The Middlebury College Art Museum has friends. Good friends, too. They throw two parties every year, take trips together, buy gifts and have been supporting the museum for 51 years. These, of course, are the Friends of the Art Museum, or FOAM — “an association of alumni, community members, faculty, staff, and students of the college who, through their annual dues, support the acquisition program and the educational mission of the museum.” Typically the Friends pay dues, which fund the purchase of artworks f … (read more)
