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Kris McDermet makes rugs to tell a story.
Recently, she received her first commission from a family in her hometown of Dummerston who wanted her to document their house's 225th anniversary. Through images, textures and colors, she celebrates all the different people and their histories who lived in this house for over two centuries.
In doing so, McDermet created a work of art.
Yet she is a little hesitant to call herself a “fine artist.”...
Legendary cartoonist Skip Williamson has a mascot named Krampus tattooed on his upper arm. A small red devil, Krampus seems smart, mischievous, and utterly seducing. In fact, he seems a lot like the internationally recognized artist, cartoonist, designer, and writer himself. Williamson's real first name is Mervyn. However, when...
Hugh Keelan wanted to conclude his first season as director of the Windham Orchestra with a piece that uses music to reflect the spirit of the state. So he went out and commissioned one. On Sunday, June 12, at 3 p.m., on the lawn of the Brattleboro Retreat, the...
Who says choral music has to be stuffy? On Sunday, May 22 at 4 p.m., the Brattleboro Concert Choir, directed by Susan Dedell and accompanied by a festival orchestra, will present Handel's Israel in Egypt on stage at Persons Auditorium at Marlboro College. Handel's choral masterpiece may be 250 years old, but Dedell likes to see it “as a baroque Phantom of the Opera.” She believes “if Handel was alive today, he could very well be writing hit Broadway musicals...
John Willis would rather people did not make a fuss because he has won a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship. “I am not trying to be humble,” he asserts, “but getting the prize is the luck of the draw. Not one person is so much better.” Dede Cummings, a board member of The In-Sight Photography Project that Willis co-founded, says when the board brought out champagne to toast the success of the Marlboro College professor of photography, he was embarrassed and more...
In the two weeks since the Brooks House fire, there has been a tremendous outpouring of community support for the residents and businesses displaced by the April 17 disaster. But Brattleboro is just getting warmed up. This Friday and Saturday, the “Unity for Community” event will give area residents a chance to venture downtown to shop, eat, and support their neighbors. The celebration will also raise money for the United Way of Windham County's Brooks House fund, which is designated...
On Sunday, May 8, the students at the School for International Training (SIT) will be presenting a day of lectures, music, and dance. This community event, TEDxSIT: From Ideas to Action, seeks to involve SIT and the people of Brattleboro in a thought-provoking experience about the magical, complex, and exhilarating process of bringing ideas to life. The impetus for the occasion was a group of local graduate students deciding they needed to connect with Brattleboro. Although only about three miles...
Perhaps it takes someone who works big to see the beauty in things small. Kim Ray is a muralist who paints sides of walls that can be as big as 6 feet by 24 feet. Precisely because it would be completely opposite from the way she usually works, she conceived of the current exhibition for her Londonderry gallery as “The World's Tiniest Art Show.” The show features 11 members of the Mountain Painters and Artisans group exhibiting more than 50...
