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With subjects that range from New York's Ellis Island and upstate forests, to Monet's garden in Giverny, France, 30 of Sally Apfelbaum's works made between 1987 and 2012 are on display until Sept. 2 at the Vermont Center for Photography.
Apfelbaum, a photographer and painter whose work has been shown in collections internationally, has taught as a visiting artist at Middlebury College, Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Apfelbaum primarily considers herself a photographer.
“I was trained as a photographer, and while I have an interdisciplinary approach to making art - I have sculpted and I paint - I really love photography,” she said.
Sixteen year-old Noa Petrie of Brattleboro had never been away from her family for more than five days when she went on the three-week Exposures Summer Program at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota this summer. Although she was uneasy about going on this new adventure, she said, “It...
David Wells, cellist and founder of Yellow Barn Music School and Festival, died at his home on Aug. 7. He had celebrated his 85th birthday last month. On Sunday, friends and family celebrated the life and legacy of Wells at an afternoon service of music and remembrances at Yellow...
Is Shakespeare breaking bad? That's what Keely Eastley, who compares one of Shakespeare's earliest plays with the popular cable crime drama, contends. This weekend, Aug. 10-12, New England Youth Theater (NEYT) presents Titus Andronicus in a production directed by David Vann from the Birmingham School of Acting in England, with the vocal coaching of Eastley, from the Yale School of Acting, who now teaches in Boston. The play stars 17 youths who are participating in NEYT's Senior Shakespeare Summer Camp.
Earlier this month, celebrated food writer Andrea Chesman came to Everyone's Books in Brattleboro to talk pickles. Facing a table in the bookstore set out with a tantalizing spread of varieties of homemade pickles for the tasting, paired with palette-cleansing crackers, an eager, pickle-crazy crowd was excited to try her delicacies. They also longed to hear this cooking and canning expert speak to them on the art of fermenting food at home. “Millions of Americans are discovering that growing and...
Choreographer Victoria Marks and filmmaker Ann Kaneko said they believe dance can become a civic conversation that can participate in the life of the town. On Thursday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m at the Bellows Falls Opera House, Vermont Performance Lab (VPL) will be screening their work-in-progress documentary Action Conversations: Bellows Falls. The presentation is the culmination of a six-week Vermont Performance Lab residency led by Marks and Kaneko with teen and adult women from greater Bellows Falls. The event...
Musician and teacher Susanna Loewy loves Vermont so much that she wanted to give something back to the area. So, she decided to throw a grand three-day party of sorts: a new free chamber music festival. On Aug. 1-3, Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival in Jamaica will showcases some of the best young instrumentalists in the country: Loewy on flute, Evan Solomon on clarinet, Lauren Robinson on horn, Kurt Nikkanen on violin, Leah Ilem on viola, Julia Biber on cello,
Bellows Falls-based Great Falls Community Media will present three concerts with the What Doth Life music cooperative from Windsor. The concerts begin on Saturday, July 21, and continue on Aug. 18 and Sept. 15. Great Falls Community Media is the nonprofit parent organization of community radio station WOOL 100.1 FM, and of What's Up In the Valley magazine, a monthly events periodical for the mid-river valley. What Doth Life (WDL) is a consortium of musicians who have banded together to...
