Root for student and Rutland native Chloe Levins '20 as she vies for a spot on the U.S. Winter Olympics biathlon team!

Watch as students learn the detailed process of manuscript illumination during a workshop led by Karen Gorst (The Gorst Studio).

A look back at your favorite Instagram photos from 2017.

Over Homecoming Weekend, we asked alumni from seven decades to tell us what they loved, or at least remembered, about winter in Middlebury. As 2017 draws to a close, enjoy this video snapshot of winters past.

Nearly every year from 1934–1962, the poet Robert Frost produced a holiday card to be distributed to his friends and supporters. The card typically took the form of a small booklet and contained some of the poet’s recent work along with illustrations by various artists. The Davis Family Library’s Special Collections and Archives has created an exhibit of the 28 historic cards, which will remain on display through January 2018, in the library atrium. The cards were a collaboration between Frost and printer Joe Blumenthal at the Spiral Press.

Entering the arts industry can be daunting, especially since there is no tried and true path to success. This uncertainty, which can be both exhilarating and terrifying, is what prompted Assistant Professor of Dance Christal Brown to try a novel experiment in her classrooms this fall. For one week in November, Brown invited a group of young alumni back to campus to teach the entire Dance Program curriculum. They also threw in a performance of new work and offered career advice to students.

Now at the Davis Family Library through January!

Yesterday local Vermont farmer Jon Turner spoke to an American Studies class about his artwork and its relationship to his experience as a soldier in Iraq. Turner learned paper making as a form of PTSD therapy through the Combat Paper project in Burlington. His work transforms military uniforms into handmade paper, where he then applies paint and other materials.

From the fall issue of Middlebury Magazine, art historian Pieter Broucke turns detective and seeks to unravel a mystery in the museum of art.

The Middlebury College Museum of Art will soon conclude its exhibit of objects donated by the late Charles S. Moffett, a member of the Class of 1967, who made an outsized impact on the art world during his career as a curator. “A Story of Art: Gifts from the Collection of Charles S. Moffett ’67 and Lucinda Herrick” will run through December 10, 2017. Moffett, who died in 2015, served as curator for New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., among others, developing a reputation as one of the world’s leading authorities on Impressionism. A New York Times obituary described him as “a curator who reframed scholarly understanding of the Impressionists and their era.” In the final years of Moffett’s life, Richard Saunders, director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, proposed a memorial exhibition that would highlight some of the works Moffett and his wife, Lucinda Herrick, planned to give to the College. Moffett, who was initially taken aback by the suggestion, quickly warmed up to the idea of an exhibit that could spark student interest in works that he, himself, loved and collected.