Talk of the Arts: Making is thinking
At Marlboro College, the arts play an integral role in an education that sets free the mind and the spirit. By Ellen McCulloch-Lovell The arts infuse Marlboro College, our approach to study, way of thinking, and facilities. One of my joys and one of my goals as president of Marlboro College has been to keep its strong identity as a liberal arts college. Teaching and learning happens in many simple 19th century farm buildings on the...
A cooperative Manchester gallery: Route 7 Collection
Visitors to the Route 7 Collection will find a cooperative venture by a group of friends who want to share their art with one another and the community. The gallery features new paintings by Mary Hill (maryhillstudios.com), metalwork by Payne Junker and Elise Alenick Junker (junkerstudio.com), furniture by Joseph A. Bedard (builditnow@verizon.net), wire tree sculptures by Randy Adams (silver-wood.com), quilts by Carolyn Van Tassel,...
Next Stage Arts gets a boost
Congratulations to Next Stage Arts Project in Putney which has been awarded a $370,000 grant from the national organization, ArtPlace America. Selected as one of 55 recipients out of nearly 1300 applicants, Next Stage was recognized as fulfilling ArtPlace’s mission “to advance the field of creative placemaking, in which art and culture play an explicit and central role in shaping communities’ social, physical and economic futures.”...
Mitchell & Giddings: Two artists, one gallery
Mitchell and Giddings want to fill a downtown void and offer a retail venue and showcase for the arts community New to the Brattleboro arts scene is a commercial art gallery conceived by two artists with a passion for building ties between artists and the public, Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts located at 183 Main Street next to A Candle in the Night. Jim Giddings and Petria Mitchell, have lived and painted in Vermont for over 35 years....
A second Davallia gallery in the Stone Village
After success with Davallia, the Alons open a new branch After five years with Davallia, a beautiful gallery on the green in the center of Chester, Michael and Jessie Alon have opened a second gallery. This one is in Chester’s Stone Village, nestled on 39 North Street — just a stone’s throw to Okemo. The new location will allow the couple’s passion for the arts to flourish. They found a 1800s farmhouse and over the last several months...
Sicilian wines: From Quantity to Quality
Sicilian winemaking was all but destroyed by a root-eating aphid and two world wars. Now, thanks to good agriculture, winemaking on the island is enjoying a renaissance. By Marty Ramsburg Goethe wrote that “to have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is not to have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything,” and if the wines coming out of Sicily in the past 5-7 years are indeed representative “clues,” then great things...
Local Flavor: Heritage harvest at Scott Farm
A Dummerston farmer nurtures heirloom apples — a strategy that’s good for the preservation of hundreds of varieties and for the farm’s bottom line By Allyson Wendt I’m really excited about the Medlars,” Zeke Goodband tells me as we sit in the warm sun by the apple barn at Scott Farm, where he is the orchard manager. The fruit is native to the Middle East and tastes a bit like spiced apple sauce. “I read about it, and just had to try...
On our cover: A Michelle Ratté curtain
This issue’s cover is a detail from the fall-themed painted curtain by Michele Ratté (micheleratte.com; mmratte@comcast.net), one of five artists who agreed to participate in Main Street Arts’ ambitious painted curtains project. (See “Curtains up,” page 38). The result of Ratté’s art has been described by Vermont Public Radio commentator Anne Lawrence Guyon as “a stunning alchemy of past and present, organic evolution and human...
Our picks: Fall events in Southern Vermont not to be missed
Wine & Harvest Festival Sept 19–21, http://www.thevermontfestival.com Set in the backdrop of our world-renowned Vermont fall foliage, attendees at this seventh annual festival will discover, savor, and enjoy Vermont vintners, small specialty food producers, chefs, painters, publishers, cheese makers, potters, jewelers, photographers and farmers. Chester Vermont Fall Festival Sept 20-21, 10-4p, http://www.chesterfallfestival.org...
Music and theater
Actors Theatre Playhouse Main St, West Chesterfield, NH actors-theatre.info, 877 666-1855 Thru Sept 20: Copenhagen. In Nazi-occupied Denmark, the play’s characters meet secretly and discuss a subject that may change the world forever. Oct 2-18: Ten Minute Festival. Ten Minute Plays capture pivotal moments and are comic, tragic, and uplifting life-changing upheavals that occur in exactly ten minutes. They challenge the playwright, the...
At the museums
Bennington Center for the Arts 44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington 10a to 5p, Mon-Sun (Closed Mon) thebennington.org, 802 442-7158 Thru Sept 14: Impressions of New England. Annual exhibition including scenes of seashores, rolling hills, foliage and New England wildlife, all captured in paint and bronze. Thru Dec 21: Small Works Show, with figuratives, landscapes, cityscapes, wildlife, still-life’s and more. Thru Dec 21: Portraying the Human...
Farmers Markets
Every Saturday • Brattleboro Brattleboro Farmers’ Market, Western Avenue (just west of Creamery Covered Bridge), 9a – 2p, brattleborofarmersmarket.com. • Norwich Norwich Farmers’ Market, Route 5 south in Norwich, 9a-1p, morwichfarmersmarket.org. • Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market at the Bennington Station, 10a-1p, 802 442-8934. • Londonderry West River Farmers’ Market, routes 11 and 100, 9a-1p, 802 824-4492. • Rutland Downtown...
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