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Category: Reflection

  • Appreciating 12 years with Lisa Alembik

    Originally posted on The Department of Art & Art History: The Department of Art and Art History is sad to say goodbye to our colleague and friend, Lisa Alembik who has left her position as Director of the Dalton Gallery to teach full time and pursue her personal art career. It’s impossible to convey in…

  • On France and Transformation

    How do I possibly sum up the last month? C’est pas possible. (One of the French’s favorite phrases, I believe.) It was crazy and painful and magical and everything I wanted it to be. Our students are amazing. So curious, so open, so independent. Not completely at first, though. The one word I wanted to…

  • The Time is Now (!)

    Friends! The time is here. Tomorrow at 9AM, I’ll be off to Vermont for training with EIL, marking the first trip in my personal travel season. (That’s an inside joke… with myself. “Travel season” is the industry term in the college admissions arena for visiting crazy amounts of high school fairs. I just wrapped up…