Closing Celebration with music by Trio de Rumba

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods, tea, and a special conversation from 10:30-12:00 PM.

10:30-12:00 PM
Sip while you knit and pearl...

Bring knitting or another lap-project and join Leslie Roth for a conversation about knitting without a pattern. Many knitters and crafters adapt patterns or create projects from scratch guided by their skills and inventiveness. This conversation offers a chance to talk about the process, share experiences, and ask questions.

^{Image: weaving with recipes by Bhakti Ziek}

Vermont writers present their work

Join naturalist and educator Dave Muska on a guided walk through our local landscape. Combining mindfulness practice and naturalist inquiry, we’ll awaken our senses and curious minds to find the world illuminated. Topics will wander as we do and may touch on wildlife tracking, identifying wild plants and mushrooms, ecological history, techniques for daily mindfulness, adopting the caretaker mentality, and more. Rain or Shine

Adult-focused. Limited to 16.

Register on Eventbrite. $25

Calais trail TBA

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh-baked goods and tea.

^{Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio}

Internationally published author and humorist Eve O. Schaub challenged her family to attempt the seemingly impossible: to live in the modern world, for an entire year, without creating any trash at all. The resulting memoir, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste, has been featured in The New Yorker and was described by Bill McKibben as filled with “humor and grace.” Through storytelling and humor, Schaub reveals shocking truths she learned along the way about garbage, plastics, and the recycling industry. This talk will trace the high and low points met by Schaub’s family on their Zero Waste journey, focusing on lessons learned and where we go from here.

2024 Kent artists describe their creative inspiration and where it leads.

Vermont writers present their work

Informal and lively discussion about sun activity and measuring time with Planetarium Manager Christian Bradley Hubbs and Meteorologist Lawrence Hayes from the Fairbanks Museum and sundial designer, Bill Gottesman. Ask questions, learn about tracking time with sun and shadow and observe sunspots through the Planetarium’s electronic telescopes. This program takes place outdoors on the Kent grounds, but will move inside for demos and conversation if the sun is not out!

Come learn kitchen-table printing! In this 3-hour workshop, Janet Cathey will teach how to carve a linocut block and to make prints right at home. Learn how to safely cut and make marks with carving tools, ink your block, and rub prints by hand using a spoon. Participants should pre-register for more information and plan to bring a 5” x 7” B&W drawing. Limited to 8. Young teen to adult.

Registration including all materials: $45 Register on Eventbrite.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh-baked goods, tea, and a special reading at 10:45 & 11:30.

10:45 & 11:30
“Tea with the Fates,” a reading with Olivia Gay

Olivia Gay will read aloud from The Summer Kitchen by Louise Andrews Kent & Elizabeth Kent Gay. In this chapter, “Tea with Fates,” the book’s authors visit the “Duncan” sisters and share more than a meal, with entertaining descriptions of the three sisters and mention of several paintings by “Beatrice” (aka Bessie Drennan).

Vermont writers present their work

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh-baked goods and tea.

^{Image: tea cup painting by Elaine Fitch}

Opening Celebration

Meet the artists and enjoy music and refreshments.

Playing acoustic instruments, renowned musician Evan Premo facilitates this sounding in the ballroom, inviting listeners to journey inward in consciousness, individually and within community.

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NEW DATE!

Metal artist Bruce Campbell will demonstrate making his playful wire sculpture.

Kent Ballroom

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods, tea, and live music in the ballroom.

^{Image: weaving with recipes by Bhakti Ziek}

Workshop participants will create their own memory vessel by covering a container or frame of their choice with a diverse assortment of miscellaneous memory items or reflective objects.

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Nadell Fishman and Sydney Lea read at the Old West Church

758 Old West Church Rd, Calais, VT

Reception with presenters right after the reading, down the road at the Art at the Kent exhibit
Kents' Corner State Historic Site, 7 Old West Church Road

Tea Tasting with Little Tree Tea Co. and Ceramic Sale with ceramic artist Pamela Wilson.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods and tea in the ballroom.

^{Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio}

CANCELLED

We regret to announce the CANCELLATION of artist Bruce Campbell’s illustrated talk “Imagining the Cosmos" (previously scheduled for Thursday, September 28, at the Maple Corner Community Center). [To see one of his lively pre-recorded presentations, find it online here: http://youtu.be/strxq-DuaT0.]

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Maple Corner Community Center, 84 West County Road, Calais, VT

An illustrated talk by artist Bruce Campbell on his kinetic sculptures and works in wire.

Sarah Audsley and Nadine Budbill read at the Old West Church
758 Old West Church Rd, Calais, VT

Reception with presenters right after the reading, down the road at the Art at the Kent exhibit
Kents' Corner State Historic Site, 7 Old West Church Road

Join artist Susan Smereka on this exploration of working with personal ephemera.

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Photographer Marcie Scudder will demonstrate her experimental work folding and sewing her photographs.

Kent Ballroom

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods, tea, and live music in the ballroom.

2023 Kent artists describe what sparks their creativity, inspires their work, and guides their process.

Maple Corner Community Center, 84 West County Road, Calais, VT

Sean Prentiss and Scudder Parker read at the Old West Church

758 Old West Church Rd, Calais, VT

Reception with presenters right after the reading, down the road at the Art at the Kent exhibit
Kents' Corner State Historic Site, 7 Old West Church Road