Arts

He has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $5,000 for equipment costs, locations rental, and wages for the cast and crew.

In recent years, libraries across the country have come under fire for housing books that focus on gender, sexual and racial identity, especially those for children.

The storytimes give parents a chance to do a chore while their kids learn. Organizers hope people will turn out for the next event May 30.

It’s a scaled down version of the event from its high in 2022.

The library plans on expanding next March to promote inclusivity in the state’s most diverse city.

A group of five VTSU Castleton students and their professor have spent a year working on a documentary following the controversial, and now rescinded, decision to get rid of all VTSU libraries. They plan to premiere the film on campus later this month.

Scheer is an actor, puppeteer, clown, acrobat — and one of the first openly trans women and nonbinary people to puppeteer in American television.

The brothers’ art-filled upbringings would take them from auditoriums in Randolph to arenas and stages worldwide, working with people like Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Ryan Gosling and more.

In response to the challenges faced by asylum-seekers and others with special immigration statuses as vulnerable people, volunteer-based organizations in Vermont have a solution: raising money through the arts. 

The festival was on pause during the Covid-19 pandemic, and reviving it was no small feat.

Two Vermont business owners realized they not only shared a love of crypto trading but also merchandise with trend-driven, street-inspired designs.

Rutland local Nick Grandchamp has been in the punk scene for over 20 years—playing music, creating opportunities for the community to come together and doing his best to foster punk culture for the next generation.

The “Sounds Deep” exhibit, which is showing until March 9, is the vision of artist Arthur “Art” Costa and museum exhibition director Sarah Freeman.

The gallery’s co-owner said the idea stems from noticing a bond between one of his past students and a colleague.

Professional artists worked with students to design the community artwork.

Laura Collins bakes and decorates cookies by hand for events like children’s birthday parties and bachelorette parties.

The gathering encouraged the community to reconnect and rejoice in the wake of a disaster.

Krishna Guthrie is making a name for himself in music, while still paying tribute to his family.

Randolph has maintained a sister city relationship with Myrhorod, in central Ukraine, for more than two decades.

This year’s circuit spotlights the diversity of performances as the Statehouse opens its doors to valued but underrepresented cultures and groups in Vermont, one legislator said.

The garden metaphor has brought seven artists from different backgrounds to share and indulge in interpretations of paradise, privilege, boundaries and cultivation.

The Burlington lounge’s latest endeavor, the Emerging Songwriters Contest, has drawn musicians from across the state. The last semifinals show is Feb. 20.

Westphalen has increasingly become a known name in Vermont, where he makes photographic subjects of moldering rural scenes.

Saville, a Winooski resident, buys old quilts and repurposes them into coats, mittens, hats and any other article of clothing you can think of.

Art Walk is an opportunity for local business owners and the public to connect.  

The Collinses are putting the final touches on their manuscript, entitled “In the Name of Honor, Vows and Valor,” which is scheduled for release by Shadow Spark Publishing in January 2025.

On the final night of the Palace 9 movie theater’s operation, the hottest ticket was for the three-hour Martin Scorsese film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” costing only a dollar.

The building now has sections for woodworking, pottery, a variety of glasswork, textiles, metal machining, welding, printing and metal engraving.

Vermont Youth Opera is “an interscholastic varsity singing team” for high schoolers from across Vermont.

People in the industry believe the problems caused by the floods will worsen with winter weather soon setting in and, within the next few months, artists could be left wondering what they’ll do without accessible indoor spaces.

Now, in its 25th year, the museum is looking to reflect the changes in Winooski — as well as help grow and support those changes — outside the walls where it illustrates its own immigration story from the past.

At the DoubleTree Hotel in South Burlington, shoppers browsed the wares of crafters for the Crafts Vermont Show on Nov. 12. We talked to Elizabeth Boudreau, director of events for Vermont Hand Crafters, which organizes the event. The group is celebrating its 70th year.

Next month, Ekasala’s work will be placed on display at Burlington City Arts, where it will stay on exhibition until late January.

On Sept. 30, Goodling will join other Vermont sheep farmers and New England fiber artists for the 35th Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival at the Tunbridge Fairgrounds.

In these Vermont performances, 12-foot-tall inflated horses tower over their puppeteers and the crowd.

A youth summer camp put on by BarnArts, a rural arts center in Barnard that, among other things, organizes plays for communities in Windsor County.

The show, which opened June 1, came together through a collaboration between South Burlington Public Art Gallery Curator Jessica Manley and a team of dedicated art teachers from the district.

With a cast of 30 performers ages 10-18 and a crew that brings the total close to 80, Smirkus kicked off its summer tour around New England last week with performances at its Circus Barn in Greensboro followed by its first stop on the road in Waterbury, July 4-6. 

Since 2017, the group of musicians known as SongFarmers of Hinesburg jams at the Hinesburg Library he first Thursday of every month. 

Tucked away in Burlington’s arts district on Pine Street, the Dojo gives independent music teachers a space to gather and teach lessons to students both in person and online. 

Now making the rounds across the state, “The Butterfly Queen” will screen in Bradford on March 8 at The Space On Main.

HAVERHILL—In 2020, Mallory Graham bought a gift – a commissioned “map of home” – for her partner in music and life, Scott Tyler. But the map didn’t depict a single place. It included Nashville; parts of Michigan, Maine, and South Dakota; and Bradford. For the duo behind the folk-Americana band The Rough & Tumble, each […]

Shepherd Dave Martin, left, lends his sheep’s wool to Muriel’s of Vermont. Cyrus Brooks, right, owns the company with his mother, Laura Jacoby, and runs their whole-garment knitting machine to turn yarn into sweaters. Photos by Kayla Duvel Not all of Dave Martin’s sheep have names. He likes some more than others. He should probably […]

A plan to add another mural to downtown Waterbury has found its blank canvas: the northeast side of Stowe Street Cafe and Bridgeside Books.

Local glassblower Sam Lightner has always liked fire. Now, that affinity finally has a home.

What started almost two decades ago as only a camp in a local barn has grown into a theater organization serving about 1,000 youths annually from northwestern Vermont.

“A strong spirit transcends rules.”— Prince  Craig Mitchell stands before Mount Kilimanjaro, flanked by a friend. “You have to be ready for the mountain, and the mountain has to be ready for you,” says his friend, but Mitchell starts climbing. The two ascend at record speed. But when the peak is in sight, Kilimanjaro erupts, […]

A spoken word and musical show exploring the messy realities of Vermont teens and the causes they care about has swept the state in the last two years. And last week folks in Winooski got to see it themselves. Community College of Vermont in Winooski screened a recording of the show, “Listen Up,” as performed […]

Artists are set to show off their wares this Saturday at the third annual Vermont Backyard Artisan Craft Show.