A start on the housing crisis
“Dream Home Dream” (exterior latex paint, plywood, metal, and chalk), by Rob Hitzig, in the group show “Exposed 2022’’, at The Current, in Stowe, Vt., through Oct. 22.
The gallery explains:
The show represents nine artists “in an outdoor sculpture exhibit sprawling across the streets of Stowe….'Dream Home Dream’ invites viewers to engage with the piece, covering it in chalk markings.’’
Mr. Hitzig is based in Montpelier, Vt.
Stowe Community Church
-- Photo by Terry Foote
State Street, in the Montpelier Historic District
— Photo by Georgio
A place to be free
“We learned the shocking truth that ‘home’ isn’t necessarily a certain spot on earth. It must be a place where you can ‘feel’ at home, which means ‘free’ to us.’’
— Maria Augusta von Trapp, in The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (made famous by The Sound of Music). In 1938 the family fled the Nazis, who had taken over Austria, and eventually settled in Stowe, Vt.
An ‘ordeal’ only to some
“Surely the framers of the Declaration of Independence did not have Vermonters in mind when they declared ‘all men are created equal,’ and the ordeal of winter in northern New England violates the national credo of equal justice for all.’’
Charles T. Morrissey, in Vermont: A History
Digital love: The safest variety
“Unrequited Love 2,’’ by Jeroen Nelemans, in the group show “Love Letters,” at Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vt. — COVID-19 permitting.
The gallery says that the show “examines love by focusing on individual relationships and love past, love lost and love lived. The artists explore the theme of love as it exists beyond preconceived notions and societal structures, viewing it as an action, an emotion and a driving force. In the artwork of ‘Love Letters,’ love is memory, honor, hope and so much more. The concept of love is one of the rare truly universal aspects of humanity, and ‘Love Letters’ taps into that universality, framing it in the context of the much newer concept of the digital era.’’
Love before and since the digital era started
“Unrequited Love 2,’’ by Jeroen Nelemans, in the show “Love Letters,’’ at Helen Day Art Center, in the famous ski town of Stowe, Vt., through April 18.
”’Love Letters’ celebrates love and relationships through the lens of the digital era, contrasting the works of artists working before it began with those of artists working currently,’’ says the gallery.
The Trapp Family Lodge , in Stowe. The Trapps are the family that The Sound of Music is based on.
— Photo by Royalbroil
Mount Mansfield, Vermont’s highest mountain and the primary ski area for Stowe.
In downtown Stowe
— Photo by Dudesleeper
Earth, fire and water adventure
From "Beyond the Far Blue Mountains,'' a 50-minute, three-screen video by Molly Davies, at the Helen Day Art Center, in Stowe, Vt., through July 31. It's about a young German girl's adventure that includes tests involving earth, fire and water.