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2021 Virtual Gingerbread Contest and Exhibit

This year the VFC’s Annual Gingerbread House Competition and Exhibit is virtual for a second time! Vermonters baked at home and sent us photos of their amazing Gingerbread creations.

Scroll through the online exhibit and vote for your favorite in the People’s Choice Award!

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Somewhere Between Place & Home

On display at our Vision & Voice Gallery in Middlebury, VT beginning September 30, 2019.

Featuring audio and visual art by Corrine Yonce, Somewhere Between Place & Home explores how people take action to create a sense of belonging and connection in the transitional, insecure and unfamiliar environments in which they find themselves.

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Up Home: Hand-Colored Photographs by Susanne and Neil Rappaport

Exhibit on Display at the Pawlet Town Hall June 22, 2019 through July 28, 2019. Exhibit times vary. See the link for full schedule.

After Minnie Griswold passed away in 1952, her sons locked up their mother’s house in Pawlet, Vermont and left all her belongings in place, unaltered. Thirty years later, Pawlet documentarians Susanne and Neil Rappaport would enter the home at the invitation of one of the brothers, Charlie, and go on to produce a collection of hand-colored photographs of Minnie’s home.

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The LAST of the HILL FARMS: Photographs by Richard Brown

On display at the Hartness Library at Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center through May 19, 2020.

Richard Brown’s recently published retrospective—The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont’s Past—showcases the photographer’s most cherished subject: Vermont’s hill farmers. This exhibition, which bears the same name, offers the chance to experience the Vermont that Richard entered and began to photograph in the 1970s.

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Family Traits: Art, Humor, and Everyday Life

Family Traits: Art, Humor, Living explores the creative world of Stanley Lyndes—examining how a family builds identity and makes meaning through the celebration of its quirky characters and the peculiarities of everyday life. ON DISPLAY: Vermont History Museum, Montpelier, VT, through January 26, 2018

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Delsie Hoyt: Re-imagine the Braided Rug

West Fairlee rug braider Delsie Hoyt was inspired by the unique creative vision that her Great-Grandmother, Annette “Nettie” Nelson, of Ryegate, Vermont, brought to the craft over a century ago. “I seek to challenge conventional notions of what a braided rug can be through experimental designs that range from swirling galaxies to pastoral Vermont landscapes,” explains Hoyt.

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