Art

Affordable summer art camp for kids

DOVER - Vermont Academy at Mount Snow announces its summer art camp, which will run Mondays to Fridays, July 7 through August 8, from 9:30 to 11:30 am, at 248 Route 100. Children entering grades one through five are invited to attend; tuition is $50 per week.
Designed for all levels of...

I Love Art Space board members pose with artist Carol Sewall at I Love Art Space’s opening night on Friday, August 2. From left: Board member Jeannette Eckert, board member Don Jones, board member Anne Saracino, artist Carol Sewall, and board member Jane May Jones. Not pictured is board member Stephanie Staib. Photo courtesy of I Love Art Space.

After two-year odyssey, I Love Art Space finds a home

DOVER - Dover is now home to a new art gallery. I Love Art Space opened its doors at a grand opening on Friday, August 2. Since then, the space has seen plenty of foot traffic and interest from the public.
Jane May Jones and Jeannette Eckert, who are each on the board of directors for I...

Now on the market: home, gallery, and a couple’s life vision

The Art of Humor Gallery, the studio, and home next to it, are for sale
By Lauren Harkawik
WILMINGTON - The Art of Humor Gallery will close, possibly in the near future. Its owner, Laraine Morrow, wife of the late Skip Morrow, whose art populates the gallery, has...

Church owners seek use change

WILMINGTON- The owners of the former Valley Town Church building on South Main Street met with the Wilmington Development Review Board Monday evening for a hearing on their application for a change of use to retail and an entertainment and cultural facility.
Jenevieve Penk and Vincent Yeo...

Exhibit of contemporary classical realism

SOUTH NEWFANE- Willow Vermont Retreat hosts “Atelier: an Exhibit of Contemporary Classical Realism” on Sunday, August 27, from 1 to 6 pm at 369 Dover Road. The exhibit will feature more than 75 works by 20 artists from the renowned Grand Central Atelier in Brooklyn, NY. Meet the artists and see...

Silent auction fundraiser for new arts organization

WILMINGTON - A silent auction at Saturday night’s Blueberry Block Party will aim to raise money for a new arts organization in town, I Love Art Space.
I Love Art Space, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, plans to officially open its forthcoming space later in the fall or early winter. The...

Aurora Robson installing “Human Nature Walk” at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Photo by Kelly Fletcher.

Tackling pollution through art

BRATTLEBORO- The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center will present its inaugural award for service to art and humanity to artist Aurora Robson at the museum’s annual gala on Saturday, August 19, at 6 pm.
Aurora Robson was born in Toronto and raised in Maui, HI. She lived, studied, and...

“Candy Market” by Hannah Morris

Brattleboro museum celebrates new collections and artists

BRATTLEBORO- Eight new exhibitions open inside and outside Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Saturday, June 24, at 10 am. An opening celebration with the exhibiting artists and curators, free and open to all, will take place at 5 pm. featuring music by DJ Bux Wilder, live drag...

Lyman Orton

Book and exhibit highlight the art of Vermont

WARDSBORO- Anita Rafael has penned a book about the art collection of Lyman Orton. That collection will be on display at two simultaneous exhibits in the coming months, one at the Bennington Museum and the other at the Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester.
Rafael, of Wardsboro, ...

Full circle through sharing the gifts of art

WILMINGTON - Gen Abate knew even as a kid that she loved spreading the joy that art gives her. Throughout her childhood, she helped her siblings get in touch with that joy by creating her own art school at home.
“I would take my younger siblings and sit them in front of me in a row,” she...