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Arts News for June 8, 2017
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Amplify the Arts in Your Town
Over the next year, the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing (VDTM) will highlight each of our state's towns through its advertising and social media campaigns.
You can help to ensure that our state's arts and cultural assets are well represented. VDTM welcomes photos and videos of arts activities, venues, festivals, outdoor sculpture, and other cultural gems from across the state. Together we can show the world that the arts are everywhere in Vermont - in all 251 towns.
Upload your images
here.
Upload your videos
here.
Watch VDTM's
Vermont 251 video.
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Clockwise from top left: Marjorie Ryerson, Ed Clark, Yasmin Tayeby, Nick Sherman.
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Members Elect New Trustees
Four new trustees were elected at the Council's annual meeting on June 6.
Ed Clark,
Marjorie Ryerson,
Nick Sherman, and
Yasmin Tayeby will each serve three-year terms. Bob Stannard was elected to a second three-year term. Following the annual meeting, the board of trustees elected new officers. Bob Stannard will serve a second term as chair. Ed Clark and Robin Perlah will serve as vice chairs, and Greg Sargent was elected secretary/treasurer.
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We Want Your Feedback on the
Vermont Arts Council 2018 - 2020 Strategic Plan!
The Council is charting a course for the next three years' work with a new strategic plan. The board has adopted a set of values, a vision statement, and four goals to frame the new plan. We asked guests for input earlier this week at the annual meeting and garden party. Now we want to hear from you!
These are our four strategic goals:
- Arts, culture, creativity, and innovation play a significant role in shaping Vermont's identity.
- Arts, culture, creativity, and artistic literacy play a significant role in providing a well-rounded education to Vermont's youth.
- Arts, culture, creativity, and innovation play a significant role in shaping Vermont's communities.
- The Vermont Arts Council is structurally sound and financially sustainable.
How you would prioritize these goals? Is there something you would change? Do you think we are missing a key focus area? We'd like to know what you think. Cast your vote and send us your comments
here.
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Rock With Your Dog
in St. Johnsbury
Everything from jazz to garage rock to Celtic grooves will be rocking Dog Mountain all summer. This scenic, dog-friendly, mountaintop meadow in St. Johnsbury is the whimsical home of the Stephen Hunek Gallery. It is also the venue for the Levitt AMP St. Johnsbury Concert Series, presented by Catamount Arts and starting on July 9.
View the full schedule.
The
Levitt AMP Grant Awards is a matching grant program made possible by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, a national creative placemaking funder dedicated to strengthening the social fabric of America through the power of free, live music. Applications for the 2018 season open June 26.
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There is still time to donate through
Vermont Gives! The one-day nonprofit fundraiser ends at 6 p.m. today. More than 25 Vermont arts organizations are participating.
Find out how to donate.
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FlynnArts, a program dedicated to helping students make the arts an integral part of their lives, is the recipient of a
2017 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award.
Get the details.
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Langdon Street Alive is accepting proposals from artists with experience in public exterior lighting for an art installation on Langdon Street. The deadline is
June 23.
More information.
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Upcoming Vermont Arts 2017 Events
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Oldcastle Theatre Company
June 9 to 11
Bennington
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Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts
June 10
Brattleboro
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The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center
June 10 to July 9
West Rutland
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River Arts
June 11
Morrisville
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North Universalist Chapel
June 11
Woodstock
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Vermont Jazz Center
June 10
Brattleboro
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New City Galerie
June 15
Burlington
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Stone Church Center
June 15 to 18
Bellows Falls
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Helen Day Arts Center
June 16 to August 26
Stowe
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ArtisTree Community Arts Center
June 16
South Pomfret
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The Front Gallery
June 16
Montpelier
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Brandon Music
June 16
Brandon
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"Godzilla House Head," by Meri Stiles. Watercolor, graphite, colored pencil, and acrylic paint on kozo paper.
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Connections in the Gallery
St. Johnsbury artist Meri Stiles finds inspiration in Vermont's "impossible beauty, endless magnificently bleak winters, and the rural isolation." She also says these qualities are something "to contend with."
Meri's art, and her reflections on connecting with other artists, are a part of a new exhibit in the Spotlight Gallery. Ric Kasini Kadour, art critic and publisher of the
Vermont Art Guide, curated the new show and wrote this week's featured story, "
Artists and Their Communities."
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