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Grandma Moses: American Modern has a subversive goal, for it will upset your expectations and get you to look at this beloved American artist with fresh eyes. It is a long-overdue exhibition that will reestablish her place in the mid-century art world that was embracing modern art at the same time. By putting her paintings side-by-side with works by such iconic Modernists as Joseph Cornell, Helen Frankenthaler, Fernand Léger, and Andy Warhol, and folk artists such as Edward Hicks and Joseph Pickett, the exhibition allows visitors to discover for themselves how all these artists drew on found images, color, collage, memory, and their own innate artistic sensibility to create original masterpieces. Like any trained artist, Moses used thought, planning, and intuition to create works of enormous vitality and imagination.

Kalischer often came to Vermont seeking material and in this exhibition - Between Past and Future: Clemens Kalischer’s Vermont – the viewer is treated to over thirty images including some taken during six decades of photographing the Marlboro Music Festival including images of such icons in the music industry as Van Cliburn, Rudolf Serkin, Pablo Casals, among others. Some are from his Peacham series in which people are documented in their daily struggles on the land or in the factory. His Vermont work is deep and varied, comprising thousands of images traversing more than six decades.

Bennington Museum is pleased present Songs of Peace from Vermont and around the World performed by Counterpoint Vocal Ensemble. This a cappella concert includes over twenty songs including favorites by Pete Seeger. Inspired by the 125th anniversary of the Bennington Battle Monument and the 100th anniversary of WWI, this concert includes songs of peace written during times of war. The twelve singers in Counterpoint perform under the direction of Nathaniel G. Lew.

Pat Adams has been creating rich, lovingly wrought abstract paintings for more than six decades. On view at the Bennington Museum from April 1 to June 18, 2017, Gatherum of Quiddities: Paintings by Pat Adams presents a selection of twenty-nine works surveying her entire career. Championed for decades by notable critics, collectors, and her New York art dealer Virginia Zabriskie, Adams pursues her persistent vision and evolving creative process.

On Saturday, April 8 from 10 am to 5 pm admission to the Bennington Museum is free for all visitors. Join us for a day of Celebrating ART as you enjoy Gatherum of Quiddities: Paintings by Pat Adams; Holding the Line: Ceramic Sculpture by Stanley Rosen; Buy Local: Images from the Weichert-Isselhardt Collection, plus activities both inside the Museum and out on the George Aiken Wildflower Trail. So much to do for the whole family.