At the Galleries
Asian Cultural Center of Vermont and C.X. Silver Gallery: 814 Western Ave, Brattleboro accvt.org, 802 257-7898, ext. 1 April 27: World Tai Chi Day downtown, on the Brattleboro Common, 1-2p. July 11: Obon, Japan’s double summer festivals in Brattleboro, in Plaza Park at the foot of Main Street between the Museum and the Co-Op, 5-8p. Ongoing: Kiri-e: Fabric collage pictures by young women survivors of the Hiroshima aftermath. ...
Farmers’ Markets
Tuesdays: Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market, Depot Park, 3-6p, 802 747-4403. Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market at the Bennington Station, 10a-1p, 802 442-8934. Wednesdays: Brattleboro Area Farmers’ Market, Brattleboro Food Co-op Parking Lot, 10a-2p, brattleborofarmersmarket.com. Woodstock Market on the Green, 3-6p, woodstockvt.com. Thursdays: Manchester Farmers’ Market, Adams Park, Manchester, 3-6p, manchestermarket.org. Poultney...
Spotlight: Summer at Southern Vermont Arts Center
West Road, Manchester — SVAC.ORG, or 802-362-1405 The Artists of Southern Vermont: A Fresh Look, will open the 2014 season at the Elizabeth de C. Wilson Museum. The exhibit is made up of pieces from the Permanent Collection that haven’t been seen for decades. It is the first in a series of exhibitions being planned to commemorate a remarkable legacy of 90 years of artwork and patronage by SVAC’s member artists and their patrons...
The Art/Life Balance
Southern Vermont artists reflect on juggling their creative pursuits and the realities of parenting By Arlene Distler In the first four days after The Atlantic published “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All,” a remarkable essay by Anne-Marie Slaughter, an academic, foreign policy analyst, and public commentator, in its July/August 2012 issue, the piece whipped through the social media sphere and was debated hotly — among friends...
Peggy Farabaugh: Success borne of vision and necessity
By Steve Noble Peggy Farabaugh has a different take on that old predictor of retail success – “Location, location, location.” Vermont Woods Studios, the company she founded in 2005, just opened a showcase for the fine Vermont-made furniture it sells on a hilltop that’s accessible but a little off the beaten track in Vernon. Once you get there, the views are spectacular, and the setting is idyllic, but really, Peggy, you opened a...
Gail Grycel: From music to woodworking, with classes for women
By Steve Noble The first time Gail Grycel tried to teach a woodworking class for women, she met more resistance than an axe hitting knotty pine. “No way are women going to use my shop!” she recalls the shop teacher at the public Massachusetts high school where she was going to teach saying. But Grycel persevered. She finally persuaded the teacher to let them use the shop, and the class was a hit. Now, nearly 20 years later, Grycel is...
Charles Shackleton: Writing messages in objects
By Steve Noble Charles Shackleton does not fit the image of the lonely craftsman toiling away in the solitude of a studio “I’m a people person. I really enjoy people. These things that we make are really our way of connecting with people,” said Shackleton, a fine furniture-maker whose studio and gallery are located in an old mill in Bridgewater. “They’re like messages written in objects.” A native of Dublin, Ireland, who followed his...
Wilmington Strong
Unless you were there, just by looking around, it’s hard to fathom that barely two years ago the heavy rains of Tropical Storm Irene unleashed devastating floodwaters that raged through Wilmington, ravaged downtown, and left no business untouched.
Interesting Tapestry
An ambitious eight-hour independent film project calls on 50 filmmakers to answer: What makes Vermont Vermont? Norwich filmmaker Nora Jacobson has been cinematographer, producer, and director of her own award-winning films since founding Off The Grid Productions in 1995.
A Frenzy of Color, Shape, and Gesture
In his paintings of 2010 and since, Saxtons River artist Eric Aho has let go of traditional landscape reference points. His pieces now delve with extraordinary energy and prodigious brushwork into what may at first seem pure abstraction: the surface of the canvas a frenzy of color, shape, and gesture.
Demystification Process
“Artists are not mysterious people. It may be hard to relate to the career choice of a professional artist. But when people come to the studio and see how hands-on and practical it is, it demystifies it in a good way.”
Intuition and Luck
As anyone with a pet and camera knows, photographing animals is an exercise in patience. Just need that one perfect shot…
When the subjects are wild horses on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, that challenge is quadrupled.
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