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A collaboration between painter Kathleen Kolb and poet Verandah Porche, this exhibit celebrates the landscape of the working forest and the voices of those who have honed their skills and made a living there. Through images and words, Kolb and Porche depict subject matter largely overlooked in fine art. Closed Tuesdays and January 1, July 4, Thanksgiving Day, and December 25.

Exhibit held in Wolcott Gallery - This exhibition, organized by Georgetown University Law Center and the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of Patrick Leahy’s Senate service, offers a glimpse into the daily events witnessed by a world leader. Many of the photographs record candid, insider views of historical moments, such as President Reagan taking the oa...

Exhibit held in East Gallery - With the exhibition, In Grain: Contemporary Work in Wood, the Fleming presents a diverse group of international artists, many of whom are working in Vermont, a place with a long history of wood carving in craft and art. Closed Monday Hours for Saturday & Sunday: Noon - 4pm

Held in the Wilbur Room - This exhibition was curated by 40 students in two university classes—anthropology and art history—each group exploring through their respective disciplines how visual and material culture illuminate theoretical models for socially constructed identities of “sex.” Sex Objects examines how everyday and ceremonial art and artifacts cultivate or critique these social construc...

This exhibition of the 1863 Jane Stickle Quilt, created during the Civil War, is one of the Bennington Museum’s greatest treasures. It is comprised of 169 five-inch blocks, each in a different pattern, containing a remarkable total of 5,602 pieces, all surrounded by a unique scalloped border. The craftsmanship of the quilt has been mentioned in numerous quilting books, and is the topic of Dear Jan...

Each image in this exhibition provides a window that allows the viewer to look back in time and discover fragments of the sociopolitical, cultural, and emotional landscape that shaped that period. On the surface, the cars, clothing, and advertisements offer a rush of nostalgia, “yet pondering the images reveals the psychologically charged millisecond when the photographer and subject connected. Wh...

This exhibition of 7 COLLABORATIVE PRINTS: Jennifer Koch and Gregg Blasdel are titled Marriages of Reason since obvious compositional necessities required Blasdel and Koch to unite two images onto one surface. “As we have continued to work together, our joining of ideas and image has become more homogeneous and compositional issues have become more natural to our process,” states Blasdel. They hav...

Approximately 40 documented pieces will be displayed in this exhibit, the majority of which have never been on view before. In addition to showcasing pieces from Shelburne Museum’s extensive permanent collection, public and private collections contributing pieces in the Northeast will include: the Vermont Historical Society, the Collection of the Woodstock Historical Society, Fleming Museum of Art...

In this exhibition Ruseckas manipulates pastels like no other artist. His surfaces retain only a vestige of the dry, velvety softness we usually associate with the medium. He achieves a more painterly, liquid pooling of colors both subtle and rich. Deep earth tones melt into gossamer tints, and he deploys a seemingly infinite range of blacks and whites. The hillsides, forests, and glades of the Co...

This exhibit - Art + Computer / Time presents computer-generated imagery from the Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection. Fifteen of the most important early practitioners of digital art are represented in the exhibit. Seven recent digital videos by Leslie Thornton and Anne Morgan Spalter are also shown, including their new collaboration, “Digging in the Water.” Presently comprising more ...