Artbits-October 19, 2023

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Chamber and the Artist in Residence Gallery close the mixer season with Barry Genzingler, and featured artists Claire Graham Smith, Gillian Ireland, and David Juaire at AIR. 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

Plan ahead for a Date Night Paint and Sip with Patrick Murphy to create an original piece of art. Read more…

CALL FOR VISUAL ARTISTS and POETS

GEMS, the Bryan Gallery show for small works, is accepting works through an online process. Vermont has issued a call for nominations for the state Poet Laureate following a tradition that began with Robert Frost. Read more…

FILM

Family Movie Night continues with a family friendly Spooky movie. There will be popcorn. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher examines a Memoir of Mime, Circus, and Parkinson’s with Rob Mermin. Read more…

THEATER

20 years of showcasing and celebrating local talent comes together for the 2023 Youth Talent Show at the House. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues with a different project. Corrina Thurston leads an introduction to Etsy. The Swanton arts council hosts Barn Quilting with Marie Speer. Alex Foltz broadcasts an outdoor oil painting lesson in Grand Isle. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Vaccines are available for COVID, the Flu, and RSV, the three main viruses that cause Franklin County people to end up in a hospital. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Youth Talent Show, Cooie Sings, Jennie and the Junketeers, Chris & Erica, IncaHoots, WD-40, Before This Time, Smet, the VSO Jukebox, Julio Desmont, Brooke Quiggins-Saulnier, Ben Lively, Stefanie Taylor, John Dunlop, BackRoots, Nate Perham, Rushmore, Bad Horsey, Cooper, Bob Recupero, John Gratton all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Local writer Walt McLaughlin will read from and sign Confronting the Unknowable: Essays on God, Nature and Being Human. Jason Barney, Randy Brock, and James Levy will discuss the case of corrupt St. Albans cop Paul Lawrence. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 12, 2023

Posted on October 12, 2023 by Dick

CALL for ARTISTS in PAINT and MUSIC

Registration is open for Summit School of Traditional Music classes and jams. The Bryan Memorial Gallery plein air Fall Artist Retreat will be led by T.M. Nicholas, Stapleton Kearns, and Tom Hughes. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The free, non-juried, uncensored, People’s Art Show continues in Kelton Hall at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. The Village Frame Shoppe features the Northern Vermont Artist Association Fall ’23 show. The Island Arts Gallery has the works of Patrick Murphy. 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 and Creative Arts Studio hosts a Spooky Night Paint and Charcuterie Party. River Arts offers the in-person, October Sip n’ Slurry: Slab Luminaries with Chiara Keeling. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

100 Candles Tattoo holds Vermont’s very first ever Rail City Tattoo Convention at St. Albans City Hall. Read more…

FILM (AND MORE)

Something spooky this way comes. The 11th annual Northwest Nightmares Film Festival is still two weeks away but the coloring contest is going on now. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher continues the Fall weekly program series with Chester F. Parsons and the History of Sheep in Vermont. Vermont Humanities presents From Homebrew to the House of Fermentology with Bill Mares. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Alex Foltz teaches a series of outdoor oil painting lessons, this week at the dam in Highgate. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council Art Journaling Group meets in person at the library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Vermont’s COVID-19 hospitalization level rose to Medium. There were 15 new admissions in Franklin County last week alone. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Howl-O-Ween and Open Mic Night plus the Jeff Salisbury Band, Sibling Reverie, the Rough Suspects, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Nickel & Dime , Chris & Erica, JT Horne all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club has a Hallowe’en Party with Agatha Christie. There are two Swanton Library book club meetings for What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty and But I Progress. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 5, 2023

Posted on October 5, 2023 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features fabric artist Claire Graham-Smith, potter Gillian Ireland, and Vermont Life photographer David Juaire with a live reception at the gallery. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Bryan Gallery Fall Festival has a full day with Eric Tobin, Pumpkin Painting, the Vermont Fiddle Orchestra, and more. The annual Snow Farm Grape Harvest Festival celebrates Vermont agriculture with the Buck Hollers, grape stomping, wagon rides, and more. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Juan Hinestroza for the final Amazing Makers conversation of 2023 to talk about a shirt that can detect diabetes status or a cape that can defend against malaria. Vermont Humanities presents Christine Hadsel with Vermont’s Historic Theater Curtains in the Westford Brick Meeting House and Howard Coffin with Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816 at Pratt Hall. Osher continues the Fall programs with James and Anne Ouellette’s Iceland: Traveling the Ring Road. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

River Arts offers the October Open Studio Figure Drawing and Karen Gunterman with a three-week Adult Beginner Macrame Series. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Social Sunday plus Learn Zentangle with Julia Davenport. St. Albans Community Arts begins Creative Connections at City Hall. Read more…

COVID NEWS

The upcoming respiratory virus season comes with vaccines available for the three main viruses that cause people to end up in a hospital: COVID, the Flu, and RSV. There were 11 new hospital admissions for COVID in Franklin County last week alone. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Nobby Reed (twice), King Me, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Third Shift, Soul and Soda, Mark Steffenhagen, the Buck Hollers, the Old Man Garage Band, Music-COMP, Dennis O’Hagan, and George Nostrand all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Students and “grown-up” readers alike are losing access to critical information, while librarians and teachers fend off attacks for doing their jobs. Banned Book Week 2023 continues with “Let Freedom Read.” Ernie Hemenway, the Traveling Storyteller, gets spooky at the Eloquent Page. Island Arts hosts its annual End of Season Book Sale. Read more…

 

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Artbits-September 28, 2023

Posted on September 28, 2023 by Dick

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The annual Fall Harvest Festival takes over Davis Park with live arts, Jerborn, the Maplegrove Band, wood fired pizza, the famed cornhole tournament, and more. Hard’ack hosts the first Saint Albans Oktoberfest with music, food, drinks, and games. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park hosts the last Art Making on the Land walking tour of the season. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Moving On Up, a painting by Gretchen Alexander. The external restoration of Kelton Hall begins this week. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

River Arts hosts the in-person, Paint & Sip: Skyscapes in Watercolor with Yvette “Evie” Mason. Read more…

DANCE & SIP

The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts Bellyfit and Sip–Belly Dancing with Donna Aviano. Wear something comfortable. Read more…

FILM

Family Movie Night returns to the Swanton Free Public Library with a family friendly flick. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Abenaki Arts & Education welcomes graphic artist Jim Taylor to discuss his art and the historical context of his work. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues the program series with Theresa Zittritsch to present the Constellations, History, Mythology, and Identification. Read more…

THEATER

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls presents Spotlight, 2023 with singing and dancing through the evening directed by Ernie Hemingway. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. River Arts begins another session of Adult Beginner Wheel Series with Cal Spinelli. Alex Foltz offers an outdoor oil painting lesson on NW Access TV. Read more…

IN THE ARTS COUNCILS

Josh Ellerbrock explores how St. Albans Community Arts has come back to life and refocused with co-directors Nichole Cunningham and Jennifer Kostuck. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here.. The Putney School reported 70 cases in about 230 students and more than 300 cases in 14 school outbreaks have been reported since the beginning of the school year less than a month ago. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Blue Northern, Mitch & Devon, Jonny Mop, Multibeast, Justice3, Inseldudler, the Nobby Reed Project, the Misty Bay Ramblers, Dan and Sean Jarvis, and She Was Right all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Events in St. Albans changed Vermont law enforcement forever. The Eloquent Page hosts a talk and book signing for Mocking Justice by Hamilton Davis, the story of undercover narcotics officer Paul Lawrence who framed dozens of people for drug crimes. The reading kicks off a “One Book One Community” event. Read more…

 

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Artbits-September 21, 2023

Posted on September 21, 2023 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

St. Albans Community Arts introduces local artists Julia Morrison Costes, Jennifer Kostuck, Jack Arthur Tremblay. Bryan Memorial Gallery congratulates Rosalie Sidoti for First Place and the Alden Bryan Medal for her painting, Evening Salt Mash. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Opera House Talent Search seeks live performers including vocal, instrumental, band, dance, spoken word, and more. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts concludes this series of Easy Folk Dancing for All Ages with Leslie Alpert. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Abenaki Land Link Project Harvest offers food, performances, storytelling, and cultural experiences. The Abenaki Arts & Education Center and Vermont Abenaki Artists Association host Outdoor Education and Allyship, programs. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Hanna Satterlee and Christy Mitchell for Perspectives 2023: Amazing Makers. Osher has Robert Wyatt’s discussion of the Brothers Gershwin. The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a Disaster Recovery Grant for ongoing flood recovery efforts by cultural organizations in Vermont. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has two workshops this week: Social Sunday continues and Julia Davenport teaches Zentangle. River Arts begins Adult Beginner Wheel Series with Cal Spinelli. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 hospitalizations have crept up: 13 Franklin County folks were hospitalized in the most recent week reported. The new Moderna and Pfizer vaccines protect against the XBB.1.5 variant which is most prevalent in Vermont. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Bob Gagnon Quartet, the Duncan Macleod Trio, Third Shift, Nighthawk, McMaple, the Hitmen, the Nobby Reed Project with special guest Joe Moore, the Devon McGarry Band, the Tyler Mast Band, Al’s Pals, Josh Panda, Inseldudler, Barbacoa, Rubix Cube, Troy Millette & the Fire Below, Cozy, the Bob & Sarah Amos Band, King Me, Milton Busker and the Grim Work, the Chad Hollister Band, Chris and Issy, Tom Bisson, and Rockin’ Ron Gagnon all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Eloquent Page welcomes Ernie Hemenway, the Traveling Storyteller, and the Mystery Book Club takes on the Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Read more…

 

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Artbits-September 14, 2023

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Dick

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Montgomery Center for the Arts presents Folded Bark Baskets with Justin Sutera. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. River Arts begins a new Adult Beginner Wheel Series with Anthony Martin. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Bryan Memorial Gallery opens the 2023 Land & Light & Water & Air exhibit with an Opening Reception. 75 artists from all over Vermont go all out for the Milton Artists’ Guild’s free third annual Art & Stroll (and Live Music) Festival. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts a Paint and Sip Walk in the Park with Linda Oakes Carvalho in Essex Junction. River Arts hosts the in-person, September Sip & Slurry: Handbuilding Mugs with Chiara Keeling. Read more…

DANCE

Island Arts continues community dancing to lively music in Easy Folk Dancing for All Ages with Leslie Alpert. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute weekly program series offers the History of American Funeral Service with Lucien Hayes and Sherry Scott. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID-19 is still here but school nurses can’t administer COVID tests to students. Case counts are rising again. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Slightly Used, Mark Shelton, Frevo, the Rough Suspects, the Rehab Roadhouse, Uncle Jimmy, John Geno, and more perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue as well as John Bartus plays a Jimmy Buffett tribute in a special Facebook Live Concert. Read more…

 

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