Vermont Folklife Center
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Mural project to spread art around Vermont
MONTPELIER — Registration is now open for communities to join the Vermont Mural Project. The Community Engagement Lab, Juniper Creative Arts and the Vermont Folklife Center are partners…
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Digital exhibit celebrates Vermont’s first pride march in 1983
The Vermont Folklife Center and the Pride Center of Vermont announce the opening of “Pride 1983,” a new online exhibit. Through interviews with organizers, photographs and scanned images…
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Folklife Center’s annual gingerbread house competition goes virtual
The Vermont Folklife Center announces its first virtual gingerbread house competition and exhibit. This ever-popular 22-year annual tradition will continue safely despite the pandemic. “If we can’t all…
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Annual gingerbread house competition goes virtual
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Folklife Center will be holding its annual gingerbread house competition and exhibit virtually this year. The contest is open to anyone living in Vermont,…
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Vermont Folklife Center nabs LGBTQ grant
MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Folklife Center recently received $3,500 from the Vermont Community Foundation’s Samara Fund. This year the Fund focused it’s grants on supporting the LGBTQ community in…
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Folklife Center names Antohin as head of education
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Folklife Center has appointed Alexandra “Sasha” Antohin as the its full-time director of education. “I cannot imagine a more qualified person to lead the center’s education…
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Folklife Center launches “Show Us Your Masks!” project
MIDDLEBURY — Like many people across the globe, Vermonters have stepped up and started making homemade face masks — both in response to a call for us to…
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Listening in Place: Vt. Folklife Center documents quarantine
MIDDLEBURY — While many of our family, friends and neighbors are at work on the front lines — healthcare workers, supermarket employees, emergency responders — a whole lot…
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Local seniors whip up gingerbread Hagrid’s hut
MIDDLEBURY — The Elderly Services building off Exchange Street is modern and comfortable, offering a wonderful experience to participants in the nonprofit’s Project Independence adult daycare program. For…
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In photos: Gingerbread ingenuity
MIDDLEBURY — The theme of the Vermont Folklife Center’s 21st annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit is “Christmas at Hogwarts Castle.” The center at 88 Main St. in…
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Gingerbread houses sweeten the season
MIDDLEBURY — Time to get ready for the 21st annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury. Creations will be on display from…