Landscape Photographer Andy Giordano in Potter Gallery
Taft welcomes landscape and wildlife photographer Andy Giordano to campus this fall as a Rockwell Visiting Artist. Going Home, an exhibition of his work, will be featured in the Mark W. Potter Gallery...
View ArticleNathan Laube Performs in Woodward Chapel
Taft’s 2016-17 Music for a While performance series kicks off Sunday, October 16 with concert organist Nathan Laube. The program begins at 4 pm in Woodward Chapel. The event is free and open to the...
View ArticleAll American Boys Authors Visit Taft
All American Boys authors Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely visited Taft this week for Morning Meeting and Q & A sessions around campus. Taft’s all-school summer reading selection, All...
View ArticleCracking the Code
Taft students are combining creativity and design with mathematics and science to produce animated imagery known as generative art. The algorithmic animations were the first project Michael...
View ArticleSustainability Week Continues with Elizabeth Kolbert
Taft’s first Sustainability Week featured a Morning Meeting talk with Elizabeth Kolbert, author of 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History. Kolbert’s talk was akin...
View ArticleBringing Shrek to Life
Cursed as a child, Princess Fiona turns into an ogress every night at sunset. Lacking the mystical powers to cast such a spell, Taft's Theater Arts team had to rely on a different kind of magic to...
View ArticleCelebrating the Life of Brian Denyer
Taft will host a reception to celebrate the life of Brian Denyer, a beloved former faculty member who taught at Taft for 33 years, on Saturday, November 19 at 11:30 am in the Faculty Room. Denyer, who...
View ArticleA Robust and Vibrant Academic Life
“There are so many things we do here in a given week,” Headmaster Willy MacMullen ’78 told the Taft community during Morning Meeting. “We play sports, put on plays and concerts, serve in the local...
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Taft Brings Home the Bronze
Fifty teams from across the Northeast competed at Yale University’s 19th annual Physics Olympics this weekend. Taft scientists Sonny An ’17, Daniel Yi ’18, Yejin Kim ’18, and Portia Wang ’18 were...
View ArticleTackling Tough Issues:
Taft welcomed a distinguished panel of prison reform experts to campus this week. Students submitted questions to the panel prior to the event, which featured candid discussion around the privatization...
View ArticleNew Levels of Collaboration
Community Service Day 2016 brings new service partners and exciting new projects to the 22-year old tradition that celebrates the Taft School motto, Non ut sibi ministretur sed ut ministret, not to be...
View ArticleA Love Story for the Ages
Shrek the Musical opens in Bingham Auditorium this week, with evening performances throughout Parents’ Weekend. Additional performances, scheduled for 1:30 pm on October 26 and 7:30 pm on October 28,...
View ArticleLiving Our Motto
Taft students and faculty fanned out across the region to rake leaves, sort books, stack wood, do farm work, create art, teach children to dance, play soccer, have fun with science and so much more...
View ArticleThe Magic of the Hundred Acre Wood
When Kathryn Aalto’s husband accepted a position at the University of Exeter in Devon, England, the family, which included three young children, left the US to embark on a grand adventure overseas. On...
View ArticleRenowned Author and Environmentalist Bill McKibben Visits Taft
Well-known author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben visited Taft this week for both Morning Meeting and small group discussions. McKibben’s 1989 book, The End of Nature, is...
View ArticleRenowned Soloists Perform Mozart's Requiem at Taft
Taft School's Music for a While concert series continues Sunday, November 6 at 5 pm in Woodward Chapel with A Concert of Remembrance: Mozart’s Requiem. The event is free and open to the public. No...
View ArticleThe Enormity of the Challenge
Former Taft teacher and naval aviator Colin Farrar returned to Taft with a Veteran’s Day message for the community. “Why did a New England prep school kid who majored in history become a navy fighter...
View ArticleShare the Warmth
Taft’s Volunteer Council is once again collecting new and gently used coats, hats, gloves, and scarves for Acts 4 Ministry’s annual Share the Warmth coat drive.Taft has enjoyed a long partnership with...
View ArticleTaft Mathletes Compete in Cambridge
Taft students traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts recently to complete in the prestigious Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT). Founded in 1998, and held twice each year, the HMMT is one of the...
View ArticleCelebrating the Season
Taft School's 81st Service of Lessons and CarolsDecember 13, 20166:00 pm and 8:00 pm in Woodward Chapel Students, faculty, neighbors, and friends are invited to gather in celebration Tuesday, December...
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