At the Museums

At the Museums Bennington Center for the Arts44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington10a to 5p (Closed Mondays)benningtoncenterforthearts.org , 802 442-7158June 9-July 14: Artists for the New Century. Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur nominated artists show the piece best showcasing their work on the representative art scene. June 16-Aug 5: Art of the Animal Kingdom XVI, with special guest artist Greg Beecham....

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Music & Theater

Music & Theater Bellows Falls Opera House7 Centennial Square, Rockinghambfoperahouse.com, 802 463-3964May 23: South Pacific. May 30: Oklahoma. Enjoy movies on the biggest screen in Vermont every Friday. Brattleboro Music Center38 Walnut Street, Brattleborobmcvt.org, 802 257-4523June 25-29: Camp Calliope with Valerie Kosednar, 9:30-11:30a. Music & Movement, ages 3-5. June 25-29: Music Extra! with Raquel Moreno, 1-3p....

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At the Galleries

At the Galleries Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and C.X. Silver Gallery814 Western Ave, Brattleboroaccvt.org, 802 257-7898, ext. 1Sept 26 & 30: Art as Food as Art: Dim Sum at BMAC, 5:30-8:30p. May 20: Brattleboro’s Kite Festival of Japan, China & India, 1-3p. Living Memorial Park Kiwanis Shelter. Craft activities, games, calligraphy, poetry, music, giant windsocks, origami, storytelling, & bake sale. Bring your own...

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Workshops

Southern Vermont: A Mecca for Pro-Am Artists Classes, Workshops Lectures & Residencies Brattleboro Museum & Art Center10 Vernon Street, Brattleboro11a-5p (Closed Tuesdays)brattleboromuseum.org, 802 257-0124June 28: Past, Present & Future of the Southern Vermont Forest, 7:30p. Slide presentation & panel discussion. Aug 6-8: Visual Thinking Strategies Institute.The Clark Art Institute225 South Street,...

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Hills Alive

Collaboration of the Arts: Hills Alive! by Joyce Marcel The hills are alive with the sound of music. Also acting, painting, dancing, tapas and cooperation. Four major Southern Vermont arts organizations have reacted to Tropical Storm Irene by saying goodbye to artistic turf wars and banding together for the very first time to present the Hills Alive! festival, July 7th through July 15.     The organizations are The Dorset Theatre...

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Spotlight Great Hall

Spotlight The Great Hall One hundred River Street, Springfieldwww.springfielddevelopment.org The Great Hall is Vermont’s new large-scale public art showcase that opens for the first time to the public on July 20 with a group show called Emergence. Artists include: Patty Sgrecci mobiles, Rick Hearn oil on canvas, Scot Borofsky enamel on linen, Robert Carsten pastel, Robert O’Brien watercolor, Oliver Schemm sculpture, Carolyn Hack...

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Calendar

At the Museums Bennington Center for the Arts44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington10a to 5p (Closed Mondays)benningtoncenterforthearts.org , 802 442-7158June 9-July 14: Artists for the New Century. Southwest Art, American Art Collector and Fine Art Connoisseur nominated artists show the piece best showcasing their work on the representative art scene. June 16-Aug 5: Art of the Animal Kingdom XVI, with special guest artist Greg Beecham....

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Artists Survive and Thrive

Artists Survive and Thrive After Irene by Dan DeWalt Last summer, many of us who live along the Rock River in southern Vermont thought that we knew the river and our neighboring communities. Tales of the floods of ‘27 and ‘38 were pieces of our history, if not so relevant to our daily lives. But on August 28, under the relentless deluge of tropical storm Irene, the roots of that knowledge cascaded into a rubble of scree. We found...

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Talk of the Arts Collaborations

Talk of the Arts Collaboration According to Wikipedia, collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective, determination to reach an identical objective, for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature)—by...

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Works On Paper, on The Square

Works On Paper, on The Square in the village of Bellows Falls, is a studio that provides museum-quality conservation services for artwork, historical documents, photographs, maps, and memorabilia. “We can treat almost anything made of paper,” owner and head conservator Carolyn Frisa explains. “A lot of what we deal with is artwork and documents that have been damaged by acidity, causing them to yellow and decay.” Often, objects arrive...

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Inns and Outs

Inns and Outs by Joyce Marcel Take a successful painter, a clever idea and the aftermath of a fierce tropical storm, put them together and what do you get? Something just like the show called “Inn and Outs of Vermont,” from Vermont artist Phyllis Chase, at Gallery North Star in Grafton. It will run from July 14 through Aug. 12.Chase has been a professional artist all her working life. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and studied art...

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Loire Valley Wines

Wine Observed: Loire Valley Wines by Marty Ramsburg The Loire Valley in France is known both for its magnificent chateaux and their parks and gardens — Chenonceau, Chambord, Amboise, Villandry, et. al. and, for their stunning white wines.The section of the Loire known for its wines is above Burgundy, south of Paris. Its latitude would match up more with Montreal and, while the Loire River moderates the extreme winter one might expect,...

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