Events, exhibitions and news to enjoy, this month at Amherst.
Events, exhibitions and news to enjoy, this month at Amherst.
Amherst College Arts & Museums: Happenings Ahead

November Arts Preview

Events, exhibitions and news to enjoy, this month at Amherst.
There's a lot to celebrate this month at Amherst. The Common launches its 14th issue. The Russian Center Art Gallery opens a new exhibition. The Music at Amherst series hosts award-winning classical pianist Angela Hewitt. Theater & Dance premieres its fall show, a contemporary adaptation of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. And conceptual artist Anicka Yi delivers the annual Raport Lecture in Contemporary Art.
There's more, a lot more, but we'll let you take it from here...

Events to Enjoy

Something for everyone, from museum tours and concerts during Amherst College Family Weekend to the Beneski Museum's annual "Identify It Day"
Illustration for Peer Gynt
Identify It Day 2017 Amherst Symphony Orchestra
Amherst College Family Weekend
Friday, Nov. 3, through Sunday, Nov. 5, various times and locations
A weekend of museum tours, concerts and special events for students and their families
The Common Issue 14 Launch & Reading
Friday, Nov. 3, 5 p.m., Mead Art Museum

A celebration of the latest issue of Amherst's award-winning literary magazine
Identify It Day 2017
Sunday, Nov. 5, 1-4 p.m., Beneski Museum of Natural History

A drop-in activity for fossil, rock and mineral collectors of all ages
Lecture by Joyce J. Scott
Monday, Nov. 6, 4:30 p.m., Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall

A lecture by a jewelry maker and sculptor repositioning craft as a potent platform for commentary on social and political injustices
North Indian Classical Music Concert
Monday, Nov. 6, 7:30-9 p.m., Chapin Hall

A free concert by two of North India's best-known classical musicians, sitarist Rabindra Goswami and tablaist Ramu Pandit
Zachary Drucker and Tarrah von Lintel, in conversation
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 7-8pm, Stirn Auditorium, Mead Art Museum

A conversation held in conjunction with Trans Empowerment Month

Why [untitled]? with Ryan Vigil
Salon: Wednesday, Nov. 8, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Frost Library (2nd floor)
Performance: Thursday, Nov. 9, 5-6:30 p.m., Room 3, Arms Music Center 
An emphatic defense of musical abstraction and a recital of new music for solo piano
"Peer Gynt," presented by Amherst's Theater & Dance Department
Thursday, Nov. 9-Sunday, Nov. 11, 8 p.m., Kirby Theater

A contemporary adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play, directed by Assistant Professor Yagil Eliraz and written by Eliraz, Joshua Wren '14 and the company
Documentary Film Screening: "Mele Murals"
Friday, Nov. 10, noon-2 p.m., Keefe Campus Center Theater

A documentary about the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian culture with director Tadashi Nakamura
Music at Amherst presents Angela Hewitt
Friday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center

A performance by one of the world’s leading pianists, whose renditions of Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time
*Tickets required: amherst.universitytickets.com
"Kaleidoscope," piano performance by Phuong-Nghi Pham '18
Sunday, Nov. 12, 3-4 p.m., Buckley Recital Hall, Arms Music Center

An honors thesis in piano performance featuring works of Schubert and Chopin
Poetry Reading: Vievee Francis
Monday, Nov. 13, 8 p.m., Amherst Books (8 Main Street, downtown Amherst)

A reading and reception with award-winning author of Blue-Tail Fly, Horse in the Dark and Forest Primeval
Russian Center Art Gallery Opening
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m., Art Gallery, Amherst Center for Russian Culture, Webster Hall (2nd floor)

A celebration of works on view by Soviet artists of the nonconformist art movement with exhibition curator Alla Rosenfeld
Russian Film Screening: "Mister Designer" (Господин Оформитель)
Thursday, Nov. 16, 4:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m., Keefe Campus Center Theater
A screening of Oleg Teptsov's 1987 film, offered at 4:30 p.m. and again at 7:30 p.m.
Rapaport Lecture in Contemporary Art: Anicka Ye
Thursday, Nov. 29, 4:30 p.m., Pruyne Lecture Hall, 115 Fayerweather Hall

A lecture by a conceptual artist who works in fragrances
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. Sometimes event dates and locations change, and new events pop up frequently. Bookmark the Arts Calendar, and check it often, for the latest information about these and additional events:
Arts Calendar

In the Galleries

Works spanning cultures and centuries, from "unofficial" art of the Soviet Union to contemporary large-scale photography
Russian Center Art Gallery, in the Amherst Center for Russian Culture.
Tell It Like It Is--or Could Be, on view in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College Sonya Clark: The Beaded Prayers Project
Varieties of Nonconformism: Unofficial Art from the Soviet Union
Opening reception: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 4:30 p.m.
On view through Feb. 11, 2018, Amherst Center for Russian Culture Art Gallery, Webster Hall (2nd floor)

An exhibition devoted to work produced by the leading members of the Soviet nonconformist art movement (1956-1980s)
Sonya Clark: The Beaded Prayers Project
On view through Nov. 17, Eli Marsh Gallery, 105 Fayerweather Hall

A worldwide collaborative art project in which participants create and contribute beaded packets containing their prayers, wishes, hopes and dreams
Tell It Like It Is—or Could Be
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

A new genre of large-scale color photography that seeks to tell stories about the past and the present that often have been elided from historical imagery
Rotherwas Project 3: Saya Woolfalk, Life Products and the ChimaCloud
On view through Dec. 17, Mead Art Museum

An installment of the ongoing Rotherwas Project exhibition series that features video, sculpture and multimedia works by a New York-based contemporary artist
Home Away from Home: Russian Artists Abroad
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

An exhibition featuring works by artists who left the Soviet Union or its pre-Bolshevik predecessor, the Russian Empire, in search of personal or artistic freedom
From the Picturesque to the Modern Vision: Landscape Painting in Europe Across the Centuries
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

A small collection of works examining the evolution of European landscape painting from the 17th to the early 20th century
Perspectives on Michael Mazur
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

A collection of paintings and prints by of one of the most distinguished artists to have graduated from Amherst College  
The American Collection: Two Centuries of Art at Amherst College
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

A collection representing more than two centuries of American art and artistry
Picturing American Identity
On view through Dec. 31, Mead Art Museum

An exhibition of black and white photography curated by interns Shreeansh Agrawal ’20E, Jane Bragdon ’20, Claire Cho ’20, Crystal Ganatra ’19 and Nekhoe Hogan ’19 

Newsworthy

Amherst remembers alum Richard Wilbur '42 and marks the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birth
Richard Wilbur
Lisa Biggs '93 John F. Kennedy's great-grandson delivers talk at Amherst College
"The Splendor of Mere Being"
Amherst remembers the late, masterful poet Richard Wilbur '42 (1921-2017), one of its most distinguished and beloved alumni.
JFK 100: Of Poetry and Politics
Amherst marks the 100th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's birth and his 1963 visit to campusin which he spoke of the relationship between politics and poetrywith a symposium and a talk by U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy III (JFK’s grand-nephew).
Making Theater in These Times
Lisa Biggs '93 returned to campus for the Five College Theater Alumnae of Color Residency. In preparation, she reflected on her time at Amherst and the importance of making theater, then and now
Of Monsters and Memorials
A visiting expert spoke to an art history course, “Witches, Vampires and Other Monsters,” about how and why the living remember the dead.
Some Voice Has Spoken: an interview with Kirun Kapur ’97 
Poet Kirun Kapur '97, who taught at Amherst last fall, spoke to Isabel Meyers ’20 about the intersection of personal and political history, girlhood, family as a sense of place, and trusting the poem’s voice.

Enter to Win

Name the artist of the painting below, and tell us what century it was created, and you'll be entered to win a Mead Art Museum Collection Guide, highlighting Amherst College's celebrated collections of art from around the world.
Email your answer to artsmuse@amherst.edu by 11 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 5. One randomly selected winner, who has submitted the correct answer, will be notified via email. 

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