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A club for architects, designers, and creators of all kinds! Come for a fun time, creative activities, and snacks!

Please join the departments of History of Arts and Architecture, International and Global Studies, International Politics and Economics, and Music for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

History of Arts and Architecture | Seeler Studio Theater | 2:30-3:15 pm
International and Global Studies | MAC 232 | 2:30-3:15 pm

Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join the members of the artistic collective, Art Lords, to paint a mural in Proctor on the theme of art, migration, and belonging. No artistic experience required! Come for as little or as long as you like! Painting will take place between 9am-8pm on April 24-25th. 

Sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Committee on the Arts, International & Global Studies-Middle East and North Africa, Office of Equity, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Innovation Hub. 

Students, Faculty, and Staff are invited to join the members of the artistic collective, Art Lords, to paint a mural in Proctor on the theme of art, migration, and belonging. No artistic experience required! Come for as little or as long as you like! Painting will take place between 9am-8pm on April 24-25th. 

Sponsored by the Committee on Art in Public Spaces, Committee on the Arts, International & Global Studies-Middle East and North Africa, Office of Equity, Department of the History of Art & Architecture, and the Innovation Hub. 

Douglas Brooks, a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher, taught a 2026 Winter Term course entitled Building the Japanese Teahouse. In this talk he will describe the course and the pedagogy behind it, drawn from his years studying in Japan. His talk will touch on the nature of apprentice learning and its contrasts with western modes of education, and reflect on his experiences teaching this class at colleges nationwide. He will also discuss the aesthetics and architecture of Japanese tea ceremony.

This multimedia and multisensorial presentation is in the African and African Diaspora tradition of “call and response” — with images, sounds, film, and movement. We will consider Sensiotics, an approach that centers the crucial importance of the senses, our body-minds and sense-abilities, in our experiences with arts, cultures, and histories. While I focus on the arts of Yoru`ba´-speaking people of West Africa, I believe Sensiotics has global implications. FREE

just practice; practicing process

Just Practice is a collaborative practice started by Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien. They will be lecturing on their process and how their experiences and values shape their work as built environment professionals, educators, and textile designers.

Talk title:

“Inscribing Infrastructures”

Talk description:

On Thursday, January 29th, the College community and the public are invited to the dedication of the timber frame of a Japanese teahouse, built by twelve students over the course of the four-week 2026 Winter Term. The teahouse will be dedicated in a traditional Shinto ceremony.  
Taught by Douglas Brooks, a builder of boats and other traditional structures who has extensive experience working in Japan, the course is entitled Building the Japanese Teahouse and seeks to introduce students to the pedagogy of Japanese appren

Alix Pauchet ’15 is a resilience designer working at the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, ecology, and mapping to address climate change along urban waterfronts. She returns to Middlebury as part of the Cameron Visiting Architect Program.

Support the Fall 2025 Studio Art & Architecture students.  Come and enjoy refreshments and lite bites while you view student artwork and architecture student projects.

Dahomey, dir. Mati Diop, 2024

*This film will be ticketed to ensure capacity. Get your tickets here.*