Posted By Ken Picard on Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:56 AM

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File art by Rev. Diane Sullivan

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here album cover art, recreated using images of "Floydian Slip" radio host Craig Bailey.

It was cool to discover recently that "Floydian Slip," the globally syndicated Pink Floyd radio hour, emanates each week from a quiet residential neighborhood in Shelburne. Seven Days profiled the program's creator and radio host, Craig Bailey, in its January 24, 2018 story, "The Great Gig: Radio host Craig Bailey reflects on two decades of 'Floydian Slip.'"

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Posted By Rachel Elizabeth Jones on Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:53 PM

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Courtesy of Tom Leytham

"Tunbridge Mill" by Tom Leytham

Thanks to an anonymous donor, the Vermont State Art Collection has just acquired several new works: five watercolors by celebrated Vermont artist and architect Tom Leytham. Known for his surprisingly light, airy depictions of the state's rural-industrial decay, Leytham, in his mid-seventies, has been committing the state's dilapidated factories, granaries, mills and mines to the art historical record since 2007.

State curator David Schutz first worked with Leytham  for the artist's 2015 Governor's Gallery exhibition "The Other Working Landscape." According to Schutz, the two discussed "how wonderful it would be if somehow [Tom's] work found its way into our collection." The hitch? The state has no budget for such acquisitions.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 3:04 PM

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Sadie Williams

Elizabeth Bunsen (left) and Heather Ferrell

Burlington City Arts was packed last night for the opening of its winter exhibitions and the announcement of this year's Barbara Smail Award winner. The new exhibitions feature art by Dusty Boynton, Edwin Owre and 2017 Barbara Smail Award winner Elise Whittemore. The 2018 award winner is Elizabeth Bunsen.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 5:52 PM

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Sadie Williams

ReSOURCE storefront in Burlington

On Wednesday, second-hand store and reuse facility ReSOURCE announced that part of its business is leaving Burlington. ReSOURCE Household Goods has been located in the Soda Plant at 266 Pine Street for 22 years. In February, when its lease is terminated, the nonprofit will move to 326 Harvest Lane in Williston.  

What will take its place? A number of new incubator spaces for small, business-minded artisans and makers, according to Steve Conant.

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Posted By Pamela Polston on Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 3:53 PM

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Courtesy of Tim Clark

Tim Clark and Baptiste Lefrançois with sculpture pre-theft

It started with a holiday gift to the town of Richmond, said artist Tim Clark. The sculpture he made with Baptiste Lefrançois was sited on the corner of Hinesburg and Huntington roads — property owned by Lefrançois.

The angular work was made of square metal tubing and painted bright red. Standing 13 feet, three inches tall, it was anchored to a field stone with nine bolts and washers. The artists installed their work, with the help of an excavator, over nine hours on Monday, December 18.

"We spent the day making sure it was exactly how we wanted it," Clark said. He didn't think the 350-pound sculpture was going anywhere.

On New Year's Eve, it did.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 12:10 PM

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Oliver Parini

King Street Center and community volunteers painting the Moran Plant with Clark Derbes in 2015

A colorful collaborative mural on the west side of the Moran Plant building recently received some uninvited additions. "Fuck me," one carelessly scrawled message reads. "Pussy" and "Anal" also made the grade, as well as a handful of hastily fashioned octopi, or maybe squid. In contrast, there are also a few little red hearts. The bare brick walls on either side of the mural were untouched.

The original mural was created in August 2015 and was a collaboration of artist Clark Derbes, 10 kids from the King Street Center, nonprofit developers New Moran and more than 40 community members. At the time,  Derbes told Seven Days, "I think the kids that were there will maintain a sense of ownership over that project," referring to the then-anticipated redevelopment of the Moran structure by the New Moran team.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:18 PM

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Caleb Kenna

L to R: Jack and Lydia Clemmons with their daughter Lydia

Tucked among Charlotte's many scenic vistas is a 148-acre family-owned farm that has quietly become a vibrant multicultural center dedicated to celebrating African American heritage through the arts.  The Clemmons Family Farm launched programming in the summer of 2016 and began hosting public events this past summer. And it just got a massive boost toward future programming in the form of a $350,000 grant from ArtPlace America's National Placemaking Fund.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 1:45 PM

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Courtesy of Armando Veve

Armando Veve

Armando Veve's meticulous graphite drawings combine objects from everyday life in surreal, whimsical and often thought-provoking ways. His work elicits a sense of wonder, a quality for which the South Burlington High School grad has lately been receiving a lot of attention. Most notably, Forbes has included him on the 2018 edition of the its annual 30 Under 30: Art & Style list.

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Posted By Rachel Elizabeth Jones on Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:42 AM

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Rachel Jones

Drying posters

Do you remember where you were a year ago, when the polls closed, the votes were tallied, and Donald J. Trump was elected 45th president of the United States? In commemoration of this momentous anniversary, community members gathered Thursday night in Burlington for an original and colorful protest: For a $5-10 donation, guests could create their very own poster art by throwing paint-filled balloons at images of Trump and members of his administration.

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Posted By Sadie Williams on Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 4:25 PM

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Viktoria Strecker

Viktoria Strecker taking in the Salt Flats on her roadtrip.

Viktoria Strecker came to Burlington for the first time last year, when she exhibited works in the Moran Plant with two other Germany-based artists in Modes of Conduction, curated by Overnight Projects. Now, the Dusseldorf, Germany-based artist is back. Her month-long residency in the Champlain College Art Gallery began on October 11 and culminates in an exhibition at the campus gallery that opens on Thursday evening.

The show, titled "Inversion," is guest curated by Abbey Meaker, the founding director of Overnight Projects. (Curator Chris Thompson stepped down from his role as the gallery's curator in August when he became the Burlington Generator's new executive director.) "Inversion" will feature sculptural installations created with a 3D pen alongside drawings inspired, in part, by iconic American vistas. All of the work in the gallery has been created on US soil, much of it during a cross-country road trip Strecker took before coming to Vermont.

Strecker, 30, was born in Hannover, Germany, and is in her last year at the prestigious arts academy Kunstakademie Dusseldorf. 

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