Talk of the Arts
Celebrating New Possibilities…People and Places…Reinventing, Collaborating, Repurposing By Lynn Barrett, publisher/editor We talk to Brandon resident and folk artist Warren Kimble about his art and his life at a time when the Bennington Museum celebrates 150 years of Grandma Moses with its largest Moses show in a decade. He talks about the popularity of folk art and how he has helped his small town community be a place where an...
What’s New
What’s New The Monadnock Fine Art Gallery Relocates — The Monadnock Fine Art Gallery opens with a new exhibit in its new home at Anthony Toepfer Jewelers, located at 50 Central Square, Keene. Marlborough fine artist, Mary Iselin’s new works entitled, “A Mother’s Gift” will be on exhibit through June 12. Mary Iselin’s paintings will also be featured in the windows of Anthony Toepfer Jewelers during the 18th annual Art Walk in...
Making it as an artist in Vermont
Making It as an Artist in Vermont by Anita Rafael New artists’ alliances are bursting on the scene—all with similar missions—to work together and to work smarter and to welcome and engage audiences in new and dynamic ways. Just as farmers and fresh-food enthusiasts have found each other at farmers’ markets—artists and art-lovers are finding each other at open studio tours, in guilds and galleries, and at public events and festivals....
Neighbors join forces to buy a dairy farm
Neighbors Join Forces to Buy a Dairy Farm by Katherine P. Cox Savvy Vermont cheese lovers on the lookout for the next best thing may have noticed some new artisan cheeses on the block—with the imprint of the Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company. What they may not know is that Vermont Farmstead is unique—a community-owned dairy and cheesemaking operation, the first in the state. Established a little more than a year ago, the company was...
Farmers Markets
Farmers’ Markets Every Tuesday: Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market, Depot Park, 3-6p, 802 747-4403. Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market at the Bennington Station, 10-1p, 802 442-8934. Every Wednesday: Farmers’ Market, Food Co-op Parking Lot, Brattleboro, 10-2p, brattleborofarmersmarket.org. Woodstock Farmers’ Market, on the Green, 3-6p, woodstockvt.com. Every Thursday: Poultney Farmers’ Market, Main St, 9-2p, 802 287-2460. Townshend...
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...
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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