Glasstastic 2019 at Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will once again have 20 professional glass artists teaming up with local elementary school students to bring their imagination to life with critters like this one from an earlier exhibition.
Laumeister Art Center
44 Gypsy Lane, Bennington
10a to 5p daily
802 442-7158
Seven galleries. Permanent exhibits include two large galleries of Native American art and an artifact room, original paintings by Eric Sloane, and more than 20 wooden bird carvings by master carver Floyd Scholz. Thru Feb 24: A Century of Caring. Artifacts, stories, and images from 100-year history of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center.
Bennington Museum
75 Main St., Route 9, Bennington
10a to 5p (Closed Wed)
http://www.benningtonmuseum.org
802 477-1571
Thru March 12: Annual Student Art Exhibition. Bringing artwork of the region’s elementary, middle, and high school students to the Museum. Ongoing: Thirteen gallery spaces comprise the largest repository for art, history, and innovation in Southern Vermont. See the Grandma Moses Schoolhouse; Ralph Earl’s 1798 painting of Bennington; a 1924 Martin Wasp touring car; Bennington pottery featuring Norton, Fenton, and Redware; and the Bennington flag, associated with the Battle of Bennington, Aug. 16, 1777.
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
10 Vernon St., Brattleboro
11a to 5p (Closed Tues)
http://www.brattleboromuseum.org
802 257-0124
Thru March 2: Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint, BMAC’s annual open call for artists’ submissions, yielded exceptional responses. This comprehensive and talented group has been culled to exhibition size from more than 300 submissions. March 9–June 16: Sandy Sokoloff: “Emanation”; Amy Bennett: “Nuclear Family”; Glasstastic 2019; Joey Morgan: “Catch + Release (2) Précis”; Jackie Abrams & Deidre Scherer: “Connections”; Joseph Diggs: “Proud 2 be American.”
Clark Art Institute
225 South St., Williamstown, Mass.
10a to 5p, Tues-Sun
413 258-2303
Thru Feb 24: Extreme Nature. Nature’s extremes—remote, fantastical, and unpredictable—permeated artistic imagery and popular media throughout the 19th century. Thru March 10: Turner and Constable: The Inhabited Landscape. Thru March 17: Thomas Gainsborough drawings.
Southern Vermont Arts Center, Yester House Gallery
West Road, Manchester
10a to 5p Tues–Sat; noon to 5p Sun
802 362-2522, 362-1405
Ongoing: SVAC’s Permanent Collection highlights contributions of the original founders of the Southern Vermont Artists Inc., a collaborative of regional artists and businesspeople who supported the arts and culture in Southern Vermont in the early 20th century. Collection features such prominent artists as Ogden Pleissner, Jay Hall Connaway, Reginald Marsh, Guy Pène du Bois, Lorenzo Hatch, Luigi Lucioni, Arthur Gibbes Burton, and Robert Strong Woodward.
