Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

This exhibition features the work of four artists who visualize the cacophonous experiences of memory-making and recall through their collage-like practices. Felipe Baeza, Ori Gersht, Simonette Quamina, and Maika’i Tubbs…    read more

In the site-specific exhibition Roots, Water, Air, interdisciplinary artist Adrienne Elise Tarver crafts a lush experience where nature is the beholder of time and space, and where nature is revered for…    read more

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Join us for a shimmering evening of cocktails, dinner, dancing, silent auction, and recognition of two very special Vermont Art Champions.

Folk musicians Tim Eriksen and Peter Irvine join forces with artist Susan Brearey for a performance at Next Stage.

An annual spectacle and crowd favorite, the Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro for the 17th year in a row.

In the hands of a master musician, distortion is a tool to be celebrated, manipulated, painted with. A great guitarist knows exactly what shade of evil noise best conveys what…    read more

Ensemble Amphion Baroque presents works by Bach, Vivaldi, Rameau, and more on period instruments.

Artists Susan Brearey and Duane Slick join curator DJ Hellerman for a conversation about the exhibition The In Between.

Artist Ilana Manolson and environmentalist Rebecca Todd discuss their shared interest in the health and significance of rivers.

Tune in for this online conversation between Saks Afridi and curator Sadaf Padder about Afridi’s exhibition SpaceMosque.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

With inspiration and guidance from sculptor Art Costa, create animal masks from recycled boxboard.

Jessica Straus and postdoctoral researcher Brendan Reid discuss their shared interest in the Atlantic cod population.

Mishel Valenton and Benedict Scheuer join curator Maria Stabio for an online conversation about the exhibition Personal Nature.

Drop by between 5 and 9 p.m. for family artmaking activities and live local music.

Take a guided mushroom foray, and then enjoy hand-tossed wood-fired pizzas with your freshly foraged toppings.

Dinner on Glass combines fine dining, glass blowing, and performance art into an unforgettable feast for all the senses.

Join the BMAC team!

This fall and winter, we’ve temporarily transformed the museum’s East Gallery into a comfy space for visitors to hang out, read, chat, and enjoy rotating displays of community artwork. Relax….    read more

Acrobats and aerialists from New England Center for Circus Arts perform outside the museum at 6 & 6:45 p.m.

Drop by between 5 and 9 p.m. for family artmaking activities and live local music.

Brattleboro Literary Festival presents Natalie Dysktra, author of Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Drop by between 5 and 9 p.m. for family artmaking activities and live local music.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

We’re throwing a party to celebrate eight new summer exhibits. Join us!

The sculptures I make are of our natural environment transformed by human activity. They investigate the relationship between the familiar, the other-worldly, and the many layers in between. The sculptures…    read more

During my working life I’ve shifted freely, back and forth, from artist to dry stone waller. With Rock Rest, I enjoyed the creative process so much that I built the piece twice; once in my Dummerston stone yard and once here beside the museum.

John Tagiuri has been creating public art, primarily in and around the city of Boston, for over 25 years. He specializes in community-focused permanent and temporary public sculptures and installations that rejuvenate inner-city parks and schoolyards and explore social issues.

As a collagist, I see art as a vehicle for social criticism and focusing on issues of our time. How do we talk about the history that divides and binds…    read more

Bob Boemig created Land Lift as part of a temporary, six-month exhibition in 1993, and it has graced the museum’s front lawn ever since.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to the museum for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Bring your little ones to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center for art activities designed for young children and their caregivers.

Join curators Michael Abrams and Sarah Freeman for a discussion and walkthrough of In Nature’s Grasp.

This dual exhibition unites the artists Mishel Valenton and Benedict Scheuer, who are bound by a shared passion for using drawing and painting to capture the ephemeral essence of personal…    read more

Learn how to create richly hued natural dyes from onion skins, avocado peels, black beans, and more.

Throughout their artistic careers, Susan Brearey and Duane Slick have both drawn upon their connection, identification, and observation of animals and landscapes. The In Between marks the first time that…    read more

Sandglass Theater’s work has often been influenced by the places that we, Sandglass creators, have lived. In 1986, we moved from Germany to Vermont, and new themes from local history,…    read more

A segmented map stretching across the gallery floor and rising to the ceiling is the central feature of Jessica Straus’s immersive installation. Its scale dwarfs us. The distinctive New England…    read more

Imagine that a spectacular Vessel—a SpaceMosque—arrives from the future, granting all humans on Earth one prayer manifested every 24 hours. The structure is a portal that appears in many iterations,…    read more

Join artist Samira Abbassy and curator Sarah Freeman for an online conversation about Out of Body.

Andy Reichsman discusses his family’s 70-year effort to reclaim artwork stolen by the Nazis during WWII.

Come hang out with rapper Killah Priest and artist John Newsom.

Take a guided tour of this extraordinary architect-designed property in Windham, Vermont.

The UMass Percussion Ensemble performs in the Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Gallery.

We’re open late for the first-Friday community celebration of all things artful.

Join Edward Holland and Mara Williams for an online discussion of Holland’s Celestial Sea.

Wu-Tang affiliated rapper Killah Priest performs at Brattleboro’s Stone Church.

Light-hearted awards ceremony and all-ages outdoor dance party at Retreat Farm.

Acclaimed Pysanky artist Jenny Santa Maria leads two workshops in the traditional Ukrainian folk art of egg decoration.

Create whimsical cardboard sculptures based on deep-sea creatures with artist Art Costa.

Come celebrate the opening of new exhibits.

Ilana Manolson’s approach to the venerable genre of landscape painting breaks the convention of framing a scene, in which we see a painting as a window on the world. Instead,…    read more

Festival and potluck in celebration of the Lunar New Year. Activities for all ages.

Thank you for your generous support of BMAC. You will receive a confirmation email shortly, which can be used as a receipt for your tax-deductible donation. If your gift included…    read more

A live performance and video installation at Epsilon Spires.

Visit this outdoor display of wild, wonderful Artful Ice Shanties at Retreat Farm.

Fawn Krieger and David B. Smith discuss their interests in attachment, relation, and embodiment.

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Throughout much of her work, Samira Abbassy has sought to reveal how the human form embodies internal or psychological states. The figures in her work serve as archetypes rather than…    read more

The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs. — Marcus Tullius Cicero  The nitrogen in…    read more

In his 1757 work A Philosophical Enquiry, the statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke considered the concept of the Sublime, noting that certain experiences supply a kind of thrill, mixing fear and…    read more

John Newsom’s powerful and intricate paintings created as album art for Forest of the Happy Ever After by American rapper and Wu-Tang Clan affiliate Killah Priest conjure allegorical scenes of nature and renewal.

Create whimsical cardboard sculptures based on deep-sea creatures with artist Art Costa.

Artist Art Costa and curator Sarah Freeman discuss Costa’s career and current exhibition at BMAC. 

2023 Climate Change Artist in Residence, Lia Rothstein, leads a two-day printmaking workshop with a focus on sustainability.

Hannah Morris discusses her career and current exhibition at BMAC.

BMAC’s 2023 Climate Change Artist in Residence, Lia Rothstein, discusses the use of bioplastics in artmaking.

Ann and Tony Gengarelly host a poetry-writing workshop that includes illustration and bookmaking.

Artist Aurora Robson talks about her practice and the work on view in her current BMAC exhibition.

Curator Michelle Samour discusses the exhibit Paper Made, focusing on the stories behind the art.

Make art prints with LEGOs in a workshop at First Proof Press.

Explore relief printmaking in a workshop with artist Michael Smoot.

Bob Boemig gives a talk in connection with the 30th anniversary of his iconic sculpture Land Lift, which graces BMAC’s front lawn.

Painter Julia Jensen offers a visit to her studio in Westminster West, Vermont, including a short talk and tour.

Celebrate Anina Major: I Land Therefore I Am and a BrattRock Unplugged performance at a closing party during Gallery Walk.

Celebrate the opening of four new exhibits. Free and open to all!

Recognizing outstanding young visual artists and writers from all across Vermont.

Celebrate this year’s LEGO Contest winners.

Design and build an original LEGO structure, and display it at BMAC!

Dinner on Glass combines fine dining, glass blowing, and performance art into a memorable feast for all the senses.

Tearing, cutting, binding, stitching, rolling, the artists in Paper Made manipulate paper to create diverse works that challenge our preconceptions of paper as solely a substrate for the drawn or…    read more

After learning about Aurora Robson’s Human Nature Walk, students in Leland & Gray Union High School’s spring 2023 “Journey Away” class on climate change conducted interviews with people in New…    read more

Explore the ways art and nature interact through family-focused art making activities at Retreat Farm.

Explore the ways art and nature interact through family-focused art making activities at Retreat Farm.

Art Costa takes us into a world of strange, sightless creatures that inhabit the darkest depths of the ocean. Costa makes his forms from reclaimed cardboard, paper mache, and a…    read more

Michael Smoot’s work explores ideas of interconnectedness and probes the systems and structures we have put in place to fulfill our needs. We are individuals, but we exist as part…    read more

Home Bodies brings together the work of artists Fawn Krieger and David B. Smith. Krieger and Smith layer, collide, and collapse physical materials and visual forms to reimagine ceramics and…    read more

An annual spectacle and crowd favorite, the Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro for the 16th year in a row.

Update as of 9/25/23: This workshop has been cancelled. Kate Milliken leads a sculpture-making workshop using cleaned trash collected from the Connecticut River.

Learn about Vermont’s legendary gay bar, Andrews Inn, and celebrate its legacy at a pop-up, 1970s-themed party at the museum.

Enjoy a fine dining experience by award-winning chef Erin Bevan and inspired by Alec Egan’s Drawing Room.

An inspiring evening of cocktails, dinner, dancing, and the inaugural BMAC Award for Service to Art & Humanity.

Tape Art duo Michael Townsend and Leah Smith invite the public to help create temporary murals on BMAC’s facade.

Master dry stone waller Jared Flynn gives a tour of Stone Wall Park at historic Scott Farm.

All are invited to help clean the Connecticut River and collect the trash for use in a sculpture workshop.

Melany Kahn leads a group foraging edible mushrooms and making mushroom-topped wood-fired pizzas.