Category Archives: Festivals

Artbits-April 24, 2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Dick

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

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-March 13, 2025

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Dick

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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Artbits-February 13, 2025

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Dick

Vaccine, vaccination, booster, COVID, flu, RSV, Mark Levine. Marissa Mcfadden. Marilyn Ruseckas. Skate Deck Painting, Jen. Pet Portraits, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Kreations by Katherine, Penguin Love Paint Night. Winter Carnival, Hard’ack, Barn Rats. GreatIce! Winter Festival. Uniting for Community, tattoo, Starvation Wages, Champlain Shoregasm, Vallory Falls, Assorted Fruit, Path. Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Eileen Heckart, Butterflies Are Free. Osher, James Anne Ouellette, Alaskan Cruise and Land Tour. James Lockridge, Finding a Voice in the Arts. Alex Foltz, plein air, outdoor oil painting lessons. Social Sunday. Bare Bones, Chris Erica, Will Warren, IncaHoots, Dirty Looks, John Gratton, Smokey Newfield, Spencer Lewis, Fiddlehead Hollow, Dan Parks, Ryan Hanson, Owl Stars, KCB Band, Tyler Ramsey, Troy Millette. Banned Books Group, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou. Continue reading →

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Artbits-January 30, 2025

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Dick

Vaccine, vaccination, booster, long-COVID, ME/CFS. Marissa Mcfadden. George Van Hook. Northern Lights Paint Night, Winter Deer Paint Party. Winter Renaissance Faire. SAM Talks, History of the Concept of Race, William Edelglass. Klee Wyck, Emily Carr. Carolyn Kittell, Needle Felting. Social Sunday. Son Shindig, Nathan Michaud, Smokey Newfield, Mr. C, Tim Fitzgerald, Lady Livy, Natural Selection, Better Angels, Duncan Macleod, Nickle Dime, Shane Murley, Roger Giroux, Arthur James, John Bartus, Myra Flynn. Muffin Monday. Fantasy Book Club, The House in the Cerulean Sea, TJ Klune. Continue reading →

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Artbits-December 26, 2024

Posted on December 26, 2024 by Dick

Vaccine, vaccination, booster. Highlight New Year’s Eve, First Night North, Vermont Opera, Fireworks, Acqua Mossa, Circus Smirkus, Florry, Fluffy Bus, Bizet, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Zach Nugent, Nathan Michaud, Ryan Sweezey, Bizet, Verdi, Mozart, Rossini, Barbie-n-Bones, Sticks and Stones, Neon Spoon. Jaimie Katon. Charlie Hunter. Poinsettia Bowls, Lindsay. Social Sunday. Phil Scott. COVID. Jason Corbiere, Dave Keller, Rob Meehan, McMaple, the Duncan MacLeod Trio, Fyspot, Chris, Erica, Carol Ann Jones, Troy Millette, Fire Below, Owl Stars, Jeff Salisbury, Sitchell, Blue Heron, Sean Dan Jarvis, Astral Underground, Zach Nugent, Dead Set, Ethan Sawyer, Martin Fredrick, Ben Maddox, John Notaro, Margaux Simmons, Mark Shelton, Messiah Marin Alsop, Bob Christianson, Gary Anderson. Continue reading →

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