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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Artbits-September 7, 2023

Posted on September 7, 2023 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Kristina Bolduc, Jennifer Buckner, Kati Christoffel, and Deborah Travis with a live reception at the gallery. The Montgomery Center for the Arts presents the exhibit, Altered Landscape, the Art of Alan Morse. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

St. Albans Community Arts asks artists and anyone who “supports the arts in a personal or professional setting” to fill out an Artist & Community Partner Survey. Read more…

DANCE

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

HUMANITIES

Historian Howard Coffin presents Vermont, 1800 and Froze to Death: the Cold Year of 1816 at the Westford Brick Meeting House. Osher Lifelong Learning Institute begins the Fall program series with Mind Magic with Dr. Steve Taubman. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center with free weekly art classes for families. The River Arts September Open Studio Figure Drawing returns with a nude session. 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 is still here. The Vermont Department of Health reported that 27 Vermonters were hospitalized statewide and the numbers are growing again. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Nobby Reed Project (thrice) with special guest Joe Moore, Ryan Sweezey (twice) with the Midnight Walkers, the Dirty Looks (twice), The Jolly Rogers Band, Mama Tried, King Me, Last Kid Picked, the Better Days Band, Double Shot, Cooie and Adlai, Patricia Norton, Patti Casey & Colin McCaffrey with Geordie Lynd, Dave Karl Roberts, Corner Junction Bluegrass, Vaughn Watson, Roger Giroux, Bettenroo, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, and Ryan Hanson all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Bent Northrop Memorial Library hosts a 35th Anniversary Celebration and the ninth To Bid or Not to Bid Silent Auction. Read more…

 

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Artbits-August 31, 2023

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Dick

BIG MUSIC WEEKS

The Big Music Weeks of Summer conclude this week with gigs around the area and the Champlain Valley Fair. Read more…

SOUNDS OF SUMMER

The 32nd year of Summer Sounds concerts at home in Highgate offered an eclectic mix of new and familiar performers on the Highgate Arena lawn. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Abenaki artist Abena Songbird and a group of artists painted the new mural in the Montpelier Transit Center. Bryan Memorial Gallery features the oil painting Spring Light by Rosalie Sidoti in the new gallery space in Stowe. Happy Vermont listed Cold Hollow Sculpture Park in their in Fall list. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Sip & Paint in the Garden with Amy Hook-Therrien on the mansion lawn at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park. MAG hosts Sunset in Burlington, a Neon Night glow-in-the-dark paint and sip, with Sylvia Oblak. Read more…

DANCE

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

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Champlain Valley Fair runs through Sunday with the heaviest pumpkin, the tallest sand sculpture, and live music and art and entertainment from Chris and Erica, Ryan Sweezey, Jerborn and Axe, the Owl Stars and more. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

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

COVID NEWS

COVID is still here. COVID-19 vaccines remain free to all people living in the United States, regardless of their immigration or health insurance status. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Rushmore, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, the Lloyd Tyler Band, the Duncan MacLeod Trio, the Hit Squad, the Fabulous Wrecks, 90 Proof, Jocelyn Pettit and Ellen Gira, John Geno, Chameleon, Deana Paquette, Mike Trombly, the Nobby Reed Project, Amerikana Blue, Ryan Sweezy. Read more…

PASSAGES

Anna Taylor Caleb was a true friend of the Opera House at Enosburg Falls and dedicated patron of the arts. Read more…

 

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