Art Department Events
Most departmental events take place in the Eli Marsh Gallery (105 Fayerweather Hall) or Pruyne Lecture Hall (115 Fayerweather). Check this calendar often for updates—events are added and edited frequently. For additional arts events on campus, see what’s happening at the Mead.
Thu, Apr 4, 2019
Rapaport Lecture in Contemporary Art: Kunié Sugiura
Kunié Sugiura will give this annual lecture at Amherst this spring. She was born in Nagoya, Japan. After graduating from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967, she went to New York with two classmates and since then has been working and living there. As she herself states, “From the beginning I thought of photography as important [a] media as painting and sculpture. [I make] artworks using [the] concepts and process of photography.”
Her major exhibitions include:
Vision and Expression, Eastman Museum (1969)
Annual Exhibition of Painting, Whitney Museum (1972)
New Photography 13, MOMA, NY (1997)
For a New World to Come; Japan 1968-1979, MFA Houston and Grey Art NYU Gallery (2015)
Aspiring Experiments; 50 years in New York, Tokyo Photography and Art Museum (2018)
The Rapaport Lectureship in Contemporary Art Fund, established in 1999 at Amherst College, provides support for an annual lecture by an artist, art writer or art critic on some aspect of contemporary art. The goal of the Rapaport Lectureship is to increase awareness and appreciation of contemporary art among students and the community. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Fri, Apr 12, 2019
Free, Live Show in a Haunted Attic at Amherst
Macon Reed’s “World-Making” class and visiting artists from Whoop Dee Doo invite you to a free, live show. This unique and unforgettable lightning-fast show will take place in an immersive haunted attic space as a collaboration with multiple local artists and performers. Showings will be at 5, 5:15, 5:30 and 5:45 p.m.
This is a very unusual and special event for Amherst College-- don't miss it!
Mon, Apr 22, 2019
Studio Honors Senior Thesis Exhibition
Works of art by the following Senior Thesis Students will be on display:
Joanna Booth
"Relative"
Jonathan Jackson
"The House Servant's Directory"
Mika Obayashi
"Ichi-go ichi-e"
Opening Reception
April 25, 4:30pm
Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Special Hours for Commencement Weekend:
Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26 from 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Ongoing Events
Between the Imagined and Seen: The Hand Pulled Prints of Betsey Garand and Microscope Images of Caroline Goutte
Visit the Mezzanine Gallery in Frost Library to view "Between the Imagined and Seen: The Hand Pulled Prints of Betsey Garand and Microscope Images of Caroline Goutte," on exhibit from March 4 - August 30. This exhibition is sponsored by the Arts at Amherst Initiative
Against Doom - an exhibition by Artist-In-Residence Macon Reed
Details TBA. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, and noon - 4 p.m. Sundays. Closed Saturdays. This exhibition will close at noon on Friday, April 5.
