Gridley explores memory with multimedia art

Middlebury artist Kate Gridley’s new multimedia exhibit, “Witness Marks: Anatomy of a Memory,” is on display at the Kent Museum in Calais.

New plein air exhibit opens in Middlebury

Vermont artist Susan Abbott’s landscape paintings are rooted in close observation, memory, and a sustained relationship with place.

Orwell to stage big art festival in small town

Who would have known that an Addison County town of only 1,200 people would have so many talented artists? The Orwell Artists group was founded in 2016 to provide an opportunity for local artists to meet, share their work and develop a community. Now, the … (read more)

Sheldon Museum hosts hope

A Conversation on Creativity, Resilience, and Transformation in Vermont’s Carceral System Did you see the story John Flowers wrote earlier this month on this exhibit? Check it out here. The Henry Sheldon Museum is honored to host a panel discussion in con … (read more)

Nature speaks in ‘Signals’ at Vergennes art gallery

The group exhibition features works by Steve Budington, Grace Hager, David Kearns, JoAnne Lobotsky, Jennifer McCandless, and Aimée Papazian. An opening reception will be held Saturday, May 3.

Art auction to benefit Addison Housing Works

The agency that promotes affordable housing in Addison County presents pieces that represent what “home” means to each of the 26 contributing artists.

Artist paints natural landscape creeping up side of a silo

The Middlebury College Recycling Center silo is getting a new look that could be an example for other abandoned farm storage structures in Vermont.

Nigerian visitor teaches kids about nature through art, science & fireflies

“Sometimes we are so possessive of the earth that we want to use up all of its offerings, but we should remember that we are all only on earth for a very short time. It’s not something that we own but something that we are renting for a very short while.”

New art supply store to open Friday in Middlebury

Sparrow Art Supply, one of the emerging businesses tapped by Kick Start last summer, will mark its grand opening this Friday.

New Middlebury Studio School space is welcoming to emerging artists

The Middlebury Studio School’s longtime quest to bring arts education back to the downtown has come to fruition, with the opening of a new branch in the Marble Works complex.

Edgewater Galleries welcome new work for fall

Edgewater Galleries in downtown Middlebury have two new exhibits on view for the month of October.  “Autumn Solos At The Falls,” features painters Philip Frey, Holly Friesen and Ellen Granter. Each artist is presenting a new body of work that will be on v … (read more)

Art on Main downsizes

BRISTOL — The Bristol artist’s cooperative gallery Art on Main is losing some key personnel. On Thursday the gallery’s board of directors announced in a letter to artists and other community members that it was eliminating the position of gallery manager, … (read more)

Ways of Seeing: Pandemic pops the artistic ‘bubble’

Someone asked me to talk about what it’s like to paint in a “bubble” during the pandemic.  A bubble. My studio? My white privileged life? Vermont? Outside the north window of my studio is the new vegetable garden we have been eating out of for a month now … (read more)

Bristol sixth-graders put stamp on school, from home

BRISTOL — For nearly three decades, under the guidance of art teacher Deb Rickner, each graduating sixth-grader at Bristol Elementary School (BES) has created a personal design and painted it onto one cinderblock of the building’s interior. “The project m … (read more)

An impromptu art show in Bristol

BRISTOL — Last Saturday Bristol resident Ali Gibson organized “Art on Display Day” as “a fun way to share some smiles with neighbors.” Around town, porches and front yards became impromptu galleries, displaying homemade and other art, quilts, signs and ot … (read more)

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