Writer Louise Erdrich ’76 to Serve as Montgomery Fellow
Novelist, poet, essayist, and member of the Dartmouth Class of 1976 Louise Erdrich will be in residence on campus May 2 through May 6 serving as the spring term Montgomery Fellow.
[more]Novelist, poet, essayist, and member of the Dartmouth Class of 1976 Louise Erdrich will be in residence on campus May 2 through May 6 serving as the spring term Montgomery Fellow.
[more]Ruth Reichl, the former editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine, kicks off her one-week Montgomery Fellow residency at Dartmouth with a public lecture, “Eating My Words,” on Tuesday, February 8, at 4:30 in Filene Auditorium. The restaurant critic of The New York Times from 1993 to 1999, Reichl is also the author of several best-selling memoirs, including her latest, Tender at the Bone.
[more]The Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment presents a lecture series on food entitled “Tell Me What You Eat, I’ll Tell You Who You Are” throughout the month of February. The series features three Montgomery Fellows—Calvin Trillin, Ruth Reichl, and Dan Barber—who will each be in residence for a week and present a public lecture, as well as visit classes and interact with students and faculty.
[more]“It’s about you working on a specific problem and having a sense of direction, knowing what it could be and where you want to go with it,” Frank Stella told students from Enrico Riley’s fall term “Painting I” class who viewed the Hood Museum of Art’s “Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons” with the celebrated abstract artist in mid-October. This special tour was part of Stella’s residency as a Montgomery Fellow from October 17 to October 24.
[more]The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College marks its twenty-fifth anniversary with a major exhibition of paintings by Frank Stella from October 9, 2010, through March 13, 2011. Frank Stella: Irregular Polygons presents one of each of the artist’s eleven monumental compositions for the Irregular Polygon (1965–66) series, along with preparatory drawings, the 1974 print series Eccentric Polygons (based on the Irregular Polygons), and a selection of the artist’s latest works, the Polychrome Reliefs.
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