Artbits-September 3, 2026

Posted on September 3, 2026 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park hosts a docent-led tour Art Making on the Land with Laura Need. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on September artists Lindsay DiDio, Wendy Everhart, Chris Jenkins, and Cat McKeen. The Swanton Arts Council Artists of the Week are Caroline Hillyard and Praxedis Leyva. Read more…

ART IS A BENEFIT

The Artist in Residence and the St Albans Free Library host a Library Lover’s Art Auction to support the library’s brick restoration project. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Island Arts’ Artisans Market returns, hosted by Jennifer Pratt. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Swanton Arts Council hosts Cardmaking with Barb in the Maker Space of the Swanton Free Public Library. Burlap and Barnwood and Kayleigh Beaulieu offer a Hat Burning Workshop at the North Hero House. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library and Community Center. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Public Library. Read more…

DANCE

Michelle Nordberg offers Beginner Line Dancing at the Depot and at the Highgate Manor. Between the Lines Line Dancing has Beginner Line Dancing at the American Legion. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Champlain Valley Fair continues through Sunday with Essex Art League, Lauren McCabe, plus the Vermont Music Showcase with local favorites Steve Hartmann, Troy Millette & the Fire Below, and Chris & Erica. Chandler Arts presents the New World Festival. The Family Tent features Sugar in the Pan from Young Tradition Vermont, the No Strings Marionettes, and more. Read more…

FILM

The City Belonging, Equity & Inclusion Committee presents The Librarians in the Movies That Matter series at the Welden. Read more…

GATHERINGS

Muffin Monday continues, The GPL Crafting Club meets. The Queer Art Club continues. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Fall Colors in Watercolor with Evie Mason continues at River Arts. 60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night. Senior Saturdays begin, Becky Chappell leads the Paint the Landscape in Pastel workshop, and Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Maple City Music opens, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan (twice), Troy Millette & the Fire Below (twice), Cooie’s Trio, the Nerbak Brothers, the Devon McGarry Band, She Was Right, IncaHoots, Shane’s Apothecary, the Jerband, Michael Perry, Jesse & Jess, Seth Yacovone, Jim Charonko, Andrew Wells-Oberegger, Lady Livy, Tony Pietricola and Bob Gagnon, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Ryan Sweezey, the Buck Hollers, Blue Fox, Lixx, the M.S.J. Jazz Trio, J.S.B. the Jeff Salisbury Band, Sister Speak, Roger Giroux, the Shane Murley Trio, Third Wheel, Nathan Michaud, the Jim Branca Quartet, Second Hand Blues, Ali T, Pegzilla, Violet Crimes, Dog Water, the Once Around the Block Marching Band, and Nobby Reed all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

DonnaRae Menard continues the weekly read of Snuffling Up Bones. The NW Access TV Local Music Playlist is on YouTube. The Nobby Reed Project recorded As the Years Go Passing Bye live. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Libraries will be closed on Monday for Labor Day. The Rail Trail Pub has a book club. The Highgate Library welcomes DonnaRae Menard to Book Club. The September book is The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club meets for The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft. The St. Albans Free Library Tuesday Night Book Group reads Theo of Golden by Allen Levi. The Swanton Free Public Library is experimenting with opening early on Tuesdays. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 27, 2026

Posted on August 27, 2026 by Dick

CALL FOR FILM MAKERS

The fourteenth annual Northwest Nightmares Film Festival offers spooky glory. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park welcomes Artist-in-Residence Ca$h Cow AKA Ed Woodham for Free Range. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Tess Follensbee. Bryan Gallery hosts Dinner with Andrew Orr to celebrate A Journey of Place. The Milton Artists’ Guild will host the September Special Exhibit, Art of the Coop with an opening reception. The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Sara Hayes. Read more…

ART IS A BENEFIT

The Artist in Residence and the St Albans Free Library are hosting a Library Lover’s Art Auction to support the library’s brick restoration project. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Julia Davenport guides the Explosion Books class. Jude Prashaw guides Sip n’ Slurry: Wall-Hanging Vase. Coffee and Crafts meets in Highgate. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets in Enosburg. Read more…

DANCE

Michelle Nordberg offers Beginner Line Dancing at the Depotand at the Highgate Manor. Read more…

FILM

The Fairfield Community Center has free pizza, popcorn and a movie. The St. Albans Free Library Film Noir Festival continues with Cast a Dark Shadow starring Dirk Bogarde and Margaret Lockwood. Read more…

GATHERINGS

Muffin Monday continues . The GPL Crafting Club meets at the library. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Professor John Franklin will discuss the ancient tale of Odysseus and his quest for worldwide box office domination at Franklin Town Hall. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Evie Mason leads the Pen & Ink with Watercolor Workshop and the Fall Colors in Watercolor at River Arts. 60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night with a live model. Social Sunday continues and Julia Davenport guides the Fall Zentangle at the Milton Artists’ Guild. The three-part Mindful Making Art Workshop Series begins at Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The End-of-Summer Bluegrass Jam, Cooie and Friends, B-Town, the Devon McGarry Band, Bob Cotton, Just Us, Michael Perry, Big Homie Wes, Blackwolf, Seth Yacovone, Jim Charonko, Soulshine Revival, Cooper, the Cobras, Evan Warner, the Mad Mojo Band, Jesse Agan, the Stragglers, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Deb Murphy & the Boyz, the BBQ Band, Good Gravy, Jeff and Gina, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Will Austin, Kippincoe, David Karl Roberts, Side Hustle, the Mowgli Trio, the Geoffrey Kim Trio, Neon Spoon, Sister Speak, and Marsh Lights all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Walt McLaughlin will sign Contemplating the Boundless at the Eloquent Page. The Classics Book Club meets to discuss Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 20, 2026

Posted on August 20, 2026 by Dick

ART IS ALWAYS A WINNER

The Artist in Residence and the St Albans Free Library host a Library Lover’s Art Auction to support the library’s brick restoration project. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Rebecca Nase Chomyn. Bryan Memorial Gallery features new works by poet and painter Harry Bauld. The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Kathy Giroux, Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Dick Wright Pub holds a free Water Marbling Sumnagashi Workshop with Mandi. The Swanton Art Journaling Group meets. Coffee and Crafts and Sip, Stitch, & Share, and Creative Creatures meet. Read more…

CALL FOR THESPIANS

The Opera House is assembling a live shadow cast for the Rocky Horror Picture Show. They need to fill every shadow role. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Vermont Reggae Fest features Richie Spice, Sister Nancy, the Abyssinians, Marlon Asher with Roots Alley Collective, and Inna Higher Heights Band, Read more…

FILM

The St. Albans Free Library Film Noir Festival continues with Try and Get Me! starring Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, Kathleen Ryan, and Richard Carlson. Read more…

GATHERINGS

The Milton Artists’ Guild begins a monthly Community Critique Night to bring artists of all disciplines and skill levels together to share work, receive thoughtful feedback, and offer insights. Fiber Arts Meet and Make meets at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets at the library. Muffin Monday continues. The GPL Crafting Club meets. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Franklin County Senior Center will host an Advance Directive Workshop. Twiggs hosts Death, Dying and Danishes. The Isle La Motte Preservation Trust has Jonathan C. Lane for Independence Upon the Water: Lake Champlain, Isle La Motte, and the Making of a Nation. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

ReMarketVT welcomes Dot Goulet to lead the Adventures in Acrylics Workshop. 60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night. Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr. leads a Cartooning Workshop, Social Sunday continues, and Becky Chappell guides the Gel Printing Basics Workshop, all at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Nobby Reed Project (thrice), Soulshine Revival (twice), Justice 3 (twice), Chris and Erica (twice), the Devon McGarry Band, Ultraviolet, Michael Perry, the John Lackard Blues Band, Decade, the Long Gone John Band, Seth Yacovone, Jim Charonko, Ventriloquist Doug Mickan, Kyle Stevens, Sohyun Ahn, YYZeppelin, McMaple, Bettenroo, Mark Abair and Friends, Nighthawk, Dan Parks, Moonbird, Mad Mojo, the Jim Branca Trio, Luis Betancourt, Tournesol, the Blue Rock Boys, Ethan Sawyer, Piper Hall, Staircase 24, the Dave Keller Band, the Art DeQuasie Trio, the Tenderbellies, the Jimmy Jam, the Dale & Darcy Band, UnCommon Jam, the Owl Stars, the MetalWerx Euphonium and Tuba Quartet, the Stragglers, Blue Blazes, Rushmore, Ryan Sweezy, Luke Borchelt, and Troy Millette & the Fire Below all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this week. DonnaRae Menard reads from Snuffling Up Bones. The Oleo Romeos played the Meeting House on the Green. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Franklin County Photogs hosts a virtual Zoom group. The Haston Book Discussion Group meets for Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. The North Hero Library hosts a book launch for Midnight’s Tale by Joyce Benvenuto. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club meets for The Return of the Pharaoh by Nicholas Meyer. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone. The Swanton Free Public Library has Ventriloquist Doug Mickan. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 13, 2026

Posted on August 13, 2026 by Dick

ART YOU CREATE

The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a Perler Bead Popup as well as the Embroidery Club. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library. Sip, Stitch, & Share gathers at the Enosburgh Library. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park presents Tuning, Timing, Resonance as a “one-of-a-kind day of music, sound, and sculpture” with composer Phil Acimovic. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Kristina Bolduc. The Island Arts Gallery artist of the month is Patrick Graziano. The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Nicole Gadouas. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Milton Artists’ Guild 2026 Art Supply Sale fundraiser joins the Milton town-wide yard sale. The Art Supply Sale proceeds support MAG’s mission of making art accessible for all. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival has live bluegrass and roots music with Watchhouse, I’m With Her, Railroad Earth, Green Mountain All Stars and many, more. Read more…

FILM

The St. Albans Free Library 17th annual Film Noir Festival continues with a double feature of My Name Is Julia Ross with Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, and George Macready plus The Threat with Michael O’Shea, Virginia Grey, and Charles McGraw. Read more…

GATHERINGS

The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. Read more…

HUMANITIES

VNA & Hospice of the Southwest Region host an Advance Directive Workshop at the Haston Library. Island Arts presents Maeve Kim to discover How and Why Birds Make Noise. The Swanton Academy features an interactive Wetlands & Wildlife in the Refuge Workshop and much more. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

George Van Hook leads Painting en Plein Air as a two day workshop starting at Bryan Memorial Gallery. 60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night with a live model. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Lucie Faulkner leads Part 2 of the Clay Ornaments Workshop at the Island Arts. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

An Open Mic and Coffeehouse, Nobby Reed (twice), Jerborn (twice), She Was Right(twice), VachSean (twice), Blues for Breakfast, Quadra, James Shelly, Bad Horsey, Mitch & Devon, Tim Brick and the Enablers, Eric Bushey solo, Michael Perry, Abby Sherman and the Way North, Dead Sessions Lite, Seth Yacovone solo, Jim Charonko, Lumos Live, Carol Ann Jones and Will Patton, Evan David Warner, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Side Hustle, Barbie N Bones, Kiel Love, Sleeveless Tease with Narah Sparks, JSB, the Smokey Newfield Project, the Dale and Darcy Band, J.J. Booth, Al’s Pals, Arthur James, Dan Parks, Laura Fedele-Rasco, Phil Acimovic, Amerikana Blue, the Steve Blair Trio, Haiduck & Heckendorn, Kay Benedict, Karl Fandrich, Erik Kenyon Troy Millette & the Fire Below, the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, the Soulo Davis Duo, Before This Time, the Enosburg Town Band, the Lesley Grant Band, and the Stragglers all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue as DonnaRae Menard reads from Snuffling Up Bones and the Sean Jarvis Band played Summer Sounds in Highgate. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Enosburgh Reading & Discussion Group takes up the group’s favorite books. The Eloquent Page has Bookstore Romance Day and the True Crime Book Club will discuss The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser. The monthly SPL Book Club will read The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong. The Pocket Book Club takes up A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 6, 2026

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Dick

FESTIVALS and EVENTS

The Church Street Celebration is an old fashioned block party for dancing down the Historic District. The annual town-wide Jeffersonville Art Jam takes over Main Street with live art and live music. The Franklin Homestead FUNdraiser will fill the Franklin Town Hall with live music by Rosie Newton and Uncle John’s Band. The North Hero Historic House Tour celebrates the buildings, families, and traditions of the Islands. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Colleen Blatchley. Bryan Gallery debuts JuanCarlos Gonzalez’s solo show, Vermont Light, with an opening reception. The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Nancy Fuller. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Summer Artisan Market comes to Snow Farm Vineyards. 14th Star hosts the Remix Physical Media Market with music, movies, and nostalgia. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Swanton Arts Council hosts Cardmaking with Barb. Spotlight Village crafts some mermaid magic with a Mermaid Crown Headdress workshop. Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Library. The Franklin Arts Department hosts a Family Art Class with Jordan Bushey. Read more…

FILM

Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts The Wanted 18, a documentary about 18 cows pursued by the Israeli army. The St. Albans Free Library Film Noir Festival begins with The Suspect with Charles Laughton and Ella Raines. Read more…

GATHERINGS

The Highgate Library hosts a Garden Tea Party with Bob the Garden Guy. The Milton Artists’ Guild Queer Art Club returns. Muffin Monday continues. Read more…

HUMANITIES

AgeWell hosts a Franklin County Caregiver Support Group at the Enosburg Public Library. There will be a Community Land & Water Conversation in the Islands in the Sun Senior Center. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Highgate Library hosts Mat Heagerty for a Graphic Novel Workshop. 60 Main Arts has Community Drawing Night with a live model. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. The MAG also hosts Fiadhnait Moser for the Impasto Oil Painting workshop, Robert Waldo Brunelle to guide Learn to Draw. Island Arts has two workshops as Lucie Faulkner leads Part 1 of the Clay Ornaments Workshop and Pat Brennan leads the Handcrafted Greeting Card Workshop. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Nobby Reed (twice), the Jerband (twice), Doug’s Open Mic, Chris and Issy, the Hitmen, the Vermont Willistones, Tim Brick, Charlie Rice, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Cooper, The Sound of Music In Concert, Michael Perry, O Odious Ones Hammer Lane, Seth Yacovone, Pam McCoy, Jaded Ravins, Sleeveless Tease, Jesse Agan, Bob C, 90 Proof, Kelly Dolan Stuber, the Blue Rock Boys, Rockin’ Ron Gangon, Kyle Stevens, the Smokey Newfield Project, Downtown Dan, Rock On, Sticks and Stones, Dan Parks, Milton Busker & the Grim Work, the Spring Chickens, Minced Oats, Ken Schofield’s Old Friends Band, Cooie Sings, Green Mountain Swing, High Summer, Justin Taylor, the Dixie Six, the Ray Vega Afro-Caribbean Jazz Ensemble, the Shane Murley Trio, the Bart Feller Trio, Mowgli Giannitti, Troy Millette & the Fire Below Jerborn & Justin, Allison Peryer, John Seiden, B-Town, the Enosburg Town Band, Ryan Sweezy and the Midnight Walkers, AmerikanaBlue, Giovanina Bucci, and Jamie Lee Thurston all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this wee with Books We Hated with Becky Rupp and Abbey Gaudette, plus the ORCA broadcast of the Montpelier Parks Parkapalooza. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fairfax Community Library Summer Reading Programs conclude. The Sheldon Library hosts a Huge Yard Sale. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club takes on the A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain. The St. Albans Free Library Tuesday Night Book Group reads Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Read more…

 

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Artbits-July 30, 2026

Posted on July 30, 2026 by Dick

CALL FOR THESPIANS

Misery, the Stephen King thriller, comes to the Opera House. In person auditions will be held this weekend. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Courtney Adams. Bryan Gallery debuts JuanCarlos Gonzalez’s solo show, Vermont Light. The Swanton Arts Council Artist of the Week is Stephanie Archer. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Coffee and Crafts meets at the Highgate Library. Sip, Stitch, & Share meets at the Enosburgh Library. Read more…

CALL FOR WRITERS

The Bent Northrop Memorial Library Two-Sentence Story Contest continues. Read more…

DANCE

Beginner Line Dancing is offered at the Depot and at the American Legion. Read more…

FILM

Amanda Kay Gustin will share 100 Years of Vermont in Film in the North Hero Community Hall. Read more…

GATHERINGS

Muffin Monday continues. The GPL Crafting Club meets. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

60 Main Arts hosts Community Drawing Night with a live model and Creativi-Tea Tuesday Karen Winslow. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Nobby Reed Project (thrice), Jesse Agan (twice), Open Mic Night, the Tangents, Hammer Lane, B-Town, Side Hustle, Dan Parks, Michael Perry, the Eames Brothers Band, Seth Yacovone, the Buck Hollers, Balor, Psycho, Mutant, Hell Priest, Mortuary Service, Nate Michaud, Marsh Lights, Big Dog DJ, Better Angels, NightHawk, the Chris Bell Trio, Magnetic Horse, the Kwame Vibe, Rusty Bucket, Uncle John’s Band, the Jim Branca Quartet, Roger Giroux, Justice 3, Jenny Red, Ryan Hanson, the Paddy Reagan Quartet, the MSJ Jazz Trio, the Islands Jazz Quartet, Dan and Sean Jarvis, Sister Speak, Tom Bisson, the Lloyd Tyler Duo, Michael & Black, Nick Smith, Out of Nowhere, Jerborn, Second Hand Blues, Missisquoi Slim, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Festa Dell Opera, the Hitmen, the Enosburg Town Band, Blackwolf, Cooie’s Trio, the Sound of Music In Concert, Barbie N Bones, and the Citizens Concert Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual music and events continue this week. DonnaRae Menard continues the weekly read from Snuffling Up Bones. Ryan Sweezy & The Midnight Walkers played the St. Albans Summer Concert Series. The Stragglers played the St. Albans Bay Farmer’s Market. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fairfax Adult Summer Reading Program continues. The Haston Library Book Discussion Group meets for The Second Life of Mirielle West by Amanda Skenandore. Read more…

 

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