News and Events

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

Join us for an artist talk with Carrie Hill (Akwesasne Mohawk) of Chill Baskets as she shares the traditional basketry techniques passed down through her family and ancestors, which she continues to use in crafting her black ash fancy baskets.

Please join visiting artist Bernadette Despujols for a lecture on her work. Despujols‘ practice encompasses sculpture, video, and installation, but is primarily focused on figurative painting to explore her experiences of intimacy and feminine embodiment. Women, girls, mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and friends are displayed in all of their bodily extremity, slightness, beauty and tenderness. She has said of her work: “I want to explore the vast ocean in which the woman swims […] one that goes way beyond those absurd expectations of what women should be.” FREE

Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work examines places, spaces, and moments where social, political, and cultural structures manifest in visible forms, encompassing video, sound, installation, photography, performance, text, and data. 

Beyond Bars: Reimagining Justice and Healing in Vermont. Film Screening and panel discussion to follow, provided by the Johnson Exhibition Gallery. Limited seating available, first come first seat. 

Johnson Exhibition Gallery, Johnson Memorial Building 78 Chateau Rd

Join the artist Antonia Kuo for a presentation on her practice. Kuo’s work centers around recording, image-making, and the potential of the photographic medium. In her unique “photochemical paintings” she utilizes light-sensitive paper and photochemistry to capture light, time and mark making, collapsing her drawing and painting practice with photographic materiality. Like her photochemical works, Kuo’s sculptures serve as recordings of forms that are lost, obscured, and only partially remembered. FREE

Join us for an insightful presentation by the curators  of the Finding Hope Within exhibition, Heather Newcomb of Vermont Works for Women and  John Vincent of A Revolutionary Press,  on the poetry and artwork by the incarcerated artists featured in this exhibit.  Attendees can look forward to viewing the exhibit, hearing engaging stories about specific artists featured in the exhibition, and participating in a letterpress printing of a poetry broadside.
Hosted by Middlebury chapter of AAUW

Art and Krimes by Krimes; An incarcerated artist labors over a number of years on a secret masterpiece, finding a way to survive in the act of creativity.

A special screening provided by the Johnson Exhibition Gallery for faculty, students, and staff. Friday October 17th, 3PM-5PM. Limited seating available, first come first serve. 

Johnson Exhibition Gallery, Johnson Memorial Building 78 Chateau Rd. 

Finding Hope Within  (October 1st- November 14th) features art that has emerged through the carceral system in Vermont. The work featured in this exhibition includes drawings, mixed media, poetry, and narrative writing by incarcerated artists at Vermont correctional facilities.

Members of the Department of Studio Art’s Class of 2015 showcase the work of their professional artist careers in the Johnson Memorial Building’s second floor gallery.

Members of the Department of Studio Art’s Class of 2015 showcase the work of their professional artist careers in the Johnson Memorial Building’s second floor gallery.