Upcoming Events

Thoughtfully curated events are planned to echo the installed art, sculpture, and craft, making each visit unique. Our guests often return multiple times to see the show in a new light.


Art Café
Oct
4

Art Café

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

View Event →
Guided Nature Walk
Sep
28

Guided Nature Walk

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

View Event →
Art Café
Sep
27

Art Café

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

Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio

View Event →
Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What I Learned from a Year of No Garbage, with author Eve O. Schaub
Sep
26

Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What I Learned from a Year of No Garbage, with author Eve O. Schaub

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.

View Event →
Sun as Star: Autumnal Equinox Event w/ Fairbanks Museum in conversation with Bill Gottesman
Sep
22

Sun as Star: Autumnal Equinox Event w/ Fairbanks Museum in conversation with Bill Gottesman

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!

View Event →
Printmaking Workshop with artist Janet Cathey
Sep
21

Printmaking Workshop with artist Janet Cathey

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.

View Event →
Art Café
Sep
20

Art Café

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).

View Event →
Art Café
Sep
13

Art Café

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

Image: tea cup painting by Elaine Fitch

View Event →
Art Café
Oct
6

Art Café

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

View Event →
Art Café
Sep
29

Art Café

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

Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio

View Event →
Imagining the Cosmos: An Illustrated Talk
Sep
28

Imagining the Cosmos: An Illustrated Talk

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.]

… … … …

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.

View Event →

Upcoming Events

Art at the Kent and its partners are dedicated to maintaining a safe and respectful experience for all visitors. Enjoy!