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Burlington Artist Kate Donnelly to Begin BCA Residency

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 11, 2013 at 5:46PM

Last January, Burlington City Arts announced that Burlington artist Kate Donnelly was the 2013 recipient of the annual Barbara Smail Award. That honor, named for a late local artist, comes with a $1500 stipend, $1000 worth of classes in any BCA studio, and three months in the fourth-floor space of the BCA Center.Thing is, it wouldn't kick in until June 12.

Movies You Missed & More: Side by Side

by Margot Harrison Posted on June 7, 2013 at 4:31PM

This week in movies you missed: The movies you see in theaters no longer "flicker." Your favorite summer drive-in is running a fundraiser to stay open.

And the Winner of the Grand Point North Band Contest Is … the Dupont Brothers!

by Dan Bolles Posted on June 7, 2013 at 12:39PM

The Dupont Brothers: Bigger Than Phish!For about two weeks now, Seven Days has been running a contest in which fans could vote for their favorite local band to fill the last slot in the lineup for this year's Grand Point North Festival at Burlington's Waterfront Park on September 14 and 15. It's been a wild ride filled with dizzying highs, terrifying lows and maybe even a little gamesmanship along the way.

Is Phish Great? Grantland's Steven Hyden Thinks So

by Dan Bolles Posted on June 5, 2013 at 5:08PM

"Is Phish a great band?"Here in Vermont, that's not a question as much as it is sacrilege. Phish fandom is practically a Green Mountain birthright, and woe to the unsuspecting noob who dares ask that question — or maybe more accurately, answer it, especially in the negative.

Warren Kimble Receives 2013 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 5, 2013 at 4:51PM

Everyone in his home town of Brandon, and perhaps the state of Vermont, knows that he's a jolly good fellow. And a highly successful folk artist who happens to be a tireless community booster and not-so-closeted contemporary painter.

A Conversation With Anthropologist/Poet Adrie Kusserow

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 5, 2013 at 10:00AM

Editor's Note: For this week's paper, freelance writer Keenan Walsh interviewed St. Michael's College anthropology professor Adrie Kusserow in conjunction with his review of her new book of poems, titled Refuge.The review appears in "State of the Arts," but space did not permit including this Q&A, in which Kusserow talks about "ethnographic poetry," her humanitarian work in South Sudan and why she wants mosquito nets for her birthday.SEVEN DAYS: How does poetry fit into your work as an anthropologist?ADRIE KUSSEROW: Poetry is at the very core of my work as an anthropologist and humanitarian. Anthropologists are supposed to be good at what Clifford Geertz called “thick description.” We don’t just sit in libraries and surf the internet for data; we live and participate in the very muddy, messy lives of those we want to understand.

Green Mountain Monteverdi Ensemble of Vermont Plays Doubles

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 5, 2013 at 8:39AM

Good things come in threes, it's said. Bad things do, too, but never mind.

Farmer Poets Know How to Milk It

by Margot Harrison Posted on June 4, 2013 at 6:13PM

"My mind is on cows so much that I think cow, dream cow, and it seems paint cows without realizing what I am about," wrote landscape painter and poet William Otis Bemis (1819-93).Twenty-first-century Vermont still has more than its share of "farmer poets." They'll congregate on Thursday at Middlebury's Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, which is hosting a Farmer Poets' Reading as part of its ongoing gallery exhibit "From Dairy to Doorstep."

Dog Mountain Reports That Gwendolyn Huneck, Widow of Artist Stephen Huneck, Has Died

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 4, 2013 at 7:45AM

UPDATED BELOWSad news from St. Johnsbury — Dog Mountain is reporting via its email newsletter and Facebook page that Gwendolyn Ide Huneck, 61, has died. Huneck is the widow of famed Vermont artist Stephen Huneck, who took his own life in January 2010.

Burlington Discover Jazz Fest, 17 Syllables at a Time

by Pamela Polston Posted on June 3, 2013 at 4:18PM

Many of you probably already knew that Reuben Jackson, host of Vermont Public Radio's "Friday Night Jazz" program, is not only a jazz geek; he's a poet. And if you don't know, writing poetry is hard.