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  • Gridley explores memory with multimedia art

    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

    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

    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…

  • Sheldon Museum hosts hope

    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…

  • Nature speaks in ‘Signals’ at Vergennes art gallery

    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

    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

    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

    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…

  • New art supply store to open Friday in Middlebury

    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

    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…

  • Edgewater Galleries welcome new work for fall

    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…

  • Art on Main downsizes

    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…

  • Ways of Seeing: Pandemic pops the artistic ‘bubble’

    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…

  • Bristol sixth-graders put stamp on school, from home

    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…

  • An impromptu art show in Bristol

    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…

  • Art exhibit: Approaching Abstraction — a talk with Holly Harrison

    Art exhibit: Approaching Abstraction — a talk with Holly Harrison

    MIDDLEBURY — Edgewater Gallery will host a free artist’s talk with Holly Harrison on Thursday, Feb. 27, from 5:30-7 p.m., at the Merchant’s Row gallery in Middlebury. During…