Artbits-April 17, 2025

SEVEN DAYSIES

Round #1 to nominate your favorite businesses, people, and places is open. The Vermont Community Foundation has a $10,000 grant for the Best Nonprofit. Read more

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight is on multiple media artist Sharon Ratner. Bryan Memorial Gallery features a new oil by Eric Tobin. Art on the Refuge will include a plein air painting demonstration with Corliss Blakely. Read more

ART FOR SALE

The first Mud Season Hand Made Market takes over the MVU Gym with 60 illustrators, photographers, potters, painters, woodworkers, and more. Read more

ART YOU CREATE

The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts a Rain Boots Paint and Sip with Sylvia Oblak. Read more

CALL FOR SINGERS

The Franklin Community Chorus seeks singers to rehearse the Battle Hymn of the Republic for Franklin Memorial Day. Read more

FILM

Saint Pauls UMC hosts Good Friday Pizza & Movie Night with Heaven Is For Real. Read more

HUMANITIES

Fairfield Center School and the Abbey Group host the annual Project Sweet Talk with breakfast and an exploration of projects. The Eloquent Page and the Saint Albans Museum’s SAM Talks host Ira Allen: A Hard Founding Father to Love with historian J. Kevin Graffagnino. Vermont Humanities has Kerstin Lange traveling the Phantom Border: A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany. Northwest Access TV broadcasts Kathy Benoit discussing NOTCH Committed to Health & Community. Read more

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Northwest Vermont Solid Waste District reprises its Papermaking Workshop at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. Social Sunday continues at the MAG. They also offer Understanding Your Business Finances with Doug Emery and Jack McSweeney. Read more

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets in person to share progress and join in the discussion about longer projects and anything else about writing, reading, publishing, and more. Read more

ON STAGE LIVE

David and Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, Larry Vigneault, Jerborn and Jaden, the Stragglers, David Miller, Sanctuary, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, the Hitmen, Bare Bones, the Smokey Newhouse Project, Bob and Mona, the Phillip Hyjek Trio, Jesse Agan, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Acoustic Mayhem, the Tenderbellies, Forest Station, and the Young Tradition Touring Group all perform live at a venue near you. Read more

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour, Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen, The SPL Book Club discusses The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. Read more

 

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