Arts

Art Council grant supports study

VERMONT - The Vermont Arts Council is now accepting applications for its next round of Artist Development Grants. These grants support artists at all stages of their careers. Grants can fund activities that enhance mastery of an artist’s craft or skills or that increase the viability of an artist...

Art addresses pandemic isolation

BRATTLEBORO - “Sonic Blanket,” a multimedia, audiovisual art piece addressing the themes of isolation, community, history, and place, made its debut on Sunday, December 19, at midnight on WVEW Brattleboro Community Radio and will be broadcast nightly at this time for one year. Local artist...

Circus performance, classes for all levels

VERMONT - Celebrate the solstice and the holiday season with NECCA’s annual end-of-year circus extravaganza gone virtual. “Twas the Night...” is a specially filmed variation of our popular holiday show that includes professional program students alongside youth troupe and advanced...

Hand-blown glass to be on display at holiday season open studio

READSBORO - Glass artists Mary Angus and Bill LeQuier will host their 38th annual Holiday Open Studio Sale on two weekends, Saturday and Sunday, December 11 and 12, and Saturday and Sunday, December 18 and 19, from 10 am to 5 pm. Visitors are invited to the studio to see Angus and LeQuier’s...

Workshop tour part of BMAC show

PUTNEY - Fine woodworker Richard Bissell will lead a tour of his workshop and showroom on Sunday, December 5, at 2 pm. This event is offered in connection with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center exhibit “Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers: Evolving Traditions.”
Bissell is among the 21...

Bob Burch

Craft tour hits its 43rd year

PUTNEY - The 43rd annual Putney Craft Tour, the oldest continuing crafts tour in the country, will be held Thanksgiving weekend, from Friday, November 26, to Sunday, November 28, 10 am to 5 pm each day. Nineteen artists - glass blowers, potters, jewelers, weavers, painters, artisan cheesemakers,...

William Ransom

Sculptor to talk about art

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a free talk by sculptor William Ransom on Thursday, December 2, at 7 pm via Zoom and Facebook Live. Ransom will discuss the BMAC exhibit “Keep Up/Hold Up.” Included in the exhibit are sculptures in which the literal tensions in...

Art for the exhibit “Transient Beauty” is based on the photos of “Snowflake” Bentley.

Museum offers unique art show and auction based on snowflakes

BENNINGTON - On Friday, November 26, Bennington Museum will open the annual winter exhibition and closed-bid auction “Transient Beauty: Responding to ‘Snowflake’ Bentley,” featuring 25 contemporary artists responding to the magical photomicrographs of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley. Completely self-...

Randi Solin, of Fire Arts Vermont, making glasswork.

Glass-blowing demo, competition

BRATTLEBORO - Members of the Vermont Glass Guild will participate in “Vermont Blown Away,” a free glass-blowing demonstration presented in collaboration with the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, on Sunday, November 21, at 2 pm. Register at brattleboromuseum.org to watch live via Zoom....

Visitors exploring the first Artful Ice Shanties exhibit last February. Michelle Frehsee

Start planning an artful ice shanty

BRATTLEBORO - Last winter, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center’s inaugural Artful Ice Shanties outdoor exhibit drew over 1,000 visitors to Retreat Farm to view ice shanties shaped like a giant, iridescent fish, a black die with moon-shaped dots, a seascape with a three-dimensional octopus,...