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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Friday, October 24, 2025

  • Person writing on a chalk wall

    Before I Die

    This interactive public art installation invites members of the Middlebury community to reflect on what matters most. By sharing personal hopes and aspirations on a communal wall, the project fosters connection, introspection, and a celebration of our shared humanity. Inspired by the global Before I Die project, this installation transforms public space into a canvas for gratitude, memory, and possibility.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • sunrise over a green grassy field

    Weekday Morning Sitting Meditation

    Join us for 15 minutes of silent meditation every weekday morning, led by various staff, faculty, and students.  No registration required.  Drop in any day that works for you!

    McCullough Crest Room

    Closed to the Public
  • Remains of the Neronian Aqueducts

    Piranesi: Extraordinary Fellow, Madman, Sublime Dreamer, Inventive Genius

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi was an artist like no other. Working as an architect, printmaker, polemicist, archaeologist, interior designer, and art dealer, he created works that even today define our notions of Ancient and Modern Rome, and which helped establish a taste for Neoclassical design that spread across Europe. His powers of invention were prodigious, and his influence enormous—maddeningly so for some of his contemporaries. This lecture will survey Piranesi’s fantastic inventions, exploring the process of their creation and their lasting legacy. 

    Mahaney Arts Center 125

    Open to the Public