As the 2010-2011 school year comes to a close so do 27 years of directing at Deerfield Academy for John Reese.

W. S. Merwin, in his most recent collection of poetry, The Shadow of Sirius, admits, “I have only what I remember.”

This spring’s play She Stoops to Conquer unfolds in a country manor in late eighteenth-century England, a setting that demands luxury to the point of frivolity.

The annual student film festival and awards ceremony, the Widdies, was hosted by Mary Cherna ’12 and Nolan Doyle ’12 on the evening of May 14.

Despite their busy schedules, several members of the Deerfield community miraculously find the time not merely to read literature, but to write and translate novels.

Student musicians, members of Deerfield’s chorus and orchestra, combined forces with ten faculty members to perform a major choral work inspired by the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead.

Dubstep is a combination of beats, occasional vocals, and heavy drums with a deep bass born from reggae and London garage rock.

Her patience and gift for art is clear with every piece she completes.

The heads of the arts department look for experience and talent in students applying for admission.

Deerfield hosted this year’s Eight Schools Theatre Festival, a daylong event which welcomed Hotchkiss, Andover, Exeter, and Northfield Mount Hermon to present a student-directed, one-act play.