Academy students, faculty and staff enjoyed playing basketball (and a few other games!) together at the Cowell Gym February 23, as a wrap up to our winter season. Our ski racers, Kyle N and Reilly O, wrapped up their season with a giant slalom race on …

Daniel Gay (brother of Academic Dean Neale Gay), is an educator at the New Citizens Center in Worcester, MA.  He spoke to Academy students on Tuesday, February 21. All of his students, ages 18-22, are either refugees or they came to the United States a …

Bucket Brigade with instructor Dave Noonan – a new Studio Block offering this spring. Academy at Charlemont – Bucket Brigade 2017 – Studio Block led by Dave Noonan. from The Academy at Charlemont on Vimeo.

In Beginning Ceramics with instructor Christy Knox, students learn to use the wheel through trying their hand at centering and throwing while blindfolded.

Academy juniors volunteered on a recent Saturday to assist alumna Laurie Wheeler, ’82 at the Arms Library in Shelburne Falls, along with Sra/Madame Valdez.

Learning to throw in Advanced Ceramics with Christy Knox.

2/20: President’s Day. School closed. 2/21: Stokely Carmichael’s “Black Power.” Full text here. 2/22. A speech by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor called “How We Get Free.” Full text here. 2/23. Excerpt from Chimimanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah. Excerpt here. …

Sculptural Feltmaking with Fafnir Adamites.

Latin Jazz with Jon Weeks. 22

The Originals with Scott Helander – students working on their first original song of the semester.