Tag: Bennington

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    Strong, powerful, feminine — Shanta Lee’s ‘Dark Goddess’ photography explores divine, worldly realms

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    Photographer’s ‘Dark Goddess’ show explores divine, worldly realms   Alyse Grange and Kahywanda Wilson worked with photographer Shanta Lee to create “Obeah’d,” one of a series of Lee’s photos in the exhibit “Dark Goddess: Sacroprofanity” at the Bennington Museum.Courtesy of Shanta Lee   By KATE ABBOTTContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Two women are sitting together on read more

    Strong, powerful, feminine — Shanta Lee’s ‘Dark Goddess’ photography explores divine, worldly realms
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    Creating a downtown food hub

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    Nonprofit market aims to nourish Bennington’s ‘food desert’   Head baker Shayne Williams holds a tray of freshly baked loaves of bread at the new Bennington Community Market. Joan K. Lentini photo   By JOHN TOWNESContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. A new nonprofit market in downtown Bennington aims to bring fresh, healthy food to a town read more

    Creating a downtown food hub
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    New book celebrates Bennington’s Blue Benn Diner

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    New book celebrates Bennington’s Blue Benn and its longtime owners   A new book by two area journalists pays tribute to the Blue Benn diner in Bennington and the couple who ran it for nearly five decades, Sonny and Mary Lou Monroe, seen below in 1977. Courtesy photos     By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, read more

    New book celebrates Bennington’s Blue Benn Diner
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    Bennington Museum reopens with new exhibitions

      Arts & Culture April 2022     BENNINGTON, Vt.The Bennington Museum reopens to the public on April 1 with several new exhibitions.The museum’s major 2022 exhibit, “Parks & Recreation,” will explore the history and artistic depictions of Vermont’s state parks and other formally designated natural areas. From state forests to the Green Mountain National read more

    Bennington Museum reopens with new exhibitions
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    For winter, art inspired by snow and ice

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    Famed snowflake photos offer starting point for Bennington group show   Erik Hoffner’s “Ice Fishing 12” is one of a series of photographs he’s taken of ice-fishing holes that have frozen over. Some of these photos are included in the new group show “Transient Beauty” at the Bennington Museum. Courtesy of Bennington Museum   By read more

    For winter, art inspired by snow and ice
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    Celebrating the world’s cultures

    Collector aims to share art, promote global understanding   Justin Bibee sits among some of the objects from his collection of ethnographic art. He has created a no-cost loan program to display the works at libraries, schools and other institutions. Joan K. Lentini photo   By STACEY MORRISContributing writer BENNINGTON, Vt. Justin Bibee knew from read more

    Celebrating the world’s cultures
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    A season of prose and poetry

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    Events across region celebrate writers and their words   Matt Tannenbaum, the proprietor of The Bookstore in Lenox, Mass., for the past 45 years, stands behind the counter at the store’s wine bar. The store is the focus of a new documentary that will debut this month at the Berkshire International Film Festival. Susan Sabino read more

    A season of prose and poetry
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    A season of sculpture

    From the Berkshires to Vermont, outdoor shows return and expand   The artist Peter Gerakaris has created a series of Byzantine-style paintings of owls. This spring, he has been working the mosaic artist Stephen Miotto to scale up one of his images for an outdoor installation at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge. Courtesy photo read more

    A season of sculpture
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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt

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    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to stay connected   After the Covid-19 crisis forced it to close its building from mid-March until July, the Bennington Museum is now operating on a restricted basis. Photo by Joan K. Lentini   By EVAN LAWRENCEContributing writer   When Covid-19 began to spread into the region in early read more

    As pandemic limits visitors, museums work to adapt
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    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape

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      The campus of Green Mountain College, seen here in its final semester of operation in 2019, was sold at auction in August to an entrepreneur who says he hopes to revive it as an agricultural work college. The campus is one of three in southwestern Vermont that are in the process of being converted read more

    With colleges gone, new plans for campuses take shape