From the Center for the Arts to the authentic American West

You've heard people (probably art snobs or postcard vendors) say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Who came up with these figures? Are they an estimate, or is it an empirical fact?

These questions (and that cliché) we'll leave behind for a moment as we take a trip back to the American West. Not the gun-slinging West (that was pretty cool, too), but to a quieter, less 'Hollywood' West. "Eloquent Vistas: the Art of 19th Century American Landscape Photography" might be a mouthful, but so are the photographs in The Middlebury College Museum of Art's new exhibit. Museum curator Emmie Donadio talks about the installation, the photographers, and gives a look into the Museum's collections in general. Listen to this segment.

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Middlebury College Center for the Arts. As seen above, the building looks pretty cool, especially in artsy snapshots like this. Radio Arts brings you the storied history of the CFA, and lets you in on a little secret: it's not actually called the CFA anymore. The official champagne-bottle-smashing will occur Saturday, March 8th, when deep-pocketed arts enthusiast and Middlebury alumnus Kevin P. Mahaney will attribute his breathy family name to the college landmark. Listen to the CFA segment here.

The CFA during construction - over 15 years ago!

Digital imaging allows us to see what the CFA's concert hall

may have looked like - OVER 15 YEARS AGO!

If all this intrigues you, you can most certainly Listen to the WHOLE SHOW if you have a spare 30 minutes for an old friend.

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Look forward to next week, when we'll begin out series "Collaboration in the Arts" - a multi-part epic known only as "the 'Odyssey' of radio journalism" to those in the industry. If the writer of "Juno" can win an Oscar, certainly we can too?

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