Past Events

Music historian Theo Cateforis discusses the forces that gave rise to the groundbreaking music festival and its lasting legacy.

BMAC is open on Labor Day 10-4.

The New England Center for Circus Arts performs stunning acrobatics outside the Museum during Gallery Walk.

Artist Charlie Hunter and curator Eric Aho discuss Semaphore.

Participants will create photographs inspired by the vision of Minor White.

Scott Lothes discusses representations of railroads in art from the 1830s to the present.

Curator John Newsom leads a virtual walkthrough of EXPEDITION.

All are invited to tour the studio of Richard Jacobs.

Curator Katherine Gass Stowe presents a free online talk in connection with Sequences: Ode to Minor White.

Delita Martin discusses her installation Between Worlds, on view in the large window bays extending across the front of BMAC.

Next Stage Arts musicians-in-residence perform and discuss classical Indian music.

Charlie Hunter gives a painting demonstration at the Bellows Falls train station, and a tour of his nearby studio.

Home and master bakers join artist Delano Dunn in exploring culinary heritages through pie-making.

Scott Boyd and Tim Brookes discuss the Endangered Alphabets Project and Boyd’s sculptural work.

String quartet Brooklyn Rider, Kinan Azmeh, and Mathias Kunzli perform a collaborative program that expands the notion of the clarinet quintet.

All are welcome to a reception celebrating summer exhibits.

Mara Williams leads a virtual tour of All Flowers Keep the Light and a discussion with the exhibiting artists.

Anna Schuleit Haber discusses her wide-ranging work, including BLOOM, documentation of which is featured in All Flowers Keep the Light.

Curtiss Reed, Jr., founder of the Vermont African American Heritage Trail, discusses the history and future of the trail.

All are welcome to a reception celebrating spring exhibits.

Anne Spalter explains what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are and how they contribute to new art forms.

In connection with a BMAC ARTtravel program, Dra. Marisol Flores discusses Costa Rica’s response to Covid-19.

Rio Cortez, Daniel Minter, and Javaka Steptoe discuss Black representation in children’s literature.

Create creature themed animated pop-up cards in this online workshop.

Kenny Rivero, Charles Moffett, and Michael Jevon Demps discuss the exhibit Palm Oil, Rum, Honey, Yellow Flowers.

Jennifer Mack-Watkins, Daricia Mia DeMarr, and Novella Ford discuss positive representation of Black Americans.

Artist Jennifer Mack-Watkins, curator David Rios Ferreira, and poet fayemi shakur discuss Children of the Sun.

Purchase a raffle ticket to be entered into a drawing for an Ice Shanty Quilt.

Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum explores how sneakers became cultural icons.

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

Andy Yoder moderates an online panel of artists whose work focuses on ocean pollution.

This online panel discussion explores an ancient and lasting aspect of New England heritage.

Erik Hoffner discusses approaches and strategies for visual storytelling through photography.

A showing of the documentary “Remembering the Artist, Robert DeNiro, Sr.,” with a Q&A by Karen Wilkin.

Ned Castle and Federico Pardo discuss their work documenting Brattleboro’s ice shanties.

Create mini ice shanties out of repurposed and recycled materials in this online workshop.

Artists, ice fishers, tiny house fans: Build your own Artful Ice Shanty and display it at Retreat Farm!

Rachel Portesi speaks via Zoom about the tintype process she used for the exhibit Hair Portraits.

Lois Dodd joins artist Eric Aho in an online conversation about her life and work.

A talk by Helen Sheumaker, author of Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America.

Andy Yoder discusses Overboard, which consists of replicas of Nike shoes made out of recycled materials.

Your imaginary creature could be turned into a glass sculpture and exhibited at BMAC.

Curator Karen Wilkin discusses Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970.

Rachel Portesi discusses her tintype photographs of women.

Join us on Zoom and Facebook Live as we honor this year’s LEGO Contest winners.

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

Brick artist Jessica “Ragzy” Ewud presents an online LEGO workshops for ages 4-12.

This iconic annual spectacle and crowd favorite returns to BMAC for the thirteenth year in a row.

This panel discussion considers shortages in affordable, workforce, and market-rate housing in Windham County.

Roger Clark Miller presents his dream-inspired “solo electric guitar ensemble,” followed by a Q&A.