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05/10/2024

Holding History in Her Hands: Inside the Fleming Museum with Zoe Alpert ’25

“Having a museum on campus gives us the opportunity for hands-on learning without having to travel the whole world,” says Zoe Alpert, ’25, “the world is all in one building!” While the collections at UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art are not exhaustive of world art, culture, and history, they provide...

UVM student Zoe Alpert stands in front of a museum case holding two ceramic figures.

04/10/2024

Student Employees Make the Fleming Museum of Art a Better Place for All

If you have ever wandered the galleries at the Fleming Museum of Art, you’ll have seen and interacted with our incredible student employees. Every semester, the Museum hires around 40 to 50 students to work as our front desk and gallery attendants. Coming from a variety of different majors and...

Photo collage of portraits of 6 different UVM students

03/27/2024

"Never Spoken Again" Video Art Screening Brings Exhibition Themes to Life at the Fleming Museum

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, the featured traveling exhibition now on view at UVM’s Fleming Museum of Art, compels visitors to ask urgent and challenging questions about the history of museums and collecting practices. Visitors are also encouraged to...

Still from Laura Huertas Millán's video Journey to a land otherwise known

03/11/2024

Every Piece Has a History: Inside the Fleming Museum with Eamon Dunn ’24

This past fall, Eamon Dunn ’24 completed a collections and curatorial internship at the Fleming Museum of Art. Dunn, an English major with a studio art minor, has served on the staff of UVM’s independent newspaper The Vermont Cynic since his sophomore year, most recently as co-editor-in...

On the right is Eamon Dunn ’24 as he conducts research on an oil painting, to left is a detail of Untitled [Vincent] an artwork by Alex Katz

02/24/2024

Video Artworks Explore the Real and the Reimagined at the Fleming Museum

A UFO-like building is sited on the Amazon River, a man on trial for sorcery over an amulet, and a neurophysiologist disappears without a trace.   This Saturday, February 24 at 2:00pm, the Fleming Museum of Art presents a screening of video art from the traveling exhibition...

Still from Carlos Motta's video Corpo Fechado – The Devil’s Work

01/22/2024

Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections

On View: February 6 - May 18, 2024 The Fleming Museum of Art is excited to announce Never Spoken Again: Rogue Stories of Science and Collections, on view at the Museum starting February 6 through May 18, 2024.  On a desk within the Museum für Naturkunde in...

Ulrik López's "Summon Song I (detail)"

09/29/2023

Shining a Spotlight on UVM Studio Art Faculty at the Fleming

An installation that blurs the lines between art and technology, a series of paintings that promote cultural awareness, and photography that explores racism are just a few of the pieces that currently greet visitors at a first-of-its-kind exhibition at UVM’s...

Colorful hallway with exhibits lining opposite side

08/17/2023

The Fleming celebrates expanded role as a gateway to UVM’s School of the Arts

BURLINGTON, VT - The Fleming Museum marks the occasion of joining the University of Vermont’s new School of the Arts this past year with the first-ever group exhibition featuring the work of faculty members from the School’s studio art program. Bridging the artist’s studio and the museum space...

PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM

01/19/2023

The Fleming presents a colorful suite of new exhibitions and installations

BURLINGTON, VT -  The Fleming is awash in color this coming season with works by Josef Albers, Robert Indiana, Georgia O’Keeffe, Glenn Ligon, Raúl Milián and Ellsworth Kelly on view in the Museum’s galleries. We are excited to announce two special exhibitions,...

Gallery entrance to Josef Albers — "Formulation: Articulation"

03/01/2022

New exhibitions at the Fleming Museum explore topical storytelling in new ways

BURLINGTON, VT - This spring at the Fleming Museum of Art we are pleased to present two new evocative exhibitions, UNPACKED: Refugee Baggage and Dark Goddess: An...

Unpacked: Refugee Baggage image

09/21/2021

Fleming Opens its Doors to Visitors and Conversations about Institutional Racism

Beginning September 21, for the first time in months, staff at the Fleming Museum will be greeting visitors to the building.   It’s another sign of a return to normalcy after more than a year of living in a pandemic. But for the Fleming, it’s also an...

"The Family," color etching and aquatint on paper, by Romare Bearden.

07/02/2021

A Catamount Comes Out

Sophie Feldman ’22 quietly, gently reaches out with a soft brush and dabs the tail feathers of a magnificent duck. It sits perfectly still. In fact, it’s been sitting still for decades, collecting dust in the lobby of Benedict Auditorium on campus—one member of a remarkable, but neglected,...

Sabi Ward '24 and Lisa Goldberg carry stuffed catamount

07/21/2020

Fleming Museum of Art produces video series exploring the work of artist Wood Gaylor

The Fleming Museum of Art is excited to announce the completion of a five-part video series, that allows Museum guests to experience the recent Wood Gaylor exhibition, Let’s Have a Ball!: Wood Gaylor and the New York Art Scene, 1913–1936, from the comfort of their own home. Created in...

07/06/2020

Fleming Museum of Art receives NEH grant to produce virtual and remote content

BURLINGTON, VT - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced that the University of Vermont’s Fleming Museum of Art is one of nine Vermont arts and cultural organizations to receive a highly competitive direct grant through the federal...

04/16/2020

Fleming Museum of Art releases new online collections search function to website

As anyone who has visited the galleries of the Fleming Museum of Art is quick to discover, the collection is global in scope, and includes outstanding examples of African, Asian, Native American, Ancient Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian, Oceanic, European, and American art. Yet only a small fraction...

New Collections Search Feature