Artbits-February 13, 2025

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Marissa Mcfadden. Bryan Memorial Gallery features a pastel by Marilyn Ruseckas. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

St. Albans Community Arts will have Skate Deck Painting with Jen at the Uniting for Community event. 14th Star Brewing Company hosts a Pet Portraits Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Awaken Yoga and Kreations by Katherine offer a Penguin Love Valentine’s Paint Night. Read more…

EVENTS

St. Albans Rec presents the Valentine’s Winter Carnival at Hard’ack with the Barn Rats and much more. The GreatIce! Winter Festival takes over North Hero’s City Bay. The Uniting for Community benefit concert and tattoo event includes Starvation Wages, the Champlain Shoregasm, Vallory Falls, Assorted Fruit, and the Path. Read more…

FILM

Classic Movie Night (and Matinee!) has Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert and Oscar winner Eileen Heckart in Butterflies Are Free. Popcorn is free, too. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute begins the Spring weekly program series with James and Anne Ouellette’s Alaskan Cruise and Land Tour. The weekly Snapshot Series continues with James Lockridge to discuss Finding a Voice in the Arts. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Join host Alex Foltz for Season 2 of Foltz Studio, the new series of outdoor oil painting lessons. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine is retiring. Only about 23 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine (not much change in the last few weeks) and 34 percent have gotten a flu shot but COVID is still here with or without Dr. Levine and whether Vermonters get the shot or not. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Bare Bones, Chris & Erica, Will Warren, IncaHoots, the Dirty Looks, John Gratton, the Smokey Newfield Project, Spencer Lewis, Fiddlehead Hollow, Dan Parks, Ryan Hanson, the Owl Stars, the KCB Band, Tyler Ramsey, and Troy Millette all play songs for lovers live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Libraries will be closed Monday. The St. Albans Free Library Banned Books Group meets to discuss I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 6, 2025

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery has a live reception for Colleen Blatchly, Marissa Mason, Karen Mulkey, and Sarah Rosedahl. New Visions opens with a reception for Athena Tasiopoulos, Robert Wellings, Marilyn Ruseckas, and Robert Wieferich. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Swanton Arts Council and NW Solid Waste District celebrate Upcycled Art created from salvaged items plus the grand reopening of the Art Nook Gallery. The Montgomery Center for the Arts wants art inspired by the earth. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Humanities Snapshot Series offers Katherine Mitchell looking at Photographic Currents, the Nineteenth-Century US River Series and Marpheen Chann leading the Moon in Full, A Modern-Day Coming-of-Age Book Talk. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute begins next Thursday. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The February Open Studio Figure Drawing offers a full nude session at River Arts and instructor Jen Volansky teaches the Creative Art Series for Seniors. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a free Paper Making Class. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Snow Farm Vineyard and Once Upon a Rock host a Pebble Art Workshop. Host Alex Foltz paints again as Foltz Studio begins its second season in the art of plein-air oil painting. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID, the flu, and a stomach bug shut down the Cabot School and Twinfield Union last week. The ER was full at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, Staircase 24, Beg Steal or Borrow, Bobby Cee, Ryan Hanson, David Miller, Ryan Sweezey, Something Reckless, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Kyle Stevens, Jerborn, Sister Speak, Ethan Sawyer, Cooie Sings, and Nobby Reed all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The BNML Book Discussion Group will discuss Weyward by Emilia Hart. There’s been a Murder at the Haston. The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club will discuss The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The St. Albans Free Library Book Group will discuss Gulp by Mary Roach. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 30, 2025

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Marissa Mcfadden. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Snow In Town in oil by George Van Hook in the Stowe gallery and online. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio and Kreations by Katherine have the Northern Lights Paint Night and a Winter Deer Paint Party this wekend. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Winter Renaissance Faire has artisans, performance troupes, singers, musicians, and dancers, medieval living history, and and more at Champlain Valley Expo. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum SAM Talks hosts A History of the Concept of Race with William Edelglass. Vermont Humanities travels through Canada with the memoir Klee Wyck by Emily Carr. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has Carolyn Kittell leading a class in Needle Felting. Social Sunday continues. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold the monthly Board Meeting and Updates in person at the library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

New findings suggest that long-COVID infection increases the number of ME/CFS cases; new incidence cases of ME/CFS were 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. Only about 23 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine. Franklin County residents have even lower rates of protection. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Son Shindig, Nathan Michaud (twice), the Smokey Newfield Project, Mr. C, Tim Fitzgerald, Lady Livy, the Natural Selection, Better Angels, the Duncan Macleod Trio, Nickle & Dime, Shane Murley, Roger Giroux, Arthur James, John Bartus, and Myra Flynn all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club discusses The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 23, 2025

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Dick

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council’s free Art Journaling Group meets in person at the Swanton Free Public Library on a new night. Art journals, junk journals, art pages and more are on the table. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight returns to VTSteelLady Rebecca Nase Chomyn. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Debbie Peate’s bird heads. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Vermont Humanities continues the weekly Snapshot Series with Tommy Hyde screening and discussing his film Underdog. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Patrick McAllister will teach a live model figure drawing class at the MAG. Social Sunday continues. Read more…

COVID NEWS

About 22 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine (not much change from last week) and 32 percent have gotten a flu shot but Franklin County residents still have even lower rates of protection. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Vermont Blues Society holds its Annual Meeting and Concert. Doug Whynott, Bob Stannard and those Dangerous Blues Men, Gina Coleman, Stephen Kiernan, Eric Bushey, Tim Brick, Jerborn and Axe, Chris & Issy, Carol Ann Jones, the Tenderbellies, Will Evans with Troy Millette, Uncle Jimmy, the Hitmen, Charlie Rice, Jonny Mop, the Lloyd Tyler Band, the John Daly Band, John Geno, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Jim Branca, Shallow and Pedantic (Sam Averbuck and Brian Maple), the Arty LaVigne Band, and Brothers of Others all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

The Swanton Enhancement Project, the Strings Of Andalusia, and Mark Shelton all stream for you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual group at BNML. The Muffin Monday Social Hour continues in Highgate. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club reads Still Life, the debut novel by Louise Penny. Swanton hosts a discussion of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 16, 2025

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Dick

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Junior Duck Stamp Design Program is a dynamic art- and science-based that invites students to design the sought-after stamp. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Cherie Marshall. Bryan Memorial Gallery features A Quiet Day at Gill’s Rock by Charlie Hunter. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star has a Pet Portraits Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Read more…

DANCE

Snowmotion Dance hosts Latin Night at The Double E with a beginner bachata class and then a dance and social. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Vermont Humanities continues the weekly Snapshot Series with Ann Davila Cardinal’s discussion of her book, Blue Hair & Purse Candy: Reimagining Dated Stereotypes of Older People. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. MAG also begins an eight-class series of Intro to Quilting. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Covid-19, influenza and RSV are on the rise after the holiday gatherings. Vermont has also suffered an uptick in norovirus outbreaks and still only 22 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated vaccine. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The SATEC Winter Concerts & Fine Arts Nights, Jim Branca, Dan Parks, Jesse Agan, 90 Proof, Jerborn, Justice 3, Chris & Erica, Next Stop Comedy, Bare Bones, Chris & Issy, Nathan Michaud, Tim Brick, Spencer Lewis, Bob Gagnon, Will Austin, Sister Speak, Lee Ross, Beg, Steal or Borrow, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Zack Tyler, Jeff Lloyd, Trevor Ainsworth, Nick Caiano all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Dark Star Project at Rimrocks, the Young Tradition Touring Group at the Montpelier Performing Arts Hub, Mark Shelton sang audience Elvis requests. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. The Eloquent Page hosts a midnight release for Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 9, 2025

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence starts the new year with the collection spotlight on Natalie Larocque. Bryan Memorial Gallery features On the Nature of Daylight by John Rivers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio and Kreations by Katherine host a Sea Turtle Adventure Black Light Paint Party. Read more…

CALL FOR DIRECTORS

Propose a show. The Opera House at Enosburg Falls invites directors to direct and produce one of three or more musicals this summer. Read more…

FILM

It is Classic Movie Night (and Matinee!) with Pola Negri in Barbed Wire. The 1927 silent romance film is set in World War I. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Vermont Humanities travel through Canada with books to discuss Canada’s cultural diversity. Professor Shannon McQueen will discuss How Can Gender Help Us Understand Elections. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Learn Create with Canva at the Bent-Northrop Memorial Library workshop. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

COVID NEWS

About 16% of Franklin County residents have the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 27 percent have gotten a flu shot. COVID-19 is still here. 138 cases were reported in one week and COVID has killed 1,235 Vermonters overall, six of them during the holidays. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Jim Branca, Next Stop Comedy, She Was Right, Sleeveless Tease, NightHawk, Elias Green, local hip hop artists, Kyle Stevens, the Smokey Newfield Project, Jenni + Jesse, O Schu, Cooper, Cooie DeFrancesco all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. The SFL Book Group discusses the 100 Year-old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonathan. The Banned Books Group examines To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. The SPL Book Club covers The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. Read more…

LOOKING FORWARD

This week we look at Art Centers, the Four Franklin County Festivals, and our Town Bands plus Humanities and Other Major Presenters’ plans. Read more…

 

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