Artbits-November 6, 2025

Posted on November 6, 2025 by Dick

ART FOR SALE

Make a day of it in Franklin County with the Opera House annual Crafts Only Show, the 21st Highgate Fall Craft & Vendor Show, the Georgia UMC annual Christmas Craft Show and Bake Sale, and the Sheldon 34th annual Craft Show. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Donna Blatchly, Cherie Marshall, Shanna Ratner, and Wayne Tarr, plus Haylie Lanfear of the AIR Young Artist Recognition Program, with a live reception. The 21st annual ArtFest at MAG has art and handcrafted gifts. The 2025 NVAA Fall Show at Copley Gallery is open. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Hearthside Handcrafts meets at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. Sylvia Oblak leads a Paint and Sip of Camel’s Hump in Autumn at the Milton Artists’ Guild. ReMarket hosts a free Card/Gift Tag Making session. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Lakeshore Community Event Series holds a singer-songwriter competition at 14th Star Brewing Company. Read more…

DANCE

The American Legion offers Beginner Line Dancing Lessons. No prior dance experience needed. Read more…

FILM

The Swanton Central School presents Screenagers 2. Dr. Harris Strokoff will lead the community discussion. NWATV has sealed the coffin on the 13th Northwest Nightmares Film Festival. It is Classic Movie Night with Best in Show at the St. Albans Free Library. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute concludes the Fall series with Luis A. Vivanco to discuss A Thinking Person’s Guide to Watching Wildlife Films. Vermont Humanities presents Andrew Ingall, Gail Golec, and other guests tell the stories and legacies of Looking Back/Moving Forward: Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+ Caregiving & Community. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

River Arts holds a Pre-Holiday Handwriting Tune-up Clinic with Chris Carfaro. The Swanton Free Public Library sponsors Intro to Macrame with Allie Chapple. Bill Schubart will lead Write Your Life at the library. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Dave Miller, Jerborn and Jaden, Supaman and Element, McMaple, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, the Duncan MacLeod Trio, Swamp Frog, Magnetic Horse, Rosie Newton, the Pub Bluegrass Jam, Kyle Stevens, the Stragglers. Coane, Rowell & Schabner, O and Schu Third Wheel, Jeff and Gina Trio, David Karl Roberts, Cooper, George Murtie, the Top of the Mountain Blues Band, 8084, Lady Livy, Sage Machia, and Nobby Reed all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Most libraries will be closed on Tuesday for Veterans’ Day. The Haston Library presents Tim Brookes to discuss By Hand. The Highgate Library and Community Center continues Muffin Monday. The Eloquent Page True Crime Book Club discusses When the Moon Turns to Blood by Leah Sottile and the Fantasy Book Club discusses Wicked by Gregory Maguire. Writer Maryanne Wood will sign her spiritual book, We Need A Voice. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 30, 2025

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Dick

THEATER

The Opera House at Enosburg Falls and Cat Crusaders present an evening of intrigue, food, and suspense at the Murder Mystery Dinner Theater with Peace Love and Murder. This year’s theme is “London Hippie.” Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Wendy Everhart. Bryan Gallery features Strawberry Thief by Debbie Peate. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Get spooky as 14th Star Brewing Company hosts Spooky Pet Painting Night with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues with UVM Extension Maple Specialist Mark Isselhardt discussing Maple Sugaring: Tradition, Innovation, and the Future of Sweetness. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Shanna Ratner leads Introduction to Block Printing for AIR at ReMarketVT. The Milton Artists’ Guild offers Social Sunday and the 8-week series Intro to Watercolor. River Arts continues Macrame 101 with Feathered Forms with Karen. Read more…

IN THE SAC

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

ON STAGE LIVE

The Monster Mash Halloween Party, a Wicked Good Time Costume Party, the BFA-SAC String Festival, the MVU Middle School Band, Middle School String Orchestra, Concert Band, Jazz Ensemble, and Wind Ensemble, Tim Brick, the Spring Chickens string band, 90 Proof, Vacsean, Sticks and Stones, Dan Parks, McMaple, the Smokey Newfield Project, Jerborn, Kippincoe with Kip DeMoll, Sister Speak with Sherri Anne, Dead Sessions Lite, Barbie n Bones, the Blue Rock Boys, Second Hand Blues, and Uncle John’s Band. Ryan Sweezey & the Midnight Walkers, the Glass Onion Band, the Vermont Choral Union, and L’Harmonie des Saisons Baroque Ensemble all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Haston Library Book Discussion Group reads The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. The North Hero Public Library reads The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton. Walt McLaughlin will sign Apprehensions of What-Is, at the Eloquent Page. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 23, 2025

Posted on October 23, 2025 by Dick

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio hosts a Spooky Season Paint Night. The Swanton Arts Council makes Junk Creatures with Abbey. Milton Artists’ Guild has rescheduled Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint ‘n’ Sip, then glow in the dark for a Spooktacular Starry Night Paint ‘n’ Sip with Sylvia Oblak. Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at the Fairfax Community Library. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on Lindsay Didio. The third annual People’s Art Show ends this Saturday at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

MVU hosts the annual Craft Fair in the gym and the Trahan Theater with handmade treasures to unique gifts. Read more…

DANCE

Autumn Adventures for Seniors led by Alice Reighley continues Intro to Jazz Dance. Read more…

FILM

The Montgomery Center for the Arts will be bedecked with cobwebs and zombies for the Night of the Living Dead. Lots of Rocky Horror at the Opera House at Enosburg Falls with a shadow cast and the Welden with an exclusive prop bag. The Depot presents Witch, Please: A Hocus Pocus Movie & Dining Experience. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher continues with former Christina Fearon to discuss Chinese Art and the Poetic Imagination. Bryan Gallery hosts the Land, Light, Water & Air Artist Roundtable with William Gotha, Marisol Rosenbluth, and Andrew Orr. The Haston Library hosts the VNA & Hospice Grief Timeline Workshop and Bent Northrop Memorial Library has Death, Dying and Danishes, both with Mary Pleasant. Vermont Humanities has Andrew Ingall, Gail Golec, and others to tell stories and legacies in Looking Back/Moving Forward: Vermont Stories of LGBTQ+. Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette talk about the Language of Resilience: Words in a Warming World. Read more…

TALL TALES AND HALLOWEEN

14th Star Brewery goes Beyond the Taproom and into the shadows for a Paranormal Investigation led by the Beer Wine & Spirits team. Kraemer & Kin has their 6th annual Pumpkin Carving. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Milton Artists’ Guild continues Social Sunday and teaches Halloween Zentangle with Julia Davenport. River Arts continues DIY Cosplay Creations with Abby O’Sullivan. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Comedy for a Cause with Boom City Improv supports The Cafe Youth Center, Spooky Saturday, the Misty Bay Ramblers the Dale and Darcy Band, the Owl Stars, Evan Jennison and Matt Schrag, the HallowQueen Drag Show, Mr. French, Cooper, Bob Recupero, Lawless, the Hitmen, the Tom Caswell Blues Band, the Phillip Hyjek Trio, Will Austin, Dave Miller, Antara & Chris Cheney, Paul Asbell, Nathan Michaud, the Smokey Newfield Project, the St. Paul’s Praise Band, Robertpalooza tribute to Robert Resnik, the Arpeggione Duo, Evan Alsop, the BFA Chorus/Chamber Singers, Bands 1/2 and Jazz Band and the BFA Modern Band all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Fairfax Community Library has a Silent Reading Party. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual Zoom group. Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club meets for Shady Hollow by Juneau Black. The Sheldon Historical Society hosts Eizabeth Gauffreau for The Weight of Snow and Regret. Read more…

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Artbits-October 16, 2025

Posted on October 16, 2025 by Dick

ART YOU CREATE

Sarah Barnes leads Sketchbook Club at Fairfax Community Library. The Swanton Arts Council free Art Journaling Group meets at the Swanton Free Public Library. The Milton Artists’ Guild hosts a Mixed Media Pumpkins Paint n’ Sip with Sylvia Oblak. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on fiber artist Janice Decooman. Bryan Gallery features Hunter’s Moon by Brian Hewitt. The third annual People’s Art Show continues at the Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Northwest Nightmares, the area’s only film festival, calls aspiring filmmakers to submit work for the big screen. GEMS submissions are open for one of Bryan Gallery’s final exhibitions of the year. The NVAA Fall Show at Copley Gallery calls member artists. The Highgate Manor hosts a Kids’ Entrepreneur Craft Fair. Read more…

DANCE

Autumn Adventures for Seniors led by Alice Reighley continues Intro to Jazz Dance. The Maple Squares of St. Albans square dancing club hosts a free night of lessons at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

FILM

The spooky season is officially here. Tickets for the 13th annual Northwest Nightmares Film Festival at the Welden are on sale now. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher has pilot-in-command Beth White to discuss Women Build Planes–A Milestone in Aviation History. Vermont Humanities offers Social Tinkering: Connection Conversations and Julie Carrick Dalton discusses her latest novel, The Last Beekeeper. The Saint Albans Museum SAM Talks presents Dr. Pamela Walker to discuss The Box Project: Race, Rurality, & Civil Rights Activism from Vermont to Mississippi. The Swanton Free Public Library presents Stories of the Blues, Part 2, with Missisquoi Slim. The Haston Library hosts Kevin Graffagnino to discuss Rebels in Vermont–The St. Albans Raid. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Artist Martha Kinney offers a Painted Mandala Class at the Dick Wright Pub. The Sheldon Library hosts a Pumpkin Crafting Workshop. Kelli Shepherd leads Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice Beginner Crochet and Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild Art Center. Enosburgh Rec offers a Dried Flower Workshop. River Arts begins Calligraphy Basics with Chris Carfaro. Creative Creatures meets to craft decorative potion bottles at Enosburg Public Library. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council Writers’ Group meets at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The 2025 Youth Talent Search, Paint Town Pink Karaoke, an Open-Mic and Coffeehouse, Tim Brick (twice), the Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, CombustOmatics, Jeff Salisbury, JSB, the Crowe Hill Band, Sibling Reverie, SoulRockerz, Before This Time, Bob Chevalier, the Rustics, Blue Heron, Laura Fedele-Rasco, George Murtie, Miracle Blood, Nugreth, Practical Gore, Melkor, Necroborne, Greg Beeman, the Smokey Newfield Project, and the Vermont Cello Duet all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

Virtual events continue this week. Tonya Mosley Poet Laureate Ada Limón. The Capellen Orchestra recorded My Departed Love composed by Nancy Hassett-Dahm. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Enosburgh Public Library Reading & Discussion Group takes up Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein. The Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins. The monthly SPL Book Club reads First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston and But I Progress takes up Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 9, 2025

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Dick

BANNED BOOKS WEEK

Banned Books Week began last Sunday and culminates with Let Freedom Read Day. The theme is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery features Sarah McGarghan, Longina Smolinski, Gillian Ireland, and Deb Shell with a live reception at the gallery. The Montgomery Center for the Arts hosts the third annual People’s Art Show with an Opening Reception. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park is showing Fall colors. Read more…

ART FOR SALE

The Masonic Lodge holds its Fall Harvest Craft Fair with pull tabs, a 50/50 raffle, and about 16 craft vendors. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The United Church of Fairfax hosts the Fall Paint Class with Joanne Delaney. Hearthside Handcrafts meet at Bent Northrop Memorial Library. Autumn Adventures offers Paint and Tea with Victoria led by Victoria Vining. Paint and Sip Sunflowers with Sylvia Oblak fills the Milton Artists’ Guild. River Arts hosts the October Paint & Sip Autumn Glow with Evie Mason. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Northwest Nightmares, the area’s only film festival, calls aspiring filmmakers to submit work for the big screen and “a rabid audience of home-grown horror fans.” Read more…

DANCE

The Maple Squares of St. Albans square dancing club host a free night of lessons at the Swanton Free Public Library. Autumn Adventures continues Intro to Jazz Dance led by Alice Reighley. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

Enosburg will Paint the Town Pink with the spooky spoof Witches and Warlocks Fight Cancer at the Opera House and the Luminary Walk in Lincoln Park on Sunday. Comic Con is here with the Rail City Fan Fest at Collins Perley Sports & Fitness Center. The Highgate Library and Community Center Fall Harvest Festival will include paint a pumpkin and touch a tractor. Snow Farm Vineyard hosts its annual Grape Harvest Festival with the Buck Hollers. Read more…

FILM

It is Classic Movie Night (and Matinee!) at the St. Albans Free Library with Wallace & Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont History Center hosts Hidden Heritage: The Vermont Indian Community, 1790-2010 with Dr. Fred Wiseman. The Sheldon Historical Society presents Jeffrey Brace: Revolutionary War Soldier and Slave. The Haston Library presents Soulspun Kitchen with Erin Moulton at Franklin Homestead. Read more…

THEATER

The spooky spoof Witches and Warlocks Fight Cancer comes to the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Bryan Gallery hosts the 2025 Fall Plein Air Retreat with T.M. Nicholas and Leo Mancini-Hresko. The Milton Artists’ Guild has Julie Jones to teach Brushstrokes & Hashtags: Social Media Made Simple. Social Sunday continues at MAG. River Arts offers the craft workshop Macrame 101: Tie Your Way In with Karen. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

A Bluegrass Jam, Evan Barber, Dan Jarvis, Frevo, Tim Brick and the Enablers, Barbie N Bones, DJ Lady Livy, the Crowe Hill Band, Sibling Reverie, Bad Horsey, Magnetic Horse, Dan Parks, Cooie Sings, the Shane Murley Trio, Dale & Darcy, and the Buck Hollers all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Libraries will be closed on Monday. Muffin Monday continues. The St. Albans Free Library Tuesday Night Book Group will discuss Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. The Banned Books Group will discuss All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson. Read more…

 

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Artbits-October 2, 2025

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Dick

ART FOR SALE

Kick off Fall and the start to the holiday shopping season as artists and crafters and local writers line the sidewalks for the Downtown Saint Albans Sidewalk Sale. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Vermont’s two day Fall Open Studio Weekend celebrates 33 years. Most Vermont artists and craftspeople work in studios in or near their homes. This statewide celebration is a chance to see the magic at work. The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Barbara Colgrove. Island Arts hosts an opening reception for October Featured Artist Alana Bigos at Community Bank. Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts a Live Painting Demo by Cynthia Rosen. Cold Hollow Sculpture Park is showing Fall colors. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Highgate Manor and Lasting Memory host Make-and-Take Your Own Pressed Flower Pumpkin. The Swanton Arts Council hosts Cardmaking with Barb at the Swanton Free Public Library. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

Register and drop-off works of original art for the third annual People’s Art Show at Montgomery Center for the Arts. Read more…

DANCE

Autumn Adventures for Seniors led by Alice Reighley continues Intro to Jazz Dance. Read more…

FILM

MVUHS presents Screenagers 1 in the Trahan Theater. The documentary series bring students, parents, teachers, and stakeholders together. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute continues the Fall program series with Preston Fuller on Disc Golf Demystified: History, Design, and Play. The Highgate Manor’s final historical tour of the season is coming up. Vermont Humanities continues the Vermont Reads Series with a book discussion of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton and facilitated by Peter Burns at the Bent Northrop Memorial Library. Bryan Gallery hosts Eric Tobin for a special conversation on History Unframed: Jeffersonville’s Art Legacy. The Abenaki Arts & Education Center presents Dark Academy Adventures, Episode 4: The Mystery of the Crystal Lake Longhouse. Read more…

THEATER

Spotlight in the House presents Rock & Roll at the Opera House at Enosburg Falls. The Theater Camp Dance Group will be joined by Cheryl Ann Kelley’s dance team from the Electric Youth. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. River Arts continues Monster Building: Papier-Mâche Masks & Character Creation with Abby O’Sullivan plus Watercolor: Beyond Basics with Evie Mason. 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…

ON STAGE LIVE

She Was Right (twice), Jerborn (twice), Troy Millette (twice) Fire Below, the Vermont Blues Society, Kyle Stevens, the Phil Abair Band with Keeghan Nolan, Nickel and Dime, Dan Parks, Tim Brick, Brian K & the Parkway, She Was Right, Third Wheel, Arthur James, Sister Speak, John Fealy, the Bob & Sarah Amos Band, David Karl Roberts, Cooie & Adlai, O & Schu, the Blue Rock Boys, and Doug’s Open Mic all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

The Messenger reports that the media landscape is always changing. In Hear. Here podcast series, host Josh Ellerbrock talks to Bridget Higdon, Paul Snyder, and Mulvaney-Stanak. DonnaRae Menard continues reading from her St. Albans mystery novel, Beneath The Fountain. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. The Eloquent Page’s Alicia Mercure leads the new True Crime Book Club to discuss While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appleman. They also host a worship of writers in the Local Author Open House. There will be mysteries, romances, children’s books, autobiographies and more. A giant, virtual library exists inside Minecraft. The Uncensored Library is a creative digital response to global censorship built by Reporters Without Borders. Read more…

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