Kitchen Gardens
Ellen Ogden’s Inspiring Kitchen Gardens by Katherine P. Cox While it has invaluable advice on everything from preparing the soil and choosing seeds to basic tool and style suggestions, this design/garden/cook book inspires rather than intimidates. It transforms the humble vegetable plot into a place where art, whimsy and creativity take flight, enhancing the essential joy of growing something from seed. That the resulting vegetable...
Wine Observed: Summer Wines
Summer Wines by Marty Ramsburg Summer is but a fleeting moment in Vermont, or so it seems. Those of us who live here year-round relish each day that we can be outside without putting on layers. From mid-June through foliage in late October, Vermont is bliss —cool nights, warm days, walks along the tree-covered river road that is cool despite the ambient temperature in town, the Farmers’ Market, flowering pots, ubiquitous green. It...
Food Festivals
Vermont Food Festivals If there’s one thing—besides the art—that brings people to the historic villages and rural communities of Southern Vermont, it has to be the food. In this region you’ll find a warm and sophisticated, yet rustic, lifestyle based on family traditions, with authentic and local food experiences. There are plenty of food festivals this summer and fall, many of which offer a great way to experience the flavors of a...
Open Studios
Tour Open Studios: Artists at work, Art for Sale May 28-29 Vermont Open Studio Weekend vt1crafts@aol.com Open Studio Weekend, a statewide arts celebration over Memorial Day Weekend. 300 artists and artisans participate. Many of the artists belong to local guilds or associations that organize more open studio tours at various times of the year. Look for a second state-wide tour in the fall. May 28-29 Artisans of Southern...
Workshops, Classes and Artist Residencies
Southern Vermont: A Mecca for Pro-Am Artists Classes, Workshops & Residencies In Vermont art flourishes in the summer. People find it a good time to learn, practice and perform. This summer more than 200 artists, writers, performers and musicians are visiting Southern Vermont to do exactly that. In addition, classes don’t stop for the summer at the area’s many local arts, dance and music schools. Performances of...
The Daily Scoop
Daily Scoop May: 31: Healthier Living Workshop at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, 6-8:30p, bmhvt.org. 27: New England Living Show House Grand Opening Gala, Juniper Hill Inn, Windsor, time TBA, tours through Sept 5, juniperhillinn.com. 28: Annual River Gallery School Benefit Auction, at the River Garden, downtown Brattleboro, 5-9p, rivergalleryschool.org. 28: Mayfest Arts & Crafts Festival, all day, downtown Bennington,...
Music and Theatre
Summer Stage, Summer Music Bellows Falls Opera House 7 Centennial Square, Rockingham bfoperahouse.com, 802 463-3964 May 28: L’il Orphans Cajun Dance Party, 9p. Brattleboro Music Center 38 Walnut Street, Brattleboro bmcvt.org, 802 257-4523 May 30: Flutist Bart Feller: Master Class, 6p and Concert, 4p at the West Village Meeting House in West Brattleboro, 4p. June 12: Windham Orchestra presents Ode to Joy, at Brattleboro Retreat...
Gallery Openings
At the Galleries Ann Coleman Gallery 23 West Main Street, Wilmington 10a-5p daily artistanncoleman.com, 802 379-4305, 802 368-7090 June 1-30: “Local Scene” exhibit. July 1-31: “Summer Themes” exhibit, with opening reception July 9, 5-7p. Aug 1-31: “Vermont Landscapes” exhibit. Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and C.X. Silver Gallery 814 Western Ave, Brattleboro accvt.org, 802 257-7898, ext. 1 Ongoing: Kiri-E Paintings of...
At the Museums
At the Museums Bennington Center for the Arts 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington 10a to 5p, Mon-Sun (Closed Mondays) benningtoncenterforthearts.org, 802 442-7158 May 28-Dec. 18: Small Works in the Collector’s Gallery. Landscapes and still-lives by regional and national artists. June 4-Aug 21: American Artists Abroad, artwork from around the world, created by North Americans. June 11-Aug 17: Art of the Animal Kingdom XVI, with special guest...
Life is Tip Top in WRJ
Design Observed: Life is “Tip Top” in WRJ: The bakeries are gone but there’s plenty cooking by Dan Mackie; photographs by Medora Hebert The voluptuous smell of bread baking once filled the Tip Top Building in White River Junction, but now there’s a feast for another sense. Visual art is everywhere: in studios, in hallways, hanging from the high ceilings in the form of long yellow spoons. The solid brick walls play straight man...
Southern Vermont Festivals
Festival Links: Strolling of the Heifers — Yellow Barn — Blueberry Festival — Vermont Life Win & Harvest Festival — Garlic Festival — Grafton Music Festival
Warren Kimble Cheerleader for the Arts
Warren Kimble, Cheerleader for the Arts by Joyce Marcel Why do people love folk art? “Folk art is simplified,” said the ebullient contemporary folk artist Warren Kimble. “People understand it. They can see something they recognize. In my case, what I’ve found through the years, is that people of all walks of life, sophisticated, unsophisticated, see something in it and get something from it. It crosses gender lines. My prints...
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