Pete Nelson ’81, star of Animal Planet’s Treehouse Masters, spoke at School Meeting today as the 2017 Wick Huffard Visiting Architect. Pete and his team have traveled the world designing and building everything from simple one-room treehouses to amazing abodes with all the comforts of more traditional homes.

Thanks to the generosity of the Huffard family, every year a Huffard Architect is named and comes to Deerfield to share their work with students, faculty, and staff. The program was established in 2005 in memory of Wick Huffard ’03, who had hoped to pursue a career in architecture after college.

The Deerfield Academy Chamber Orchestra gathered to perform an exciting collection of classical works in the Elizabeth Wachsman Concert Hall November 10, 2016.

In anticipation of Deerfield’s Reimagining Audubon exhibition, printmaker Lyell Castonguay visited campus today to demonstrate his craft outside the Hess Center for the Arts. Castonguay is