Artbits-March 26, 2026

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Martha McGinn. Bryan Memorial Gallery features local artists at the Affordable Art Fair. Read more

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star Brewing Company hosts a Pet Portraits Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Hearthside Handcrafts meets at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. River Arts hosts the March Sip n’ Slurry: Hanging Planter with Chiara Keeling. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library and Community Center. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Public Library. The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Yarn & Yak with Kelli Shepherd. Read more

DANCE

Between the Lines Line Dancing offers Beginner Line Dancing at the American Legion. The Highgate Manor has Beginner Line Dancing with Michelle Nordberg. Read more

GATHERINGS

Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at the Fairfax Community Library. The First Baptist Church hosts a Christian Artists Afternoon and Open House. The River Arts Open Studio Community and Wellness Space for LGBTQIA+ Individuals and Allies continues. Read more

HUMANITIES

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues with Rebecca Rupp to discuss Paul Revere’s Rum, Ethan Allen’s Cider, and Bathtub Gin: An Eccentric History of Alcohol. Vermont Humanities and the Saint Albans Museum present historian J. Kevin Graffagnino to discuss Conseulo Northrop Bailey: A Vermont Pathfinder. The Dick Wright Pub celebrates Women’s History Month with Franklin’s Silent Generation with Mandi Gates. In this special Farmers’ Night program, Nadine Budbill, and actors Abby Paige and Mark S. Roberts read The Poetry of a Place & Its People. Read more

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

River Arts has Crochet 101 with Carmella Cyr plus Jen Volansky to explore Archetypes in Art in a Mixed Media Workshop, Chiara No to lead the free Creative Art Series for 60+, and Evie Mason to continue the Watercolor Escape, Landscapes, Cityscapes & Seascapes. Lise-Anne Cooledge and Jen Thompson from ReMarketVT will lead Beeswax Wrap and Candle-making at the Bryan Gallery. The Franklin Arts Department concludes the three part Painting Series: Franklin Scenes with Jordan Bushey. 60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night with a live model and Creativi-Tea Tuesdays with Karen Winslow. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Cindi LaFayette’s Resin Ocean Wave Charcuterie Board Workshop plus Julia Davenport to guide An Easter Zentangle Eggztravaganza, Annelein Beukenkamp to lead Blooming Bold Blossoms–A Spring Watercolor Workshop, and the ongoing Social Sundays. Annette Goyne concludes the Spring 2026 Watercolor Classes at Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more

ON STAGE LIVE

George Murtie (twice), Doug’s Open Mic Night, Bart Feller, the BFA Improv Team, the Rock Band Show with A-319, plus BFA, SATEC, SACS, and MVU, Tim Brick, Nighthawk, Michael Perry, the Shady Trees, Dan Parks, Chris & Issy, Quadra, Burlington Baroque, St John’s Passion, Eric Milnes, L’Harmonie des saisons, Northern Lights, Sleeveless Tease featuring Narah Sparks, the Buck Hollers, the Bushey/Bedell Trio, Dale and Darcy, Phil Graziano, the Vermont Mandolin Trio, Nathan Michaud, Experience Queen with Jesse Agan, the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group, Captain Radical, Mark Shelton all appear live at a venue near you. Read more

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue with DonnaRae Menard and Linda Longtoe Sheehan, Read more

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fairfax Community Library Book Club takes up Becoming Duchess Goldblatt by Anonymous. Muffin Monday continues. The Sheldon Municipal Library Book Club reads The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins. Read more

 

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