Artbits-June 20, 2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by Dick

NATIONAL MAKE MUSIC DAY

Make Music Day is an annual, global celebration of music. The free, public event welcomes musicians of all levels and genres to perform in various outdoor spaces, turning cities, towns, and front yards into live music stages. It is a festival for all Vermonters on what is often the longest day of the year. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The 2024 Jeffersonville Art Jam continues with music and art including the NVAA 93rd June Juried Show, works by Emile Gruppe, Aldo T. Hibbard, Thomas Curtin, Robert Blair, Karen Winslow, Eric Tobin, Karen Winslow, and more, a sidewalk art fest, plus Mango Jam under the mini circus tent. There are spotlights on Chris Bessette, Dawn DiCecco, Claudette Eaton, John Edebohlts, Carolyn Kittell, Joanie McMahon, Kelli Shepherd, Liane Spaulding, Sarah Weber, and Lina Longtoe. Read more…

ART CENTER NEWS

Montgomery Center for the Arts and Catamount Film and Arts both celebrate homecomings. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

There is a Paint Your Own Pet Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Read more…

DANCE

The Ballet School of Vermont & Northern Vermont Ballet concludes the daily Pop up Advanced Ballet Classes. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The third annual Rail City Fan Fest brings arts, robot demos, cosplay contests, trivia, Fortnite tournaments with SACA on hand to do fantasy themed arts. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum offers Foraging 101, a two-day Presentation and Field Trip. The Franklin Historical Society presents historian Howard Coffin with Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816, a perfect antidote to the heat wave. Read more…

IT’S THE LAW

It against the law to whistle underwater in Vermont. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets. Social Sunday continues. The St. Albans Community Arts Creative Connections meets twice a week now. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

She Was Right (thrice), Cooper (twice), the Young Tradition Touring Group, Dan and Sean Jarvis, Rushmore, the Hitmen, Bob and Val, the Pet Project, Jesse Agan, Mitch & Devon, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Ryan Sweezy and the Midnight Walkers, Mark Shelton, Carol Ann Jones with Will Patton, Nottingham Drive, Mark Abair & the Good Luck Band, Ryan Hanson, the Rustics, Canyon Dreams, Phil Graziano, Roger Giroux, Mango Jam, Evan Alsop, David Karl Roberts, Cooie Sings, the Enosburg Town Band, Danny & the Parts, the Citizens Concert Band, Blue Heron all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Enjoy a Book Sale and the Mystery Book Club read Naked in Death by J.D. Robb. Read more…

 

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Artbits-June 13, 2024

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery Summer Group Show, Luminous, features Gail Salzman. Bloom: the Nature of Art opens at Montgomery Center for the Arts. David Stromeyer’s walking tour of Cold Hollow Sculpture Park was rescheduled. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Courtney Adams. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Jesse Lawyer. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Bryan Memorial Gallery presents the video salon Eulogizing the Body with John Killacky. Vermont Humanities presents American Stories Across the Generations with Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. Dinny Hawksworth was selected by the Preservation Trust of Vermont for the 2024 Preservation Award. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a free Tie-Dye Tote workshop with Abbey. The Milton Artists Guild has the Queer Art Club, Intro to Flat Felting with Carmella Cyr, and Social Sunday. Island Arts presents a Handcrafted Greeting Card Workshop with Pat Brennan. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Still Kickin’, Jim Branca solo, Carol Ann Jones with Will Patton, Pen Hits, Cooper, Raised by Hippies, Sticks and Stones, Sibling Reverie, Toast, Kyle Stevens, the Bushey Bedell Duo, the Smokey Newfield Project, 90 Proof, the Better Days Band, Nick DiDonna, the Jeff Salisbury Band, Mad Mojo, Blue Heron with Ethan Sawyer and Martin Fredrick, Acoustic Mayhem with Arthur James and Bee Wild, the Young Tradition Touring Group, Jacqueline Schwab with Ernestine Tuyishime and Christine Aziza, the Paul Asbell Quartet with Michael Zsoldos, Gabe Jarrett, and Clyde Stats, Jamie Lee Thurston, Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, George Murtie, the Enosburg Town Band, Dave Keller, Mama Tried, IncaHoots, and Nobby Reed all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Adventure begins at your library or bookstore. Alyx Hilshey brings the Magic of the Library to Highgate. Jason Barney and Christine Eldred will sign and talk about The Hidden History of Lake Champlain. The SPL Book Club discusses Angel’s Flight by Michael Connelly and But I Progress takes up The Overstory by Richard Powers. Read more…

 

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Artbits-June 6, 2024

Posted on June 6, 2024 by Dick

GRAND OPENING

St. Albans Community Arts celebrates their new downtown home in the Ralston’s Building. The gallery opening is “for everyone to stop in, get creative, and view the first works that will be showing in the space.” Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Natalie LaRocque, Martha McGinn, Susannah Sakal, and Longina Smolinski with a live reception at the gallery. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park opens for the season on Saturday with David Stromeyer leading a walking tour. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Ridgeline by Joseph Salerno. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Patrick Lamphere. Janet Bonneau’s painting Westward Sun was awarded the NVAA 1st Place in Oils. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The St. Albans Pride Corps has events all over town for St. Albans Pride Weekend: the 80s Prom Gala and Silent Auction, the Pride Parade, the first Pride in the Park, a Drag Story Hour, the Franklin County Drag Ball , and more. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association hosts a Black Ash Pounding in Lake Carmi State Park. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The June Open Studio Figure Drawing at River Arts offers a partial nude session. The Montgomery Center for the Arts reprises Folded Bark Baskets with Justin Sutera. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Chris & Erica (twice), Cooie DeFransisco (twice) with Adlai and with her Trio, the Jolly Rogers Band, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Ryan Sweezey and the Midnight Walkers, Jimmy Branca and Friends, Mark Abair and his All Star Band, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Hot Neon Magic, Bob Chevalier, the Old Man Garage Band, Justice 3, Mirage, George Murtie, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Christine Malcolm and the Kate Brook Romp, Shane Murley’s Duet, Al’s Pals, Bethany Conner, and Dave Keller all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club begins with The Princess Bride by William Goldman. Explore the Story Wilds, the SACA writing group, meets. Read more…

 

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Artbits-May 30, 2024

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Dick

MILK FROM MOO TO YOU

June is National Dairy Month! The 68th Vermont Dairy Festival takes over downtown Enosburg Falls with music and entertainment, the Dairy Scholarship Pageant, Fireworks, pig races, and one of Vermont’s largest parades. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The 2024 Jeffersonville Art Jam brings music and art everywhere in downtown Jeffersonville with the Northern Vermont Artists Association 93rd June Juried Show, the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra, a sidewalk art fest, gallery shows, and more. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Rosalie Sidoti. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association showcases Lori Lambert. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The First Sundays Flea & Farmers Market fills the Opera House with artists and handmade/hand-produced crafts and goods. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Once Upon A Rock joins the Holy Walkamolies Relay For Life team with a Pebble Art Fundraiser. Read more…

CREATIVE NETWORK

The Vermont Creative 2024 Creative Sector Convening happens in downtown Bellows Falls on June 6. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Elizabeth Powell will have Words in the Woods in a Vermont Humanities program at Knight Point State Park. Admission is free. Storyteller Eugene Rich tells Abenaki Stories at Grand Isle State Park. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with free weekly art classes for families. River Arts offers Painting Pastoral, with Vermont artist Yvette “Evie” Mason. The Bryan Memorial Gallery offers a Cartooning Class with Robert Waldo Brunelle Jr. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here. Two of my friends were infected at a dinner party. Keep your guard up. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Bettenroo Duo (twice), NightHawk, Sticks and Stones, Carol Ann Jones, B-Town, the Devon McGarry Band, Sanctuary, Jim Branca, Jacob Green, the Buck Hollers, Ryan Hanson, Sister Speak, Bad Horsey, Lawless, Jacqueline Schwab, Ernestine Tuyishime, Christine Aziza, Tony Pietricola, Bob Gagnon, and Julia Parent all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Bent Northop Memorial Library June Book Sale starts this week. The Eloquent Page introduces St. Albans writer Tamara Mathieu to discuss and sign her memoir, All Who Believed. Read more…

 

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Artbits-May 23, 2024

Posted on May 23, 2024 by Dick

SUMMER MUSIC

Music is in the air as three big series start their summer seasons this weekend: the Farewell Reunion Concert, the Summer Concerts on the Green, and Celebration of Expressive Arts. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Bryan Memorial Gallery features Camel’s Hump, an oil by Brian Hewitt. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features painter and multimedia artist Francine Poitras Jones. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person, May Sip n’ Slurry: Textured Button Planter with Chiara Keeling as the pottery twist on a Paint n’ Sip. Read more…

AWARDS

Northwest Access TV earned a national Best of Overall Excellence as a Public, Educational, and Government Access Center award. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Abenaki Nation of Missisquoi annual Memorial Day weekend Heritage Celebration has the Blackhawk Singers, dancers Dan Shears and Takara Hansell, and more. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum opens for the season with the Chwarelwyr (Quarrymen) exhibition by Carwyn Rhys Jones. Mitch Wertlieb hosts a Saint Albans Community Picnic. Historian Howard Coffin discusses Vermont Women and the Civil War. Actor David Mills portrays Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Dare to Dream. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has three workshops. Laurie Thompson leads Paint Pouring–Ring Pour Technique. Social Sunday continues with free weekly art classes for families. Tina Lesperance concludes the Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here but the way it is reported is changing. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Karaoke and Open Mic, plus Rockin’ Ron Gagnon (twice), Sergio Torres, the John Lackard Blues Duo, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Jonny Mop, McMaple, Last Kid Picked, Slightly Used, Becky Tracy and Keith Murphy, the All Night Boogie Band, the Nerbak Brothers Band, Rehab Roadhouse, Al’s Pals, Dan & Sean Jarvis, Cooie and Adlai, the Blue Rock Boys, Eric Bushey, Cliff Crosby, Michael Bjella, Sabina Perkins, Bella and the Notables, Roger Giroux , George Murtie, Beg, Steal or Borrow, Mark Shelton, Justin Dennis, the Miller Trio Jeanne Miller, JD Miller, Will Miller, David Karl Roberts, and Ethan Sawyer all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Alice Martin, author of the Wolf Warrior series, will sign her books at the Eloquent Page. Read more…

 

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Artbits-May 16, 2024

Posted on May 16, 2024 by Dick

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star hosts a Paint Your Pet Portrait paint n sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. The Swanton Arts Council Art Journaling Group meets in person at the Swanton Free Public Library . Youniquely Me hosts Make Your Own Star Wars Terrarium. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Montgomery Center for The Arts hosts the semi-annual MES Student Spring Art Show in MCA-Kelton Hall. The Beneath Our Skin exhibit with stories of Black Vermonters who were fully, partially or not at all vaccinated against COVID-19 is on display. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features Nathan Johnson’s elaborately painted carved horse/bird dance sticks. The traveling exhibit Nebizun: Water Is Life is on view at Ethan Allen Homestead. Read more…

HUMANITIES

UVM professor Adrian Ivakhiv introduces the field of Environmental Humanities with Critical Studies for Feverish Times. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts the two-day Impressionist Portraits in Pastel or Oil workshop led by Karen Meneghin. The Milton Artists’ Guild offers Social Sunday, Aviano Bellydance Class, and the Workshop for those with Dementia and their Caregivers with Tina Lesperance. The Brick Store has classes in Letterpress Printing. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 cases fell again but statewide hospitalizations were unchanged. Another Vermonter died the virus as the pandemic total rose to 1,147 in Vermont. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

It is Karaoke and Open Mic Night and Open Mic Coffee House night, plus Next Stop Comedy, Cooie Sings, Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton, The Duel with John Geno and Kevin Connelly, Banjo Dan and Willy, Danny Coane, and Sam Blagden as the VT Bluegrass Pioneers, Shane’s Apothecary, Justice 3, Pet Project, the Maple Grove Band, Blues Without Borders, Chris & Erica, Chris and Issy, the Stragglers, Bob Gagnon, Jeff Shelley, the Windham Philharmonic, and Laura Fedele-Rasco all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Vaisey Royale premiered. The 24th annual Franklin County Quilt Show was ablaze with spring colors. Mark Shelton sang Gospel. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The SPL Book Club meets to discuss the Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brownand But I Progress meets to discuss the graphics novel Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe. Vermont has named Bianca Stone the next Poet Laureate. Read more…

 

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