Arts Calendar: Vermont Arts 2018
Christian McBride and New Jawn Quartet


Description: |
Six-time Grammy Award winning bassist Christian McBride leads an all-star quartet that draws on the powerhouse connection between McBride and drummer Nasheet Waits. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/12/18 8:00pm - 11:00pm |
Location: | Vermont Jazz Center 72 Cotton Mill Hill #222, Brattleboro |
Stephen Petegorsky Photography Exhibit


Description: |
The Feick Arts Center is pleased to announce our first exhibit of the season. “Stephen Petegorsky - Photography” opens on Friday, September 14, 2018 at Green Mountain College in Poultney, Vermont with a reception from 5-7pm including refreshments, music, and a chance to meet the artist. The exhibit features a series of images based on cleared and stained animal specimens that Petegorsky remakes into haunting photographs that highlight the poetic and lyrical qualities of morphology. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/14/18 9:00am - 10/12/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Feick Arts Center at Green Mountain College, Poultney |
The Dorset Players present Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution

Description: |
Friday, October 5 & 12 at 7:30 pm |
---|---|
Time: | 10/5/18 7:30pm - 10/14/18 4:00pm |
Location: | Dorset Playhouse, 104 Cheney Rd., Dorset |
Oldcastle Theatre Company Presents: Long Day's Journey Into Night


Description: |
Long Day's Journey Into Night • Considered by many to be the greatest play by America's greatest dramatist. Spanning one day in the life of a tumultuous family. Eugene O'Neill changed American drama forever and his play is a living testament to the power of theatre. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/5/18 7:30pm - 10/14/18 10:00pm |
Location: | 331 Main St., Bennington |
Thriving Spaces: Street Art Meets Glass


Description: |
Thriving Spaces explores the parallels of two contrasting mediums connected through a shared theme. This show brings together street artists from New York and artists from the Vermont Glass Guild to develop a combined display of original work. Cascading canvases echo sculptural glass, forming an experiential exhibit that reimagines the surrounding natural world. Free & open to the public. Suggested donation $5. |
---|---|
Location: | Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester |
ArtisTree's Music Theatre Festival Presents: SUDS - The Rocking ’60s Musical Soap Opera


Description: |
This evening of pure, frothy fun will have you boppin’ to over fifty well-known songs that topped the 1960s charts: Respect, You Can’t Hurry Love, Say A Little Prayer, and more! Oct 4-7, 10-14, 17-20. Tickets and exact performance days/times can be found on our website. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/4/18 7:30pm - 10/20/18 9:00pm |
Location: | ArtisTree Community Arts Center/Grange Theatre, South Pomfret |
Exposed


Description: |
Exposed. is Helen Day Art Center’s 27th annual outdoor sculpture exhibition. Sculptural, site-specific, and participatory work from regional and national artists is exhibited throughout the town of Stowe. |
---|---|
Location: | Throughout the village, Stowe |
Oslo


Description: |
Fresh from Broadway and the West End, the regional premiere of this stunning new play will captivate audiences. Inspired by the true story of the back-channel talks, unlikely friendships, and quiet heroics that led to the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords between the Israelis and the Palestinians, Oslo is a deeply personal story set against a complex historical canvas, a story about the individuals behind world history and their all too human ambitions. Oslo is “thrilling, a colossus,” raves Ben Brantley of The New York Times. At this cultural moment when finding common ground is paramount, “Oslo gives us hope” (Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News). |
---|---|
Time: | 9/19/18 7:30pm - 10/21/18 10:30pm |
Location: | 74 Gates St, White River Junction |
August Wilson's Two Trains Running

Description: |
As urban planning threatens the demise of a popular lunch counter in Pittsburgh’s close-knit Hill District, owner Memphis struggles with whether or not to sell, and at what cost. Wilson’s intimate portrait of a time of extraordinary challenge and change in our country is Weston’s 4th annual American Masters play. Sponsored by The Vermont Country Store! |
---|---|
Location: | Weston Playhouse at Walker Farm, Weston |
Mosher's DISAPPEARANCES at Lost Nation Theater


Description: |
HOWARD FRANK MOSHER'S "DISAPPEARANCES" STAGED BY LOST NATION THEATER |
---|---|
Time: | 10/4/18 7:30pm - 10/21/18 11:59pm |
Location: | LOST NATION THEATER - CITY HALL PERFORMING ARTS CTR, Montpelier |
Two Trains Running


Description: |
An intimate portrait of a time of great change. Tuesday - Saturday Evenings at 7:30 pm Run Time: Approx. 2 hour 45 minutes |
---|---|
Location: | Second Stage at Walker Farm, Weston |
SculptFest2018 at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center


Description: |
An exciting group of artists will present sculptural and video installations for SculptFest2018 at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center. Proposals were submitted in response to this year’s theme of “Interdependence.” Guest curator Alisa Dworsky selected site-specific works by artists Charles Hickey, Amy Königbauer, Sophia Latysheva, Jessica Leete and Nathaniel Lieb with Eva Schmidt. Also chosen, Susan Maas, Indigo Naar, Sayward Schoonmaker, Lynn Sullivan and Sam Talbot-Kelly. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/9/18 10:00am - 10/22/18 4:00pm |
Location: | The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center, West Rutland |
Warren Kimble: An Artists Journey Exhibit and Opening Reception


Description: |
Warren Kimble: An Artists Journey |
---|---|
Time: | 9/4/18 12:00pm - 10/26/18 4:00pm |
Location: | T.W. Wood Gallery 46 Barre St at the Center for Arts & Learning, Montpelier |
Vermont Modern Quilt Guild Member Show


Description: |
The T. W. Wood Gallery at 46 Barre St in Montpelier, Vermont is pleased to announce an exhibit of the Vermont Modern Quilt Guild member show. The exhibit will be open for viewing from Tuesday, October 2, through Friday, October 26. There will be an opening reception with refreshments served and an opportunity to meet the artists on Thursday October 4, from 5:00-7:00 pm at the Gallery. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/2/18 12:00pm - 10/27/18 4:00pm |
Location: | T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier |
Axel Stohlberg - Short Stories


Description: |
Short Stories, an exhibit of assemblages and 2d work by Axel Stohlberg, will be on exhibit at the Gallery at River Arts September 6-October 28, 2018. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/6/18 9:00am - 10/28/18 5:00pm |
Location: | River Arts, Morrisville |
"Morrisville - Favorite Places" Group Photography Exhibit


Description: |
Morrisville – Favorite Places, a group show featuring photography by 12 artists, will be on exhibit in the Copley Common Room at River Arts September 6-October 28, 2018. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/6/18 9:00am - 10/28/18 5:00pm |
Location: | River Arts, Morrisville |
Fabric of Emancipation


Description: |
Curated by Harlem Needle Arts founder and director Michelle Bishop, this special exhibit features pieces by eight contemporary textile artists from New York, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Indianapolis. The works share and are defined by some element of thread construction, but are diverse in presentation, including quilting, embroidery, mixed media, costume, and fiber fusion. Each work speaks to the artist’s view of the African Diaspora and his or her own personal interpretation of historic and contemporary events. |
---|---|
Time: | 7/15/18 10:00am - 10/28/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburg |
Dear Elizabeth


Description: |
A tale of love and longing, Dear Elizabeth follows the beautiful and bittersweet friendship between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. Across oceans, continents, and three decades, these esteemed poets found a marriage of true minds in their eloquent correspondence. They traded hundreds of vibrant, witty, and passionate letters that now spring to life on stage. This intimate story paints a portrait of two ordinary – and quite extraordinary – lives. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/4/18 7:30pm - 10/28/18 10:30pm |
Location: | Northern Stage, White River Junction |
New Dimensions in Landscape: Works By Homer Wells


Description: |
Edgewater Gallery in Stowe unveils a solo exhibition and new series of etched aluminum paintings by Homer Wells. New Dimensions in Landscape is on view October 1st through October 28th. There will be an opening reception on Friday, October 5th from 5:00-7:00 pm with an artist talk at 6:00pm. Homer Wells will also be at the Gallery for a demonstration of his techniques on Saturday, October 20th from 1:00-3:00 pm. Expect the unexpected as Wells unveils his new geometric constructions to play with perception and light. |
---|---|
Location: | Edgewater Gallery in Stowe, Stowe |
PEACE ARTS: Immigration: Do Black Lives Matter?


Description: |
Hours: M-F 9-5 and Sat. 12-4 Pornography of War & Do Black Lives Matter? BY Namaya at the River Garden 157 Main Street in Brattleboro. Namaya Art Rat for Peace will show works from his recent New Orleans retrospective show "Building a Peaceable Community" at the New Orleans’s Art Center. Co-sponsored by Vermont Veterans for Peace and www.gracecares.org. A portion of profits benefit projects for Grace Cares. |
---|---|
Time: | 10/1/18 9:00am - 10/31/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Robert H. Gibson River Garden, 157 Main Street, Brattleboro |
Macaulay in Montpelier: selected drawings and sketches


Description: |
Internationally recognized author and illustrator David Macaulay will exhibit images from eight of his books, including preliminary sketches and finished art created between 1982 and 2010. According to the artist, the books range from the "history of architecture and the workings of technology to aspects of the human body, the decline of society, and why a chicken once crossed a road." He says that the works "represent a tiny sliver of the vast amount of flotsam left in the wake of each book.” |
---|---|
Time: | 9/17/18 8:30am - 11/2/18 4:30pm |
Location: | Spotlight Gallery, Vermont Arts Council, 136 State St., Montpelier |
Beyond the Pale


Description: |
Dates & Times: |
---|---|
Time: | 8/27/18 8:00am - 11/3/18 4:00pm |
Location: | The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton |
Familiars: Valerie Hammond and Kiki Smith


Description: |
This exhibition demonstrates the uniqueness, as well as the intersections, of the printmaking practices that Hammond and Smith have developed as contemporaries and friends over the last twenty years. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/21/18 10:00am - 11/3/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Helen Day Art Center, Stowe |
Land and Light and Water and Air


Description: |
Bryan Memorial Gallery presents its Flagship exhibition featuring juried landscape paintings from New England Artists. This year's top prize went to Andrew Orr for Summer Shadows. The gallery is open seven days a week until october 8th when the hours are Thursday through Sunday 11-4. The exhibit features 69 artists and more than 100 paintings. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/6/18 11:00am - 11/4/18 4:00pm |
Location: | Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville |
Location Location Location


Description: |
Bryan Memorial Gallery presents Location, Location, Location, a Vermont Landscape painting exhibit of works by its founder, Alden Bryan (1913-2001) and six contemporary artists. For this exhibit, the contemporary artists followed in Bryan's footsteps, returning to specific locations where he painted as long as 75 years ago to paint the scene again today. Locations include views in Stowe, Waterville, and Cambridge. Hours are daily 11-4 until October 8th when the gallery is open Thursday through Sunday 11-4. |
---|---|
Time: | 9/6/18 11:00am - 11/4/18 4:00pm |
Location: | Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville |
Reinventing the View: Paintings by Ashley Wolff at the Brandon Artists Guild


Description: |
The Brandon Artists Guild (the BAG) announces a show of new paintings by Leicester artist Ashley Wolff. The exhibit, “Reinventing the View” runs August 31 through November 5. The public is invited to meet the artist at the opening reception Friday, August 31 from 5 to 7PM. |
---|---|
Time: | 8/31/18 5:00pm - 11/5/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Brandon Artist Guild, Brandon |
DOUGHBOYS AND FLYBOYS WWI Stories by Vermonters From the Home and Battlefront


Description: |
November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War One. The Sheldon Museum has combed its collection and archives along with the help of Addison County private collections to mount an exhibit that features roles played by Vermonters in what was called the “War to End All Wars.” The exhibit concentrates on Vermont’s Addison County residents who were in the service during WWI. |
---|---|
Time: | 7/31/18 10:00am - 11/11/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury |
Waterfowl Wonders And Amusing Animals By Three Self-Taught Addison County, Vermont Carvers


Description: |
"Waterfowl Wonders and Amusing Animals by Three Self-taught Addison County, Vermont carvers – Gary Starr, Chuck Herrmann, and William Holway - greet delighted visitors to the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury, Vermont. |
---|---|
Time: | 3/20/18 10:00am - 11/11/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Henry Sheldon Museum, One Park Street, Middlebury |
The Photography of ROBERT COHEN


Description: |
The Photography of Robert Cohen |
---|---|
Time: | 10/4/18 5:30pm - 11/12/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Main Street Arts, Saxtons River |
Now featured at Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts: Deidre Scherer, “Human Textures”


Description: |
October 5 through November 18: Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts is pleased to present Deidre Scherer’s |
---|---|
Time: | 10/5/18 5:00pm - 11/18/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Mitchell • Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro |
Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters


Description: |
PHOTOGRAPHS AND STORIES BY ETHAN HUBBARD |
---|---|
Time: | 9/21/18 5:00pm - 12/2/18 8:00pm |
Location: | Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro |
Gerald Auten: Graphite Insomnia

Description: |
Gerald Auten uses powdered graphite or graphite pencils on dense, smooth hot-pressed paper or onto the back of old museum posters and postcards. To the powdered graphite, he adds a bonding element, WD40, turpentine, or linseed oil, often buffing the surface. The work takes many months to achieve the dense metallic, oily surfaces. The affect is luminous, deeply saturated, mysterious and mischievous. |
---|---|
Location: | White River Gallery @ BALE, Chelsea |
Growing Food, Growing Farmers


Description: |
Four years ago, Vermont Folklife Center researchers Greg Sharrow and Andy Kolovos began fieldwork to explore the grass-roots food movement in Vermont. Sharrow described his early meetings with farmers in the Rutland area as revealing “the spokes on a wheel”, with the hub located at Boardman Hill Farm, where Greg and Gay Cox have lived and farmed for more than three decades. |
---|---|
Time: | 8/21/18 10:00am - 12/31/18 5:00pm |
Location: | Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury |