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Abstract paintings by local artist Christy Bonneau are on display at the The Works Bakery Café on Main Street in Brattleboro throughout August.
Bonneau describes her medium-to-large-scale oils as “abstract, emotional landscapes infused with the feeling of what it means to be innately human.”
Jules Place (www.julesplace.com), one of the many galleries showcasing Bonneau's works, writes that each of Bonneau's paintings “causes pause, draws the viewer into its center, and demands an emotive response.”
Bonneau often integrates her oils with printmaking, intimate etchings, transfers, and collages for a different multi-media expression. Crediting luminaries Helen Frankenthaler and Peter Beard for teaching her what it means to be a true artist, Bonneau says she has discovered what she calls “the synergy of the professional artist: discipline and freedom.”...
What should you look for when taking in an abstract painting? Find out at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), which is presenting “Dynamic Invention: American Abstract Artists at 75,” a portfolio of 48 archival inkjet prints of astounding abstract works. It and three other installations, “Red Grooms:
This month, David Perkins, artistic director of Wistaria Chamber Music Society, and the Rev. Carra McFadden, pastor of the Centre Congregational Church in Brattleboro, are co-producing “Music at Centre Church,” a new series of classical music by Wistaria under Perkins' direction. Over three Sunday afternoons - Aug. 11, 18,
What exactly do actors do when they rehearse for a play? That provocative question is explored in the new production at the Actors Theatre Playhouse, “Circle Mirror Transformation.” As it follows an unlikely group of people who sign up for a theater class at a community center in the fictional town of Shirley, Vt., and watches them discover the art of theater as they play imaginative (and sometimes awkward) theater games, “Circle Mirror Transformation” provides a glimpse of what goes...
The Putney School is opening its doors to the public for two days of great jazz music. The Vermont Jazz Center (VJC) presents its summer jazz workshop in the beautiful setting of the Putney School campus, encouraging students from down the street and around the world to hone their improvisational and musicianship skills. This year, faculty will deliver their concert on Thursday, Aug. 8. The students will offer two performances on the final evening of the workshop, Friday, Aug. 9.
As Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival returns to Jamaica Town Hall Aug. 4-10, Susanna Loewy, its founder and curator, says she's looking forward to building on last year's “hugely successful” events. And she's clear that there were some missteps at last year's events. These, she says, were excellent lessons moving forward. With a troupe of nine performing musicians, a conductor, a composer-in-residence, and two artists-in-residence, the festival will host an ambitious array of events: an afternoon family concert, a Tropical...
Brattleboro native Nathaniel Cox and his early-music ensemble, In Stile Moderno, from Basel, Switzerland, will be performing in his hometown for the very first time. In a concert entitled “Un Concerto per Barberini,” In Stile Moderno will be playing works by Italian Baroque composers Girolamo Frescobaldi and Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger at the newly renovated sanctuary of St. Michael's Episcopal Church on Sunday, Aug. 4, at 4 p.m. Son of noted West Brattleboro violin maker Douglas Cox, Nathaniel came of age...
Stone Church Arts presents the Festival of Mandolin Chamber Music (FMCM) in a concert at Immanuel Episcopal Church on Sunday, July 28, at 3 p.m. The performance caps the three-day weekend designed for the classical mandolin community and concertgoers interested in classical chamber music. Festival organizers said they wanted to create learning and performance opportunities for those interested in chamber music composed for mandolin and related instruments. Led by mandolinists August Watters, a Boston-area teacher and composer, and Emanuele Cappellotto,
