Studio Art

Album listening party; Bending the Bars is a groundbreaking musical collaboration between incarcerated artists in South Florida jails and outside producers, the Community Hotline for Incarcerated People (CHIP). Recorded through jail phone lines, and mixed by award-winning producers, the album amplifies the creativity and resilience of people behind bars, transforming isolation into connection and abolitionist action.

Rooted in personal memory and political transformation, my work explores identity, motherhood, migration, and the blurred boundaries between the real and the magical. Through intimate portraits and narratives drawn from my Venezuelan upbringing, my work reflects on nostalgia, displacement, and the spiritual traditions that shape Latin American life. I seek to weave together autobiographical and collective histories; where the personal becomes political, and where womanhood, nature, and creation converge in both tenderness and resistant.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.