September 16, 2026

Reports Brooklyn Rail:

"Berkeley-based painter Judith Belzer '78 has a daily walking practice, a time for her to observe and reflect. While out rambling, Belzer also developed another habit, one she kept private for many years: collecting. Pocketing the flotsam and jetsam she encountered along the way, Belzer eventually amassed a private bounty of everything from rusted hardware to plastic bits and hag stones to mummified snakes.

"Robert Frost, one of America’s most acclaimed and beloved poets, also had a walking habit. He considered it part of his writing practice—a time not only to clear his head and closely observe the world around him, but also to mentally draft his work while he ambled. Frost would sometimes walk with other poets, engaging in what he referred to as “talk-walking,” chatting across subjects until sometimes reaching distances of twenty-five miles in a day, as he did with his close friend Edward Thomas, a critic and poet. One of Frost’s most famous poems, 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' (1923) was written after taking a walk at his property in Shaftsbury, VT. That home is now the Robert Frost Stone House Museum at Bennington College, where Belzer’s exhibition, Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, is on view."