Brattleboro Museum & Art Center

For last year’s Artful Ice Shanties exhibit, the Wardsboro School’s third and fourth grade classes designed a shanty that educated attendees on animals’ winter survival strategies. File photo

Register for Artful Ice Shanties 2023

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and Retreat Farm are now accepting entries for Artful Ice Shanties 2023. Registrations will be accepted until Friday, December 16.
The Artful Ice Shanties outdoor exhibit is a place-based celebration of artistic talent, creative...

Negina, right, and another member of ArtLords put the finishing touches on a mural in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo courtesy of Negina

ArtLord refugees decorate Brattleboro

BRATTLEBORO - When the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in August 2021, one of the first things they did was whitewash the powerful murals that had been painted on bomb-blasted walls in the capital city of Kabul. Soon after, the artists who had created those murals were targeted for arrest...

The Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous group. Photo by Andrew Hinderaker

Guerrilla Girls: art meets activism

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present famed pseudonymous art activist “Frida Kahlo” of the Guerrilla Girls on Saturday, August 27, at 7 pm in person at Epsilon Spires, 190 Main Street, and livestreamed via Zoom.
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of anonymous...

Emily Noelle Lambert at her studio.

Tour of studio, garden

PETERBOROUGH, NH - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a tour of Emily Noelle Lambert’s art studio and gardens on Sunday, August 21, at 3 pm as part of the museum’s Hidden in the Hills series. Light refreshments will be served.
Lambert’s work has been shown in solo...

Mie Yim poses with pieces from her exhibit.

Exhibit walkthrough

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present two events with New York-based artist Mie Yim in connection with the exhibit “Fluid Boundaries”: a walkthrough of the exhibit on Thursday, August 4, and a chalk art activity during Gallery Walk on Friday, August 5.
Yim...

Frank Jackson

Create transfer prints with local artist

BRATTLEBORO - “There/There” is an exhibit of abstract landscape paintings by Frank Jackson, made on burlap using the quick-drying medium of fresco. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a transfer prints workshop with Jackson. The workshop will take place at River Gallery School on...

Exhibits include large, touchable felt sculptures by Metz.

The possibilities of felt

BRATTLEBORO- A new group exhibition at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center explores the diverse possibilities of the medium of felt, from felted family portraits to surreal felt furniture to giant, touchable felt sculptures. On view in the museum’s Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery, “Felt...

Exploring Abenaki relationships to water

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present a special opening celebration for “Nebizun: Water Is Life,” a multimedia art exhibit that explores the Abenaki relationship to water, on Friday, June 24, at 7 pm. Admission is free and all are welcome.
The evening will...

Storytelling and stargazing at BMAC

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center will present “Night Skies & Stories,” a free stargazing and storytelling event, on Saturday, May 14, at 8 pm. The rain date for this event is the following day, Sunday, May 15. Space is limited...

Interviewing for oral history. Courtesy Vermont Folklife Center

Learn about the art of oral history

BRATTLEBORO - The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present “The Delight of Listening: Interviewing for Oral History and Deeper Understanding,” a free in-person workshop with the Vermont Folklife Center’s Sasha Antohin, PhD, and Mary Wesley, on Thursday, April 14, at 7 pm.
The...