Teaching Gallery: Fine art at Landmark College
From the opening of its Fine Arts Gallery to the student art displayed front and center, Landmark College celebrates a ‘fundamental element of education and life.’ By Steve Noble If art is the result of artists seeing the everyday world in a way others don’t, then the existence of the Fine Art Gallery at Landmark College is, itself, work of art. In what was then the pleasant well-lit lobby of the Greenhoe Theater in the college’s...
Best of both worlds: Southern Vermont arts connect to New York City
The Southern Vermont creative world finds deep connections to the New York arts scene — and vice versa. By Arlene Distler As Sharon Olds, New York poet, put it the year she appeared at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, “I lift mine hills to the hills from whence my deliverance comes.” New Yorkers have long eyed the lands to the north with yearning –at least since the 40’s and 50’s. That was the era of Scott Nearing and a...
Curtains up: new theatrical curtains reflect Vermont seasons
Five regional artists go all in to create a modern chapter to Main Street Arts’ historic theatrical curtain collection By Susan Morse How do you paint a curtain, and a large 9 by 18-foot theatrical curtain at that? With exuberance and color and not a small amount of trepidation and curiosity a group of five contemporary Saxtons River artists have learned.. Michele Ratté says she isn’t even a painter: the Saxtons River artist calls...
The Brooks House: A new day for an Brattleboro landmark
The Brooks House reopening celebration will be on October 3 The $24 million renovation of downtown Brattleboro’s Brooks House will be celebrated on October 3. The 80,000-square-foot building includes an 18,000-square-foot academic center for Community College of Vermont and Vermont Technical Center, where classes have already begun. The building also features high-end apartments and a variety of commercial businesses, including the...
New travel apps poised to put Vermont on the mobile map
State, entrepreneurs offer modern twists on the old road atlas (and special provisions for cellular dead zones) Technology isn’t something you necessarily think of when you think of Vermont,” admits Doug Allbee, CEO and Co-Founder of Viewboost, a newly launched Vermont tourism app. “There are a lot of traditional ways that Vermont is marketing itself, a lot of status quo approaches. But we really feel strongly that it’s a great...
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...
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