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Tomorrow 7 pm, Tishman Auditorium—artist Judith Belzer ‘78 talks about her practice, spanning painting and installation, on the occasion of her exhibition “Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum. See the Usdan Gallery website (link in bio) for images of and info about Judith’s @froststonehouse installation.
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“Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral” is made possible with support from The Fund for North Bennington and the Endeavor Foundation through the Endeavor Lab Colleges collaborative. It is organized by Erin McKenny, director of the Frost House Museum, and Anne Thompson, director and curator of Usdan Gallery. @atbennington

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@belzerjudith installing Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral in preparation for the opening this week!

Please join us for the opening of this exhibition on Friday, June 26, from 6 - 8 PM. Free and open to the public!

Primarily a painter, Belzer has expanded her practice to include walks, intentional actions during which she collects natural and human-made objects to present on tabletop displays. Walking Project is the first exhibition featuring this strain of Belzer’s production.

The artist, who started her college education at @atbennington , considers her collecting to be “an antidote to our throwaway culture and to nature’s own tendency to shed things like leaves or seeds.” Arranging her findings into intuitive configurations, Belzer finds that objects otherwise considered worthless take on a new or heightened value in relationship with one another—starting “small yet revelatory conversations.”

The Robert Frost Stone House Museum offers an ideal context for Belzer’s explorations, as Frost himself often took what he called “botanizing walks” alone or with companions. One of these walks was the origin of perhaps his best-known poem, “The Road Not Taken.” “Nature is always hinting at us,” Frost wrote in his notebook. “It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”

Belzer’s exhibition and related programming invite viewers and participants to experience the power of observation in nature, to gain insights into human experience, and to tap into their own creative potential.

This exhibition and related programming are a collaborative project with Bennington College’s Usdan Gallery, made possible with support from The Fund for North Bennington and the Endeavor Foundation through the Endeavor Lab Colleges collaborative.

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Exhibition Opening for Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
Friday, June 26, 6 - 8 PM

Join us for an evening with artist Judith Belzer, for the opening of her exhibition, Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. This event is free and open to the public.

California-based artist @belzerjudith ‘78 (who started her undergraduate career at Bennington College) walks to collect and curate found objects, both natural and human-made, which she lays out on tabletop displays. “I think of my collection as a sort of antidote to our throwaway culture and to nature’s own tendency to shed things (like leaves, seeds etc.),” she says. “Objects thought to be worthless can regain a certain value when put in a new context, seen in a new relationship with another thing.” These collections find the poetry that exists between combinations of objects and “start small yet revelatory conversations.” An exhibit of Belzer’s objects, Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, will be installed in Summer 2026 at the Museum and run through October.

Robert Frost was an avid walker and often took what he called “Botanizing Walks” alone or with family and friends. His friend Reginald Cook recalled that Frost “walked in the woods every day that he could … It had been a lifelong habit, this walking. Like Wordsworth, he walked and looked, he listened. He knew the bird-calls, the names of the flowers, their patterns of blooming. The life cycles of trees were always of close interest to him. Mushroom, mold, or fungus—everything caught his eye.” One of these walks was the origin of perhaps his best known poem, “The Road Not Taken.”

Through the exhibition and programs, participants and viewers will experience the power of nature and observation to gain a deeper understanding of their own human experiences, the experiences of others, and tap into their creative potential. Frost wrote in his notebook, “Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint.”

This exhibition and programming are made possible through support from The Fund for North Bennington and the Endeavor Fund, and are a collaborative project with @usdangallerybennington

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“What else can you do with your mind?”

@shakasenghor shook us to our core and got us all standing on our feet as he closed the main stage talks on Day 2 of the Imagination Chapter.

It was a day of heart and mind-expanding stories with @danbuettner, Marian Goodell of @burningman, the winner of the Harvest Voices programme for this year, @milladkhonsorkh, and of course, Shaka.

@blisspoint.co held us in breathwork and cracked us open as she has done for every chapter of Harvest Kaplankaya since the very beginning.

We moved, laughed, questioned, played, witnessed magic, and dined in good company; our connections just a bit more deeper than the day before.

Thank you to each person who made this possible.

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First full day of programming at Chapter 10.

Bonds growing just a bit stronger, conversations getting just a bit deeper, and walls slowly starting to chip away…

Day 2 brought with it @beaulotto, @sharmeenobaidchinoy, @seekers.universe, @drmarkhyman, @michael.pollan on the Main Stage and many incredible workshops in the afternoon.

As the sun set over the Aegean, we dined in the company of friends old and new, and ended the night with music and dancing by the sea.

Our hearts are already full. We cannot wait to see what the next few days unfold.

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Sometimes the universe conspires in incredible ways, gathering strangers around a table, under a sky…

This past week, through the quiet magic of @harvestseries , I found myself among brilliant souls from across the world. We wandered through conversations on incarceration and blue zones, weather patterns and theater, music and meaning, stitching together fragments of our worlds…

What stayed with me most was not where we came from, but the strange and beautiful truth that beneath all our differences lived the same simple longing: to leave this world softer than we found it, to create more hope, more joy, more humanity.

For a brief moment in time, it felt possible ✨

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First full day of programming.

Laughter, questions, conversations, followed by an afternoon of painting, dancing, singing and more…

We wrapped up the day with a dinner against the lovely Kaplankaya sunset and danced late into the night.

Thank you to all who made it such a special first day, and to two more great days!

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Art. Film. Food. Community. Support for the mission we love. ❤️

BAMPFA’s 2026 Art & Film Benefit was pure magic, honoring the incomparable Alice Waters (@alicelouisewaters) and Stephanie Syjuco (@ssyjuco), with a menu by Alice Waters herself, and a late-night dance floor that no one wanted to leave.

A special thanks to our incredible wine sponsors Beaune Imports (@beauneimports), Chez Panisse (@chezpanisse), and Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant (@kermitlynchwine).

This is what it looks like when a community shows up for art and film. Thank you.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more. Julie Rodrigues Widholm wears a cobalt blue dress with a black blazer and magenta heels. Alice Waters wears a red dress layered with a floral-patterned scarf, black leggings, and black flats. Stephanie Syjuco wears a sleeveless black-and-white geometric print maxi dress with black shoes, layered silver necklaces, and rectangular black glasses.

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Complex technically sophisticated abstracts by @belzerjudith @hosfeltgallery reflect the chaos of reality right now. There's a structure to the randomness as if it's attempting to resolve. I guess we'll just have to hold on tight and see what happens. 🌐 #judithbelzer #hosfeltgallery #pinkiecam

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This is the final week to see Judith Belzer’s remarkable solo exhibition Weather Report, on view through Saturday.

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Currently on view—Judith Belzer: Weather Report

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