Check out upcoming events and exhibits at the Sage Street Mill's Mill Gallery, downtown Bennington at the Stark Hose Firehouse Gallery and at other sites. Hope to see you there!
Husk / Hive
Bennington College Alumna Exhibit New Work
Recent Bennington College graduates and local artists Tess Meyer '08 and Lisa Dietrich '07 exhibit a new collection of their work, "husk / hive," at Vermont Arts Exchangeís Mill Gallery
Dietrich's print- and photography-based work combines content from a cache of old family photographs with screen print and textile-sculpture elements using felt, beeswax and gold leaf to describe warmth, connectedness, collaboration and preciousness.
Meyer's drawings and installation-based sculptures are born from an investigation of her own perceptual habits, ruts and the tendency to disregard the familiar. The work is constructed from recycled materials such as shredded paper, push pins, string and thread.
Previous Events and Exhibits
Atwood Artists Group Annual Exhibit
March 4 thru summer 2010. VAE BASEMENT GALLERY
This exhibit, presented in partnership with United Counseling Service of Bennington County (UCS) , exhibits the visual art of 12 adults who work weekly in VAE's art studios through UCS's day service program. These untrained artists have found their own individual style and manner of working that best suits their creative expression. The work in this annual exhibit includes drawings, paintings, mosaic tile artwork and sculpture.
Universal Health Care
An exhibition of work by seven advanced printmaking students from Bennington College, VAEÌs Mill Gallery at the Sage Street Mill from Saturday, November 28 through the end of February.
The students in Bennington College's Advanced Printmaking course - Fennis Brown, Margaret Zayer, Natalie Kent, Sarah Kelly, Genevieve Senchyna, Will Moss, and Elizabeth Bennett Û proposed and executed projects of their own design. Working in a basic structure of critiques and discussions, the group focused in on a variety of printing techniques and ways of handling materials to execute their ideas. The featured artwork includes stone lithographs, photopolymer gravure, screen-printed wallpaper, T-shirts, books, unique 3D and mixed media prints, and copper plate etchings.
For information about Bennington College classes, visit www.bennington.edu.
Annual North Bennington Halloween Parade
Friday October 30, beginning 3:30pm
Join the festivities as children, artists, musicians, bellydancers, drummers, friends and neighbors dress up and promenade through town, accompanied by music, dancing, and large sculptural costumes.
Participants gather at VAE, located at the Sage Street Mill, at 3 p.m. before meandering down Sage Street, through the village of North Bennington and back to the mill for cider, doughnuts, and a blazing bonfire. Revelers of all ages are invited to compete in a Halloween Costume Contest, with prizes awarded to adults and youngsters for imaginative ensembles! All activities are free and open to the public.
PAINTINGS OF PHILIP WOFFORD
Mill Gallery March 7 - July 7, 2009
Opening Reception Saturday, March 7th 5:30 - 7:30pm Sage Street Mill, North Bennington, VT prior to musical performance by To Be featuring Philip Wofford.
STEPHEN ALCORN Mill Gallery
On exhibit at the Mill Gallery is Cambridge, NY artist, Stephen Alcorn displaying his relief block prints of Modern Music Masters. These beautiful prints pay homage to the men and women who bridged the gaps between tradition and innovation, craft and genius, music and poetry, composition and improvisation, black and white.
Steven Brower, in PRINT magazine, wrote, "The result of a quarter-century of experimentation with relief-block printmaking, the series is in many ways as inspirational as the music it celebrates."
VAE and VERMONT VETERANS' HOME CELEBRATE SEVEN YEARS OF ARTS AND HEALING WITH NEW EXHIBIT OF RESIDENT ARTWORK
Please visit the new exhibit of music and visual, literary and media artworks created by VVH residents living with dementia, "The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health."
At the Vermont Veteransí Home Multi Crispe Room,
325 North Street Bennington, VT.
The seven-year partnership between VAE and the Vermont Veterans' Home allows the healthcare facility and the Vermont Arts Exchange to offer arts and healing programs to residents and caregivers through hands-on staff trainings, a Caring For Caregivers program, an on-site visual arts studio and guest artist residencies. The partnership had its start with the Dementia Program and created a significant impact on the residents' quality of life - reaching residents with advanced dementia who can otherwise be difficult to connect with.
NEW DOCUMENTARY FILM ON VERMONT ARTS EXCHANGE'S ARTS & HEALING PARTNERSHIP WINS TOP HONORS AT FOCUS FILM FESTIVAL
We are pleased to announce that the "The Healing Arts: New Pathways to Health" (2007) a documentary film, directed by Benjamin Mayer and produced by the Vermont Arts Exchange and the Massachusetts Cultural Council - was honored in October 2008 at the annual FOCUS Film Festival held at the California State University campus. The film took "Best of Festival" and the Audience Choice awards.
The 28-minute film highlights the inspirational work created by artists and patients involved in the New Pathways to Health and Community, a regional partnership program of VAE, participating healthcare sites and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Told in three segments, the film shows how the artists and staff utilize the arts as an innovative treatment approach for people living with chronic, disabling physical and emotional challenges.
For more information on the healing arts program please visit
www.artsandhealing.net
WORKSHOP with RUMI and the Persian Mystical Philosophies
Expressed through his poems by Haale Gafori
Saturday, May 9th 10:30am - 12:00pm Sage Street Mill North Bennington, VT. Haale's musical performnce will begin at 8:00pm the same night!
$20 per person, $15 students. Call 802-442-5549 to register.
Rumi has been the best-selling poet in America for more than a decade. His mass appeal can be attributed not only to the brilliance and beauty of his poetry but also to the power and relevance of his message. Rumi's poetry explores themes of human evolution and transformation, particularly the journey from states of fear and anxiety towards love and unity. Rumiís poetry comes as a salve, a joyful and intelligent exploration of the possibility of emotional growth and transformation. Haale will read poems by Rumi, in English as well as in Persian, so that students can hear the rhythm and rhyme of the poems in the original language. She will discuss the mystical philosophies prevalent in his work, and also perform musical pieces that incorporate his words so that students can hear Rumiís words in a musical context.
Ink, Paper, Press
Ink, Paper, Press, an exhibition by seven advanced printmaking students from Bennington College, with an opening reception on Wednesday, December 3rd from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Mill Gallery. The exhibit will run through February.
The eight young and promising artists will be presenting a diverse range of fine printed and constructed objects whose concerns reflect the relevant undercurrents of contemporary art. They have employed their common understanding of sophisticated printing technique to voice concerns ranging from our present economy to the graphic work of Goya, Callot and Rembrandt.
Printmakers Dorothy Allen, Zoe Chevat, Drew Gold, Elizabeth Melsheimer, Andrew Murdoch, Margaret Rizzio, Selome Samuel, and Todd V.A. will exhibit their recent works in monoprint, book art, intaglio, gravure, serigraphy, and lithography. A price list will be available.