Arts, Language, Culture

2020s, Language Schools, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

Growing Abenaki Culture

WCAX profiled the efforts of the Abenaki Language School to preserve language and culture, in addition to developing more visual and audio media.

Members of The Grift lie on the floor looking at each other.

1990s, 2000s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Experience

New Shift for the Grift

A new member officially joins the Grift (Clint Bierman ’97, Jeff Vallone ’97.5, and Peter Day ’01).

2020s, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Science & Tech

Portrait of Young Artists

This Middlebury Magazine dispatch by Alexandra Jhamb Burns ’21.5 follows Maia Sauer ’22, Cheryl Engmann ’22, C Green ’19.5, and Sam Kann ’21 as they navigate art-making as recent grads.

2020s, Middlebury College, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Staff

Transformed Trash

Watch this WCAX report on “Tossed,” the Middlebury art museum’s exhibition featuring nearly 20 works that incorporate discarded materials.

Astrud Gilberto performing in the mid 1990s; she holds a microphone close to her face and has a wide patterned headband over her hair.

2020s, Academic Excellence, Arts, Language, Culture, Faculty

Hometown Non-Hero

Bossa nova icon Astrud Gilberto, who died recently, was underappreciated in her native Brazil, writes Professor of Luso- Hispanic Studies Mario Higa in the Conversation.

Elie Wiesel, Professor of the Humanities, Boston University, USA speaks during the session ‘A New Agenda: Combining Efficiency and Human Dignity’ at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos/Switzerland, January 28, 2003

2000s, Academic Excellence, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

Healing with Elie Wiesel

Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel spoke at Middlebury in 2002.

Illustration of a TV screen with different-colored squares melting and dripping off the surface

1980s, Arts, Language, Culture, Science & Tech

A Vulture article analyzing shaky business models in the streaming economy cited the hit show by Shawn Ryan ’88, The Night Agent, whose global success nevertheless did not translate to increased revenue.

Black and white photo of four young women seated around a protest sign, which reads "Here I am Mom." There are two symbols side-by-side that incorporate the symbol for Venus/women and a peace sign.

1970s, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Identity

1970s Lesbian Life

Browse more than 1,500 images from the Bee Ottinger ’70 Lesbian Collection, which is now available online. Ottinger documented life in the early ’70s at the Lesbian House, a community in Los Angeles for queer women rejected by their families.

Illustration of hands with print of the world on them, palms facing forward, with doves flying around.

2020s, Middlebury College, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture, Environment, Science & Tech, Students

Funding for Peace and Science

Hannah Ennis ’23.5, an environmental justice major, has been awarded a $10,000 Projects for Peace grant to conduct artistic workshops focused on sustainable conflict transformation techniques.

Rebecca Makkai MA ’04 standing on the dock of a lake with her hands on her hips

Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences, Alumni, Arts, Language, Culture

A Writer’s Craft

The latest podcast episode of Midd Moment features Rebecca Makkai, MA English ’04, a critically acclaimed novelist and short story writer.