Press Releases
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1/24/11 – Second BEAN Dinner Yields Micro-Grants for Three Art Projects
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Micro-Grant Winners Erica Morse of Marlboro Elementary School, James Gelter of Vermont Theatre Company, and Dot MacDonald of Neighborhood Schoolhouse
Photo by Paulina Essunger
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Dinner guests at the second BEAN Dinner await the results of voting.
Photo by Paulina Essunger
1/7/11 – BMAC presents M.C. Escher-inspired book-making workshop with Linda Lembke (1/29)
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1/6/11 – Free Indie-Film Screening at BMAC (2/3) Shatters Preconceived Notions of People with Disabilities
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1/5/11 – Free Indie-Film Screening at BMAC (1/20) Explores What Motivates Young Religious Leaders
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11/21/10 – Native American Actor/Musician Gary Farmer to Appear at BMAC and Marlboro College
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Gary Farmer (photo by Tim Leyes)
11/08/10 – BMAC Hosts Free Cutting-Edge Acoustic Music Showcase 11/14/10
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Bassist Nat Baldwin of The Dirty Projectors (photo by Joe Chapman)
11/08/10 – Author-Illustrator D.B. Johnson to Appear at BMAC on 11/13/10
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Pages 10-11 of D.B. Johnson’s Palazzo Inverso
10/18/10 – Free Indie-Film Screening at BMAC Examines Hollywood’s Portrayals of Native Americans
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Young stuntman in training with Rod Rondeaux
10/18/10 – Last Chance to View Historic Railroad Photographs and Four Other Exhibits at BMAC
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O. Winston Link, “Washing J-Class 605, Shaffer’s Crossing Yards, Roanoke, VA (1955)
9/29/10 – Wolf Kahn Asks: Can Art Be Taught?
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Wolf Kahn’s “Deep Purple Landscape” (2009)
9/28/10 – O. Winston Link Scholar Thomas Garver to Lecture on Link’s Railroad Photography
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O. Winston Link and George Thom with Night Flash Equipment, NYC (1956)
Photo by O. Winston Link, courtesy of Mary Bachmann
9/20/10 – First BEAN Dinner Yields Micro-Grants for Three Art Projects
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NEYT Alumni: James Gelter, Nick Bombicino, and Jessica Callahan
Photo courtesy of Jessica Callahan
9/16/10 – BMAC Now Accepting Submissions for 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
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Xavier Donnelly (Burlington, age 17), Green City
2010 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Portfolio Gold Medalist
9/13/10 – BMAC Announces Third Annual LEGO Contest
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Kids inspect a spaceship at BMAC’s annual LEGO Contest.
Photo by Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
9/6/10 – BMAC Hosts Presentation on History and Future of Passenger Train Service
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Computer-generated artist’s rendition of California’s new high-speed passenger train
Courtesy of California High-Speed Rail Authority
8/30/10 – Museum and Cafe Team Up to Support Local Art Projects
8/30/10 – New Film Series Launches With “Years in the Making” on September 3
8/30/10 – Truman Re-enactor Connects Art and History in September 2 Multimedia Program
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Artist Shepherd Fairey’s Controversial Portrait of Barack Obama (2008)
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Rembrandt Peale Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1800)
7/18/10 – Five New Exhibits Open July 24, 2010
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Michelle Lougee, Octoplas (2009)
plastic shopping bags, 100 x 100 x 20 inches
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Peter DeCamp Haines, Bird of Knowledge (2007)
bronze, 76 x 15 x 15 inches
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Rosalyn Driscoll, Conversation 1 (2010)
mixed media, 47 x 30 x 22 inches
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O. Winston Link, Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, WV (1956)
silver gelatin print, 20 x 24 inches
7/14/10 – BMAC Offers August Day Trip to Tanglewood
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Concertgoers on the Great Lawn at Tanglewood
photo by Hillary Scott
6/28/10 – Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents “The Birds and the Bees” followed by fireworks at Grafton Ponds (July 3)
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Uncle Sam flies over patriotic revelers at Grafton Ponds
photo by Christine Triebert
6/1/10 – Artist Koo Schadler demystifies egg tempera in June 10 presentation
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Koo Schadler, Fra Angelico and Milton (2006)
6/1/10 – Tickets On Sale Now for 20th Annual “Music & Fireworks Under the Stars”
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Cindy and John Wilcox of Dummerston enjoy a picnic before the annual Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert at Grafton Ponds
photo by Christine Triebert
5/7/10 – BMAC presents free screening of “A Village Called Versailles” (5/13/10)
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Residents of Versailles survey their flooded neighborhood
photo by Leonard Squibb
4/19/10 – BMAC bus trip offers art and flowers at Boston’s MFA
4/19/10 – BMAC Celebrates Earth Day With a Free Screening of “DIRT! The Movie” (4/22/10)
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Slow food founder Carlo Petrini
photo by Common Ground Media
3/23/10 – Christy Hengst’s “Birds in the Park” to land at BMAC on Sunday, March 28
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Christy Hengst’s porcelain “birds” perched outside a cafe in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Christy Hengst’s porcelain “birds” in northern New Mexico
3/22/10 – Five New Exhibits Open March 27, 2010
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David Kapp, Big Crowd (2009)
oil on linen, 98 x 76 inches
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Rudy Burckhardt, Midday Crowd (ca. 1939)
gelatin silver print, 5.5 x 8 inches
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Koo Schadler, Fra Angelico and Milton (2006)
egg tempera with oil glazes on true gesso panel, 15 x 13 inches
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Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, The Lake of Dreams (2002)
archival digital print on paper, 8 x 30 inches
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Cecily Kahn, Dynamic Magnetism (2006)
oil on linen, 31 x 24 inches
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Ellen Dorn Levitt, Symmetries 5 (2007-2009)
ink and technical pen on paper, 15 x 15 inches
2/22/10 – BMAC Presents Third Annual Domino-Toppling Extravaganza (3/1/10)
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BMAC logo fashioned from dominoes by brothers Mike and Steve Perrucci
photo by Cindy Hutcheson
2/1/10 – Artist Ethan Murrow to Discuss His Work and Show Short Film at BMAC (2/4/10)
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Ethan Murrow, Sled is responsive, soft landing in doubt (2009)
graphite on paper, 70 x 70 inches
1/25/10 – Artist Marcy Hermansader to Present Slide Lecture at BMAC (1/28/10)
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Marcy Hermansader, In Deep (2007)
mixed media, 20 x 29 x 1 inches
1/11/10 – Collegiate A Cappella Concert SOLD OUT; Additional Show Scheduled
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Tufts University Beelzebubs in concert
photo by Leonard Squibb
1/8/10 – Holiday Weekend Full of Events at BMAC
1/7/10 – BMAC presents free screening of GARBAGE DREAMS (1/14/10)
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The Recycling School
1/4/10 – BMAC hosts ice-harvesting presentation and hands-on activity (1/9/10)
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Young@Heart Chorus members say, “Cheese!”
oil on linen, 62 x 80 inches
12/4/09 – BMAC presents free screening of YOUNG@HEART (12/13/09)
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Young@Heart Chorus members say, “Cheese!” (photo by Brandy Eve Allen for Twentieth Century Fox)
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Young@Heart director Bob Cilman doing a run-through of “I Feel Good!” (photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox)
11/23/09 – Five New Exhibits Now Open at BMAC
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Aric Obrosey, Turbulent Fond (2006)
graphite on paper, 30 x 40 inches
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Evelyn Rydz, Blue Foam with Barnacles (2009)
pencil and color pencil on mylar, 17 x 19 inches
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James Nelson, untitled (2008)
charcoal on handmade Japanese paper, 24 x 19 inches
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Eric Aho, Ice Cut (1929) (2009)
oil on linen, 62 x 80 inches
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Marcy Hermansader, In Deep (2007)
mixed media, 20 x 29 x 1 inches
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Bill Long, Guitar Cupola (Interior) (2009)
oil on canvas board, 12 x 9 inches
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Joseph Fichter, Clarion Call (2005)
steel, 114 x 120 x 35 inches
10/30/09 – BMAC Celebrates Chief Curator’s Twentieth Year
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BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams (photo by Karen Becker)
10/19/09 – BMAC Presents Award-Winning Documentary on Artist Alice Neel (October 29)
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Alice Neel portrait of her daughter: Ginny in Striped Shirt (1969)
10/19/09 – Chief Curator Mara Williams to Give Guided Tour on Sunday, October 25
10/19/09 – BMAC to Host Second Annual LEGO Contest
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LEGO Contest entries on display at BMAC (photo by Susan Calabria)
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Children playing with LEGO pinball machine at BMAC (photo by Susan Calabria)
10/5/09 – Free Indie Film-Screening at BMAC on Oct. 8 Explores Hip-Hop, Sampling, Copyright Issues
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Pioneer hip-hop group Public Enemy
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Pat Spurgeon in concert
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Pat Spurgeon receives medical treatment
8/31/09 – BMAC Organizes September 23 Bus Trip to The Clark and Mass MoCA
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Suzuki Kiitsu, “Morning Glories” (early 19th century); from Through The Seasons: Japanese Art in Nature
8/31/09 – Ecologist Tom Wessels to Lead Interpretive Walk on Wantastiquet Mountain on September 6
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View from Wantastiquet Mountain by Brian Bishoff
8/17/09 – Artist Wolf Kahn to Give Talk and Sign Prints at BMAC on August 29
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Wolf Kahn in his NYC studio; photo by Jordan Tinker
7/30/09 – Six New Exhibits Open at BMAC on August 7
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Sol LeWitt, Squiggly Brushstrokes
1997
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John Gibson, Putney
2000
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Anne Eaton Parker, Space Egg
1971
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Ralph DeAnna, Reflection and Traffic
2008
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Shuli Sade, Detail of Waterfall
2009
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Joseph Fichter, Bolt
2009
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Annemie Curlin, from Rutland City triptych
2007
7/27/09 – BMAC to Host Three-Day Mini-Festival on Figure Drawing
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Drawing by Vin Brandt
7/9/09 – BMAC Releases “Vermont Vernacular,” Signed, Limited-Edition Prints by Wolf Kahn, Petria Mitchell, and Tim Allen
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Wolf Kahn, Deep Purple Landscape
6/15/09 – Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily to Perform at BMAC After Hours on Friday, June 19
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Sam Amidon playing the banjo
Photo by Shana Novak
6/4/09 – Tickets Available Now for the 19th Annual July 3rd “Music & Fireworks Under the Stars”
5/18/09 – Artist Stephen Knapp to Give Talk on His Lightpaintings on May 21
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Stephen Knapp, detail of “Risen Blue” (2004)
light, glass, stainless steel; 228 x 144 x 10 inches
4/27/09 – BMAC Celebrates Audrey Hepburn’s 80th Birthday With Film-Screening & Book-Signing on May 3
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of Sabrina
Photo by Mark Shaw
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Audrey Hepburn on the set of Sabrina
Photo by Mark Shaw
