On view at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum / Judith Belzer—Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

June 25–October 31, 2026

Usdan Gallery is delighted to be a co-organizer of Walking Project: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, a solo installation by artist Judith Belzer ’78 at the Robert Frost Stone House Museum, located at 121 Vermont Route 7a, Shaftsbury, Vermont.

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. 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.”

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.

Judith Belzer: 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.