Artist Walkthrough: Mie Yim
Mie Yim leads a walkthrough of the exhibit Fluid Boundaries.
Sarah Freeman, co-curator of Felt Experience, leads a panel discussion with exhibiting artists.
Curator Katherine Gass Stowe leads a walkthrough of the exhibit Felt Experience.
Artist Anne Spalter and programmer Todd Dailey present an online tour of their NFT art exhibit.
Ron Miller gives a Zoom presentation on the history of spaceships depicted in art.
Renée Ater discusses the history of the artworks referenced in Roberto Visani: Form/Reform.
Installation timelapse of Yvette Molina: Big Bang Votive.
The 2022 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards exhibit culminated in an awards ceremony on Saturday, March 5 at 12 p.m. featuring keynote speaker Shanta Lee Gander. This video was recorded during the live event on March 5, 2022.
Robert DuGrenier presents an online studio tour and glassblowing demonstration.
Cai Xi of Cai’s Dim Sum Catering teaches participants how to make dumplings from scratch.
Artist Natalie Frank and curator Elissa Watters discuss Painting with Paper.
Michael Abrams discusses the installation Arcadia Rediscovered and what influences him as an artist.
William Ransom discusses his sculpture installation and his artistic process.
Vermont Glass Guild artists create glass art inspired by ancient objects for a live audience at Fire Arts Vermont.
14th Annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza, video courtesy of @Hevesh5.
Catherine Barth PH.D. discusses Minor White and his influence on photography.
Artist Erick Johnson and BMAC Chief Curator Mara Williams discuss Double Take.
Music historian Theo Cateforis discusses the forces that gave rise to the groundbreaking music festival and its lasting legacy.
Artist Charlie Hunter and curator Eric Aho discuss Semaphore.
Scott Lothes discusses representations of railroads in art from the 1830s to the present.
Curator John Newsom leads a virtual walkthrough of EXPEDITION.
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.
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.
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.
Anne Spalter explains what non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are and how they contribute to new art forms.
Rio Cortez, Daniel Minter, and Javaka Steptoe discuss Black representation in children’s literature.
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.
Virtually visit this outdoor display of wild, wonderful Artful Ice Shanties at Retreat Farm. Video by Little Pond Digital.
Elizabeth Semmelhack of the Bata Shoe Museum explores how sneakers became cultural icons.
Andy Yoder moderates a panel of artists whose work focuses on ocean pollution. Yoder, Alejandro Durán, Pam Longobardi, and Aurora Robson share their work and discuss the ways they draw inspiration from the crisis happening in our oceans, particularly around plastic trash.
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.
Ned Castle and Federico Pardo discuss their work documenting Brattleboro’s ice shanties. Moderated by Evie Lovett.
Rachel Portesi speaks from her studio 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.
Helen Sheumaker, Ph.D., author of Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America, speaks in connection with the exhibit Rachel Portesi: Hair Portraits.
Andy Yoder discusses Overboard which consists of replicas of Nike shoes made out of recycled materials.
A lecture and Q&A with Karen Wilkin, curator of Figuration Never Died: New York Painterly Painting, 1950-1970
“It’s a surprise in every mailbox.” Mail artists Stu Copans and Chuck Welch discuss the exhibit Postcards to Brattleboro: 40 Years of Mail Art (Mar. 14 – Oct. 12, 2020).
Rachel Portesi discusses Hair Portraits, an exhibition of her tintype photographs of women whose hair has been pinned to walls and other surfaces in elaborate designs.
The awards ceremony for the 13th Annual LEGO Contest & Exhibit went virtual in 2020, because of Covid. Check it out here!
Four domino artists. Two and a half days. And 23,018 dominoes. Relive this year’s incredible Domino Toppling—or experience it for the first time!
This panel discussion considers shortages in affordable, workforce, and market-rate housing in Windham County.
Did you miss Roger Clark Miller’s remarkable dream-inspired “solo electric guitar ensemble” performance and Q&A? Watch now…
Curator Katherine Gass Stowe presents a guided tour of Steven Kinder: 552,830.
Therapist Kurt White discusses why we tend to avert our eyes when we walk past someone living on the street, why—from a psychological standpoint—we try not to see them.
Visit the studio of painter John Gibson, whose work is on view in BMAC’s large front window bays March 2020 – March 2021.
Did you miss Alison Wright’s livestreamed talk? Watch the video now! Wright discusses her international photojournalism and shares stories about her extraordinary life
Rose leads a virtual walk-through of his installation For/While (2020.01), which was inspired by an experience with a 5.8-magnitude earthquake that he describes as a “sublime folding of chaos into order,” and discuss some of his other work.
Rose discusses his immersive installation For/While (2020.01), which was inspired by an experience with a 5.8-magnitude earthquake.
Watch Vermont glass artist Chris Sherwin transform a child’s whimsical drawing into a glass sculpture in this three-minute video.
Do you have fond memories of visiting Red Grooms’ sculpto-pictoramas and experiential walk-through sculptures—especially his remarkable full-scale city bus? Check out this time-lapse video of the installation of “The Bus” at BMAC in 2013.
Dionne Searcey discusses her book, “In Pursuit of Disobedient Women: A Memoir of Love, Rebellion, and Family, Far Away”, her work as West Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, and the extraordinary lives and struggles of women she encountered living at the crossroads of old-fashioned patriarchy and an increasingly globalized and connected world.
At age 15, Lily Hevesh became a builder for our annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza. Six years later, she is one of the best-known domino artists in the world. Check out this incredible creation that Lily and her fellow domino artists built at BMAC in 2015.
“I always swore that I would never make a film.” Find out what happens when musician and artist Roger Clark Miller transforms Davis Square traffic patterns into a symphony in his first-ever film.
In this 2014 talk at BMAC, Kahn discusses the importance of continually challenging oneself as an artist.
Go behind the scenes to discover how Wesley Fleming created the exquisite glass wildflowers and pollinators in the exhibition Silvestris, Wild and Untamed.