Enjoy the most festive Montpelier Art Walk on Friday, December 9th! Twenty-eight venues feature fine art, photography, sculpture, posters, handmade ornaments and more! Art Walk is from 4-8 pm. It’s free and open to everyone. For more information, please call 802.223.9604 or visit Montpelier Alive. We’ll see you downtown!
Montpelier Art Walk Venues and Artists include:
1. T. W. Wood Gallery & Arts Center
36 College St.
The Arts Resource Association show featuring over fifty artists.
2. Artisans Hand
89 Main St.
Handmade ornaments make special gifts…glass, clay, wood, paper, pewter, fabric, and felt…so many choices. Come get inspired and make your own.
3. The Skinny Pancake
89 Main St.
Hal Mayforth is a nationally recognized humorous illustrator. His 30 year career as an illustrator has established him as a distinctive, original painter of watercolors and acrylics.
4. City Center
89 Main St.
The Art Resource Association Annual Exhibit – local artists show their work in this festive downtown setting.
5. Kellogg-Hubbard Library
135 Main St.
Retrospective exhibition of paintings and prints. Vermont: Inside and Out by Phyllis Chase.
6. The Knitting Studio
112 Main Street
A selection of prints, cards and calendars by Christina Gillease. Primarily a nature photographer, she enjoys the practice of learning to trust her instincts through art.
7. Contemporary Dance and Fitness Studio
18 Langdon St., 3rd floor.
Mirrors decorate textured slab clay pieces made by Ellen Urman, with two potter friends showing more traditional mirrors. Come see yourself in their work!
8. The Shoe Horn
8 Langdon St.
Paintings by mother/daughter team Rebecca Beisswenger-Maxfield and Marcella Rose Milne. In Rebecca’s words: “Being a mother painting with my daughter is a wonderful bonding experience!”
9. Global Gifts
9 Langdon St.
Bryan Pfeiffer: “In nature, I see the drama of life on earth: birth, struggle, love, death. And I see beauty. It’s what I portray in nature photography.”
10. Community College of Vermont
4 Langdon St.
CCV presents fantastic student art work from Digital Photography, Fine Crafts, Graphic Design, Drawing One and Art History.
11. Birchgrove Baking
279 Elm St.
Open until 4 pm. Come check out the holiday gingerbread display, featuring Jenn’s latest gingerbread work!
12. Tulsi Tea Room
34 Elm St.
Thangkas on display to support Child Haven International, which provides homes and education for children in India, Nepal, Tibet and Bangladesh.
13. The Cheshire Cat
28 Elm St.
Peter MacDonald uses acrylics on canvas to present natural and man-made landscapes. His influences range from Vincent van Gogh to Jackson Pollack to JRR Tolkien.
14. The Governor’s Gallery
The Pavilion Building, 109 State St.
Open until 7pm. Photo ID required. As a painter interested in the minutiae of her immediate environment, Marie LaPre’ Grabon’s landscapes seek out the essence of the place in order to express a pure feeling.
15. Vermont History Museum
109 State St.
Open until 7pm. Free Admission! Visit the permanent exhibit Freedom & Unity and a display of agricultural murals by Grace Brigham.
16. Vermont Supreme Court
111 State St.
Open until 7pm. The Texture of Light: A show of oil paintings in the impressionist tradition by plein air artist Joy Huckins-Noss. Though related to pointillism, Joy’s style has a fresh, contemporary edge.
17. Vermont Arts Council’s Spotlight Gallery
136 State St.
Open until 7pm. Observations from the Edge, photo based works by Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa, Nov. 4-Dec. 30, 2011.
18. Salaam Boutique
40 State St.
“Creating an atmosphere of beauty in life is what my work is about, that simple. That way I continue to love in life, so beauty motivates me.” Miranda Syp
19. The Mens Store
30 State St.
Artist Jim Thompson, displaying photography and colorful, hand-crafted kites.
20. Central Vermont New Directions Coalition
50 Main St. Former Capitol Video.
Art from our annual prevention calendar contest. Winning entries from U-32 Middle School students featured.
21. Black Door
44 Main St.
Brian Ziegler’s work reads as a continuous narrative that demonstrates the relationship between our fear of the external environment and the effect this has on our individual subconscious.
22. Bagitos
28 Main St.
Come by and check out the artwork, listen to some live music, 6-8 pm, and grab a bite to eat.
23. The Drawing Board
22 Main St.
New abstract oil paintings by Ray Brown and older, small, representational works priced to sell for the holidays and to make room in his studio for exciting new work!
24. Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture
46 Barre St.
Join us for live music, snacks and information about Montpelier’s own Folk Music School!
25. City Hall
39 Main St.
What does “Care” mean to you? A series of small (4″x4″) canvases by central Vermonters sponsored by the Reach Care Bank.
26. K Mueller Studio & Gallery
15 State St., 3rd floor
Kathy Kilcourse’s colorful, expressive oils (portraits, figures, landscapes), along with Kate Mueller’s abstract and figurative works.
27. Adorn!
27 State St .
Wax, oil and gouache works by S.B. Sowbel explore the boustrophedon, an ancient form of writing that travels back and forth, “moving as the ox plows.”
28. Capitol Grounds
27 State St.
Open until 6pm. Kari Meyer paintings exhibited through December 31st.