From Lake Champlain to the GreenMountains and across its valleys, visitorswho seek Vermont’s natural beauty are

often surprised—and always delighted—todiscover a thriving and dynamic cultural land-scape. There are more galleries, museums, andperformance spaces than ever before. It’s notsurprising that so many artists, musicians,performers, and writers make Vermont theirhome. It’s as if there’s something in the air thatinvites creativity. The light, the landscape, andthe seasonal changes conspire to make magic.Yet no matter where you’re from, Vermont is adestination that feels like home as soon asyou arrive.

While the sense of place and traditionthat calls to our imagination is still there,Vermonters are making products with asophistication of style, design, and taste thatappeals to the modern traveler. Look for thefascinating stories behind companies likeTelescopes of Vermont, Shelburne Vineyards,and Jasper Hill Farm, who have created prod-ucts with that cachet of quality Vermont isknown for. And look to the artists and artisans,the galleries and museums for both timeless,traditional gifts and contemporary classics.

The Artisans Hand Craft Gallery in down-town Montpelier is a designated Vermont StateCraft Center. This distinction is given to a selectfew galleries that meet strict standards for qual-ity and diversity. This fall Artisans Hand cele-brates thirty-five years of existence promotingVermont’s fine contemporary crafts. Its collec-tion ranges from clay and fiber through gold

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and silver. Visitors will appreciate how JanetZug’s blown glass vases light up the room withcolor, and how Bud Shriner’s transparent glassbowls and platters are both exquisite and func-tional. Iconic images of Vermont can travelhome as Kevin Ruelle faux vintage posters inarchival giclée prints. The gallery’s lovely walk-ing neighborhood offers great architecture,restaurants, and bookstores.

The nearby Vermont Arts Council (VAC)mounts a rotating exhibition of contemporaryVermont art for its outdoor Sculpture Garden.Currently, curator Lindsey Carlson has selectedworks by Thea Alvin, Ria Blaas, Rob Hitzig,Steve Procter, Brian-Jon Swift and James IrvingWestermann. Two small galleries are alsolocated inside the building. Any drive intoMontpelier takes you past the Vermont StateHouse, easily recognizable for its gold domeheralding neoclassical and Greek revival archi-tecture. Inside, you can find contemporary artin the state house galleries.

Over the past few decades, Vermont hasbecome a national and international leader inlow-residency education, especially in the arts.In fact, Goddard College was the first college todevelop a low-residency model for higher edu-cation. Today it offers various accredited degreeprograms from its 175-acre main campus inPlainfield. Widely known for its interesting, tal-ented alumni, Goddard offers one-on-one men-toring from experienced faculty advisors, rigor-ous on-campus residencies, and the freedom tostudy from any location.

Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) alsorecognizes the arts as a foundation for a healthyand creative society. VCFA educates emergingand established artists through its low-residencymodel, likewise among the first of its kind. MFAdegrees are offered in Visual Art through MusicComposition. Its notable faculty includes PulitzerPrize finalists, National Book Award winners,Guggenheim Fellowship and Fulbright Programfellows, and Ford Foundation grant recipients.

The Porter Garden Telescope, a working,beautiful, and unusual Art Nouveau bronzesculpture was created in the early 1920s byRussell Porter, designer of the PalomarMountain Observatory 200-inch HaleTelescope. Today, Telescopes of Vermont hasfaithfully recreated The Porter GardenTelescope in hand-finished cast bronze, withimproved twenty-first century optics.

The instrument would make a stunningacquisition for the art collector, garden lover,astronomy buff or devotee of fine craftsman-ship and design. Numbered and limited to twohundred pieces, the telescope shows superbhand-wrought craftsmanship and the cachet ofrarity. Over four hundred hours of customwork are lavished on each object. A rare exam-ple of the original is held in the collection of theSmithsonian Institution.

Jericho isn’t far from Montpelier, Burlingtonor even Stowe yet it’s just far enough off thebeaten path to recommend as a side trip.Jericho was the lifelong home of Wilson“Snowflake” Bentley (1865–1931), an Americanfarmer who photographed over five thousandsnow crystals.

Nearby, the Emile A. Gruppé Gallery, Inc. islocated in a renovated 1860s English Sheep barn.The gallery shows and sells the works of notedlandscape artist Gruppé as well as local NewEngland artists. Gruppé is best known for hisimpressionistic landscapes, and he is consideredamong the most prominent of the Cape Annschool of artists. The Gruppé Gallery will enliv-en spring with an exhibition of Adrienne-YellowPatenaude's dynamic expressions of color insometimes-whimsical Vermont landscapes.

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More than thirty prominent regional artistsare exhibited in the Queen Anne Victorianwhere the Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery (FSG) ishoused. Owner Joan Furchgott presents regu-larly changing solo and two-person shows inaddition to an ongoing exhibition program ofstylistically diverse work. Lately Furchgott hasbeen mixing things up by inviting guest cura-tors. “Their strong visions create dynamic exhi-bitions and they've showcased artists new tothe gallery, too,” she says. FSG is just a two-minute drive from Shelburne Museum.

“Where craft is made, since 1945.” This sim-ple statement has guided the Shelburne CraftSchool (SCS) since its inception. Nearly seventyyears later the school inspires creativity with itshands-on education programs. SCS providestools for making, and art instruction throughan abundance of classes so everyone can dis-cover “that working with one’s hands is an

essential part of a well-rounded life.” Comesummer, SCS rocks with events like their annu-al live art competition, Wall to Canvas, whereartists compete before a live audience to pro-duce street-style artwork on canvas.

A consistent winner in awards and taste,Shelburne Vineyard offers daily tours of theirstate-of-the-art winery and tasting room. Sipwines made from Northern Varietals (bred fortheir superior cold hardiness), and relaxagainst the backdrop of Vermont’s beautifulagricultural landscape. Water-themed paintingsby Robert Huntoon and Judith Tuttle are fea-tured in the Tasting Room Gallery throughMay, and Shelburne Vineyard keeps a busycalendar with music and tasting events.Location scouts for weddings or events mayfind their spot right here.

Shelburne Museum is one of NorthAmerica’s finest, most diverse and unconven-tional museums of art, design and Americana.Its extensive collection is exhibited in some

forty buildings, nearly half of which wererelocated there. View Shelburne’s Impressionistpaintings (including Monet, Manet, Degas, andCassatt) exhibited in the Electra HavemeyerWebb Memorial Building, where the interiorswere re-created from the museum founder’s1930s Park Avenue, New York apartment.When the Shelburne Museum reopens on May12, 2013, it will remain open year-round. Itadds a new 16,000-square foot Center for Artand Education this fall. Two new galleries, a130-seat auditorium and classroom spacewill allow for frequent temporary exhibitionsand events.

The Robert Hull Fleming Museum of Arthouses Vermont’s most comprehensive collec-tion of art and anthropological artifacts on thecampus of the University of Vermont. Withmore than 20,000 objects, the Fleming’s collec-tion offers a unique opportunity to study visualcultures from early Mesopotamia through con-temporary America. From didgeridoo and

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gamelan music performances to painted wordpoetry in the museum’s Marble Court to anupcoming show of mixed media “high trash”sculpture, the Fleming Museum engages audi-ences with fresh ideas in the context of the his-tory of civilization.

Frog Hollow is dedicated to the exposureand appreciation of Vermont fine craftsmanship,and works statewide to enhance art education.Distinguished as the nation’s first state affiliatedcraft center, Frog Hollow’s Burlington galleryoffers a unique collection of fine, traditional,and contemporary Vermont art and craft repre-senting a community of more than two hundredVermont artisans, from Dug Nap’s cartoons toCeltic-inspired jewelry of Deirdre Donnelly toKate Pond’s Corten steel sculptures. Its ChurchStreet location is an open invitation for the dis-covery of Vermont art and artisans.

Artist Julian Cardinal spent his early yearsobserving the studio of his father, landscapepainter, Robert Cardinal. “My father would just

paint and talk and go over structural things,”Cardinal said. “I picked up on how to buildwith color and light.” In 2011, Cardinal gradu-ated from the University of Vermont with aB.A. in English and minor in Studio Art. AtUVM he began figure drawing, diverting fromhis father’s subject matter, yet “we have a simi-lar color palette with very earthy tones.” JulianCardinal also counts the work of mother-daughter artists Cynthia and Anne Packard,among his influences. He is represented by theKiley Court Gallery (Provincetown, MA) andChasen Galleries of Fine Art (Richmond, VA).

Creative Women stimulates jobs in commu-nities where sustainable jobs are rare, whilebringing simple, rustic, natural textilesto theWestern market. This Vermont-based, women-owned company has worked in partnershipwith textile studios in Ethiopia, Swaziland,Afghanistan, Senegal, Mali, Bolivia, and Peru.“I believe that beautiful things are more beauti-ful when the people who make them are paid

well and work in a safe environment,” founderEllen Dorsch explains. “Creative Women allowsme to do all three…by buying directly fromwomen-owned businesses, by expanding mar-kets for hand-woven textiles, and by payingfair prices for our goods.”

Since 2003, BigTown Gallery has brought toVermont exhibitions by artists deeply dedicatedto an exploration of what fine art means: bothto create and to experience. Owner AnniMackay has devoted her energies to bringingthe arts together with their community. Thegallery space and its featured exhibitions, per-formance art, and reading series are the culmi-nation-to-date of an uncompromising belief inthe soundness of that partnership. BigTownGallery is located in the very center of Vermonton Route 100’s still-unchanged rural corridor,in beautiful downtown Rochester. Stop in forthe Members Show through March 30.

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On the opposite side of the mountain, theMiddlebury College Museum of Art (MCMA),annually presents five to six premier loan exhi-bitions as well as works from its permanentcollection. Canadian Edward Burtynsky’s pur-suit of conceptual subjects—from oil extractionto shipbreaking—began in 1991 in Vermont’sgranite quarries. A selection of his monumentalquarry photographs, including two he took inthe extensive underground quarries in Danby,will be shown through April 21. Opening onMay 23, Edward Hopper in Vermont assembles,for the first time, twenty-three of Hopper’sknown Vermont watercolors and six knowndrawings. “These particular works, relativelyunknown to most and rarely on view, are purelandscapes with few traces of architecturalform.” The museum itself, designed by theNew York architectural firm Hardy HolzmanPfeiffer, is alone worth the visit.

With Vermont’s highest mountain, MountMansfield, in its backyard, Stowe is touted as amecca for skiing, snowboarding, and winteractivities. It has also long attracted artists andadventurers of every stripe. Whether thoseadventures are bicycling the mountain or pack-ing an easel and paints to go plein air, Stoweembodies a mystique that draws visitors fromaround the world whatever the reason or sea-son. Over the decades, Stowe’s arts communityhas developed a national and international rep-utation for its artists and institutions, a tremen-dous feat for a small mountain community.

The Stowe Area Association (SAA) is a win-dow to everything Stowe, easily recognizable inits red and white visitors center. SAA offersmuch more than information. Its lovely store-front regularly presents the work of Vermontartists and artisans, and serves as a culturalguide to the visual arts, crafts, dance, theater,music, and film so prevalent here. Stowe isnow as well known for its galleries, art shows,

performing arts, and cultural landscape as itwas originally known for its skiing and moun-tain terrain.

The West BranchGallery and Sculpture Centerconsistently delivers inspired contemporary work.An oasis from traditional New England art, visi-tors describe the gallery’s “exciting diversity andgreat energy” and its art as “thrilling, complex,and unique.” Now, in addition to four interior gal-leries, a series of monthly rotating exhibitions fea-ture new work in two renovated galleries. Newwork by artists Galen Cheney, Sheryl Trainor,Aline Ordman, Helen Shulman, and MariellaBisson are scheduled to appear this spring.Outside, on their three-acre sculpture park thathugs the river, massive granite sculptures byChris Curtis, monumental painted steel construc-tions by David Strohmeyer, and elegant sweepingbronze gestures by Richard Erdman encourageaudiences to be embraced by the work.

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Center (HDAC) has developed into a prominentpresenter of provocative exhibitions. In additionto exhibiting national and international artists,HDAC’s commitment to Vermont artists issteadfast, as witnessed by the current Source:Guild of VT Furniture Makers. HDAC’s curato-rial interest in how the source of all elementscollaborate to make the final piece exemplifieswhat distinguishes the Helen Day as a presenterof work and ideas. Exhibitions often feature theperspective of journalists, dissidents, environ-mentalists, travelers, and cartoonists.

In a related vein, Stowe’s Cushman DesignGroup provides integrated architectural designservices, specializing in all aspects of high qual-ity residential, commercial, interior, site plan-ning and landscape design. Milford Cushman,the company's founder, is at a phase in hiscareer where he now finds, “…it’s even moreimportant to help clients make healthy, healing,mindful decisions about their design solu-tions.” As an outgrowth of this, speaks more

and more to clients about the “just big enough”house, addressing energy efficiency as a centralcomponent of the design discussion.

Theater, dance, music, film, lectures, come-dy, and arts education are all on the ambitiousagenda of the Spruce Peak Performing ArtsCenter (Spruce Peak). At just over two yearsold, this center intends to be “the creative andcultural soul” of Stowe as its imaginative anddiverse spectrum attests. From composerItzhak Perlman to bluesman Taj Mahal, SprucePeak has kept its promise of presenting out-standing work. A variety of films that serve upblistering social and political commentary aswell as variety-style performances with “talk-ing” dogs tackle both contemporary thinkingand fun. Fans say the 420-seat theatre “doesn’thave a bad seat in the house,” and that may besomething found only in Vermont.

Conceived as a tribute to skiing history, theVermont Ski and Snowboard Museum is aningenious institution. Beyond the long skis and

snowflake sweaters of yesteryear, the museumvows to create visually stimulating, historicallyin-depth displays. From heroic WWII stories ofthe famous skiing troops of the 10th MountainDivision to its fine art collection of originalpaintings, drawings, sculpture, posters andgraphics, the VSSM celebrates skiing. Atestament to its contemporary relevance, theVSSM launched the annual Stowe MountainFilm Festival and this year will present its10th festival.

Housed in an 1828 federal style building inthe National Historic District, Green MountainFine Art connects Vermont’s artisan past to itsartistic present. Owners Sandra and ScottNoble use the building’s historic post-and-beam structure to advantage by creating anopen and inviting exhibition space. Their rosterincludes Vermont and New England artistsacross a variety of media, creating work fromhighly representational landscapes to stunningabstractions. Notably, the gallery includesseveral Cape Ann artists, including DonaldAllen Mosher.

On nearby Jeffersonville’s Main Street, tworestored 1878 Victorian buildings house Visionsof Vermont. The gallery features several inter-nationally-known Vermont painters: Eric Tobinis shown in the carriage house, and Karen andJack Winslow are in the main house. OwnersJane and Terry Shaw are also committed toshowing a roster of works by other well-knownpainters from the region. A third gallery build-ing, The Sugarhouse, focuses on one-personand special shows like the Northern VermontJuried Show. “Just as the land brings greatpainters to Jeffersonville,” Jane Shaw said, “it isVisions of Vermont’s intent to bring the paintedinterpretation of those landscapes to those whoappreciate fine art.”

Lastly, the story of Jasper Hill Farm is onethat resonates throughout Vermont. Andy andMateo Kehler started the farm “to find mean-ingful work in a place they love.” Their distinc-tive cheeses are often named after people andplaces, like Bayley Hazen Blue, a natural-rindedblue cheese named for the iconic Bayley HazenMilitary Road that traverses Vermont’sNortheast Kingdom or Alpha Tolman, a burlyAlpine-style cheese whose name pays homageto a philanthropic dairy farmer responsible forenriching his community. Jasper Hill Farm’sdelectable cheeses are a national phenomenon.They can be found in stores across the countryor ordered online. —Meg Brazill

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