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May Arts Preview
Events, exhibits and news to enjoy, this month at Amherst.
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As the academic semester comes to a close, we're celebrating final projects and performances by student artists, musicians and filmmakers. Take in a recital by student musicians this afternoon, May 1. See original film by FAMS majors on May 3. Enjoy an exhibition of works by studio art majors through May 18. And take in a new, student-curated exhibition at the Beneski Museum of Natural History through May 20. Another reason to celebrate: garden days are here again! Gardeners at all experience levels are invited to help bring new life to the historic Dickinson landscape, May 4-7. The Emily Dickinson Museum’s three acres are home to beds of old-fashioned flowers, fine specimen trees and an heirloom orchard where a certain poet would be pleased to “keep the Sabbath, staying at Home.” Don't miss what interests you—make your plans today.
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Events to EnjoyStudent concerts and film screenings, a museum tour and garden days at the Emily Dickinson Museum.
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Volunteers help to restore Emily Dickinson's beloved gardens at the Emily Dickinson Museum. | |
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Student Music Recitals
Tuesday, May 1, 3 p.m. & 4:30 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center
Hear new music composed by students in the courses Music 388 and Music 269, performed at 3 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. respectively. Free and open to all. Film and Media Studies Graduation Party
Thursday, May 3, 12–2 p.m., Frost Library Room 210
Celebrate Film and Media Studies graduating seniors at this lunchtime event featuring screenings of their films, refreshments and cake. All students, staff and faculty welcome. Arts Night Open Mic, Reading and Pop-Up Art Exhibition
Thursday, May 3, 5–8 p.m., Emily Dickinson Museum
Students from Springfield High School of Science and Technology present a pop-up display of poem books, a step performance and readings, followed by an Open Mic Night. Free and open to all. Volunteer Garden Days
Meet and Greet: Friday, May 4, 4:30–6 p.m., Emily Dickinson Museum
Garden Days: Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m.– 1p.m. & Sunday, May 6, 1–5 p.m., Emily Dickinson Museum
Meet gardener-in-residence Marta McDowell and help bring new life to Emily Dickinson’s landscape during volunteer garden days. Free and open to gardeners at all experience levels Weekly Tour at the Mead!
Saturday, May 5, 1 p.m., Mead Art Museum
Enjoy a guided tour of the Amhert’s art museum with art history and studio art major Cosmo Brossy ’19. Free and open to all. "Dear to the moss": Emily Dickinson Wildflower Walk
Sunday, May 6, 9:45 a.m.–12 p.m., Emily Dickinson Museum & Amethyst Brook Conservation Area
Explore Amherst’s fields and woods—and encounter wildflowers Dickinson pressed in her herbarium and preserved in her poetry—with botanist Connie Parks. Cost is $10 for adults, $8 for Museum Friends and $6 for participants of Volunteer Garden Days. Annual Emily Dickinson Poetry Walk
Saturday, May 12, 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m., Emily Dickinson Museum & West Cemetery
Commemorate the death of Emily Dickinson in 1886 with a celebratory walk from the Museum grounds to the West Cemetery where the poet is buried. Free and open to all. Choral Society Commencement Concert
Saturday, May 19, 9:15 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center
Hear Amherst’s choral ensembles perform Renaissance madrigals and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with collaborative pianist Benjamin Tibbets. Tickets are $10 for general public; $5 for senior citizens, students and children 12 and under; and free for Five College students with ID.
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In the GalleriesExhibitions showcasing student art, mass extinctions, works from modern India and more.
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A viewer looking at watercolor illustrations by Young-Ji Cho ’18 in the Studio Senior Honors Exhibition in Eli Marsh Gallery. Photo by Takudzwa Tapfuma ’17. | |
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Studio Senior Honors Exhibition
Through May 18, Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall 105
See works by studio art seniors Young-Ji Cho ’18, Miriam De La Riva Ovalle ’18, Cami Dominguez ’18 and An Hoang ’18. Free admission, open to all.
On Today’s Horizon: Mass Extinction
Through May 20, Beneski Museum of Natural History
Learn about the five mass extinctions that have ravaged planet Earth and the theories on how they were caused. Free admission, open to all.
Amanda Tobin ’17: Illuminate
Through May 31, Mezzanine and Beyond Words Galleries, Frost Library (2nd floor)
See paintings by Tobin that acknowledge darkness by means of triumphant light.
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New & NewsworthyA new exhibit at the Beneski Museum, statistics behind Emily Dickinson's poetry and student discoveries at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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|  | A green sign near on the floor near the Tyrannosaurus rex display is part of a new, temporary exhibition about mass extinction at the Beneski Museum of Natural History. Photo by Rachel Rogol. | |
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Dickinson, Statistically
In seeking to learn how our words can be mined to uncover who we are, Professor of Statistics Nicholas Horton introduced his students to Emily Dickinson as not just a poet but the generator of a complex data set. Read the story» Folger Finds
Each January, six students travel to the College’s Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., to spend two weeks conducting research as part of the Amherst-Folger Undergraduate Fellowship. The biggest takeaways for this year’s students? How the past can help us understand the present, and a glimpse into a possible career after Amherst. Read the story»
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