Kicking off the Year Has Never Been Better and it’s FREE
The Bennington Museum invites everyone to Community Day on February 3 when admission is FREE and the “Creative Collisions” among the galleries are explosive. Explore the permanent exhibitions including the newest gallery Early Vermont and the new paintings on view in the Grandma Moses Gallery. The changing exhibitions are varied, very exciting. Showcasing art, history, and innovation these exhibitions include Southwestern Vermont Health Care – A Century of Caring, Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park, and the Annual Student Art Exhibition.
Artist’s Reception with Jessica Park
Join artist Jessica Park on Saturday, February 3 from 2:30 to 4:30 in the Regional Artists Gallery for a reception celebrating her exhibition Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park. This reception is free and open to the public.
Museum ABCs: The Artist in You
The artist in you! Looking at the Student Art Show, explore what the artist in you will create.
Music through the Centuries for Flute and Harp
Save the Date because this is one performance you will not want to miss. Music at the Museum is pleased to present Sue Ann Kahn performing on the flute, and Susan Jolles on the harp. This engaging program has performances that range in style from a sonata by J.S. Bach to the premiere of a new Sonatina by Bennington composer Allen Shawn, plus a flute solo composed by Lionel Nowak. Additional music by Henry Cowell, Toru Takemitsu, and Jean Francaix. The free concert is made possible by Alison Nowak and Robert Cane. Admission to the museum galleries is not included.
Museum ABCs: Enthused About Color and Pattern
On this visit, we will look at the colors and patterns Jessica Park loves and uses in her paintings on view in Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park.
Spring Opening Reception
Join Us as we Celebrate the Opening of Bennington Collects. Reservations required. Read more.
Museum ABCs: Healthy Me
Let's peek inside the doctor's bag and learn about how staying healthy has changed during the last 100 years.
Tattoo 3
Back by popular demand, it’s Bennington Museum’s one-night-only, living exhibition of tattoo body art entitled Tattoo 3. See some of the area’s best tattoo art and meet some of the artists who create it. This exhibition features live models showing their art and sharing their stories.
Rage for Order Screens at Bennington Museum
In his film, “Rage for Oder,” Sacks meets and tells the story of Jessica Park – an artist who lives with autism. It explores his encounter with her which offers profound insights into the nature of autism. On Saturday, May 5 at 2:00 pm, his movie “Rage for Order” screens at the Bennington Museum in the Ada Paresky Education Center. Join us in welcoming Tony Gengarelly, presenter, who for the past ten years has been the director of the Jessica Park Project.
Community Day Celebrating Bennington Collects
On Saturday, May 12 from 10 am to 5 pm admission to the Bennington Museum is free for all visitors. Join us for a day of Celebrating Bennington Collects. Among the activities planned for you is a visit by the Vermont Arts Exchange Art Bus where you can become creative with arts and crafts. Stepping into the Museum, art and history are all around, and "creative collisions" can be found around almost every corner.
Meet Artist Edward Koren
Join us at 3:00 pm to welcome Vermont artist Edward Koren as he opens his exhibition Thinking About Extinction and Other Droll Things: Recent Prints and Drawings by Edward Koren. This exhibition features recent etchings and lithographs by Edward Koren, who is best known for his iconic cartoons of furry humans published in The New Yorker magazine.
Museum ABCs: Trail Tale with Anne Hunter
Walk the George Aiken Wildflower Trail while Anne reads us her newest story about our friend, Possum
Bennington Historical Society
Exploring Bennington's "Other" Cemeteries Meet at 2:00 PM in front of the Bennington Museum. The cost is $15. This tour is re-scheduled from April 15. Please call Bill Morgan at 802-440-8075 to make your reservation or confirm one you have already made. There are still a few seats available.
National Trail Days – Take a Hike in The Shires!
National Trail Days, Take a hike in The Shires. June 2, 2018
Old Vermont Sheet Music: A Parlor Song Performance
From the earliest published song, ‘Green Mountain Farmer” (1798), though 1850 temperance ballads, Civil War era songs to those about Vermonters Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Dewey, and Jim Fiske, singer and researcher Linda Radtke joined by pianist Arthur Zorn bring Vermont history to life.
Meet Vermont Artist Bill Botzow
Join us at 3:00 pm to welcome Vermont artist and state representative Bill Botzow as he opens his exhibition CAMBIUM (Into the Woods): Works by Bill Botzow. This opening is free and open to the public. Talk to the artist and hear his perspective on "...attention, noticing, touching, gathering, ordering, responding and how it has led to sculptures and drawings that I hope in some way honor that liveliest, hidden place where the creative grows.”
The Moses Mission: Join in the fun!
It's time. The Moses Mission, if you choose to accept it, will bring you and your teammates to a total of 7 regional sites, significant to the life story of the artist, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses.