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Artistree Community Arts Center & Gallery located in picturesque South Pomfret, Vermont. Courtesy of Artistree.
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hile Vermont is dazzling all year long, there is something quite magical and mystical about the months bridging summer and winter. Leaves are exploding in a wave of color across the state, sparking creativity and inspiration. Visit Vermont this fall. Add an extra day to your long weekend, visit a few galleries and museums, bring home a piece of art, hike a new trail, and bask in the state’s unwavering hospitality. Art connects us to the land and each other. The following pages will spark your wanderlust.
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts—Brattleboro Located at Main and High streets in downtown Brattleboro, Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts exhibits contemporary painting, prints, sculpture, glass and ceramics through solo and group exhibitions. Owned and directed by artists Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, the gallery also hosts artist talks, literary events and poetry readings aimed at connecting the greater community with artists and their work. Through October 6, Mitchell-Giddings presents Beyond Reason, acclaimed New York and Cape Cod photographer Amy Arbus’s images of circus 50 Art New England | September/October 2024
aerialists and burlesque dancers, captured midair in impossibly magnificent, athletic, contorted movement. Opening October 26, MitchellGiddings will celebrate its first decade with a curated exhibition of fine art prints by Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Stephen Hannock, Wolf Kahn, Emily Mason, Kiki Smith, James Stroud and Dan Welden, among others.
Vermont Artisan Designs—Brattleboro Vermont Artisan Designs, located on Brattleboro’s Main Street, has been listed as one of the top ten galleries in Vermont for more than fifty years. American-made craft and fine art is the focus of this expansive three-floor gallery. If visitors are looking for a good time to visit, live music, food trucks, pop-up shops and around twenty galleries bring extra life to the town during Gallery Walk on the first Friday of the month. On the main floor of the gallery, jewelry, pottery, blown glass, wrought iron, turned wooden bowls, scarves, pewter, chimes, puzzles, cards, candles and an exceptionally comfortable wooden rocker can be found. On the mezzanine, there is a selection of wood block prints, wire
sculpture and more glass. Upstairs, there are eleven small galleries featuring oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic paintings, sculpture, handmade furniture and a baby grand piano used for music during the Gallery Walk.
Burlington City Arts—Burlington For more than thirty years, Burlington City Arts (BCA) has helped cement Burlington’s reputation as one of America’s most livable cities for the arts. Funded by a unique public/ private partnership in which private charitable contributions leverage City funding, BCA is dedicated to supporting artists while expanding access to arts-based education and experiences. BCA provides a national model for centering the arts in community impact, in sectors as varied as education, the environment, civic dialogue and the economy. Physical locations include the BCA Center, a three-level, yearround exhibition space, as well as BCA Studios, which hosts art classes, camps and open studio hours in BCA’s state-of-the-art facilities. BCA also produces city-wide festivals, events, concerts, films, artist markets and more.