VFC Exhibitions :: Farming in Vermont – Past, Present, and Future
This fall the Vermont Folklife Center and the Vermont Land Trust partnered with Middlebury College Professor John Elder’s "Farm Stories" class to conduct research and develop an exhibit looking at farming in Addison county. The students selected eleven farms that represent local individuals and families who have worked with the Vermont Land Trust to place conservation easements on all or part of their land. For these farm families, their conservation decision demonstrates their commitment to sustainability of agriculture and their optimism that they can play a part in the state’s farming future.
Through contempory and historic photographs—some paired with audio and others with text—the students develop a portrait that celebrates the rich histories and accomplishments of the featured farms. At the same time the exhibit portrays the realistic outlook of farmers, their current challenges, and hopes about their ability to innovate and their sheer resilience as they experience the highs and lows of farming in Vermont.
The exhibit runs from December 7 through December 31, 2009.
Please join us for an opening reception in VFC’s Vision & Voice Workspace and Gallery on Monday December 7th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public; donations to support the VFC’s mission and programs gratefully accepted.
VFC Events :: 11th Annual Gingerbread Exhibition and Competition
It's gingerbread time again!
From December 4 through 21, 2009 the Vermont Folklife Center will host our 11th Annual Gingerbread Exhibition and Competition. Entry forms are due to the Vermont Folklife Center by November 25, 2009. For additional information, or to schedule a group visit, please call Sarah at the Vermont Folklife Center: (802) 388-4964.
Many thanks to the sponsors for this year's Contest and Exhbition: Cabot Cheese, National Bank of Middlebury, JP Carrara & Sons, Coldwell Banker Bill Beck Real Estate, and Tourterelle.
Download registration forms the 11th Annual Gingerbread Exhibition and Competition here :: link (PDF)
VFC Exhibitions :: After Attica: The Prison Portaits of Neil Rappaport, 1971-1974
Just as the Attica prison uprising focused public attention on life inside US prisons making the invisible visible, the lens of documentary inquiry can do exactly the same. This exhibit brings together portraits created by Neil Rappaport between 1971 and 1974 in the Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Comstock, New York, and interviews conducted by Erica Heilman over the past two years with young men in Vermont's Return House program who are making the transition from imprisonment to everyday life. These are markedly different populations from different eras and at different locations, but the experiences of both groups of men are in some ways remarkably similar.
Rappaport's photographs and Heilman's audio each represent a complete body of work that tells its own story. Yet these stories are parallel and when brought together there are unexpected resonances. With 2.3 million people in prison in this country, one person in every hundred, the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. Through the lives of the men featured in both image and sound this exhibit opens a window into the experience of incarceration and the American penal system in order to stimulate dialogue around a social issue that—visibly or invisibly—affects and touches the lives of us all.
The exhibt opens September 11, 2009 and runs through December 4, 2009.
Details on After Attica: The Prison Portraits of Neal Rappaport, 1971-1974 here :: link
VFC Exhibitions :: Podcasts!
Missed a lecture associated with the Vision & Voice Documentary Workspace exhibits, Almost Utopia: In Search of the Good Live in Mid-Century America or After Attica: The Prison Portraits of Neal Rappaport, 1971-1974? Podcasts are now available online! Download them here :: link
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Vermont Folklife Center
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Middlebury, VT 05753
802.388.4964
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