Alyssa Grosso

“Beautiful Burke Mountain in Vermont,” by Jen Wood. Watercolor, 8 in. × 10 in.

Joy in nature, joy in painting

‘Vermont is home, and everything just happens for a reason,’ says Jen Wood, whose art is at Crowell Art Gallery through December

NEWFANE-During December, Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., will present "Nature's Joy," a show featuring a variety of artwork by Jen Wood.

The show includes landscapes and other subjects of nature in watercolor, a medium that Wood says she has been doing seriously only for about three years.

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Artists find ‘great opportunity to grow’

Works by members of the local chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society are on display at the Crowell Gallery

NEWFANE-Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., is now featuring artwork by the Connecticut River chapter of the Vermont Watercolor Society. As described in its mission statement, the organization is "dedicated to promoting the awareness and appreciation of watercolor to its membership at all levels of...

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Staying connected to art and expression and creativity

Crowell Gallery features ‘Think Ink!,’ a show of work by Nora Daniel

NEWFANE-Moore Free Library, 23 West St., will present a variety of art work by Nora Daniel through Oct. 29. The show, "Think Ink!," is an exhibit of ink drawings and paintings that vary between the relatively realistic and the more expressive, with a few watercolor pieces. For decades, Daniel...

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A range of art from a diverse life

NEWFANE-Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West St., will present a variety of art work by Gayle Robertson through Sunday, Sept. 29. For Robertson, making art is an expression of the experience of being alive- "it's either a reflection of my life, what's happening in and around me and for me, or it's filling a need I have," she says. The show offers a range of her art - paintings (watercolor and oils), some prints, collage, sculptures (wax,

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A community of artists display their work

NEWFANE-The Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, will present a variety of paintings by the Monadnock Area Artists Association. The show will be taking place from July 2 to July 2 with a reception from 1 to 3 p.m. at the gallery on Saturday, July 6. Association members Gill Truslow, Ruth Sterling, Kris Stewart, Liz Winchester-Larson, Carol Corliss, Kate Beetle, Sue Beetle, Gail Shelley, Kathleen Kennedy, Kevin Whitfield, Marianne Stillwagon, Mary Iselin, and Amy Owens will...

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A community brought together by canvas

BRATTLEBORO-Watercolors and oil paintings by Art Among Friends - Connie Evans, Alice Freeman, Kathy Greve, Laurie Klenkel, Louise Zak, and Lynn Zimmerman - will return to the Brooks Memorial Library in June. Unlike past Art Among Friends shows, this one does not have a theme, with more than 40 pieces of the local artists' recent work reflecting a variety of styles. "We have buildings, fruit, vegetables, animals, shells, boats, skies - just a really nice mix. And our styles are...

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‘The questioning is all important to me’

NEWFANE-The Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, will present Ahren Ahrenholz's "Objects" exhibition in May. Ahrenholtz has been making pottery since 1971, when he ran a pottery studio in Cornwall, England. After returning to the United States, "we had a 6-month-old baby and no money […] so I opened the pottery studio with my family in Kensington, California, which is just north of Berkeley," he said. They stayed there until 1981. "I wasn't in love with...

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Student art for all the senses

NEWFANE-The Crowell Art Gallery at Moore Free Library will present an annual exhibition of art by K–5 students from NewBrook, Townsend, Jamaica School, Dover, Wardsboro, and Marlboro schools. The free exhibit will run until Monday, April 29. The art teachers involved are Suzanne Paugh, from NewBrook, Townsend, and Jamaica schools; Katy Hughes, from Dover and Warsboro schools; and Jamie Schilling, from Marlboro School. Librarian Fiona Chevalier reads them a book - this year's choice is Listen by Shannon Stocker -

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