Art at Bennington in Conversation: Judith Belzer ‘78

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Judith Belzer ‘78 will discuss her current exhibition at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum. 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: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral is the first exhibition featuring this strain of Belzer’s production.

The artist, who started her college education at Bennington, 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.”