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Open Salon: Brattleboro exhibit hosts 68 local artists

Time is running out to catch the Windham Art Gallery’s diverse collection of local artists as the exhibit enters it’s last weekend.

“It’s been incredibly popular,” said gallery coordinator Pamela Mandell. “It’s been a very, very well-received show. We’ve had tons of people.”

This exhibit draws in the greater community of artists as much as possible and has drawn artists from places such as Keene, N.H., and Northampton, Mass., as well as Putney and Brattleboro. The only requisite for the artist was “first come, first served.”

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Vermont & Beyond exhibition showcases scenes from near and far

WESTON — Artists’ impressions of the Vermont landscape will be on display and for sale at the Weston Playhouse this weekend.

“Vermont and Beyond,” now in its eighth year, displays art by Vermont painters of both local landscapes and those found overseas.

“We call it “Vermont and Beyond” because it not only shows Vermont but also landscapes from other countries,” said Perkinsville painter Robert J. O’Brien, who is one of seven artists with work in this year’s show.

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SOVER SCENE: The primal grace of painter Sean Scully

These are a few of the terms with which Irish painter Sean Scully recently described his massive, layered abstractions during a talk at Dartmouth a few days after an expansive exhibition of his work opened at the Hood Museum.

Unlike many artists who prefer to let the work speak for itself or for whom the very notion of attempting to articulate its meaning with language is antithetical to the process, Scully sinks his intellectual teeth into discussion of his art with the same might and hunger that he puts into the making of it.

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Was Art in the Snow cool?

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The event is titled “Art in the Snow,” but organizers are hoping to make art from the snow.

“We’ve scheduled snow sculpture, but we haven’t got the snow,” organizer Judith Reilly said Tuesday. “We’ll be having that next time if Mother Nature co-operates.”

Snow sculptures or no, Reilly said there will be plenty of art to see at the opening of “Art in the Snow,” Saturday, the Brandon Artists Guild’s answer to Vermont’s Open Studio Weekend.

This Saturday and Sunday, as well as February 23 and 24 and March 22 and 23, Brandon artists will open their studios to visitors, talking about and demonstrating their work. The idea, Reilly said, is to attract people to Brandon.

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Brandon gallery draws on holiday spirit

Artists and artisans depend on the holiday season just like retailers. Typically, galleries before Christmas will have special exhibits featuring smaller and affordable works – displays that can have the side benefit of attracting visitors interested in items of more enduring value.

“Spirit of the Season,” at the Brandon Artists Guild’s downtown gallery, does just that. Diversity rules.

In the big gallery space, which appropriately enough was once a notions store, one may find folk art painting from Warren Kimble and Dolores Furnari; folk art sculpture from Dick Kirby and Robin Kent; wearable art from several jewelry-makers; fiber art; abstracts, and 21st-century sculpture (like Dave Martin’s recycled electronic parts)

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Christmas tree auction benefits Paramount

Valerie Fothergill had visions of sugar plums, Tootsie Rolls and other candies dancing in her head while decorating a holiday tree for the fourth annual Festival of Trees benefit auction.
If you went and checked out the trees, let us know what you thought by commenting below.

“This is the single biggest benefit of the year,” said [...]

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A Life of Art

The first time artist Susan Farrow of Castleton picked up a paintbrush she was 3 years old. She’s been painting ever since.

“Both my mom and dad were creative people. Mom was a painter and Dad was an inventor. I have no memory of life without art,” Farrow said, sitting in her studio above the art gallery she owns with her husband, sculptor Patrick Farrow.

Since 1995, the couple has operated Farrow Gallery and Studios in Castleton. Patrick Farrow is an award-winning bronze sculptor and designer of a line of fine art jewelry. The couple’s home, studios and gallery are in the century-old converted church on Main Street. The church, with its high ceilings and large windows, is filled with ample natural light.

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SPA’s ‘Rock Solid’ shows off local talent

The names are derived from familiar and exotic places: Shepody granite, Larentian pink, Carrara marble, Champlain black, Barre gray, Bethel white. Or from the singular argot of geography: quartz, marble, alabaster, soapstone.

Each stone has properties as particular as the places they are quarried from. Sculptors learn to master granite’s impenetrable nature, soapstone’s easily carved surface, and everything in between.

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Weekend pick: Rutland’s Art in the Park

What: Art in the Park Festival
When: Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

At least 100 vendors will show their creative flair with oil and watercolor paintings, pottery, photographs and sculptures, baskets, soaps, clothing, puzzles, jewelry, furniture and stained glass. There will also be Edible goodies and music while across Main Street the Chaffee Art Center will host demonstrations on how to create a fall centerpiece, calligraphy, cake decoration and watercolor painting.

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Brandon art auction to benefit arts guild

BRANDON - Are you a cat or dog person? No matter, here’s a chance to make one of Brandon’s spectacular animals your own.

The painted and decorated cats and dogs created by area artists earlier this year and placed around the town will be available for purchase at auction next month.

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