p.m., and Saturday & Sunday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. (Closed July 4.) Admissions is always free of charge. . . . #beneskimuseum #naturalhistory #museum #exhibition #dinosaur #dinosaurfootprints #minerals #geology #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstmuseums (at Beneski Museum of Natural History)

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Amherst alumnus Elliott Arkin ’83 recently unveiled “The Spanish Gardner,” a 10-foot mixed-media sculpture in the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway in New York City. Organized by the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative, the temporary sculpture depicts a gnome-like version of Pablo Picasso mowing a lawn. “I used to say that if Picasso was around today he would have to mow lawns for a living,” Arkin recently told ARTnews. “The art world has changed that much.” . According to the press release, the sculpture is a “visual poem” intended to spur conversation and contemplation. “In overview, the piece can be seen as a salutation to the common man. A gardening lawn gnome also can have many other implications as it compares artists to caretakers, planting ideas and doing the work that shapes our space and world. It also playfully juxtaposes the artist/patron/viewer relationship and is a satire on the on the art world with political, environmental, and social commentary. Typical with many of Arkin’s works, ‘The Spanish Gardener’ mixes and matches references to artists and artworks creating a quizzical journey with many paths and interpretations and is open to be engaged on many levels.” . The sculpture is located at the corner of Degraw Street and Columbia Street, and remains on view through July 15. #picasso #art #sculpture #publicart #artexhibition #nyc #amherstproud #amherstalum #amherstcollege #amherarts @amherst_college_alumni @amherstcollege @bkgreenway @elliottarkin

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The sun is shining on Bassett Planetarium today! ☀️ Have you ever been inside? The facility is equipped with an original Spitz A3p optical projector and seats for 60 people under a 9.1 meter dome. School and community groups of 10+ are invited to schedule appointments to see celestial navigation, seasons skies and the mechanics and structure of the solar system. @amherstcollege #planetarium #amherstmuseums #amherstcollege #amherstma (at Bassett Planetarium)

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The @meadartmuseum exhibition HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland is on view through this Sunday, July 1. The Mead is hosting a Closing Cookout today, 6/26, from 4-6pm with food, craft beer (21+), live music, family-friendly activities designed by the Mead's summer interns, and one last chance to see the exhibit before it closes. The event takes place in the museum’s sculpture courtyard and includes both indoor and outdoor activities. . From @MassLive: “The exhibit features 58 works of art from 32 international artists organized around the theme of what constitutes a house and what a house symbolizes. Artists represented include the French American sculptor Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, who works in photography and has been called "one of the most important artists in her era," and pop art pioneer Ed Ruscha. The work is from the private collection of John Wieland, a 1958 Amherst College graduate and home builder in the Southeast, and his wife Sue who began collecting contemporary art in the 1980s. Their collection is said to include some 400 pieces from more than 300 artists. The couple gifted $3 million to the Mead earlier this year to fund its position of director and chief curator of the museum. At the time of their gift, Wieland said he and his wife were "thrilled to be able to support the museum with a gift that will sustain the institution over time and give back to the college in a way that is deeply meaningful for us personally." The exhibit was organized by David E. Little, director and chief curator of the Mead, which houses the art collection of Amherst College.” . @amherstcollege #amherstcollege #amherstarts #art #museum #exhibition #house #painting #scultpure #drawing #prints #summer #closing #cookout (at Mead Art Museum)

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The @meadartmuseum exhibition HOUSE: Selections from the Collection of John and Sue Wieland is on view through this Sunday, July 1. The Mead is hosting a Closing Cookout today, 6/26, from 4-6pm with food, craft beer (21+), live music, family-friendly activities designed by the Mead's summer interns, and one last chance to see the exhibit before it closes. The event takes place in the museum’s sculpture courtyard and includes both indoor and outdoor activities. . From @MassLive: “The exhibit features 58 works of art from 32 international artists organized around the theme of what constitutes a house and what a house symbolizes. Artists represented include the French American sculptor Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, who works in photography and has been called "one of the most important artists in her era," and pop art pioneer Ed Ruscha. The work is from the private collection of John Wieland, a 1958 Amherst College graduate and home builder in the Southeast, and his wife Sue who began collecting contemporary art in the 1980s. Their collection is said to include some 400 pieces from more than 300 artists. The couple gifted $3 million to the Mead earlier this year to fund its position of director and chief curator of the museum. At the time of their gift, Wieland said he and his wife were "thrilled to be able to support the museum with a gift that will sustain the institution over time and give back to the college in a way that is deeply meaningful for us personally." The exhibit was organized by David E. Little, director and chief curator of the Mead, which houses the art collection of Amherst College.” . @amherstcollege #amherstcollege #amherstarts #art #museum #exhibition #house #painting #scultpure #drawing #prints #summer #closing #cookout (at Mead Art Museum)

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Another quiet, beautiful day on campus. ☀️ #summerbreak #summerday #amherstcollege #artbuilding #amherstma #amherstarts (at Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College)

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Happy first day of summer! Our student interns conducted site visits today to learn more about @beneski_museum, @meadartmuseum and @emilydickinson.museum. What are you up to on this longest day of the year? #summer #studentintern #campuslife #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstarts #Repost @amherstloeb ・・・ Professional development day with campus museum interns included site visits to the Mead, Beneski, and Emily Dickinson Museums with tours led by student interns at each site...Yasmine Huerta’19E, a docent at the Beneski Museum, shares the details of the Museum’s educational tours with fellow interns from the Mead and Emily Dickinson Museums... #amherstmuseums (at Amherst College)

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Charting the Divine Plan: The Art of Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863), a new exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in NYC, explores the confluence of art, love, science and religion in the extraordinary art of Orra White Hitchcock, one of America’s first female scientific illustrators. It showcases numerous works from the Archives and Special Collections @AmherstCollege, which holds one of the largest collections anywhere of Orra White Hitchcock’s original artwork. The exhibition remains on view through October 14. . Hitchcock Collection at Amherst College: acdc.amherst.edu American Folk Art Museum Exhibit: folkartmuseum.org Exhibition Review: huffingtonpost.com/section/arts . #orrawhitehitchcock #art #exhibition #illustration #illustrator #science #scientificillustration #amherstcollege #amherstma #amherstarts (at Amherst College Library)