Artistic ambassadors to the working woods
An exhibit at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center marries poetry with the painted image in a celebration of the life and lore of the Vermont forest Shedding Light on the Working Forest,” an exhibition of paintings and poems, is the deepest expression of an artistic friendship, nurtured over twenty-five years. Kathleen Kolb and I met as faculty members at the Governor’s Institute on the Arts, living and teaching painting and poetry,...
Circus Arts: Planning to soar
NECCA sisters fuse business savvy, circus thrills By Jon Potter Photos by Jeffrey M. Lewis Balance is a core value at a school whose curriculum boasts Trapeze, Teeterboard, and Acrobatics, and whose students are often found 10 feet off the ground, swinging from bars, beams, and fabrics. But for Elsie Smith and Serenity Smith Forchion, identical twins and co-founders of the New England Center for Circus Arts in Brattleboro, commitment...
What Vermont stands to lose
Shall Vermont’s mountains be sacrificed in the great game of big wind? By Tom Slayton Vermont’s mountains and high ridges are under siege once again. Across the length and breadth of our small, mountainous state, dozens of immense wind towers taller than the 306-foot-tall Bennington Battle Monument are planned or in place. With official sanction, this state is gradually industrializing and suburbanizing its mountains and high...
Winter picks
Brattleboro Clayworks Holiday Sale 532 Putney Road, Brattleboro http://www.brattleboroclayworks.com, 802 254-9174 December: Stop by during extended showroom hours where we have an annual 10 percent off sale. Brattleboro Clayworks is Southern Vermont’s ceramics resource center. Founded in 1983, we seek to increase access to ceramic media for the communities of southeastern Vermont, northwestern Massachusetts, and southwestern New...
At the galleries
Bennington Arts Guild 103 South St., Bennington http://www.benningtonartsguild.org, 802 442-7838 Thru Dec: Bennington Art Guild Holiday Show. To wrap up the year, the Bennington Arts Guild hosts its Annual Holiday Show of work by Guild members. Chaffee Art Center 16 South Main St., Rutland http://www.chaffeeartcenter.org, 802 775-0356 Thru Dec: Annual Holiday Exhibit and Gingerbread Construction Competition. Crowell Gallery at Moore...
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