In just a few days bidding will begin in our second doing our pART online art auction to benefit the Vermont Foodbank.  Nearly 100 items are available including original art, crafts, performance tickets, private house concerts and much more.  The auction begins on November 27th but you preview items now.  Simply click here to check it out.

The Art of Action: Shaping Vermont's Future Through Art is on the move!  This groundbreaking art project is traveling the state in two concurrent exhibitions. The Artists' Choice Tour is at the Richmond Free Library in Richmond until November 30 while The Curator's Choice Tour will be in Marlboro at the Drury Gallery through December 1.

Own a piece of the "Action"!  Click here to purchase prints from the Art of Action collection, an Exhibition Catalog and more!  Also, mark your calendar for the Art of Action Auction on July 17, 2010 at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center in Burlington.

Do you have a New Year’s or other holiday or winter event you want to publicize? Now is the time to get it listed in the Vermont Arts Calendar.  To get the broadest exposure for your event you should list no later than six weeks before the event. 

The Vermont Arts Calendar is not only a FREE way of reaching thousands of people, but it also gets your events distributed to dozens of publications in the Northeast, and throughout the country.  Click below for more information about the Arts Calendar, or to enter your event.

Montpelier artist, Cully Renwick exhibits two series of paintings in the Spotlight Gallery during November and December.

From the Artist: "Sweet Northern Songs is a collection of pieces that I feel show the cultural influences of growing up in the American Midwest in a first generation Irish and Norwegian family." The second series in the exhibit, "Finland in the Forties" is from the summer of 2006 when Renwick was in residence at Saskala ArtRadius in Finland.  She says, "There seems to be a lot about Finland for Vermonters to admire." Click below to find out more about the artist and the exhibit.

Our attention is turning relentlessly towards the holidays. I keep wishing it were last April and that I still had a good eight or nine months to complete all the things I set out for myself this year, but no. It's coming on late November. Thanksgiving is around the corner. And I am as far behind as ever.

In truth, the things I am behind in are personal rather than work-related. I still haven't gotten to re-roofing my porch, or losing 15 pounds, or fixing the floor under the freezer in the basement. I haven't ordered next year's firewood or put the winter tires on our cars.