Category Archives: Festivals

Artbits-May 11, 2023

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Dick

Fairs, Festivals. COVID, Vaccination, booster, registration. Uncomfortable censorship. Vermont All State Music Festival. Kingman Fest, Queen. People’s Choice, Donna Blatchly, Amanda Blatchly, Maureen Genzlinger. MES Student Spring Art Show. Stephen Sharon. Paint and Sip Impressionism, Carolyn Crotty. Scrapbooking Meetup. Social Sunday. Botanical Blockprinting, Sara Reigler. White-tailed deer. Jesse Agan, Sean Jarvis, Eleven, Matty and Me, 90 Proof, Duncan Macleod, Mirage, Dirty Looks Band, Duo, Elizabeth Begins, Sister Speak, Stefani Capizzi. Flying Komorowski Brothers, Randy Max, Benjamin Powell, Vermont Mandolin Trio, Mark Shelton. Most Costly Journey. Barbara Kingsolver, Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize. Continue reading →

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Artbits-May 4, 2023

Posted on May 4, 2023 by Dick

Fairs, Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Colleen Blatchly, Toby Fulwiler, Holly Spier. Art Appraisal, Maria Roosevelt, Ethan Merrill, Amy Rutledge Jebrine, Mark Buggyman Ducharme. First Peoples Exhibition. Makers Market. Spring Paint n Sip, Amber Rae Harvey. Felicia Cota, Paint Hydrate. Animating Infrastructure Grant. Young Tradition Festival, La Famille LeBlanc, YTV Youth Commission, Touring Group, Pete Sutherland. Spring Book Paper Fair. Listen Up. Ashley Messier, Thriving Communities Winding VT Road Abolition Women’s Rights. Tastings, Lesley Becker, Jan Mason, Danny Rocco, Lee Wochner. Graphite Drawing Class, Mike Barkyoumb. Online Portrait Collage Workshop. Linda Oakes Carvalho, Lilacs for Mother. Social Sundays. Open Studio Figure Drawing. Justin Sutera, Gathering Baskets. Troy Millette, Dan Rahilly, Mullets Rock, Bob Gagnon, Barbie-N-Bones, Maureen Hancock, Smokey Newfield, Duo, Kyle Stevens, Mark Shelton, Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival, Gloria Chien, Soovin Kim. Vermont Book Awards. Ebenezer Books. Continue reading →

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Artbits-April 27, 2023

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Vermont Maple Festival, art, fair food, parade. Sip n’ Slurry, Nesting Bowls, Barb Flathers. Adult Beginners Ballet Barre. Abenaki Word of the Week. Scrapbooking Meetup. Lit Shadow Box, Barb, Abbey, CRICUT. Corrina Thurston Learn Colored Pencil. Social Sunday. Cynthia Rosen, Splendor of Color, Palette Knife Painting. 8084, BFA Marching Band, Mary Cenci, Kwame, Sister Speak, No Shoes Nation, Youth Talent Show, Electric Youth Dance Company, Kingdom Allstars, Andre Maquera, Randy Smith, Frank Barnes, Gary Spaulding, Fiddler’s Variety Show, Isaac French, Pipsqueak Clown, Little Fox Entertainment, Dragon Man, Jason Tardy, High Energy Juggling Family, Aim High Canines, Facemania. Chris Erica, Ryan Sweezey, Uncle Jimmy, Nighthawk, Mitch, Devon, Mullets of Rock, Giovanina Bucci, Bravacado, Whiskey Wine, Cooper, Tom Caswell. National Library Week. Continue reading →

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Artbits-March 16, 2023

Posted on March 16, 2023 by Dick

Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration. Home Recreation Exposition, Home Show, Home Expo, Rotary. Vermont Inspired Landscapes. Pearl Bubble Bracelet, Paule Galle. Northern Lights Paint Pizza Party. Kwai, Abenaki Word of the Week. Kwanitekw Sustainer of Life, Matt Devine, Darlene Kascak, Vera Longtoe-Sheehan, Kathy Urffer. Garrett Graff, US Politics, 2022 Midterms 2024 Election. Bryan Figure Drawing Session. Annelein Beukenkamp, Florals Faces. Social Sunday. Barn Quilt Painting, Marie Speer. Shane Murley Band, Third Shift, 90 Proof, She Was Right, Last Kid Picked, Eleven, Rough Suspects, WD-40s, Carol Ann Jones, Blues for Breakfast, Barbie-N-Bones, Troy Millette, Mark Shelton. Writers’ Group, But I Progress. Continue reading →

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Artbits-January 5, 2023

Posted on January 5, 2023 by Dick

Vaccination, booster, registration. Perfect storm, tripledemic. Paid leave grant program. LuAnn Bellis, Chris Bessette, Kati Christoffel, Trish Vaillancourt. Open Studio Figure Drawing, Sewing Outside Lines, Natalie Carr. Social Sunday. Board Meeting Updates. Safe Sound, Mitch Terriciano, Kyle Stevens, Free Range Band, Jerborn, Eleven, Ryan Sweezy, Buck Hollers, Rough Suspects. Predictions. Arts, books, dance, music, theater, theatrical hopes, honey badgers. Arts councils, opera house, gallery, galleries, guild, guilds, tax credits, historic local project, book, books, library, libraries. Continue reading →

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Artbits-December 29, 2022

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Dick

Fairs, Festivals. Vaccination, booster, registration, perfect storm, tripledemic. Artist in Residence, Bryan Memorial, Milton Artists Guild. Charles R. Guyette, Freedom and Unity. Cooie DeFrancesco, Troy Millette, WD40’s, WD40s, Carol Ann Jones, Kyle Stevens, Cozy O’Donnell, Sticks Stones. Ernie the Traveling Storyteller. Looking Back at the Year. All Arts Council, Island Arts, River Arts, St. Albans Community Arts, Swanton Arts Council. Vermont Maple Festival, Little Fox Entertainment, Joshua Glass, Andriana Chobot, Jason Tardy, Pipsqueak Clown, Phil Abair, Keeghan Nolan, Electric Youth Dance Company, Dragon Man, Aim High Canines, Young Tradition-Vermont, Fiddleheads Touring Group, Shake, Morgan Myles, Rockin’ Ron Friendly Pirate. Vermont Dairy Festival, Scholarship Pageant, Jerborn, Smokin’ Gun, Pirate Man Dan, Farmer Tom Walsh, MC Mac Blues Band, Bad Horsey, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Robert Clark, Root 7. Franklin County Field Days, Julia Parent, Jamie Lee Thurston, Old Man Garage Band, Chris Erica, Friction, Express Train, Jolly Roger Band, Darcy Cahill, George Richard, Johnny Cash. Continue reading →

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