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Margaret Jacobs is a Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) metalsmith, who creates fabricated steel sculpture that showcase and explore kinships to botanicals and the natural world as well as values systems that we hold as humans. Margaret’s work explores the lines of contemporary craft and art objects alongside Indigenous narratives (as an enrolled member of the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) as well as historical and personal narratives. By melding historical narratives with cultural and personal narratives, complex layers of storytelling are developed in her work.

‘Rooted in Land, Shaped by Fire’ presents recent work by Akwesasne Mohawk artist Margaret Jacobs and will be on view in the Johnson Gallery October 8-November 20, 2026. Themes of stewardship, cultural continuity, and environmental change are explored through Jacobs’ sculpture that reflect on how knowledge is carried across generations through adaptation and artistic practice.

You Are Here; Artist’s Reception will take place on September 17th, 5-7PM in the Johnson Exhibition Gallery.  You Are Here features a combination of artistic and scientific studies of the Central Vermont Landscape and Geology. Included are recent works by artists Jill Madden and Dorothy Punderson and Professor Will Amidon from Middlebury’s Earth and Climate Sciences Department. 

Johnson Exhibition Gallery, 78 Chateau Rd. Johnson Memorial Building 208.

On view through September 25th. 

‘Spring Reunion’ a seasonal exhibition at the Johnson Memorial Building Exhibition Gallery will showcase recent work by: John Aicher, Monica Carroll, Cynthia Kirkwood, John Moyers, Elizabeth Needham, and Phoebe Twichell Peterson from the class of 1986. 
The second annual Alumni Art Exhibition presents the current work of the class of 1986.

Art opening to view the art made by the spring 2026 art thesis students.

Liz Deschenes is a photographer who, in the best modernist tradition, pushes against the basic terms by which photography is conventionally defined: instantaneity, veracity, fixity, or reproducibility,” writes curator and critic Matthew Witkovsky. Indeed, Deschenes uses durational photogramatic exposure to create unique, shifting surfaces that frequently function as sculptural or architectural rather than photographic objects.