For most of his career, musician Matthew Evan Taylor maintained a rather rigid wall that separated his art from his personal thoughts and feelings. That is no longer the case.
When Middlebury closed its campus last spring, a handful of students produced audio portraits of their initial days of sheltering in place at home. This is the first story in a seven-part series.
The stories of five teachers—all grads or current students of the Bread Loaf School of English—as they attempted to make sense of the unknown.
In these uncertain times, a writer finds solace in poetry that terrifies her.
How a middle school documentary about climate change, as well as four other short films, tells a story larger than any of the individual parts.
Our colleagues in Athletic Communications talk to the recent graduate about her experience on the volleyball team, her leadership of the Black Student Union, her thoughts on the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, and more.
A campus empties, and a college newspaper must figure out how to continue operations when everyone has scattered in the wind.
Emma Smith says that the work of the bard can serve as a narrative vaccine during a pandemic such as ours. A conversation with the Shakespeare scholar reveals that insight and so much more.
Dan O'Brien ’96, a playwright and poet, and Jessica St. Clair ’98, a comedian and writer, join President Patton for our final check in with the community during COVID-19 self-isolation. Dan and Jessica are a true power couple in the arts that met in a Middlebury improv group. They discuss Dan's magazine essay "Life Shrinks: Lessons from Chemo Quarantine," how reopening the country feels a lot like remission, and how their art is evolving to reflect the pandemic.
Gone in less than a minute—the middle of June 2019 to the middle of June 2020, as viewed from the rooftop of the Mittelman Observatory.
