Arts

A scene from “Booksmart” by Olivia Wilde.

Film series highlights women

BRATTLEBORO - Latchis Arts’ Spotlight series continues its focus in August on female voices.
Spotlight is a curated series, featuring films on a different theme each month which shine a spotlight on different voices in filmmaking. Films are shown on Thursdays at 7 pm, at the Latchis...

Delita Martin

Artist to host talk about her work

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will be hosting a free online talk by artist Delita Martin on Wednesday, August 18, at 7:30 pm, about her installation “Between Worlds.”
Through her work, Martin reimagines the roles of Black women in the context of collective Black...

Poet laureate presents exhibition of visual art

SHAFTSBURY - “Mary Ruefle: Erasures,” the first solo exhibition of visual work by Vermont poet laureate Mary Ruefle ‘74, is currently on view at the Robert Frost Stone House museum. It will run through the end of October.
On Wednesday, August 18, from 4 to 5 pm, Ruefle will be...

Free painting demo

BRATTLEBORO - In connection with the exhibit “Charlie Hunter: Semaphore,” currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Hunter will give a free plein-air painting demonstration at the Bellows Falls train station on Saturday, August 7, at 2 pm, followed by a tour of his nearby...

Delano Dunn and others, including his mother, will work together virtually to make pies in a free Zoom conversation hosted by BMAC on Thursday, July 29, at 7:30 pm.

Artists bake pies

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will be hosting a free Zoom conversation on Thursday, July 29, at 7:30 pm. Artists Delano Dunn and Susan Luss, baker Megan Sway, and Dunn’s mother, Diane Mangle, will work together virtually to make pies, discuss African American foodways, and...

Bennington Union soldier memorial, featuring a plaque by a local sculptor.

Museum will use grant to restore Civil War monument

BENNINGTON - Bennington Museum has been awarded a grant of $3,000 from the Robert Fleming & Jane Howe Patrick Foundation to aid in the onsite restoration of an important Civil War memorial.
This historic marker stands on a rise in the ground directly in front of the museum. It features...

Dance and theater show

BRATTLEBORO - The Vermont-based Loom Ensemble will be hosting “Twenty Twenty / Twenty Twenty-One,” an outdoor dance theater performance Saturday, July 17, and Sunday, July 18, at 6 pm, at Living Memorial Park.
“Twenty Twenty / Twenty Twenty-One” moves the grief up and out, to mourn the...

Artists featured in group show

NEWFANE - Brattleboro-West Arts presents a group show of work during the month of July. A reception will be held Saturday, July 10, from 2 to 4 pm, at the Crowell Gallery at the Moore Free Library, 23 West Street.
The exhibit will feature a selection of two- and three-dimensional works by...

Farm to Ballet returns

BRATTLEBORO - After a two-year hiatus, Farm to Ballet returns to Retreat Farm to celebrate the rich farming culture of Vermont on Saturday, July 10, at 6 pm. With dancers dressed as lettuce, goats, pigs, and cows, this whimsical outdoor ballet is sure to delight all ages. Set on a grassy stage,...

Carey Mulligan in "Promising Young Woman."

Carey Mulligan in "Promising Young Woman."

Filmmaking’s rising stars

BRATLLEBORO - Latchis Arts’ monthly Spotlight Film Series puts a focus in July on rising stars in filmmaking, with a theme of young voices. Spotlight is a curated series, featuring films on a different theme each month.
Films are shown on Thursdays at 7 pm, at the Latchis Theatre;...