Photographer Don Ross At Jackson Gallery
Brandon photographer Don Ross has been honing his craft for 20 years and many of those years have been spent amidst the quiet, stony fortresses of Vermont's abandoned quarries.
View ArticleBlanche Moyse Chorale Performs Bach Mass
J.S Bach’s choral masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor, was often a highlight of performances of the New England Bach Festival, which was disbanded in 2004.Now the piece is returning to Southern Vermont...
View ArticleVermont Blog Brings Together Books And Readers
The Vermont-based Book Jam Blog.com is devoted to promoting reading, independent bookstores and public libraries. Readers can find reviews, recommendations, discussions and author interviews.And The...
View ArticleBrattleboro Museum Highlighting Contemporary Chinese Art
An exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum is offering up a smorgasbord of Chinese art.And that food metaphor is no accident. The exhibit is called Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art and it runs...
View ArticleWeekly Conversation On The Arts: Defying Gravity With Thea Alvin
This week, Mary Williams talks with Morrisville artist Thea Alvin who creates arches from stone. Working at her craft for 30 years, she builds enormous arches and spirals--some weighing 12 tons--that...
View ArticleArts Director Optimistic As Summer Season Gets Underway
The Legislative session is behind us, and the Summer Arts season is underway. The Vermont Arts Council's Executive Director Alex Aldrich says lawmakers showed their faith in the arts this session by...
View ArticleJazz Thriving In Southern Vermont
All this week, jazz fans are focused on the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.But jazz thrives year-round in Brattleboro, thanks in part to the work of the Vermont Jazz Center and its artistic director...
View ArticleSouthern Vermont Venues Team Up For Summer Arts Festival
Southern Vermont in the summertime is a rich tapestry of theater, concerts and art exhibits.And this year, many events are being woven together, and presented as the Hills Alive Festival of the Arts,...
View ArticleCarillon Provides Summer Entertainment At Norwich University
A series of free, outdoor carillon concerts will take place this summer on the campus of Norwich University in Northfield.Carilloner George Matthew says the Norwich carillon was originally used at the...
View ArticleYellow Barn Begins 44th Season With Tribute To Co-Founder
Yellow Barn in Putney is presenting three classical music concerts this weekend, as part of a summer season that runs through August 3.The season opened with a tribute to David Wells, who co-founded...
View ArticleNow In Its 30th Season, Unadilla Celebrates With New Theater
People traveling the back roads of Calais may not expect to come across a venue for highbrow theater.But in fact, Unadilla Theater is celebrating its 30th year by opening a second performance space...
View ArticleWeekly Conversation On The Arts: Talking Books With Peter Gilbert
This weekend marks the fifth annual Bookstock book festival in Woodstock. We speak with Peter Gilbert, executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council, about the role of books in shaping ideas and...
View ArticleAugust Means Arts In The Mad River Valley
The Mad River Valley comes alive this month with the 16th annual Vermont Festival Of The Arts.Waitsfield will be home base for close to 120 arts-related events and activities throughout the region.As...
View ArticleLyric Theater Preps For 40th Anniversary
Burlington's Lyric Theater is gearing up for its 40th anniversary as one of the country’s largest amateur theater organizations.Lyric Theater is a hybrid organization: part community theater and part...
View ArticleOpera Company Of Middlebury Celebrates 10 Years
The Opera Company of Middlebury is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a benefit concert Saturday, August 17th. The recital will feature Tenor Yonghoon Lee, who sang in the company’s first two...
View ArticleInternational Sculpture Symposium Comes To West Rutland
The West Rutland Art Park is hosting an international sculpture symposium, which will feature nine artists from eight different countries.The month-long symposium gets underway on Friday, and is a...
View ArticleGroup Helps Kids Overcome Trauma Through The Arts
Tropical Storm Irene was a traumatic event for many Vermonters, and one can only imagine how the storm and its aftermath affected children.A non-profit organization in central Vermont known as the Arts...
View ArticleIndependent Media Festival Comes To Southern Vermont
Southern Vermont will become a Hollywood outpost as Dover and Wilmington play host to the Independent Television and Film Festival, September 26th through the 28th.This is the 8th annual ITV Fest,...
View ArticleArts Council To Host Awards Gala And Summit
October is a busy time for the Vermont Arts Council, and for arts-lovers in general.The month kicks off with the Annual Arts Awards gala in Brandon Tuesday, October 1. And the Council is also gearing...
View ArticleGuilford Author Delivers A Ghostly Mystery
A new book by Guliford author Michael Nethercott combines ghostly storytelling and traditional drawing room mystery.The Séance Society follows an unlikely detective duo as they’re enlisted to solve a...
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