Art in the Time of Covid: Swan&Stone Millinery
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Millinery is the art, craft, and trade of hat-making, and for milliners Nora Swan and Samantha Stone, it is at its best a highly social affair. Nora, Sam, and their […]
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Steering the Ship: A Q&A with Vermont’s Cultural Leaders | Erin Evarts
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Leaders of arts and cultural organizations must draw on perhaps until now untested courage and fortitude to navigate today’s choppy seas. A viral pandemic, economic devastation, unending climate crises, and […]
Steering the Ship: A Q&A with Vermont’s Cultural Leaders | Christopher Kaufman Ilstrup
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Leaders of arts and cultural organizations must draw on perhaps until now untested courage and fortitude to navigate today’s choppy seas. A viral pandemic, economic devastation, unending climate crises, and […]
Vermont’s Mask-making Artists
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One of the most conspicuous and polarizing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has been the face mask. Long a standard practice in cities across Asia, face masks in the United […]
Wearing Masks in Museums
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On Saturday, July 11, I had the oxymoronic pleasure of enjoying art during a pandemic – a first-time experience, to be sure, and one I’m not entirely sure I wish […]
Teaching Artists Can Be “Leaders of Re-entry” in Unexplored Territory
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In early June, teaching artist Alissa Faber and Champlain Elementary School embarked on an experiment—a virtual artist residency, the first of its kind held through the Vermont Arts Council’s Artists […]
Art in the Time of Covid: Shanta Lee Gander
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Artists everywhere have felt the social, economic, and cultural pressure of the pandemic since quarantines first began rolling out around the country. For many artists, however, the alone time has […]
Honoring Our Poetry Out Loud Finalists and First Original Poetry Award Winners
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Few events bring the country together in the name of poetry like Poetry Out Loud. Each year, in every state, high school students compete to recite poems of every style […]
‘Art is Essential,’ Vermont Arts Organizations Struggle to Survive
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For arts, humanities and cultural organizations across Vermont, the pandemic has hit especially hard. Many are struggling to keep their audiences engaged and to survive financially, confronting months of lost […]
Six-Word Quarantine Stories from the Creative Sector Forum
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At the Creative Sector Response and Recovery Forum on May 11, Council deputy director Amy Cunningham asked participants to share “six-word stories” of their experience since the Covid-19 pandemic began. […]
Art in the Time of Covid: Modern Times Theater
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Since 2007, husband and wife team Justin Lander and Rose Friedman have toured New England as Modern Times Theater, an old-fashioned puppetry and novelty music show that Boston’s WBUR radio […]
Summer 2020 Governor’s Institutes Go Virtual, New Pay-What-You-Can Tuition
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For over three decades, talented young Vermonters have gathered each summer for the Governor’s Institutes: college-level academic and artistic enrichment programs where students dive deep into their passions on campuses […]