On Friday, September 1st, Brattleboro, Burlington, and Bennington’s art venues stay open late to welcome art lovers as part of monthly art celebrations.
BURLINGTON
First Friday Art
5-8PM
First Friday Art is a monthly, community-wide event where dozens of art venues across Burlington host openings, exhibitions, and happenings. The event is free and open to anyone. Most venues are open from 5-8PM, but some are open earlier or later. Art Map Burlington is the official guide to First Friday Art, pick up your copy around town.
Putney artist Nancy Calicchio is the featured artist at City Hall Gallery, curated by BCA, on the Church Street Marketplace. Calicchio says about her work: In my paintings, I seek to capture the great beauty of Vermont’s landscape. My paintings reveal both my fascination with the natural world–sky, mountains, hills, brooks and streams, trees and fields–and my interest in working farms. Painting outside in every season is a way of probing this world, of engaging all my senses in the scene. When I set up my easel I search for the play of light, for it is light and shadow that shape the form and light that reveals the color. I feel that when I am truly engaged in what I am painting, I become part of it. It is my greatest desire that this feeling will resonate through the painting to the viewer and bring to life the beauty and joy of our landscape. Calicchio is also the cover artist for the September 2017 issue of Art Map Burlington. (image: Over the Orchard in Fall by Nancy Calicchio (36″x36″; oil on canvas))
BRATTLEBORO
Gallery Walk
5:30-8:30PM
Brattleboro’s monthly first-Friday celebration of the arts offers 30 to 40 exhibit openings at galleries, eateries, and other venues in the downtown and a few satellite locations nearby. Many offer meet-the-artist receptions, some with refreshments, and a few present live music. Visit the Walk website for a map and complete listings with examples of the art on display as well as feature articles for the month; a printed version of the Walk guide is available at all venues, a number of other downtown locations, the I-91 Welcome Center, and many local lodging options. Official Walk hours are 5:30 to 8:30, but many venues are open earlier, and a few remain open later. Most exhibits run all month long; see listings for more details and venue contact information.
The primary focus of Brent Seabrook’s current photographic work is “The Vermont Farm Work Project”. The project is an ongoing photographic exploration of farm work, farm workers and the work place on Vermont farms. Whether photographing goats in the milking parlor or giant brush piles of pruned apple wood, Seabrook’s “aim is to draw the eye into the image, while provoking the mind to ponder its significance.” Stop by the Vermont Center for Photography during the Gallery Walk for the opening of this exhibition, which runs through October 1. (image: from the “Vermont Farm Work Project” by Brent Seabrook)
BENNINGTON
First Fridays
5-8PM
From July to October, the Better Bennington Corporation produces an art and activity-filled First Friday event in Downtown Bennington, 5-8PM. The Art Walk features work by area artists in stores, restaurants, and galleries. There’s also live music, retailer specials and special events, a gallery tour, and more! First Friday Programs are available at the Better Bennington Welcome Center at 215 South Street and at participating venues.
The Bennington Museum’s “Grandma Moses: American Modern” includes more than just paintings by Grandma Moses. The exhibition reestablishes Moses’ place in the mid-century art world that was embracing modern art at the same time. By putting her paintings side-by-side with works by such iconic Modernists as Joseph Cornell, Helen Frankenthaler, Fernand Léger, and Andy Warhol, and folk artists such as Edward Hicks and Joseph Pickett, the exhibition allows visitors to discover for themselves how all these artists drew on found images, color, collage, memory, and their own innate artistic sensibility to create original masterpieces. Like any trained artist, Moses used thought, planning, and intuition to create works of enormous vitality and imagination.
For more information about First Fridays in Bennington, call the Better Bennington Corporation at (802) 442-5758 or visit the First Fridays WEBSITE.
Image:
Flowers
by Andy Warhol (1928-1987)
38″x38″
color screenprint on paper
1970
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts (M.2014.1.2)
© 2017 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York)
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