Charlie Hunter and William Hays
Making It In The Arts: Charlie Hunter and William Hays by Joyce Marcel You’ve got to hustle to “make it” in the arts in Vermont.Creative people here learn to apply creativity to their survival as well as to their art. Take painter Charlie Hunter of Bellows Falls, a tall and rangy redhead with a degree in art from Yale and another one in irreverence that he got from life. Hunter can get so much pain and love into his starkly...
Tour Open Studios
Tour Open Studios: Artists at Work, Art For Sale Open Studio WeekendMay 26 & 27, October 6 & 7. Yellow signs will once again dot the Vermont landscape over Memorial Day Weekend, leading locals and tourists alike to the workspaces of 259 artists and craftspeople who will open their studios to the public for Vermont Open Studio Week-end’s landmark 20th year. Visitors will see how art and craft is made at the studios of...
Celebrating Open Studios
Celebrating Open Studios by Arlene Distler In this, the 20th anniversary year of Open Studio Weekend, participants will be invited into the buildings, barns, homes and assorted structures that make up the work spaces for 263 artists and artisans from all regions and corners of Vermont.The history of Open Studio is that of an idea who’s time had come––it was instantly embraced. In 1993, the “Year of American Craft”, the Vermont Craft...
Two artist partners
Two Artist Partners, One Dream Studio by Steve Noble A strange thing happened when Petey Mitchell flipped a switch and warm electric light filled a room in the 250-year-old house she and her husband, Jim Giddings, were renovating into their dream studio. She cried. “We’re the first people to ever have electricity in this house,” said Mitchell. It was a telling moment in a renovation project whose unique trajectory has been...
Our self-guided tour
Our Self-guided Tour by Arlene Distler On a recent Putney Craft Tour I made my way on a chilly autumn day along the winding roads of this art-centric town just north of Brattleboro. A pioneer in the concept of Open Studios, Putney has a density of artists and artisans that few towns can equal.This may be due to its being the location of the Putney School, a private high school dating from 1935 that is known for its strong arts...
Westminster Cares Garden Tour
Garden Inspiration Westminster Cares Garden Tour July 14–15, Saturday 10–3p; Sunday Noon–3pInformation: wecares@sover.net, 802-722-3607The tour will feature the gardens of Mary and Gordon Hayward, nationally know garden designer, writer and lecturer. Proceeds from the tour support the services and programs of Westminster Cares, a volunteer organization whose purpose is to create opportunities. Tickets can be purchased...
Spotlights
Spotlights Mark ErelliThursday, March 1, 7:30 pmBellows Falls Opera House Lower TheaterMulti-instrumental string wizard, expressive vocalist in the vein of John Hiatt, a songwriter both haunting, rough-spun and seriously rockin’ out, an obsessive musical collaborator (side projects with Northeast musical luminaries Catie Curtis, the Spurs, Jeffrey Foucault, Rani Arbo and others), and he has a degree in studying bugs....
Winter carnivals
Winter Carnivals Jan. 28: Winter Festival and Penguin Plunge, North Bennington, events all day, bennington.comFeb. 4: Upper Valley Chocolate Festival, 10a-3p, Tracy Hall in Norwich, vermonttravelplanner.orgFeb. 9-12: Okemo Valley Winter Carnival with loads of fun for the whole family, events all day,okemo.comFeb. 17-19: Chester Winter Carnival Top Ten Winter Event. Vermont Chamber of...
Talk of the Arts
Talk of the Arts Resilience. Psychology Today describes Resilience as that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes.That certainly seems to describe Vermont and Vermonters in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene. For us at the magazine, we were on deadline and in a bit...
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