Category Archives: Humanities

Artbits-November 13, 2025

Posted on November 13, 2025 by Dick

Highgate Fall Craft Vendor Show. Methodist Craft Fair. Kids’ Entrepreneur Craft Fair. Gratitude Art Show. Maple Run Art Show. Barbara Flack. Michael Glier. Full Buck Moon Paint Night. Winter Light Paint Sip, Evie Mason. Senior Paint Tea, Victoria Vining. Hello Fall Pebble Art Workshop. Hearthside Handcrafts. Pumpkin Crafternoon. Yarn Yak, Kelli Shepherd. Gone Guys The Light Pirate Melissa Lang. MVU Skit Nite. Cardmaking with Barb. Artful Adventures in Collage. Watercolor Christmas Cards, Abbey. Beginner Theorem Painting, Martha Kinney. Social Sunday. Beginner Punch Needle Rug Hooking, Roberta Wendel. John Geno, Kevin Connelly, David Long, Ryan Finney, MDC, Urban Waste, Soji, Black Axe, Augrah, Corrupt World, Mandy Hotchkiss, DJ Kanganade, Faxohzrd, Vazy, Spacey Jones, Big Homie Wes, Samuell Guihan, Modist, NMG Cory, Roc’Tha Dopn, Tolo, Peter Wendy Matthews, Bonnie Steve Klimowski, USAF Airmen of Note, George Murtie, Bare Bones, IncaHoots, Legends of American Hardcore Punk, Tim Brick, Enablers, Quadra, Dan Parks, Sticks Stones, Better Angels, Dave Vallett, Smokey Newfield, Duncan MacLeod, Stragglers, Jaded Ravins, Tim Fitzgerald, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Phil Graziano, Carol Ann Jones, David Francey, Gift Rap, Frevo, Frank Erickson, Owen Leavey, Blake Matteson, Cece Murphy, Dan Parks,Tod Pronto, Andy Samara, Jeff Shelley, Sage Machia, 8084, Blue Rock Boys, Second Hand Blues, Uncle John’s Band, Nobby Reed, Montpelier Parks Parkapalooza. Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead. Muffin Monday. T.W. Baker, Next In Line. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women, Lisa See. Absolutely True Diary Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie. Sue Reed Jette, Amy Roberge Boylan, Violet’s Wish. Continue reading →

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Artbits-November 6, 2025

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Dick

Opera House Crafts Only Show, Highgate Fall Craft Vendor, Georgia UMC Christmas Craft Bake Sale, Sheldon Craft. Donna Blatchly, Cherie Marshall, Shanna Ratner, Wayne Tarr, Haylie Lanfear. ArtFest. NVAA Fall Show. Hearthside Handcrafts. Sylvia Oblak, Paint Sip, Camel’s Hump Autumn. Card/Gift Tag Making. Singer-songwriter competition. Beginner Line Dancing Lessons. Screenagers, Harris Strokoff. Northwest Nightmares Film Festival. Classic Movie Night, Best in Show. Luis A. Vivanco, Thinking Person’s Guide to Watching Wildlife Films. Andrew Ingall, Gail Golec, Looking Back/Moving Forward, Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+ Caregiving Community. Pre-Holiday Handwriting Tune-up Clinic, Chris Carfaro. Macrame, Allie Chapple. Bill Schubart, Write Your Life. Social Sunday. Dave Ogrodowczyk, Mike Schuster, Bob Recupero, Marie Ragan, John Marino, Bruce Leclair, Andre Maquera, Randy Smith, Frank Barnes, Gary Spaulding, Dave Miller, Jerborn, Jaden, Supaman, Element, McMaple, Phil Abair, Keeghan Nolan, Duncan MacLeod, Swamp Frog, Magnetic Horse, Rosie Newton, Bluegrass Jam, Kyle Stevens, Stragglers. Coane, Rowell, Schabner, O and Schu, Third Wheel, Jeff Gina Trio, David Karl Roberts, Cooper, George Murtie, Top of the Mountain Blues, 8084, Lady Livy, Sage Machia, Nobby Reed. Veterans’ Day. Tim Brookes, By Hand. Muffin Monday. When the Moon Turns to Blood, Leah Sottile. Wicked, Gregory Maguire. Maryanne Wood, We Need A Voice. Continue reading →

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Artbits-October 30, 2025

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Dick

Murder Mystery Dinner Theater, Peace Love and Murder. Wendy Everhart. Debbie Peate. Spooky Pet Painting Night, Linda Oakes Carvalho. Mark Isselhardt, Maple Sugaring Tradition, Innovation, and the Future of Sweetness. Shanna Ratner, Introduction to Block Printing. Social Sunday. Intro to Watercolor. Macrame 101, Feathered Forms, Karen. Board Meeting and Updates. Jesse Agan, Joshua Glass, Chris Doncaster, Eric Belrose, Myriam Leblanc, Rocky Duval, Philippe Gagne, Sumner Thompson, Eric Milnes, Monster Mash Halloween Party, Wicked Good Time Costume Party, MVU Middle School Band, Middle School String Orchestra, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, Tim Brick, Spring Chickens, 90 Proof, Vacsean, Sticks Stones, Dan Parks, McMaple, Smokey Newfield, Jerborn, Kippincoe, Kip DeMoll, Sister Speak, Sherri Anne, Dead Sessions Lite, Barbie Bones, Blue Rock Boys, Second Hand Blues, Uncle John’s Band. Ryan Sweezey, Midnight Walkers, Glass Onion, Vermont Choral Union, L’Harmonie des Saisons Baroque Ensemble, BFA-SAC String Festival Concert. Mighty Red, Louise Erdrich. Muffin Monday. Light Pirate, Lily Brooks-Dalton. Walt McLaughlin, Apprehensions of What-Is. Continue reading →

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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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