The word “space” contains multitudes. It can imply our physical surroundings, the place in our minds where imagination lives, or an idea of distance or time. It can mean a…    read more

Franklin Furnace has been a pioneer among organizations that support and promote avant-garde artists working in new and nontraditional mediums. While Franklin Furnace’s current programming focuses on conceptual and performance…    read more

Laura Chasman captures an art world that is increasingly transient and on the move. She paints fleeting moments observed at art fairs over the years with quickly rendered brushstrokes, showing…    read more

This summer, we’ve temporarily transformed the museum’s Mary Sommer Room into a comfy space for visitors to hang out, read, chat, and enjoy rotating displays of community artwork. I Am…    read more

At 92, Nye Ffarrabas, formerly Bici Forbes Hendricks, occupies a significant place not only in the postmodern art world but also in our global cultural zeitgeist. During the early and…    read more

I can’t remember what I was searching for—or what the algorithm had me chasing—one sleepless night, when I stumbled into the exquisitely creepy world of John Kenn Mortensen’s Sticky Monsters….    read more

This exhibition is a partially site-specific project that considers the historical origins of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center building. The former train station embodies the idea of movement, which…    read more

Entering Yeon Ji Yoo’s meticulously crafted world feels like stepping into a vivid yet elusive dream whose beginning you can’t quite recall. In Wish You Were Here, Yoo masterfully balances…    read more

Folk art is a powerful testament of cultural self-determination and the right of a nation to exist. Despite Ukraine’s tumultuous history and the systematic cultural genocide inflicted by colonial authoritarian…    read more

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

They’re baaaaack! For the seventh time in 14 years, BMAC is teeming with fantastic creatures conjured up for the museum’s biennial GLASSTASTIC exhibition. Last fall, we asked kids in grades…    read more

Why do we draw? What compels us to make a mark? As children, we draw before we read and write. As adults, even those of us who “don’t do art”…    read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

My work gives viewers a glimpse of how I observe my surroundings, both natural and constructed. I share these glimpses through tangible creations, made from both gathered natural artifacts and…    read more

These recent works are a continued exploration of the contrast between ambiguity and specificity. The space between the two creates a stage for new visual narratives. Applying layers of paint…    read more

In Where Things Set, Roberley Bell’s sculptures and drawings share space, allowing us to see the conversations that take place between these distinct yet related bodies of work. Drawing is…    read more

In 2021, my husband and I moved into a 1957 Cape Cod house in West Brattleboro that looks like an Alec Egan painting. The outside of the house is simple…    read more

They say you can take the girl off the island, but you can never take the island out of the girl.  This statement perfectly describes Anina Major. In I Land…    read more

Displaced abundance. That’s how artist Aurora Robson views our plastic debris problem. It’s an incredibly powerful way to reframe such an insidious global issue. We tend to think of abundance…    read more

On June 25, 1983, fourteen years after the Stonewall Uprising in Greenwich Village, the first Lesbian and Gay Pride March in Vermont took place in Burlington. From the beginning, the…    read more

Each of Cathy Cone’s painted tintype portraits begins with a photograph or scan of a tintype from her personal collection, which she has been amassing since the late 1970s. Cone…    read more

It is said that before we were painting on the walls of caves, we were painting on ourselves—that our bodies were our first canvases, and that in marking, decorating, and…    read more

A celebration of imagination and ingenuity featuring kids’ drawings turned into glass sculptures.

Juan Hinojosa’s work is informed by his family’s immigrant experience. The lush colors and riotous imagery belie a sense of longing for comfort and acceptance. Hinojosa’s collaged figures are travelers…    read more

CONTENT WARNING: The works of art in this exhibition address mental illness and suicide. Artist and archivist Mitsuko Brooks creates two-dimensional mixed-media collages and sculptures made of found objects. Many of…    read more

“The subway drawings were, as much as they were drawings, performances. It was where I learned how to draw in public. You draw in front of people. For me it…    read more

Spores dusted across your cheeks like freckles have launched from the Ordovician age. A lungful of exhaust is ancient sunlight baked into Mesozoic ferns. We are sedimented with the past….    read more

We Feel Our Way Through When We Don’t Know features the works of Mariel Capanna, Cheeny Celebrado-Royer, Oscar Rene Cornejo, Vessna Scheff, Gerald Euhon Sheffield II, and Lachell Workman. Feeling…    read more

Renate Aller uses large-format photographic installations to create “picture windows” that invite the viewer to enter into an immersive visual environment. Aller offers us images of breathtaking landscapes, and we…    read more

When I think of my grandfather, I imagine a man displaced from his home in Hawaii, collecting stones in the Southwestern landscape with the rising moon above. I never knew…    read more

Often when something has “gone bad,” it gives rise to something new, but it can be hard to appreciate new growth in the shadow of our disappointment. I like the…    read more

The Landscape Stares Back occupies a small green space near the museum. The brilliant color of the benches invites you forward to take a seat, to experience space as you…    read more

Felt is an ancient material, predating woven cloth. Used for utilitarian purposes such as clothing, rugs, saddles, hut coverings, and even armor, it has also been employed for centuries for…    read more

This exhibit brings together artwork by Abenaki artists of the Champlain Valley and Connecticut River Valley regions to illustrate the Abenaki relationship to water, our awareness of water as a…    read more

This installation is an iteration of the larger series of BLACK POWER WAVE drawings that I began in 2016. Originally I set out to use the relationship we all share…    read more

Mie Yim’s work offers a window into the mind of an artist who is constantly questioning and challenging herself. From earlier work featuring soft focus creatures with sweet exteriors but…    read more

Frank Jackson’s exhibition combines memory, improvisation, and the residue of materials that are time-sensitive and fragile to generate abstract landscape paintings. This act of place/space-making references both an interior time…    read more

Over the course of 30 years, Beth Galston’s artistic endeavors flowed in two directions: working outdoors to integrate sculptural, architectural elements into the landscape, and inverting her process by massing…    read more

It’s not that often that a technological innovation causes as much excitement or controversy in the art world as NFTs (non-fungible tokens). An NFT is a cryptocurrency token with associated…    read more

Dislocations disrupt family ties and rootedness to place. Familial histories become opaque and obscured. However, these ruptures can never completely sever our connections to place or family. We find clues…    read more

In his first solo museum exhibition, Roberto Visani forms and reforms art historical depictions of enslaved people through research, digital modeling, and laser-cut cardboard segments. What results are semi-fragmented, semi-abstract,…    read more

From her early sculptures through her later and better-known work in paint, Louisa Chase (1951–2016) strove to create her own fantasy worlds in visual form. After training in printmaking while…    read more

Working across different mediums and materials, Mildred Beltré Martinez presents a diverse body of work evoking a complex range of feelings and possible readings. The exhibit is best experienced as…    read more

A waffle iron, a yellow bicycle, a piece of toast: These are just a few of the delicately rendered objects in Yvette Molina’s constellation of paintings, each representing a memory…    read more

Polychrome wooden statues and wall reliefs have been made in cultures around the world for millennia. Sachiko Akiyama breathes new life into this tradition. Each sculpture possesses a self-contained, contemplative…    read more

In 2017, BMAC—a non-collecting, contemporary art museum—accepted a gift of 314 objects spanning 4,000 years of history and originating from dozens of cultures across the globe. We did so with…    read more

“Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one…    read more

Bearing the weight of white supremacist history, William Ransom’s sculptural installation creates a transitory provisional state, rife with an inherent unease and uncertainty. Ransom’s massing of slender wood strips bent…    read more

Michael Abrams is known for misty, layered vistas suffused with light. His ability to capture atmospheric conditions imbues each painting with such tactility that the mist seems to extend between…    read more

This exhibition presents and explores Women and Animals, a new body of work that Natalie Frank (American, b. 1980) produced at Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, New York, with a Pollock Krasner…    read more

B. Lynch employs a variety of creative means in creating her universe. Chief among them is puppetry—a melding of the plastic and performing arts. Lynch’s characters and environments are a…    read more

Take a tour of the exhibit here The collaborative exchange between artist and curator is likely to reveal unusual connections. The discoveries made in organizing Charlie Hunter: Semaphore extend beyond…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit Sequences: Ode to Minor White explores how the aesthetic and philosophical seeds sown by the late modernist American photographer Minor White (1908-1976) can…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit I’m drawn to the edges of paintings. Centers of paintings tend to be highly worked and are the focus of the viewing experience….    read more

Curated by New York-based painter John Newsom and accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, this exhibition comprises paintings, sculpture, and installation art that depict aspects of venturing into unknown lands and territories.

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit Delano Dunn’s Novelties presents the viewer with two bodies of work that explore things we hold dear—family, love, comfort, tradition, and connection—and things…    read more

Between Worlds is a year-long installation in the large window bays extending across the front of BMAC. Delita Martin reimagines the identities and roles of Black women in the context…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit Dating back to the Ancient Egyptians and used across cultures for millennia, the obelisk is a reverential memorial, commemorating the dead, representing kings,…    read more

On the 100th anniversary of The Brownies Book, Jennifer Mack-Watkins’ works on paper celebrate the beauty, importance, and complexity of positive representation of African American children.

Kenny Rivero uses found paper–flyleaves, album liners, pages from a family photo album–for this collection of evocative drawings. The work has a finite lifespan, conveying the ideas of passing time, personal narrative, and the documentation of fleeting moments and interactions.

In this installation, moving sculptural forms reflect and play off one another, creating an immersive experience that is both transporting and meditative.

Miles Chapin, Clare Elliott, Anna Schuleit Haber, Amy Jenkins, Colleen Kiely, Cathy Osman, and John Willis (in collaboration with poet Robin Behn and musician Matan Rubinstein) explore the symbolic potential of flowers, gathering light from within to create meaning from loss.

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit FIGURATION NEVER DIED by Karen Wilkin, curator Adventurous painting in New York during the 1950s was generally seen as synonymous with abstraction, especially…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit I’ve loved snowflakes since the day, as a child, I learned that no two are alike—millions and millions of them in a storm…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit The ice shanty towns that spring up on Vermont’s frozen lakes and ponds are markers of the seasonal communities they harbor each winter….    read more

Click here for a virtual tour. ARTIST STATEMENT There are scores of solid, practical reasons not to be an artist, but luckily there are also some advantages. Being an artist…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit Brattleboro artist Cynthia Parker-Houghton was commissioned to create a map as a companion piece to the Brattleboro Words Trail, which consists of audio-based…    read more

Take a virtual tour of the exhibit Since the beginning of human history, hair has held cultural and symbolic meaning. It is a marker of ethnicity, social class, identity, gender,…    read more

A celebration of imagination and ingenuity featuring kids’ drawings turned into glass sculptures.

BMAC is proud to serve as the Vermont affiliate for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a prestigious national program that offers exhibition opportunities and scholarships to young artists and writers. From…    read more

Sometime late in 2018, BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld approached me with a proposal to redo the outdoor window treatments at the Museum. I found the prospect of working with the…    read more

María Elena González’s Tree Talk is a multisensory, multimodal rumination on nature and art. The basic building block of the installation is the birch tree—its bark, its presence in the Maine woods, and…    read more

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.                                      — Jacques Yves Cousteau For many, the ocean is a spiritual and emotional…    read more

In the 1980s I often attended performances at P.S. 122, the seminal venue for avant-garde performance in New York. As an artist and curator, I found inspiration, talent, and a community of intense purpose.

Born in Boston in 1932, David Plowden spent over six decades photographing America’s disappearing landscapes and the vestiges of its industrial heyday — steel mills, locomotives, bridges, skyscrapers, small towns….    read more

At noon on November 18, 1883, the American and Canadian railroads implemented four continental time zones—Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific—as a means of synchronizing time. Previously each town and city…    read more

Looking at Blue is a full-body experience. Entering the gallery, we drop into a world of deeply saturated blue punctuated by shimmering, swirling shapes that radiate from multiple vanishing points….    read more

This exhibit consists of steel sculptures on view outside the museum (May 1 – November 5, 2019) and works on paper displayed in the South Gallery (June 22 – September…    read more

By Rail is a suite of twelve intimately scaled abstract paintings by southern Vermont artist Doug Trump. Although small, these works have a rugged physicality that invite us in for…    read more

Hovering above the ground, dark and dense, Fafnir Adamites’s installation of felted wool and burlap feels overwhelming and potentially suffocating. Adamites’s process of combining the wool and burlap creates a…    read more

Gordon Meinhard’s work in this series modulates between painting and drawing. Even in paint, his art retains the immediacy and freshness of a drawing. The background and the central figure…    read more

Observed/Abstract surveys the career of painter Thelma Appel, a founder of the Bennington College Summer Painting Workshop. During the 1960s and 1970s, Appel painted large landscapes imbued with the energy…    read more

BMAC is proud to serve as the Vermont affiliate for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, a prestigious national program that offers exhibition opportunities and scholarships to young artists and…    read more

Intertwining people and place, Ask the River, a community-wide art project, empowers us to reconnect with the Connecticut River and the water that flows through it.  Ask the River started…    read more

Bright Light in the Dark: The Work of Alison Wright “The light! It’s so beautiful,” she said breathlessly. “I’ve got to catch the light before it changes!” She kicked off…    read more

Who do you see when you see me? For centuries, portraiture has been used to celebrate the politically and socially powerful, but there is also a rich history of artists…    read more

Silvestris, adjective (Latin): “found/situated/living in woodlands.”  Pink Ladyslipper, Trout Lily, and other signs of spring are evident earlier than usual here in Vermont, thanks to Wesley Fleming’s exquisitely detailed glass…    read more

The moment I saw one of Steven Rose’s gently swaying fluorescent light fixtures, I was intrigued and amused. Transforming a mundane, industrial object of lackluster design into an art object…    read more

Stuart Copans’ artwork speaks through the simple tools and materials of everyday life: paper, scissors, postcards, and stamps. The art he creates moves quietly around the world through a distribution…    read more

Coffee & Conversation is a multimedia project that aims to change the way people think about homelessness. The project was started in Brattleboro in 2015 by artist Liz LaVorgna, in…    read more

I explore naturally occurring events that are often considered ordinary, mundane, or unwanted. Whether it is traffic patterns, rock formations, cricket calls, or the structure of dreams, I strive to…    read more