Artbits-March 21, 2024

Posted on March 21, 2024 by Dick

MONEY MONEY

“There just isn’t any money,” Gov. Phil Scott said as he signed the mid-year budget update. The annual Budget Adjustment Act balances the state budget through the end of the current fiscal year. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features seamstress Billie Jo Garfield. Bryan Memorial Gallery spotlights A Song at Days End by Cynthia Rosen. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market with local crafters and makers. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute welcomes Jennifer McConnell to discuss Anne Steele: Life & Hymnody. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s monthly Bridging Perspectives speaker series continues with Andrea Tamburro to discuss Intergenerational Trauma: Healing and Resilience. The Vermont Humanities Council offers Peter Harrigan to discuss Barbie’s Reflection on Our World. Read more…

OPERA

The Metropolitan Opera presents Romeo et Juliette. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts with soprano Nadine Sierra and tenor Benjamin Bernheim. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Paint Pouring with the Balloon Technique with Laurie Thompson and Social Sunday continues the free art class for families. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a Clay Earring Class. Read more…

COVID NEWS

CDC estimates that 97% of Americans have some level of immunity from COVID, from either vaccination or infection or both, but 42 Vermonters have died and 370 have hospitalized since New Year’s Day means COVID is still here. Franklin County accounts for more than one-third of those hospitalizations. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Comedy for a Cause, Karaoke and Open Mic Night, Cooie Sings, Jenni and the Junketeers, Duncan MacLeod, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Uncle Jimmy, Ryan Sweezy and the Midnight Walkers, Ray’s Used Cars Band, Next Stop Comedy, Kyle Stevens, Elizabeth Begins, the Tom Caswell Blues Project, PET Project, and John Bartus all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Highgate Library and Community Center Adult Virtual Book Club reads The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley. The St. Albans Free Library hosts Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries. Read more…

 

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Artbits-March 14, 2024

Posted on March 14, 2024 by Dick

Slainte! Get your Irish on!

ROTARY HOME SHOW

Rotary Club of St. Albans opens the 30th Home & Recreation Exposition with free admission as one of the biggest Home Shows ever. Showcase your own collection of fine art etchings or build space for a house concert with KISS on their After the End of the End of the Road Tour. Read more…

IN THE HOUSE

Vermont’s Celtic rockers, Prydein sets the Opera House stage on fire again for St. Patrick’s Weekend. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Spring Release, the Vermont Watercolor Society Spring Members’ Show, opens with a reception. The show features the work of MAG member Mary Anne Duffy Godin. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Jacob Aguiar’s pastel the Vermont Blues. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market with local crafters and makers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Milton Artists Guild hosts Paint and Sip–Patty the Gnome with Sylvia Oblak. River Arts has the in-person, Paint & Sip: Spring Landscapes with Natalie Carr. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Northern Vermont Artists’ Association annual June Show seeks member works for the annual exhibit at Visions of Vermont Gallery. Read more…

FEATURED ARTISTS

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features the Elnu Abenaki Singers. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s monthly Bridging Perspectives speaker series continues with Andrea Tamburro to discuss Intergenerational Trauma: Healing and Resilience. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute welcomes Extension Associate Professor Emeritus Chester F. Parsons to discuss the History of Sheep in Vermont. The Vermont Humanities Council will discuss Wallace Stegner’s Based on a Real Life: Angle of Repose and invite Professor Felicia Kornbluh to discuss Reproductive Rights and Justice in the 1970s and Today. Read more…

POETRY

The Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center presents spoken word poet/emcee and teaching artist Rajnii Eddins. Read more…

TOWN MEETING

Richard Cowperthwait, Bridget Higdon, and Tim Smith analyzed the results and spoke with candidates/officials about the Town Meeting on NW Access TV. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Swanton Free Public Library hosts Intro to Macrame with local crafter Allie Chapple. The Bryan Gallery offers Key Elements in Portrait Painting with George Van Hook as well as a live painting session with Plein Air artist Viktor Butko. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center/ River Arts offers Creative Escape–Fantasy in Art with Jen Volansky in the Mindful Art Series plus the Best I’ve Ever Slabbed: Handbuilding Clay Class with Chiara. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here. Hospitalizations statewide were down but almost half of those hospitalizations were in Franklin County. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Karaoke, Irish music and bagpipes, Fam Jam!, the Smokey Newfield Project (twice), Ron Gagnon, Jomoband,, Shane’s Apothecary, the Phantom Airwaves, Matty & Me, the Last Kid Picked, 90 Proof, the Paul Asbell Trio, IncaHoots, Chris & Issy, the WD40s, John Gratton, the Phillip Hyjek Trio, Spencer Lewis, Roger Giroux, Dave Miller, Barbie-N-Bones all appear live at a stage near you. Read more…

 

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Artbits-March 7, 2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features different artists each month. This month, the spotlight is on potter Barbara Colgrove, Barbara Flathers , and Dorothy Goulet with a live reception at the gallery. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association showcases photographer Michael Descoteaux. Bryan Memorial Gallery has Derry Farmstead by Marieluise Hutchinson. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market in the Taproom with local crafters and makers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

14th Star Brewing Company hosts a Pet Portraits Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. They will need a clear digital image of your pet. River Arts’ in-person, January Sip n’ Slurry: Coil Plates is led by Chiara Keeling. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The St. Albans Community Arts Creative Connections continues at St. Albans City Hall with special tools, extra hands, materials, pointers, equipment and more. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Montgomery Center for the Arts opens Skiing Through Time, a Tour of Montgomery’s History with Snow, with a reception. Osher continues the program series with Bridget Butler to discuss Becoming a Friend to Our Waterways. Read more…

OPERA

The Metropolitan Opera presents Verdi’s La Forza del Destino with soprano Lise Davidsen Live in HD on the big screen. Yannick Nezet-Seguin conducts. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The March Open Studio Figure Drawing at River Arts offers a semi-nude session for figure drawing; sculptors and photographers. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with free weekly art classes. Snow Farm Vineyard and Once Upon A Rock host a Pebble Art Workshop. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Vermont passes a milestone today. March 7, 2020, was the day COVID-19 came to Vermont. Two Vermonters died. Four years later, COVID is still here. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Acoustic Thursday, Nobby Reed (twice), Josh Panda and Peter Day, Sanctuary, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Toast, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, the KCB Band, Bob & Crystal Carew all appear live at a venue near your. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 29, 2024

Posted on February 29, 2024 by Dick

TOWN MEETING

Town Meeting will be held in most of our Towns this Tuesday at 10 a.m. Voters will decide on a number of arts items including concerts and other programming, their Library budgets, and more. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

River Arts hosts the art of Bob Titterton and John Sargent in Realism and Waterways with an opening reception with an artists’ talk and light refreshments. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features the after-school initiative Circle of Courage that draws on the writings of Larry Brendtro. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market with local crafters and makers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person, March Sip n’ Slurry: Pocket Wall Hangings with Chiara Keeling as the pottery twist on a Paint n’ Sip. Read more…

FESTIVALS

The 67th annual KCB Day is a weekend festival this year. The KCB Beautification Committee hosts Hot Dogs in the Hut with the Caribbean steel drum music of Van Bertie. KCB Day then has live music plus exhibits and sales by Keys artists. Read more…

FILM

Telling Stories Frame by Frame is a Vermont State University Student Film and Video Showcase with a video essay about Spanish cinema, a film about an isolated young man with diabetes, experimental shorts, and more. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues with Chip Sawyer to discuss the Next Steps in City Revitalization. The Vermont Humanities Council presents Josh Jackson with The Chance of Ten Lifetimes–Restoring Notre Dame de Paris. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues with free weekly art classes at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates in person at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide were down for the week but more than one-third of those hospitalizations were in Franklin County. Deaths have held steady. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Fam Jam!, Karaoke Night, Chris & Erica (twice), Cooper, Bob Recupero, the John Lackard Blues Duo, Nighthawk, Staircase 24, Dan Parks with Mark Steffenhagen, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Jerborn, Sister Speak, and Ethan Sawyer and Martin Fredrick as Blue Heron all appear live in a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this week with Andre Maquera with Loudon Granger, the National Youth Orchestra of the United States, and Mark Shelton. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 22, 2024

Posted on February 22, 2024 by Dick

DINNER THEATER

The Depot hosts Midnight at the Masquerade–A Murder Mystery. Evening wear, ball gowns, Venetian masks, suits, and tuxes are de rigueur. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts a Live Painting Session with Tom Waters as a look at an artist in action to experience the creative process firsthand. The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features storyteller, writer, and wood worker Brian Chenevert. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds a Maker’s Market in the Taproom with local crafters and makers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person Paint & Sip–Tropical Getaway in Watercolor with Evie Mason. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Dr. Bob Goodby will present the History of the Abenaki in Vermont and New Hampshire. Vermont Humanities has Britton Rogers and Catherine Emil to discuss Crafting the Future: The State of Craft Education in Vermont. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with free weekly art classes. The Spanked Puppy hosts a Pebble Art Workshop. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here. Cases continue with 38 hospitalizations statewide for the week with almost one-third of those hospitalizations in Franklin County. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Karaoke & Open Mic Night, Stewart Foster, Left Eye Jump, Mitch & Devon, Sticks and Stones, Troy Millette & The Fire Below, Sibling Reverie, Chris Lyon, the Rick Lieder Band all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Haston Library Book Discussion Group will talk about Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. The Highgate Library and Community Center hosts the Adult Virtual Book Club with romance novel Book Lovers by Emily Henry. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club reads Cocaine Blues by Kerry Greenwood. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 15, 2024

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Dick

VIVACIOUS VARIETY

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls presents V! A Night of Vivacious Variety with Mistress Manifest, Ginge O’Lolly, Mike Thomas, plus special performances. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Vermont Abenaki Artists Association features painter and potter Lucy Cannon-Neel. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

14th Star Brewing Company holds the weekly Maker’s Market with local crafters and makers. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio host Penguin Love Paint and Sip. Read more…

FILM

Cambridge Arts Council presents One Week with Buster Keaton and Sybil Seeley plus Something Good – Negro Kiss for Silent Movie Night. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues the Spring weekly program series with Dominic Cloud’s discussion of Creating a Community of Distinction. The Vermont Humanities Council double header offers Jerome Moore looking at Becoming an Explorer of Social Change plus a lunchtime discussion of Gastronomy: Novels about Food and Culture featuring Paper Fish by Tina De Rosa. Read more…

WINTER CARNIVAL

The St. Albans Winter Carnival takes over Hard’ack for live music by Minced Oats and by the Barn Rats for two days of family fun. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with a free weekly art class for families. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here. Cases continue with 13 hospitalizations in Franklin County. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Fam Jam!, Rebecca Padula, the BFA-St. Albans Improv Team, Karaoke Night, Jenni and the Junketeers, 90 Proof, Dan Parks with Mark Steffenhagen, Maple Grove, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Nate Michaud, Bare Bones, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Dave Miller, Breanna Elaine, Topia, Xistential, $Wabi, Hakimxoxo, Trillsinterlude, Cooie Defrancesco, Jeff & Gina, and Brian Roberts all take the stage live at a venue near you. Read more…

 

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