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Artbits-October 23, 2025

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Dick

Spooky Season Paint Night. Junk Creatures, Abbey. Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint ‘n’ Sip, Spooktacular Starry Night Paint ‘n’ Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Sarah Barnes. Sketchbook Club. Lindsay Didio. People’s Art Show. MVU Craft Fair. Autumn Adventures, Alice Reighley, Intro to Jazz Dance. Night of the Living Dead. Rocky Horror Picture Show. Witch, Please, Hocus Pocus. Osher, OLLI, Christina Fearon, Chinese Art Poetic Imagination. Land, Light, Water & Air Artist Roundtable, William Gotha, Marisol Rosenbluth, Andrew Orr. Grief Timeline Workshop. Death, Dying and Danishes. Mary Pleasant. Andrew Ingall, Gail Golec, Looking Back/Moving Forward, Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+. Grant Barrett, Martha Barnette, Language of Resilience, Words in a Warming World, AWAD. Beyond the Taproom. Pumpkin Carving. Social Sunday. Halloween Zentangle, Julia Davenport. DIY Cosplay Creations, Abby O’Sullivan. Thomas Schönberg, Christopher Kachian, Comedy for a Cause, Boom City Improv, Cafe Youth Center, Misty Bay Ramblers. Dale Darcy Band. Owl Stars, Evan Jennison, Matt Schrag, HallowQueen Drag Show, Mr. French, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Lawless, Hitmen, Tom Caswell Blues, Phillip Hyjek Trio, Will Austin, Dave Miller, Spooky Saturday, Antara, Chris Cheney, Paul Asbell, Nathan Michaud, Smokey Newfield, St. Paul’s Praise Band, Robert Resnik, Mary Mcginnis, Peter Riley, Clyde Stats, Banjo Dan Lindner, Nancy Beaven, Will Patton, Nikki Matheson, David Gusakov, Michele Choiniere, Roy Feldman, Danny Coane, Dono Schabner, Chuck Eller, Jeff Salisbury, Ed Antczak, Patti Casey, Tom MacKenzie, Steven Wienert, Marty Resnik, Juliet McVicker, Andy Sacher, Rose Lucas, Andy Greene, Willie Lindner, Arpeggione Duo, Evan Alsop, BFA Chorus, Chamber Singers, Jazz Band, Modern Band. Silent Reading Party. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday. Shady Hollow Juneau Black. Eizabeth Gauffreau, Weight of Snow and Regret. Continue reading →

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Artbits-October 16, 2025

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Dick

Sarah Barnes, Sketchbook Club. Art Junk Journaling. Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Janice Decooman. Brian Hewitt. People’s Art Show. Northwest Nightmares. GEMS. NVAA Fall Show/ Kids’ Entrepreneur Craft Fair. Alice Reighley, Intro to Jazz Dance. Square Dancing. Osher, Beth White, Women Build Planes Milestone Aviation History. Social Tinkering Connection Conversations. Julie Carrick Dalton, The Last Beekeeper. Pamela Walker, Box Project Race, Rurality, Civil Rights Activism Vermont Mississippi. Stories of the Blues, Missisquoi Slim. Kevin Graffagnino, Rebels in Vermont St. Albans Raid. Martha Kinney, Painted Mandala, Pumpkin Crafting Workshop. Kelli Shepherd Pumpkin Spice Everything Nice Beginner Crochet. Social Sunday, a Dried Flower Workshop, Calligraphy Basics, Chris Carfaro. Creative Creatures, decorative potion bottles. Swanton Writers’ Group. David, Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, Larry Vigneault, Skip Truman, Steven Hirsch, Bob Butterfield, Sophia Ryan, Youth Talent Search, Paint Town Pink Karaoke, Open-Mic and Coffeehouse, Tim Brick (twice), the Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, CombustOmatics, Jeff Salisbury, JSB, the Crowe Hill Band, Sibling Reverie, SoulRockerz, Before This Time, Bob Chevalier, the Rustics, Blue Heron, Laura Fedele-Rasco, George Murtie, Miracle Blood, Nugreth, Practical Gore, Melkor, Necroborne, Greg Beeman, Smokey Newfield, Vermont Cello Duet. Tonya Mosley, Ada Limón, Limon. Capellen Orchestra, My Departed Love, Nancy Hassett-Dahm. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein. Muffin Monday. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries, The Heiress, Rachel Hawkins. First Lie Wins, Ashley Elston. Whose Story Is This, Rebecca Solnit. Continue reading →

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Artbits-October 9, 2025

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Dick

Banned Books Week, Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights. Sarah McGarghan, Longina Smolinski, Gillian Ireland, Deb Shell. Peoples Art Show. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Fall Harvest Craft Fair. Fall Paint Class, Joanne Delaney. Hearthside Handcrafts. Paint and Tea, Victoria Vining. Paint and Sip Sunflowers, Sylvia Oblak. Paint Sip Autumn Glow. Evie Mason. Northwest Nightmares, Maple Squares of St. Albans. Intro to Jazz Dance, Alice Reighley. Paint Town Pink, Witches Warlocks Fight Cancer, Luminary Walk. Comic Con, Rail City Fan Fest. Fall Harvest Festival. Snow Farm Vineyard Grape Harvest Festival, Buck Hollers. Classic Movie Night, Wallace Gromit, Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Hidden Heritage Vermont Indian Community, 1790-2010, Dr. Fred Wiseman. Jeffrey Brace Revolutionary War Soldier Slave. Soulspun Kitchen, Erin Moulton. 2025 Fall Plein Air Retreat, T.M. Nicholas, Leo Mancini-Hresko. Julie Jones, Brushstrokes Hashtags Social Media Made Simple. Social Sunday, MAG. River Arts, Macrame 101, Tie Your Way In, Karen. Chris Stapleton, Blackberry Smoke, Jason Isbell, Drive-by Truckers, Færie Godbrothers, Peter Matthews, Wendy Matthews, Steve Klimowski, Bonnie Thurber Klimowski, Bluegrass Jam, Evan Barber, Dan Jarvis, Frevo, Tim Brick, Enablers, Barbie N Bones, DJ Lady Livy, Crowe Hill, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, Magnetic Horse, Dan Parks, Cooie Sings, Shane Murley Trio, Dale Darcy. Muffin Monday. Hello Beautiful, Ann Napolitano. Banned Books Group, All Boys Aren’t Blue, George M. Johnson. Continue reading →

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Artbits-October 2, 2025

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Dick

Downtown Saint Albans Sidewalk Sale. Fall Open Studio Weekend. Barbara Colgrove. Alana Bigos. Cynthia Rosen. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park. Make-and-Take Your Own Pressed Flower Pumpkin. Cardmaking with Barb. People’s Art Show. Alice Reighley, Intro to Jazz Dance. Screenagers 1. Osher, Preston Fuller, Disc Golf Demystified History, Design, and Play. Highgate Manor. Vermont Reads, The Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton, Peter Burns. Eric Tobin, History Unframed Jeffersonville’s Art Legacy. Dark Academy Adventures: Mystery of the Crystal Lake Longhouse. Rock & Roll, Theater Camp Dance Group, Cheryl Ann Kelley, Electric Youth. Social Sunday. Monster Building Papier-Mâche Masks Character Creation, Abby O’Sullivan. Watercolor Beyond Basics, Evie Mason. Swanton Arts Council Board Meeting. Madi Omo, Native Drift Designs, Birch & Bramble Soap, David and Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, and Larry Vigneault, Andy Greene, Kirk Lord, Matt Flinner, Dave Ogrodowczyk, Mike Schuster, Vermont Blues Society, Kyle Stevens, Jerborn, Phil Abair Band, Keeghan Nolan, Nickel Dime, Dan Parks, Tim Brick, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Brian K, Parkway, She Was Right, Third Wheel, Jeff Gina, Arthur James, Sister Speak, John Fealy, Jerband, Bob Amos, Sarah Amos, David Karl Roberts, Cooie Adlai, O Schu, Troy Millette, Blue Rock Boys, Doug’s Open Mic. Hear. Here, Josh Ellerbrock, Bridget Higdon, Paul Snyder, Mulvaney-Stanak. DonnaRae Menard, Beneath The Fountain. Gail Cleare, Rebecca Cummins, Millicent Eidson, Jackson Ellis, Pat Esden, Jared Gange, Beth Ann Hooper, S Lee and J B Manning, William McKone, Laura Napoli, Darryl Webb, Katharine Whitcomb, Maryanne Wood, George Woodard, Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. Alicia Mercure, True Crime Book Club, While Idaho Slept Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students, J. Reuben Appleman. Local Author Open House, mysteries, romances, children’s books, autobiographies. Minecraft Uncensored Library, Reporters Without Borders. Continue reading →

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Artbits-September 25, 2025

Posted on September 25, 2025 by Dick

People’s Art Show. Rebecca Nase Chomyn. Erik Koeppel. Swanton Antique Show. Harvest Paint Sip, Jordan. International Folk Dancing, Lesley Alpert. Alice Reighley, Intro Jazz Dance. Osher, Michael Wood-Lewis, Building Resilience in Vermont Communities. Traci Osterhoudt, hospice. Sensory-Friendly Hour. Social Sunday, Needle Felting 101, Open Studio Figure Drawing, Monster Building Papier-Mâche Masks Character Creation, Abby O’Sullivan, Watercolor Beyond Basics, Evie Mason. Kate Taylor, Steve Mayone, Nate Michaud, Dirty Looks, Lloyd Tyler, Jerborn, David Karl Roberts, 90 Proof, Justice 3, Cooie Sings, Jaded Ravins, Jeff Salisbury, Stragglers, Tim Brick, Northern Lights, Swell, Mike Mac, Strange Machines, Mike MacDonald, Bob Chevalier, Dan Sean Jarvis, Smokey Newfield, Third Wheel, Myra Flynn. Long Bright River, Liz Moore. Silent Reading Party. Muffin Monday. Continue reading →

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Artbits-September 18, 2025

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Dick

Enosburg Harvest Festival, Second Hand Blues, Uncle John’s Band, arts crafts. Afterglow Music Festival, Love Story, Fleetwood Macked, Dirty Deeds. Jennifer Buckner. Masha Hoffey, Affordable Art Fair. Paint Your Pet Portrait, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Art Journaling Group. Franklin County A Capella Chorus. International Folk Dancing, Lesley Alpert. Autumn Adventures, Alice Reighley, Intro Jazz Dance. Tom Messner, Lake Monsters Osher, From Weather to Baseball. Robert Haynes, Our World of Weather, What National Weather Service Does. Social Tinkering Connection Conversations. Wrapped Stone Pendant, Terry Buehner. Acrylic Paint Pouring, Martha Kinney. Social Sunday. Drawing with Scissors, Jen Volansky. Watercolor Beyond Basics, Evie Mason. Creative Creatures, paint candles wax. Oleo Romeos, Cooie, Carol Ann Jones, Jerry Bowers, Will Patton, Tyrone Shaw, Tom Buckley, Matt Nerbak, Terry Youk. Mitch Terriccano, Pet Project, Bodacious Supremes, Magnetic Horse, J.J. Booth, Unruly Allies, Barbie N Bones, Jim Branca, Earth Bound Spirits, John Gratton, Yabai, Dog Water, Champlain Shoregasm, Eyetraps, Swamp Frog, Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, Jaded Ravins, Dave Miller, Roger Giroux, Nathan Michaud, 1Q Band, David Owens, Vaughn Watson, John Riddle, Blue Rock Boys, Doug, Butterfields. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday. Deep Blue Goodbye, John D. MacDonald. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries The God of the Woods, Liz Moore. Continue reading →

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