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United States Artists recently awarded Marlboro wood carver Michelle Holzapfel a $50,000 grant in the Craft category of its fellowship program.
Each year, United States Artists awards up to 50 unrestricted fellowships to the most compelling artists working and living in the U.S., in all disciplines, at every stage of their career.
When Turner Classic Movies shut down its popular streaming service Filmstruck last December, an outcry was heard around the nation over the loss of such a great resource for classic Hollywood, foreign, and independent films, including the complete Criterion Collection library. Such a cinematic treasure trove seemed impossible to...
Perhaps not coming as a complete shock after its founder and director Sara Coffey was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives last fall, Vermont Performance Lab recently announced it will wind down in summer 2019. Nonetheless, the loss of this innovative arts organization will certainly prove to be...
As Jonathan Harvey gears up for the first public performances as the Brattleboro Concert Choir's new music director, he makes a sweeping proclamation. “I have loved it so much!” he exclaims as he reflects on working with the choir, which will present “Mozart, Beginnings and Endings,” in two performances at the Latchis Theatre: Friday, Jan. 11, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Jan. 12, at 3 p.m. The choir will perform Mozart's Requiem and Allegri's Miserere. “This group of singers in...
An eagerly anticipated annual exhibit returns this month to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Opening on Saturday, Jan. 12, Open Call NXNE 2019: Paint showcases work by 13 artists from New York and New England. This juried exhibit was selected from more than 300 artists who submitted work for consideration by juror Miles McEnery of Miles McEnery Gallery in New York City. McEnery chose a baker's dozen of artists for inclusion in the exhibit: Scot Borofsky, Ari Chaves, Jorge...
This week, percussionist Jason Treuting has returned to Putney to create a new work, Go Placidly with Haste. Yellow Barn welcomed its alumnus and So Percussion founder Treuting and his wife Beth Meyers (viola and voice) for a second residency to develop this original composition. Together with a mixed ensemble of New York-based musicians, Treuting and Meyers will bring Go Placidly with Haste to Next Stage on Dec. 20, ahead of its New York City premiere. “Last January, Beth Meyers...
You might call Vermont Theatre Company's A Christmas Carol a holiday tradition that keeps on changing. “What is Christmas if not a series of traditions that are both familiar and new every year?” asks James Gelter, director and (with his wife Jessica) co-adaptor of this annual theatrical presentation in Brattleboro. “I can't imagine a holiday season that did not include A Christmas Carol. There is not one year in which I didn't view or perform in a production of the...
Can music really heal the physical body? “Leading scientific research says yes,” writes opera-singer-turned-healer Donatella Moltisanti. Moltisanti, a New York-based alternative wellness practitioner who calls herself a “soul healer,” writes that “whether singing lullabies or sacred chants, mothers and religious leaders have known for millennia what scientists are only beginning to understand: Singing has the extraordinary power to uplift, transport, and heal us, as well as to connect us to the Divine.” To support her contention, Moltisanti cites recent studies...
