Arts

Jeff Bower will give a demonstration on using a lathe this Wednesday.

BMAC presents woodworking demonstration

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a demonstration by master wood turner Jeff Bower on Wednesday, January 12, at 5:30 pm at HatchSpace, a community-supported woodworking facility on the corner of High and Green Streets.
Bower will use a lathe to create a...

Free admission, snowshoes at Clark

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - The Clark will offer free admission for all throughout January 2022. As a way of saying thanks to those who have visited, and as a way of welcoming to new visitors, the institute is pushing the doors of the museum wide open and hopes people will visit often to tour the...

Draw ducks for kids art contest

VERMONT - The US Fish and Wildlife Service invites students from pre-K to 12th grade to create designs featuring ducks, swans or geese in their natural habitats for the annual Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design Program. Designs are judged in four age categories, with awards for first,...

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...