Oct. 25
'Photographs Around Southern Vermont'
One Corner Gallery
Arlington
Beginning Oct. 25 there will be an exhibition of photographs at the One Corner Gallery in Arlington. Most images displayed are small and medium format landscape photographs taken in Southern Vermont by Arlington photographer, John Sutton. The 16 images on view represent the towns of Arlington, Bellows Falls, Manchester, Pawlet, Sunderland, Shaftsbury, Peru, and Poultney. The purpose is to promote Vermont in general and Southern Vermont in particular for the interest of residents and visitors.
"Swept by the rush of every day life it's easy to overlook the special qualities in our surroundings." commented Sutton when asked what inspired the collection. "I'd like to share with others my own view and appreciation for this wonderful state." he added.
The One Corner gallery is located at 39 School Street in Arlington. Gallery Hours: Thursday - Saturday 11a.m. - 4p.m., or by chance, or appointment. Oct. 26.
Elisabeth Von Trapp Concert
Second Congregational Church
Bennington 802-442-2559.
Elisabeth Von Trapp will perform in concert on Friday night, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. at Second Congregational Church on Hillside St. in Bennington. Elisabeth's performances have been described as "extraordinary," "a powerful, artful, and inspiring evening of song," "extraordinarily musical, bridging all
Admission is by free-will offering, and all are urged and invited to attend this magical evening of song and spirit.
For further information, contact the church office at 802-442-2559.
Oct. 27.
FREE Halloween Party at the Bennington Museum
Bennington Museum 802-447-1571
Come to the Bennington Museum for a frighteningly good time at the Halloween Party on Saturday from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. when admission is free!
The day offers events throughout the museum that provide excitement for children and adults of all ages. Come in costume and join the fun with guessing games, a gallery hunt, and spooky crafts that include Black Bat Clips, Creepy Spider Bracelets, Festive Halloween Cards, and Easy Tissue Ghosts. At 3:30 p.m. join the costume parade through the museum. Light refreshments will be available. This event is free to all, so bring friends to enjoy a day at the museum!
The Bennington Museum is located at 75 Main St. (Route 9) and is open daily through October from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The museum is just a short ride from Manchester, Williamstown and eastern New York. For more information, visit the website at www.benningtonmuseum.org or call 802-447-1571.
Graveyard Poets
Pompanuck Farm
Cambridge N.Y. 518-677-5552
Pompanuck Farm will present Graveyard Poets on Saturday Oct. 27th, 8p.m. An evening of enchanting and ghoulishly fun entertainment!
Tickets $10 ($12 at door). Ticket purchase also available online.
Please see the attached press release for more event information.
For more information, please contact Scott Carrino 518-677-5552 or scott@pompanuck.org
Oct. 28.
Woody Guthrie Singalong
Sheep Hill Center
Williamstown, Mass.
In honor of Woody Guthrie's 100th birthday (last July 14), the Williamstown Rural Lands Foundation will host a singalong celebration on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. All singers and musicians are invited to this free participatory event, at the Sheep Hill Center, 671 Cold Spring Road, Williamstown.
Contact Deb Burns at deb.burns@storey.com with questions
3 p.m.
Oct. 29.
Memoir Writing Workshop reservations end
Fillmore Pond
Bennington 1-802-447-7000
Memoir Writing Workshop at Emeritus at Fillmore Pond in Bennington featuring Ellen Perry Berkeley, experienced teacher. This will be 2 Saturdays in November. November 3,2012 10:00- 2:00PM and November 17,2012 from 10:00AM to 12:00PM. Cost is $25.00 for both workshops.
You do not have to be a writer and do not have to aim at a full- life book. Snippets can be very satisfying to do and to give away.
Due to limited space reservations are required by Oct. 29. Please call 1-802-447-7000.
Oct. 30.
The Community Art Program
North Adams Regional Hospital
North Adams, Mass.
The Community Art Program at North Adams Regional
Hospital continues its 13th season with an exhibition of more than 200 works by twenty area artists. Visitors can meet the artists at an opening reception on Tuesday, Oct. 30 from 5-7 p. m. Refreshments will be served in the Short Stay Waiting Room, just off the main lobby. The curator will lead a tour of the exhibit at 6 p.m.
Curated by North Adams artist Sharon Carson, the exhibit includes works in a variety of media, with styles from abstraction to realism.
Artists will be showingwatercolors, oil paintings, photographs, pastels, and mixed media art.
Oct. 31.
"Middle Falls" opening
Bennington College
Bennington College will celebrate the opening of "Middle Falls", an exhibition by Linda Matalon. A second-generation post-minimalist, Matalon operates at a remove from the style's originators, but remains a true believer, expanding and refining a known vocabulary with her own expressive needs, approach to materials and assured touch.
Bennington College, VAPA, Usdan Gallery
6:30 p.m.
Mark Doty poetry reading
Bennington College
The "Poetry at Bennington Series" presents a reading by
National Book Award-winning poet Mark Doty. The author of eight books of poetry and four volumes of non-fiction prose, Doty's poems have appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly", "The London Review of Books", "Ploughshares",
"Poetry", "The New Yorker", "The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry," and in many other magazines and anthologies.
Tishman Lecture Hall, Bennington College
7:00 p.m.
Closing Oct. 28
Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition
The Bennington Center for the Arts
Bennington
Juried work by members of this prestigious group includes still-lifes, landscapes and figurative pieces in two galleries. Participating artists include Kenn Backhaus, CW Mundy, Nancy Howe, Ruo Li, Kevin Macpherson, Charles Movalli and David Tutweiler as well as many others
Closing Oct. 30
Bennington Museum hosts Rockwell Kent's ‘Egypt'
Bennington Museum
Bennington 802-447-1571
The Bennington Museum's featured summer exhibit, "Rockwell Kent's ‘Egypt': Shadow and Light in Vermont" -- first exhibit to focus on Kent's life and work in Vermont, 1919-1925 -- continues on view through Oct. 30.
Kent purchased a hill farm called "Egypt" on the slopes of Red Mountain in Arlington, 20 miles north of Bennington, in the spring of 1919. There, he made use of the landscape, the mountains and valleys of the Green Mountains, to create a series of powerful paintings including "Autumn" and "Nirvana." These, along with over 50 works of this artist, including many rarely seen paintings created in Vermont, prints and drawings are on view in this exhibit.
A focused examination of the artist's time in Vermont, according to a museum press release, "uncovers a complex, psychologically probing body of work that indicates an artist who found much inspiration in both the awe-inspiring physical landscape that surrounded him at "Egypt" and in his own internal musings on life, death, and man's place in the world.
The Bennington Museum is located at 75 Main St. (Route 9). It is open Thursday through Tuesday, and every day July through October, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors and students over 18; younger students are free, as is a visit the museum shop. For information call 802-447-1571 or visit benningtonmuseum.org
Closing Oct. 31
California Art Club - Saving Paradise: The Symbiosis of Landscape Painting & Environmental Awareness
The Bennington Center for the Arts
Bennington
This exhibition, first exhibited in Los Angeles, documents the many preservation efforts CAC artists are involed with and celebrates the love that artists have for the land and their desire to share its beauty with the rest of society.
Through Nov. 25
Williams art museum hosts ‘Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series'
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. -- The Williams College Museum of Art continues its show "Laylah Ali: The Greenheads Series" -- the first time the Greenheads series, created between 1996 and 2005, will be shown as a comprehensive body of work -- is on view through Nov. 25. The museum is free and open to the public.
The exhibit will be part of the museum's new season celebration, scheduled for Friday, Sept. 28, from 5 to 7 p.m. There will also be a gallery conversation on "The Greenheads Series," on Thursday, Nov. 15, at 4:30 p.m.
The figures inhabiting Ali's works -- the Greenheads -- are, according to supplied material, "enigmatic round-headed beings of indeterminate sex and race who inhabit a regimented, dystopian world where odd and menacing, though sometimes strangely humorous, encounters prevail."
The Williams College Museum of Art is located on Main Street. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free. For information call 413-597-2429 or wcma.williams.edu
Through December 12
Plein Air Vermont
The Benningon Center for the Arts
Bennington
Seventy paintings by artists invited to participate in the Plein Air Vermont event that took place in early September are on view at The Bennington. All work is of the area and for sale.
Through Jan. 31, 2013
Library hosts opening of ‘Landschap' exhibit
Bennington 802-442-9051
The Bennington Free Library continues its installation of Wall Works, "Landschap," which features recent works by Aimee LaPorte, through Jan. 31, 2013.
LaPorte's exhibition features paintings of area landscapes, the inspiration for this show's title, selections from a colonial inspired portrait series of beloved family pets and an ongoing series on bridges which incorporates mixed media elements.
LaPorte grew up and attended schools locally. She received her BA from Alfred University's School of Art and Design and MFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, affiliated with Tufts University.
The Bennington Free Library is located at 101 Silver St. For information call 802-442-9051.
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