Winter Vacation Week Workshops

Winter Vacation Week Workshops, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Grades K through 4. $10/member $15/non-member for each workshop. Includes snack and all materials. Registration required.

$10 – $15

Collage #3571 ½: A Schonbeck Experience

Are you ready to build your own instrument and then join in the concert? Join us on Saturday, March 9 at 2:00 pm in the Ada Paresky Education Center and Paul Paresky Court of the Bennington Museum, when Nick Brooke (faculty, Bennington College) Webb Crawford (Bennington College graduate) and Mark Stewart (founding member of Bang on a Can All Stars) present an instrument building workshop where you, the audience members, build the instruments, then use those instruments to participate in an improvisational performance conducted by Mark Stewart.  All in the spirit of Gunnar Schonbeck's collages.

Free

Museum ABCs: Spring Green

Children ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers are invited to join us for an hour of exploration, stories, and art. Join us as we look for colors of spring green in the galleries.

Free

Spring Social and Exhibition Opening

Enjoy conversation with the Museum curator and special guests Vermont Folklife Center Director of Archives and Research, Andy Kolovos; Senior Photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Eileen Travell; and special guest, Alan David Griswold, great grandson of Minnie Griswold whose home is the focus of the exhibition. Hear more from their perspective on this fascinating exhibition.

Free

Stoneware Collectors Meeting

Tour places in Bennington related to the pottery industry 12:30 to 2:00 pm. Return to the Museum and enjoy a presentation by Cathie Zusy and Warren Broderick.

Museum ABCs: Playing with Paint

Children ages 3 to 5 and their adult caregivers are invited to join us for an hour of exploration, stories, and art.

Free

Honoring Beethoven

Another wonderful concert in the Music at the Museum series. Among the pieces performed in this performance will be Piano Sonata #31 in A-flat major, Opus 110, Trio for piano, violin and cello nº 7 in B flat major, op.97, "Archduke".  

Summer Party and Exhibition Opening

Be among the first to explore the Museum’s two major summer exhibitions Fields of Change: 1960s Vermont and Color Fields: 1960s Bennington Modernism. See how the tumultuous decade of the 60s helped define Vermont as we know it today, both socially and culturally. Discussions with the curator, JAMIE FRANKLIN and special guests GREG GUMA, Journalist, Editor, and Activist, AND  DAVID WASCO, MAUHS Class of '71 and Academy Award Winning Production Designer.

$30 – $50

Authors’ Event for 1960s Vermont

Three authors who have written extensively about the communes and counter-culture movement of the 1960s will read from their work and engage in a discussion with audience members about their experiences and their writing.

Free