BRATTLEBORO — Gallery Walk, Brattleboro's monthly first-Friday celebration of the arts, returns on July 1 to liven up the downtown and a few satellite locations within a short drive of Main Street. There are 37 listed venues, some with meet-the-artist receptions or live music.
Four new venues joining the Walk include Three Stones Mexican-Mayan Restaurant on Canal Street with a four-day exhibit; Newquist Metalworking in the Whetstone Studios on Williams Street, showing work by three artisans; Turning Point of Windham County on Elm Street, hosting an open house and landscape painting exhibit; and the David Walter Jewelry Studio on the second floor at 22 High St., introducing its new workshop and gallery spaces to the community.
Official Gallery Walk hours are 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., though most venues are open earlier and several remain open later into the evening. Stops this month include:
• Tasha Tudor Exhibit at Jeremiah Beal House, 974 Western Ave., 802-257-4444, www.TashaTudorMuseum.org. Open for Gallery Walk from 4 to 7 p.m. only: The Tasha Tudor Museum continues to inspire visitors by immersing them in the world of author, illustrator, and early American lifestyle icon Tasha Tudor.
• Brattleboro Historical Society at Jeremiah Beal House, 974 Western Ave., 802-258-4957, [email protected]. Open for Gallery Walk from 4:30 to 7 p.m. only. An exhibit showing the establishment of Fort Dummer with a large-scale model of the stockade and maps, drawings and historic photos (including of an archaeological expedition) is displayed in the Beal House Annex.
• C.X. Silver Gallery & Dim Sum Tea House, 814 Western Ave., 802-257-7898 or 802-579-9088, www.cxsilvergallery.com. New exhibition features elected Chinese ink paintings on view by Xi Hua (1927-2007).
• Newquist Metalsmithing at Whetstone Studio for the Arts, 28 Williams St., 802-451-8781. Open studio, 5:30-8 pm on Gallery Walk night, featuring blacksmithing demonstrations at 6 and 7 p.m., and an exhibit of work by three area artists: fine hand-forged-iron artwork and functional pieces by Erik Newquist.
• Estey Organ Museum, 108 Birge St., 802-246-8366, esteyorganmuseum.org. Open 6-8 p.m., with free admission on Gallery Walk night. Featuring 22 of Clemens Kalischer's 1959 photographs of making metal organ pipes at Estey. These are in EOM's permanent collection and are shown along with the original tools and materials used in the photographs.
• Three Stones Restaurant, 105 Canal St., 802-246-1035, www.3stonesrestaurant.com. Stop in to see Alejandra Bolles' five-panel oil painting of a tropical rainforest entitled “Deforestation.” Also on display throughout this intimate, Mayan Mexican restaurant are her ceramics and watercolors of flowers.
• Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, 10 Vernon St., 802-257-0124, www.brattleboromuseum.org. Free admission during Gallery Walk.
• Windham Wines & The Wine Gallery, 30-36 Main St., 802-246-6400, www.windhamwines.com. Paintings and prints by Kim Hartman Colligan and Lydia Thomson, friends and colleagues at the River Gallery School (RGS), are featured through August.
• River Gallery School of Art, 32 Main St., 802-257-1577, www.rivergalleryschool.org. Showing in July are paintings and drawings from the Winter-Spring Adult Studio classes - created by artists of all levels using a wide variety of mediums. Also on display are paintings and a slide show from the Italy trip with Cicely Carroll this spring.
• Latchis Main Theatre, 50 Main St., 802-254-1109, www.latchis.com. Work by members of the Vermont Watercolor Society is featured in the Main Theatre during July.
• Twilight Tea Lounge, 41 Main St. (Enter through Knit or Dye or on Arch Street), 802-254-8887, www.twilighttealounge.com. “Ice, Rain, Current, Cloud: Images of The Connecticut's Waters,” a collection of digital pigment prints by Donna Carpenter, captures the changing forms of the Connecticut River as it moves through its seasons.
• Flat Street Brew Pub, 6 Flat St., 802-257-1911. A photography exhibit from Shann Treadwell, who lives and works in his hometown of Ware, Mass.
• In-Sight Photography Project 45 Flat St., Suite 1, 802-251-9960, www.insight-photography.org. Exhibit space in July features fine art photography by In-Sight's talented and dedicated volunteers and instructors, including Deb Ayer, Tim Callahan, Victoria Davis, Katy Haas, Nick Meyer and Ryan Stratton.
• Vermont Center for Photography, 49 Flat St., 802-251-6051, www.vcphoto.org. “Monhegan: Island at the Edge of Time”: Photographs by Paul Turnbull is the featured exhibit through July 31.
• Turning Point of Windham County, 14 Elm St., 802-257-5600, [email protected]. “Starving artist” Steve Donovan, well known to Gallery Walk patrons, is showing landscape paintings. A long-time friend of the center, Steve painted the mural on the outside wall of the center's building.
• Hope Gallery at the Elliot Street Café, 134 Elliot St., 802-246-1251, www.facebook.com/ElliotStreetCafe. Gallery spaces feature “Fun 'Til Death: Keepers of the Shred Skate Art Show.”
• Frankie's Pizza, 75 Elliot St., 802-254-2420. Mixed-media collages by Anne Carney, a self-taught artist and photographer, are on display.
• Inferno, 19 Elliot St., 802-258-6529, www.gotoinferno.com. An exhibit by Brattleboro painter/illustrator Sarah Adam, who works in various mediums including acrylic, oil, watercolor, pencils, and pen and ink. As a painter, she enjoys using found objects as surfaces for colorful portraits and abstract compositions.
• Through the Music Gallery & Studio (inside Turn It Up!), 2 Elliot St., 802-779-3188. For the month of July, TTM is featuring “Without Context,” artwork by Azariah Aker and Joseph Green.
• Mocha Joe's Café , 82 Main St., 802-257-7794, www.mochajoes.com. Hinsdale, N.H., resident Annie Hale is showing small and large geometric paintings in July.
• Vermont Artisan Designs & Gallery 2, 106 Main St., 802-257-7044, www.buyvermontart.com, [email protected]. Featured works in July include oil paintings by award-winning artists Dane Tilghman, Nance Driscoll and Susan Jositas as well as new jewelry by Vinosus and Silver Seasons. Opening reception on Friday, July 1, 6 to 8 p.m.
• The Works, 118 Main St., 802-579-1851, worksbakerycafe.com. Paintings by Christy Bonneau are featured in July.
• Rocky Top Tavern, 95 Main St., 802-579-1568. Paintings by Michael Noyes, who creates his work en plein air. His paintings express energy, color, and movement, capturing rhythms and songs of the New England landscape.
• The Artist's Loft Gallery & B&B, 103 Main St., third floor, 802-257-5181, www.theartistsloft.com. Celebrating 20 years of fine art on Main Street with works on paper and canvas by award-winning New England artist William Hays.
• Amy's Bakery Arts Café, 113 Main St., 802-251-1071. Caryn King is exhibiting her intimate - and sometimes whimsical - portraits of animals living in Vermont barns: sheep, cows, chickens, and goats.
• Beadniks, 115 Main St., 802-257-5114.www.beadniksvt.com.“Wampum Woman,” a local native American known throughout the region for her shell-bead jewelry, will demonstrate age-old bead-weaving techniques and offer her work for sale.
• Gallery in the Woods, 145 Main St., 802-257-4777, www.galleryinthewoods.com. Featured July 1–Aug. 30 are Gwen Murphy: Shoe People and Other Works (sculpture); Jackie Abrams: Sculptural Baskets; Anna Bayles Arthur: Surrealist Paintings; Edward A. Kingsbury III: Pen and Ink; Karen Kamenetzky: Textile Paintings; Richard Heller: New Work in Oil and Watercolor.
• Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, 139 Main St. (down alley), 802-254-9276, www.hookerdunham.org. The Stone Soup Painters from the Gibson-Aiken Senior Center present their second group show at the gallery.Led by outreach instructor Marilyn Allen, of the River Gallery School, they come with very different histories as artists; some new to art making, others returning after a long absence. Opening reception during Gallery Walk, plus an artists' reception on July 3 from 2 to 4 p.m.
• Catherine Dianich Gallery, 139 Main St., Room 501 , 802-380-1607, www.catherinedianichgallery.com. “Revisiting Bare Ground,” an exhibition of abstract pastels, miniature drawings, and concrete sculptures by Nancy Storrow, is featured July 1–Aug. 26.
• A Candle in the Night, 181 Main St., 802-257-0471, www.acandleinthenight.com. Featured in Gallery 1, Sam Beasley, a musician and artist working part-time at A Candle in the Night, is showing photographs as well as stencil art inspired by local graffiti artists. Gallery 2 features assemblages by Ahren Ahrenholz. Gallery 3 presents photographer Torie Olson's newest series entitled “Nomadic India” (sales benefit Aid to Artisans). Gallery 4 features earlier assemblages by Larry Simons. Mark Fenwick is showing sculptural woodcarving in Gallery 5, and Asian Artifacts enhance the room settings in Gallery 6.
• Take a Moment for Peace, Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St., in the church parlor. This month's meditation, which starts at 5:30 p.m.,“Forgiveness: Giving Back the Grace of Understanding,” is led by Hope Jinishian, sharing from an SIT Graduate Institute study in which she interviewed survivors of mass violence who are now on a personal forgiveness journey.