Tour open studios: Artists at work, art for sale
Tour open studios: Artists at work, art for sale 21st Rock River Artists’ Studio Tour July 20-21, 10-6p. Rock River Artists, a collective of fine art and craft professionals, offers chance to win a free weekend for two in a charming cabin along the Rock River in South Newfane, coinciding with 21st annual Rock River Artists’ Open Studio Tour. Winners get two-night stay with breakfast in a guest cabin on grounds belonging to nationally...
Photo: Best Little Quilt Show
Our nationally and internationally award-winning quilters have shown their works in major shows and museums, and have had attention lavished on them in the glossies. Now, as the quilt show moves from Jamaica to Brattleboro for the first time, you can enjoy this rare opportunity to admire these exciting works during Strolling of the Heifers weekend.
Spotlight: Real Farms, Real Food
Spotlight: Real Farms, Real Food Promising that “the public gets to see where everything begins and can trace the path from seed to fork,” Rutland Area Farm and Food Link is highlighting Rutland County and its agriculture to provide residents with greater access to local farms and local food. With this in mind, a six-month/six-farm tour with culinary workshops, “Real Farms, Real Food, Real Rutland,” was born, paid for...
Spotlight: Plein Air Vermont 2013
Plein Air Vermont 2013 Vermont’s southwestern corner combines all of the Green Mountain State’s quintessential attractions: majestic mountains, rolling farmland, meandering waterways, and quaint town and village squares with buildings on the National Historic Register. Can you paint it? This fourth annual event, painting in the open, without aid of photography — “en plein air” — will provide selected artists with four days...
Spotlight: Manchester Antique and Classic Car Show
Spotlight: Manchester Antique and Classic Car Show The premier annual antique and classic car show puts Manchester and the Mountains back in gear for the 27th year of the best antique and classic cars, food vendors, and flea market experience to be had. Thousands of spectators and hundreds of car collectors will turn out to enjoy this exciting array of vintage vehicles. It’s a family event offering activities for all ages: great food,...
venues
Southern Vermont boasts world-class stage productions, concerts, play readings, and the lively arts. Select venues include: • Arkell Pavilion, Southern Vermont Arts Center, 930 Vermont Arts Center Dr., West Road, Manchester Village (svac.org, 802-362-1405). • Bennington Center for the Arts, 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington (thebennington.org, 802-442-7158). • Concerts on the Green, Shelburne Museum, 6000 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne...
Plowing Old Ground: Vermont’s Organic Farming Pioneers
Plowing Old Ground: Vermont’s Organic Farming Pioneers Photographs by John Nopper will be featured at The Works Bakery Café, on Main Street in Brattleboro, over June. The exhibit is part of “Plowing Old Ground: Vermont’s Organic Farming,” a work in development by agricultural writer Susan Harlow and farmer/photographer John Nopper. Their aim: preserve the story of the organic farmers who first came to Vermont in the 1960s....
Photo: Catamount Prowl
Following two successful and award-winning Moosefest Gala and Auction events, the Catamount Prowl aims to bring street art back to Bennington through October. Approximately 50 Fiberglas catamounts have been offered to area artists to decorate in imaginative ways. Hand it to the Bennington Chamber, they’ve found a formula that works. This is their third such art project: Moosefest 2005 raised $290,000; Palettefest 2006 brought in...
Green thumbs in the Green Mountains
“Just Say it with Violas, Violins and Art!” Southern Vermont is throwing a garden party all summer long to celebrate the brilliant colors of the landscape and the talented performers, entertainers, and craftsmen who heat up the hills in a region renowned for taste, quality, and old-world tradition. On tap are exquisite gardens, world-class musicians, puppeteers, artists, authors, artisans, cows, farmers, farm-fresh cuisine and...
A husband and wife collaborate on art that places our own Planet Earth in a cosmic context
A husband and wife collaborate on art that places our own Planet Earth in a cosmic context By Arlene Distler The drive to Old Manchester from Bennington on Route 7A takes in historic mansions, the poet Robert Frost’s modest home, numerous old stone walls and foundations, lovely meadows, and majestic trees. It was difficult to concentrate on driving, but eventually I arrived in the manicured and elegant part of Manchester that is quite...
Hot glass in cool Vermont
Hot glass in cool Vermont By Joyce Marcel If we’re going to talk about art glass, we might as well begin with Aldous Huxley. In “The Doors of Perception,” Huxley’s 1954 book on his mescaline experience, he theorizes that mankind’s “otherwise inexplicable passion for gems” might arise because precious stones “bear a faint resemblance to the glowing marvels seen with the inner eye of the visionary.” And if you can’t have gemstones, he...
Reaching for the stars
Nurturing the Arts: Dina Janis, Theater: Reaching for the stars By Allison Teague Dorset, in Bennington County, has nurtured performance theater since 1927, when residents staged a three-act play, “39 East,” in the Town Hall. It was received with such great enthusiasm that it spun out the Dorset Players, and a legend was born. Two years later the community raised funds for a larger space, the Dorset Playhouse. Let’s leap ahead,...
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