ArtBits always features a calendar of the goings on of Franklin County artists. Check out these events around Franklin County. Each issue includes the entire text of our weekly newspaper column. STUFF YOU SHOULDN'T MISS
Franklin County's arts and music gatherings bring new opportunities, gossip, "show-and-tell" and occasional workshops. There are also booked and acoustic Open Mic Nights that feature music, readings, and more from the best new artists in Vermont.
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CLICK HERE: WE'VE MOVED
WNET, New York's public media station, is developing a new multiplatform media network called ALL ARTS. Our All Arts Council here in Franklin County is the smallest regional arts council in Vermont and probably the only all-volunteer Local Arts Service Organization in the country. When WNET goes live on April 1, we'll certainly get a lot of their visitors but that's not our audience. And our Google results will sink to page 97 or worse.
In the coming weeks, we will sell allarts.org to WNET so that both audiences avoid confusion when they launch online this spring. Here's the deal: you'll find the new program at our old address. You'll find the All Arts Council of Franklin County at AllArtsCouncil.org. Bear with us as we get all the links to work -- and email the All Arts Council if you find one that doesn't.
ART FOR THE WALLS
This class will explore monoprinting using gelatin printmaking techniques. This week's leader, Carol Crosby, is a fiber artist and recently retired art teacher with 20 years of experience teaching the visual arts in public schools. She has experimented extensively with Gelli Prints with a variety of age groups. The workshops will also cover painting, drawing, photography, and more. The new program begins this Saturday and runs through the middle of April. Admission is $15/class per person, materials included. Click here for more info and to register.
ST. ALBANS--The Grind Cafe continues How to Draw Portraits at the Cafe on Wednesdays at 11 a.m. Each lesson will be adjusted for any age group and skill level. The class will host an art show during week 6. This week's topic is creating comics. Next week, the workshop will make an artist study of Georgia O'Keefe.
The cost is $10 per week or $55 for all six lessons which includes supplies. Visit them on Facebook to reserve a spot.
ART ON THE WALLS
Ms. Radtke was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and "started taking pictures of birds as a distraction." She lives on 22-acre Round Pond and finds many of her subjects right in her backyard. With a camera always at hand, she makes images at any road or waterside she travels by. "It is mostly birds but frogs and bunnies too," she said.
The show continues through the end of March.
CALL FOR (YOUNG) ARTISTS
EMERGING ARTIST AWARD SCHOLARSHIP (March 16)--Graduating Seniors from the Franklin
Northwest Supervisory Union can apply for the Swanton Arts Council Emerging
award and scholarship. See your school art teacher or click here for
the application and info on how to apply.
IN THE ARTS COUNCILS
SACA has undergone a change of chairs and volunteers. The meeting will develop the projects SACA will pursue this year. This is a ground floor opportunity for your ideas, to brainstorm, and to contribute to arts in the community. Find them on for more info.
SWANTON--The Swanton Arts Council Writer's Group will meet at the Swanton Free Public Library this evening at 6 p.m. Members can share progress and join in the discussion about longer projects and anything else about writing, reading, publishing, and more.
Call Becky Rupp (802.733.7471) or email for more info.
DANCE
Admission is $15/adult for the lesson and dancing, $10/student (high school or college) for the lesson and dancing, or $10/person at 8 p.m. just for the dancing.
ON STAGE LIVE
BURLINGTON--The Burlington Irish Heritage Festival continues various locations through March 23. This week includes O'hAnleigh at Radio Bean on Friday, an Irish Language and Culture Program on Sunday, Recitations and Readings by Bill Drislane with special guest Rosa Castellano on Monday, a Genealogy Workshop on Tuesday, and an Irish Music Open Session on Wednesday.
It's been 1,557 years since St. Patrick died in Ireland, 256 years since the first St. Patrick's Day parade in New York City, 115 years since St. Patrick's Day became a national holiday in Ireland, and 23 years since the first Burlington Irish Heritage Festival. Click here for more info.
Friday
ESSEX JUNCTION--On Tap offers Graziano, Schofield, and Slim on Friday at 5 p.m. and then Summer Sounds favorites IncaHoots takes the stage at 9 p.m.
On Tap has music on Tuesday through Saturday nights. Call 802.878.3309 or email for more info.
ST. ALBANS--Strange Purple Jelly does 14th Star Brewing Company on Friday at 6 p.m.
Friday-Saturday
ST. ALBANS--Twiggs presents American singer-songwriter Shane Murley for Americana, country-folk, and alternative rock with a twist of soul-funk on Friday, then expressive songwriter Stefani Capizzi shares on Saturday. Shows begin at 7 p.m.
Call 802.524.1405 or click here for more info.
Wednesday
ST. ALBANS--Sean Jarvis hosts Open Mic Night at Durty Nelly's Irish Pub on Wednesday starting at 6:30 p.m. Show off your talent; everyone is welcome to grab the mic and perform any Wednesday evening on the Tavern side.
ARTS ADVOCACY DAY
