Category Archives: Benefit Events

Artbits-May 1, 2025

Colleen Blatchly, Rebecca Chomyn, Toby Fulwiler, Holly Spier. Marilyn Ruseckas. Pebble Art Workshop. Cardmaking, Barb Switzer. Elizabeth A.I. Powell, Louise Glück Vermont Nobel Laureate. Mark Timney, Sorting News from Chaff. Magic Moonlight. Multimedia Collages, Alyssa DeLaBruere. Open Studio Figure Drawing. Birch Bark Basketry, Elliot Cluba. Social Sunday. Monday Night Improv Comedy Jam, Tam Lantz, David Matthew Nerbak, Eric Belrose, Larry Vigneault, Paden Kalinen Full Music, Dan Parks, Shane Murley, Sticks Stones, Magnetic Horse, Jolly Roger, Sibling Reverie, Sister Speak, Will Austin, Carolyn Enger, Resonating Earth, Elliott Forrest, Myles Aronowitz, J Henry Fair, Jonny Mop, Tyler Mast. Vermont Mandolin Trio Jamie Maisfield, Matt Flinner, Will Patton, Pat Melvin. Mark Shelton. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. Swanton Free Public Library. Continue reading

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Artbits-April 24, 2025

Vermont Maple Festival. Big Blue Trunk. Creative Chainsaw Art by John. Jon Young. Aim High Canines. Maple Festival Parade, Mary Cenci, Kwame. Sappy Art Show, Photo Contest. Best Maple Display. Craft Specialty Food Show, Masonic Lodge Craft Food Fair. Paint and Sap. Antique Show. Kids’ Center, Maple Cooking Contest, Best Maple Menu. St. Albans Museum Open House. Teen Fest, Vermont Maple Beverage Tasting. Sarah Rosedahl. Mt. Washington in Spring, Erik Koeppel. Franklin Community Chorus, Battle Hymn of the Republic. Recovery City. Bill Lippert, 25 Years Since Civil Unions Lessons Learned. Rise Up, Meg Cossaboom. Patrick McAllister, April Live Model Figure Drawing Class, Sylvia Oblak, Spring Watercolor Workshop, Social Sunday. Art Journaling Group. Dave, D Cookie, O’hAnleigh Cindy Hill Tom Hanley, Pipsqueak Clown, Big Blue Trunk, Chris Staples, Rockin’ Ron Friendly Pirate, Joe What a Guy, Kevin Herchen, Conniption Fits, Youth Talent Show, Electric Youth Dance Company, April Cushman, Dan Fontaine, Memphis Sun Mafia, Fiddler’s Variety Show, Maddi Ryan, Young Tradition Touring Group, Seth Yacovone, House on Fire, Justice3, McMaple, Jerborn, Nickel Dime, Before this Time, Jeff Salisbury, Switchel, Kippincoe, Blue Rock Boys, Stewart Foster, Heavy Pour, Bobbie Nate, Quadra, 90 Proof, Maple Grove, Tam Lantz. Editor, Sara B. Franklin. Archer Mayor, Joe Gunther. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. Terry Lovelette, In Praise of Eagle Mountain. Swanton Free Public Library. Continue reading

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Artbits-April 10, 2025

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-April 3, 2025

Courtney Adams, Jennifer Buckner, Patrick Murphy, Anne Standish. Franklin County Quilt Show. Pebble Art Workshop. Cardmaking with Barb. Osher. Impact of Climate Change on String Instrument Building Now and The Next 60 Years, Kathleen Reilly. Snapshot, Julie Pellissier-Lush, Mi’kmaq Creation Stories. Corrina Thurston, Make Earrings in Colored Pencil on Wood. Social Sunday. Landscapes in Watercolors, Gary Eckhart. Mug Painting Fundraiser. Alex Foltz Studio. Vermont Blues Society, Seth Yacovone, CombustOmatics, She Was Right, Rough Suspects, Dirty Looks, Kyle Stevens, Amerikana Blue. Ryan Hanson, Sister Speak, Bad Horsey, Nathan Michaud, Shiny New Toyz, Reign Havoc, Sabre Hound, Tenderbellies, Nobby Reed. Orbital a Novel, Samantha Harvey. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. This Is How it Always Is, Laurie Frankel. Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, T Kingfisher. Continue reading

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Artbits-March 20, 2025

Cat McKeen. Susan Bull Riley. MCA-Kelton Hall. Gnome Paint and Sip, Sylvia Oblak. Community Building Group Drumming. Peg Guerra, History of the Trapp Family. Michael Lange, Many Meanings of Maple. We Do Declare Women’s Voices on Independence. Jen Volansky, Whimsical Faces Found Objects. Morristown Free University, MFU. Needle Felted Plants, Abby. Social Sunday. Pebble Art Workshop. Alex Foltz Studio. Writers’ Group, Becky Rupp. Out of Nowhere, Next Stop Comedy, Carol Ann Jones, Nighthawk, Something Reckless, Chris Erica, Pet Project, Spencer Lewis, Bob Gagnon, Cooper, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Quadra, the 79th Street Band, Bob Corbiere, Russ Flanagan, Bart Fellar, Joseph Provost, Bob Recupero, Mark Shelton. Life Became Very Blurry An Oral History of COVID-19, Garrett M. Graff. Franklin County Photogs, Harry Goldhagen, Create with Canva. Bookmark Workshop, Miss Sierra. Malice Aforethought Avree Kelly Clark. Kingdoms of Savannah, George Dawes Green. Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer. Continue reading

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Artbits-March 13, 2025

Vaccine, vaccination, booster, COVID. Rotary Home Show. Martha McGinn. Jacob Aguiar. Carolyn Wyeth. Bill Lutz. Winter Wonderland Paint Night. Paint Sip, Elizabeth Varney. Personal Symbols, Creative Inspired Keith Haring. Classic Movie Night, Dark Passage. Free Mystery Movie Night. Help Wanted, Executive Director. Osher, Kathy Benoit, NOTCH Committed to Health Community. Literary Cocktail Hour, George Monbiot, Peter Hutchison, Doctrine Secret History of Neoliberalism. Tim Brookes, Endangered Alphabets, Cultural Erosion, Future of the Written Word. Declan McCabe, Turning Stones Discovering Life of Water. Alex Foltz, St. Albans rooftop. Sunday. Paper Making Workshop. Barn Quilt Class, Marie Speer. Swanton Arts Council 10th Anniversary. Ides of March, Carol Ann Jones, Dan Parks, Smokey Newfield, Buck Hollers, Jerborn, Ryan Sweezey, Midnight Walkers, Jesse Taylor, Audrey Pearl, Tim Brick, Toast, Last Kid Picked, Sean Jarvis, the Duncan McLeod Trio, Dave Ogrodowczyk, Mike Schuster, Will Austin, Cooie Sings, Prydein, Vermont Mandolin Trio, Ian Paul, Levi Silverstein, Donavin Andronaco, Tracy Dolan, Bobby Pelligrino, Amy Leclerc, Barbie-N-Bones Bushey Bedell Branon, Ericson Holt, the Oleo Romeos, UVM Celtic Cats, 90 Proof, Pat Melvin, Jamie Masefield, Will Patton, Matt Flinner, Aron Garceau, Iain MacHarg, Hazen Metro, Andy Smith, Caleb Bronz, Tyrone Shaw, Jerry Bowers, Roy Cutler, Doug Southworth. Heaven and Earth Grocery Store, James McBride. Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood. Continue reading

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