Artbits-February 27, 2025

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Dick

TOWN MEETING

Tuesday is Town Meeting Day with arts issues, concerts and programs, and libraries in their budgets. Please attend Town Meeting and vote. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

Montgomery Center for the Arts presents Nature’s Palette–Art Inspired by the Earth beginning with a Play Every Town concert. The Artist In Residence spotlight is on Sarah Mcgarghan. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Majestic Mount Mansfield by Tom Waters. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

The Bumblebee Bistro and Barn Owl hosts a Paint N Sip with Elizabeth. Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio has a Mystical Owl Black Light Paint Night. River Arts hosts the in-person Sip N’ Slurry: Mugs with Cal with Cal Spinelli. Read more…

FILM

The Haston Library presents Family Movie Night with snacks and drinks. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum SAM Talks has Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives with Meg Tamulonis from the Vermont Humanities Speakers Bureau. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Swanton Arts Council hosts a Book Nook Class with Abbey. Corrina Thurston will teach Writing Your Best Artist Statement. Joanne Delaney begins two, three-week Beginner/Basic Drawing Classes. Social Sunday continues. Alex Foltz offers Episode 3 at Lake Carmi. Charlie Evans paints three different skies in watercolor. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold a Board Meeting and Updates. Read more…

COVID NEWS

The number of COVID-19 cases is down slightly from prior weeks, but hospitalizations are unchanged, and fatalities continue to increase. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Nathan Michaud, Laura Fedele Rasco, Named By Strangers, Andrew Lafrenz, the Wormdogs, WD-40, the McMaple Band, Justice 3, Ron Gagnon, Rushmore, Jerborn, the Blue Rock Boys, Roger Giroux, David Feurzeig, Jacob Diva Racusin, She Was Right, the Lady A Band, Elvis, Mark Shelton, and 8084 all perform live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The BNML Book Sale continues. Muffin Monday includes coffee and tea. It’s Adopt a Cat with your book day. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 20, 2025

Posted on February 20, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Marissa Mason, also one of this month’s featured artists at the gallery. Bryan Memorial Gallery hosts a live painting session with local artist David Pound in Stowe. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio and Kreations by Katherine host a Winter Wonderland Paint Night with snacks, all materials, and laughs. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum hosts Stories from the Vermont Queer Archives with Meg Tamulonis. Vermont Humanities has two hybrid events this week. The ongoing book discussion of Gather by Kenneth Cadow is facilitated by Suzanne Brown. Jonathan Beecher Field Revisits the Royalton Raid. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The River Arts Mindful Art Series continues with Paint Play led by Jen Volansky. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Joanne Delaney begins two, four-week Beginner/Basic Drawing Classes at MAG. The Saint Albans Museum offers Queer Crafts with Lindsay Di Dio of Blue Heron Art Studio. The Montgomery Center for the Arts begins a Tatting Workshop series with Veronica de Saint Phalle. Alex Foltz continues Season 2 of Foltz Studio outdoor oil painting lessons. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Still only about 17 percent of Franklin County residents have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and 29 percent have gotten a flu shot. COVID-19, the flu and RSV are still here whether your neighbors get the shot or not. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Comedy for a Cause with the BFA-St. Albans Improv Team, Jazz at the House, V! A Night of Vivacious Variety, the Vermont Blues Society, Justice 3, Carol Ann Jones, Tim Brick, Sticks & Stones, Aftermath, Next Stop Comedy, the Nobby Reed Project, Nate Michaud, McMaple, the Blue Rock Boys, the John Daly Band, Bare Bones, John Geno, Kippincoe featuring Kip de Moll, Jonny Mop, Jesse Taylor and Michael Perry, Tyler Mast, and the Lady A Band all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Bent Northrop Memorial Library Book Sale begins. Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen meets. The Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour continues. Mornings, Muffins, and Mysteries discusses An Honest Man by Michael Koryta. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 13, 2025

Posted on February 13, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Marissa Mcfadden. Bryan Memorial Gallery features a pastel by Marilyn Ruseckas. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

St. Albans Community Arts will have Skate Deck Painting with Jen at the Uniting for Community event. 14th Star Brewing Company hosts a Pet Portraits Paint n Sip with Linda Oakes Carvalho. Awaken Yoga and Kreations by Katherine offer a Penguin Love Valentine’s Paint Night. Read more…

EVENTS

St. Albans Rec presents the Valentine’s Winter Carnival at Hard’ack with the Barn Rats and much more. The GreatIce! Winter Festival takes over North Hero’s City Bay. The Uniting for Community benefit concert and tattoo event includes Starvation Wages, the Champlain Shoregasm, Vallory Falls, Assorted Fruit, and the Path. Read more…

FILM

Classic Movie Night (and Matinee!) has Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert and Oscar winner Eileen Heckart in Butterflies Are Free. Popcorn is free, too. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute begins the Spring weekly program series with James and Anne Ouellette’s Alaskan Cruise and Land Tour. The weekly Snapshot Series continues with James Lockridge to discuss Finding a Voice in the Arts. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Join host Alex Foltz for Season 2 of Foltz Studio, the new series of outdoor oil painting lessons. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Read more…

COVID NEWS

Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine is retiring. Only about 23 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine (not much change in the last few weeks) and 34 percent have gotten a flu shot but COVID is still here with or without Dr. Levine and whether Vermonters get the shot or not. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

Bare Bones, Chris & Erica, Will Warren, IncaHoots, the Dirty Looks, John Gratton, the Smokey Newfield Project, Spencer Lewis, Fiddlehead Hollow, Dan Parks, Ryan Hanson, the Owl Stars, the KCB Band, Tyler Ramsey, and Troy Millette all play songs for lovers live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Libraries will be closed Monday. The St. Albans Free Library Banned Books Group meets to discuss I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou. Read more…

 

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Artbits-February 6, 2025

Posted on February 6, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence Gallery has a live reception for Colleen Blatchly, Marissa Mason, Karen Mulkey, and Sarah Rosedahl. New Visions opens with a reception for Athena Tasiopoulos, Robert Wellings, Marilyn Ruseckas, and Robert Wieferich. Read more…

CALL FOR ARTISTS

The Swanton Arts Council and NW Solid Waste District celebrate Upcycled Art created from salvaged items plus the grand reopening of the Art Nook Gallery. The Montgomery Center for the Arts wants art inspired by the earth. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Vermont Humanities Snapshot Series offers Katherine Mitchell looking at Photographic Currents, the Nineteenth-Century US River Series and Marpheen Chann leading the Moon in Full, A Modern-Day Coming-of-Age Book Talk. The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute begins next Thursday. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The February Open Studio Figure Drawing offers a full nude session at River Arts and instructor Jen Volansky teaches the Creative Art Series for Seniors. The Swanton Free Public Library hosts a free Paper Making Class. Social Sunday continues at the Milton Artists’ Guild. Snow Farm Vineyard and Once Upon a Rock host a Pebble Art Workshop. Host Alex Foltz paints again as Foltz Studio begins its second season in the art of plein-air oil painting. Read more…

COVID NEWS

COVID, the flu, and a stomach bug shut down the Cabot School and Twinfield Union last week. The ER was full at Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital in St. Johnsbury. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Vermont Blues Society, Dan Parks, Staircase 24, Beg Steal or Borrow, Bobby Cee, Ryan Hanson, David Miller, Ryan Sweezey, Something Reckless, the Lloyd Tyler Band, Kyle Stevens, Jerborn, Sister Speak, Ethan Sawyer, Cooie Sings, and Nobby Reed all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The BNML Book Discussion Group will discuss Weyward by Emilia Hart. There’s been a Murder at the Haston. The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club will discuss The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. The St. Albans Free Library Book Group will discuss Gulp by Mary Roach. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 30, 2025

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Dick

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence collection spotlight is on potter Marissa Mcfadden. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Snow In Town in oil by George Van Hook in the Stowe gallery and online. Read more…

ART YOU CREATE

Awaken Yoga & Creative Arts Studio and Kreations by Katherine have the Northern Lights Paint Night and a Winter Deer Paint Party this wekend. Read more…

FESTIVALS AND SHOWS

The Winter Renaissance Faire has artisans, performance troupes, singers, musicians, and dancers, medieval living history, and and more at Champlain Valley Expo. Read more…

HUMANITIES

The Saint Albans Museum SAM Talks hosts A History of the Concept of Race with William Edelglass. Vermont Humanities travels through Canada with the memoir Klee Wyck by Emily Carr. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

The Milton Artists’ Guild has Carolyn Kittell leading a class in Needle Felting. Social Sunday continues. Read more…

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council will hold the monthly Board Meeting and Updates in person at the library. Read more…

COVID NEWS

New findings suggest that long-COVID infection increases the number of ME/CFS cases; new incidence cases of ME/CFS were 15 times higher than pre-pandemic levels. Only about 23 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine. Franklin County residents have even lower rates of protection. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Son Shindig, Nathan Michaud (twice), the Smokey Newfield Project, Mr. C, Tim Fitzgerald, Lady Livy, the Natural Selection, Better Angels, the Duncan Macleod Trio, Nickle & Dime, Shane Murley, Roger Giroux, Arthur James, John Bartus, and Myra Flynn all appear live at a venue near you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

The Highgate Library and Community Center continues the Muffin Monday Senior Social Hour. The Eloquent Page Fantasy Book Club discusses The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune. Read more…

 

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Artbits-January 23, 2025

Posted on January 23, 2025 by Dick

IN THE SAC

The Swanton Arts Council’s free Art Journaling Group meets in person at the Swanton Free Public Library on a new night. Art journals, junk journals, art pages and more are on the table. Read more…

ART ON THE WALLS

The Artist In Residence spotlight returns to VTSteelLady Rebecca Nase Chomyn. Bryan Memorial Gallery features Debbie Peate’s bird heads. Read more…

HUMANITIES

Vermont Humanities continues the weekly Snapshot Series with Tommy Hyde screening and discussing his film Underdog. Read more…

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES

Patrick McAllister will teach a live model figure drawing class at the MAG. Social Sunday continues. Read more…

COVID NEWS

About 22 percent of Vermonters have gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine (not much change from last week) and 32 percent have gotten a flu shot but Franklin County residents still have even lower rates of protection. Read more…

ON STAGE LIVE

The Vermont Blues Society holds its Annual Meeting and Concert. Doug Whynott, Bob Stannard and those Dangerous Blues Men, Gina Coleman, Stephen Kiernan, Eric Bushey, Tim Brick, Jerborn and Axe, Chris & Issy, Carol Ann Jones, the Tenderbellies, Will Evans with Troy Millette, Uncle Jimmy, the Hitmen, Charlie Rice, Jonny Mop, the Lloyd Tyler Band, the John Daly Band, John Geno, Rockin’ Ron Gagnon, Jim Branca, Shallow and Pedantic (Sam Averbuck and Brian Maple), the Arty LaVigne Band, and Brothers of Others all play live at a venue near you. Read more…

ALMOST LIVE ON STAGE

The Swanton Enhancement Project, the Strings Of Andalusia, and Mark Shelton all stream for you. Read more…

FRANKLIN COUNTY BOOKSHELF

Franklin County Photogs with Harry Goldhagen hosts a virtual group at BNML. The Muffin Monday Social Hour continues in Highgate. The Eloquent Page Mystery Book Club reads Still Life, the debut novel by Louise Penny. Swanton hosts a discussion of Fair Play by Eve Rodsky. Read more…

 

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