Category Archives: Awards

Artbits-April 17, 2025

Posted on April 17, 2025 by Dick

Seven Daysies. Sharon Ratner. Eric Tobin. Corliss Blakely. Mud Season Hand Made Market. Rain Boots Paint and Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Franklin Community Chorus, Battle Hymn of the Republic. Good Friday Pizza Movie Night, Heaven Is For Real. Project Sweet Talk. Ira Allen A Hard Founding Father to Love, Kevin Graffagnino. Kerstin Lange, Phantom Border A Personal Reconnaissance of Contemporary Germany. Kathy Benoit, NOTCH Committed to Health Community. Papermaking Workshop. Social Sunday. Understanding Your Business Finances, Doug Emery, Jack McSweeney. Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group. David Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, Larry Vigneault, Jerborn, Jaden, Stragglers, David Miller, Sanctuary, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, Hitmen, Bare Bones, Smokey Newhouse, Bob Mona, Phillip Hyjek, Jesse Agan, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Acoustic Mayhem, Tenderbellies, Forest Station, Young Tradition Touring Group. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday Social Hour, Mornings, Muffins, Mysteries, Counterfeit, Kirsten Chen. Briar Club, Kate Quinn. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 10, 2025

Posted on April 10, 2025 by Dick

Once Upon a Mattress. Knock Knock, Brothers Grimm Spectaculathon, Vermont States Drama Festival. Patrick Murphy. Winging It Embracing Personal Expression, Jen Volansky. Highland Cow, Anna Lena. Glass Etching, Barb Switzer.in the Swanton Free Public Library. Sketch Sip. Cultural Reclamation Struggles of an Indigenous Identity. Harrison Ford, Fugitive. Endless Chain, Pete Sutherland. Susan Kuecker, Forgotten Heroes Vermont Regiments Battle of Cedar Creek. Jason Barney, Christine Eldred, Hidden History of Lake Champlain. Stephanie Yu, Vermont School Funding: Equity and Affordability. Molly, Needle Felting. Social Sunday. Board Meeting. Jerborn, Michael Kerry, Dead Sessions, Evan Jennison, Matt Schrag, Seth Yacovone, Long Gone John, Jim Charonko, Dan Parks, Duel, Chris Erica, Ron Gagnon, WD-40, Lloyd Tyler, Mirage, Jacob Green, Buck Hollers, Stragglers, Smokey Newfield, Ethan Sawyer, Phil Graziano, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Barbie N Bones. Richford Hometown Follies. Haskell Free Library Opera House, Stuck in Vermont. Fireside Fiber Arts. Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. R J Batchelor, Lost Tsar of Russia, Lost King of England. George Orwell, 1984. Ugly Vegetables, Grace Lin. But I Progress, Nickel and Dimed On Not Getting By in America, Barbara Ehrenreich. Continue reading →

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Artbits-May 16, 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. Paint Your Pet Portrait, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Art Journaling Group, Make Your Own Star Wars Terrarium. MES Student Spring Art Show. Beneath Our Skin. Nathan Johnson. Nebizun: Water Is Life, Charlie Adams, Vicki Blanchard, Joe Bruchac, Bill Gould, Francine Poitras Jones, Jeanne Morningstar Kent, Melody Walker Makin, Lucy Cannon Neel, Hawk Schulmeisters, Breanna Sheehan, Linda Longtoe Sheehan, Chief Roger Longtoe Sheehan, Vera Longtoe Sheehan, JES, Chief April St Francis Rushlow, Dorothy Tondreau, Amy Hook-Therrien, Aaron York. Adrian Ivakhiv. Environmental Humanities, Critical Studies for Feverish Times. Impressionist Portraits Pastel Oil, Karen Meneghin. Social Sunday. Aviano Bellydance. Workshop for Dementia Caregivers, Tina Lesperance. Letterpress Printing. Karaoke, Open Mic, Coffee House, Next Stop Comedy, Cooie DeFrancisco Sings, Carol Ann Jones, Will Patton, Duel, John Geno, Kevin Connelly, Banjo Dan, Willy, Lindner, Danny Coane, Sam Blagden, VT Bluegrass Pioneers, Shane’s Apothecary, Justice 3, Pet Project, Maple Grove, Blues Without Borders, Chris Erica, Chris Issy, Stragglers, Bob Gagnon, Jeff Shelley, Windham Philharmonic, Laura Fedele-Rasco. Vaisey Royale, Franklin County Quilt Show, Mark Shelton. Boys in the Boat, Daniel James Brown. But I Progress, Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe. Bianca Stone, Vermont Poet Laureate. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 18, 2024

Posted on April 18, 2024 by Dick

Vaccination, booster. COVID-19 hospitalizations. Seven Daysies. Lance Hodgdon. Tess Follensbee, Susannah Sakal. Susan Bull Riley, Singing to Vermont. Crystal Sun Catcher. Maple Sugaring Amateur Photography Contest. NVAA June Show. Cold Hollow Sculpture, volunteer. Jessamyn West, Every Problem Is Now a Technology Problem. Met, Metropolitan Opera, Puccini, La Rondine, Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelma. Social Sunday, Tina Lesperance, Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers, Corrina Thurston, Powerful Vulnerability in writing. Barn Quilt Class, Marie Speer. Letterpress Printing, Music Festival Josh Pallotta, Karaoke, Open Mic Night, Cooie Sings, Jesse Agan, Uncle Jimmy, Sticks Stones, Dan Parks, Justice 3, Shane Murley, PET House, Phillip Hyjek, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Roger Giroux, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Jerborn, Isaac Mathews, Bad Horsey, the Pleasant Street Boys, Dobbs’ Dead, Jess Leone, Lara Cwass, PHISH. Richford Hometown Follies, Jimmy T Cobras. Mark Shelton. Melinda Claire Arceneaux-Swearingen, Pratt Hall. Avree Kelly Clark, debut novel, Malice Aforethought. Spring Book Card Ephemera Fair. Continue reading →

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Artbits-June 8, 2023

Posted on June 8, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Seven Daysies, 8084, Blue Paddle, Eloquent Page, Andre Maquera, Troy Milette, Ryan Sweezey. Legacy, Tom Waters. Linda Oakes Carvalho, Morning Joe. Abenaki Word of the Week. Vermont’s Remarkable Sharpshooters, Howard Coffin. Cloud Lamp Class, Janet Soavi. Portrait Collage Class. Social Sunday, Learn Zentangle, Julia Davenport. Long COVID. Canadian wildfire, smoke. Bettenroo, Hitmen, Jeff Salisbury, She Was Right, Sticks Stones, Cooper, Nighthawk, Kyle Stevens, Milton Busker, Grim Work, Owl Stars, 50 Cal, IncaHoots, Rough Suspects, Cooie Adlai, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Conant, Ben Patton, Tim McKenzie, Chris Erica, Troy Milette, Apollo Suns, Jacob Green, Nobby Reed. Melissa Haberman, We Are Vermont. Christa Schönfeldinger, glass harmonica, Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Continue reading →

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