It was a tie. On a late November day in 1837, the Vermont Senate voted whether or not to purchase a large oil portrait of George Washington by German-born artist…    read more

Ralph DeAnna is chasing time. Influenced by Marcel Proust and his classic attempts to “see” time and unravel memory, DeAnna plays with time and space in his seemingly representational paintings….    read more

This group show features works that incorporate toys or toy imagery. Like the original tales of the Brothers Grimm, each piece emerges from the complex intersection of reality, memory, and…    read more

Working with the varied characteristics of steel, Fichter imbues his welded metal horses with fluidity, strength, grace, and movement. Bolt is one of three Fichter horses that will stand sentry…    read more

Rainbows are magical. Whenever a rain shower bursts on a beautiful sunny day, I always wheel around frantically to make sure I don’t miss nature’s most ephemeral show. The first…    read more

Lisa Hoke creates rich, large-scale patterns from banal yet gorgeous materials–in this case, paper and plastic cups, some partially filled with paint, each assiduously fixed to the gallery wall. The…    read more

The Activity Gallery is transformed into a studio for visitors to create a self-portrait or a rendering of someone else. Easels, mirrors, paper, oil pastels, and colored pencils are available…    read more

The portraits of Boston-based painter Dana Clancy subvert the traditional relationship between subject and viewer. Her figures peer out of irregular forms and bright shapes through which viewer and portrait…    read more

This PhotoBooth project is part of an ongoing photographic project to document communities across the United States and create public installations of the collected portraits in the communities in which…    read more

Well-known portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders was invited to make portraits of seventeen Iraq war veterans to accompany the 2007 HBO film, Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq. The film tells…    read more

Chuck Close, one of the most prolific and inventive portrait painters of the last few decades, is also an innovative printmaker. For Self-Portrait/Scribble/Etching Portfolio, he chose the process of soft-ground…    read more

The need to connect with others begins when a baby gazes up at its mother. We need to know and be known, and to be remembered. Portraits, by depicting another…    read more

Outdoor installation of portrait photography by Christopher Irion. more information to come. . .

The need to connect with others begins when a baby gazes up at its mother. We need to know and be known, to be remembered. By referencing another human being,…    read more

Artist Statement A few years ago I decided to look for an explanation of our human condition that I could translate into images. I was seeking a framework to explore…    read more

Sculptor Walter Collier Nicolai is interested in how meaning in art is derived from human interaction with form and material, and how the relationships of form to other forms, to…    read more

A Survey of Prints 1954-2006 Jules Olitski (1922-2007), one of America‘s pre-eminent artists, is celebrated for his lyrical Color Field paintings, large-format abstractions with shimmering fields of color. Less well-known…    read more

Robert Flynt revels in ambiguity. Purposefully obscure in their meaning, Flynt’s photographs combine contemporary images of nude men interacting with nineteenth and-early-twentieth-century images of dressed men, suggesting relationships between the…    read more

Video installation by Walter Ungerer and Dianna Rust. Photographer Dianna Rust and filmmaker Walter Ungerer share a home in Maine. They have created an installation using still photographs and projected…    read more

  Selections of Caldecott Medal winning author and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg’s original artwork are exhibited in the Museum’s Activity Gallery. Famous for creating pictures with strange elements such as…    read more

On view in four galleries throughout the Museum, In the Zone II is a juried exhibition of new work by artists living in Vermont or within a 100-mile radius of…    read more

Through whimsical paintings by Vermont artist Kaori Hamura, we enter a world of magical places and playful characters. Dream Seasons, a picture book without words and for all ages, merges…    read more

Installation by Alisa Dworsky   Nested within the “exhibition” box of the gallery, a small yellow hand-crocheted room is supported in tension by a series of counterweights. Drawings suspended on…    read more

The impulse to tell stories is an old as mankind and as current as internet blogs. These contemporary painters—Matthew Blackwell, Katherine Bradford and Renee Radell — use narrative to engage…    read more

Ceramic Sculpture by Linda Huey The yin and yang of growth and decay, the perseverance of nature despite the destructive effects of humans on the environment- these are the dynamics…    read more

Finding Meaning Through Complexity In nature and in art the repetition of simple pattern often organizes complex structures. Each artist in this exhibit explores patterned visual expression—webs of lines, repetition…    read more

Barbara Takenaga creates dense abstract paintings composed if discrete elements that radiate or spiral energetically from or to a central vanishing point. The illusion of ebullient expansion or contraction created…    read more

In the early-1980s New York City’s East Village was a teeming with an alternative art scene. Young people from the inner city with no art training and recent graduate of art departments from around the country took to making art on the streets. Graffiti to some, powerful intersection of art and life to others

Enchanting original illustrations from Peter Sís’s picture book Tibet Through the Red Box are accompanied by many of the artist’s books, and by hands-on activities created by Museum staff. The…    read more

Silkscreen Prints by Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence was a highly acclaimed artist associated with the Harlem Renaissance, whose work is in the collections of many major museums. Renowned for his…    read more

Four Generations of African-American Quiltmakers Improvisational quilts made by four generations of African-American women in one Texas family—Gladys Henry, Laverne Brackens, Sherry Byrd, and Bara Byrd—comprise the exhibit Will the…    read more

The idea for the Green River Garden, located at the south end of the Museum, took shape in late January of 1990. Douglas Riggs, a member and founder of the…    read more

Part of a series based on poetic works DeWolfe produced between 2002 and 2004, Book of Night abstracts language to create images. The artist has written words on 137 panes…    read more

Pierrot Lunaire is a group of poems by the Belgian poet Albert Giraud. Inspired by the poems, and by composer Arnold Schoenberg’s song cycle of 21 of them, Cohen has…    read more

Leslie Fry uses the ancient technique of casting to create her layered imagery. For this series, she made cast-paper forms from molds she fashioned or from existing objects. Fantastical creatures—women-flora-fauna…    read more

Four Southern Vermont artists—Willard Boepple, Paul Bowen, Jon Isherwood, and Millicent Young—exhibit large-scale, abstract sculptures in a variety of materials, including wood, steel, resins, computer-cut stone, and found objects. In…    read more

The impulse to tell stories is as old as humankind and as current as Internet blogs. The six contemporary painters in this exhibit—Matt Brackett, Herman Braun-Vega, Michèle Fenniak, Trey Friedman,…    read more