Penguins from distant snow-covered lands stand close by peace flags that gently flutter overhead offering prayers of peace from the eighth-grade students of 
Barstow Memorial School. Brightly colored geckos from Fair Haven Grade School crawl along jungle tree branches.
These artistic visions are just a small part of the annual Student Art Show opening at the Chaffee Art Center Friday, from 5 to 8 p.m. Artworks from more than 600 students in kindergarten through 12th grade from approximately 33 schools and home-schooling families in Rutland County will be on display.
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The Southern Vermont Arts Center took the wraps off its summer season on Saturday with free opening receptions for two exciting exhibitions, “Painting the Beautiful: American Impressionist Paintings from the Michener Art Museum,” and “The Southern Vermont Arts Center: Highlights from the Permanent Collection, both in the Wilson Museum.”
“Painting the Beautiful,” on loan from the […]
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Vermont is home to a constellation of intriguing creative institutions filled with far more than just fine art.
The top of my unconventional museums list, however — the mother of all treasure troves — is the Fairbanks Museum in St. Johnsbury. Vermont’s much-celebrated field-trip favorite boasts more than 160,000 natural science, historical and cultural objects that 19th-century industrialist Franklin Fairbanks collected during extensive travels around the globe.
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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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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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to do this one cannot concern oneself with the handed-down “language” of traditional art, as this activity is based on the assumption that there is only one way of framing art propositions. But the very stuff of art is indeed greatly related to “creating” new propositions.”
