Stone Valley Arts has an important role in Poultney’s current moment of revival!
We are an all-encompassing community art center that creates opportunities for
participation in the visual arts, music, theatre, dance and literary arts to people of all ages.
We believe that the arts bring vitality to the community, support open dialogue,
build relationships, encourage collaboration, help to define local identity and enhance quality of life.
Please join us in our mission
by making a donation to our
Annual Giving Campaign
Your support is needed now more than ever!
Please make checks payable to Stone Valley Arts.
P.O. Box 47 Poultney, VT 05764
Whatever we know, we know from the world that surrounds us. Art studies the world,
in all its manifestations, and renders back to us not simply how we see things, but how we
react to what we see and what we know as a consequence of that seeing. The world is the source
of all out relationships, social and political as well as aesthetic. Art is a part of the world, not apart from it.
Kit White
SVA ANNOUNCES OUR 2021 SEASON !
Poultney Poetry Downtown
In celebration of National Poetry month
30 original poems now on display in windows on Main Street through April
Find poems now on our BLOG page
OPEN CALL FOR COLLAGE EXHIBITION - Extended deadline for submissions : April 15
Theme: NEUROANATOMY in the main gallery May 14- June 27
Prospectus and submissions at : https://stonevalleyarts.artcall.org/
ONGOING ZOOM CLASSES
for registration and e-mail contact details please go to the classes and events page
NEW !
HERMETIC TAI CHI w/ Mary Joan Waid
every Wednesday 7:00 - 8:00 pm
starts May 5
Qi Gong with Mary Joan Waid
Every Monday at 5:30 pm
SloFlo Yoga with Brooke Hughes-Muse
Tuesdays and Saturdays
NEW !
Upbeat! Intro to Hand Drumming with Caitrin Maloney
on site at SVA / every Tuesday
June 8th - June 29th
5:30pm-6:30pm
FRIDAY, APRIL 23 : OPEN MIC !
contact David Mook: DavidMook@aol.com
DANCE THREAD
15 dancers collaborate in the creation of a performance video
Virtual and on-site projection premier COMING SOON!
Our Galleries Open in May
Emergence; from the studio into the streets with LMNOPI (a retrospective) 2nd Floor Gallery
May 1 - May 30, 2021
Saturday, May 1 : Opening Reception
(with safety precautions in place)
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Collage Exhibit: NEUROANATOMY May 14 - June 27, 2021
Juror: W. David Powell
Saturday, May 15 : Opening Reception
(with safety precautions in place) 3:00 - 5:00 pm
"Pandemic Patient Enlightenment (PPE): Works on Paper" Will Kasso Condry
June 1 - July 18, 2021 2nd Floor Gallery
Sunday, June 13 : Opening Reception & Lecture by Will Kasso Condry
4:00 - 6:00 pm
June 1 Poultney Art Day : A community wide celebration of the arts!
SVA in collaboration with LiHigh, Poultney High School, REclaimED and Salem Art Works
Front Porch Music Series begins!
Friday, June 4 with MOOSE CROSSING 6:00 - 7:15 pm
Saturday June 5 : Theater in the Woods company presents : 10 minute play readings
Friday June 14 - Front Porch Music Series - PLUMB BOBS 6:00 - 7:15 pm
Friday, June 25 - Open Mic
Portraits of a Community
Featuring photographs by : Chuck Helfer, Tikko Freilich and Martin Van Buren III
A collaboration with the Poultney Historical Society
July 2 - August 29, 2021
Sunday, July 11, Opening Reception for Portraits of a Community 2:00 - 5 :00 pm
Friday, July 2 - Front Porch Music Series - HERMIT HOLLOW BAND
Friday, July 16 - Front Porch Music Series - HARRY DRUM TRIO
Sunday, July 18, 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Masterclass with Zak Hampton “Freedom and Restraint”
A look at history through the lens of jazz and race
Monday, July 19 - Thursday July 22
Music and Art from the Caribbean CAMP FOR YOUTH
9:00 am 12 noon led by Jen Cohen and Krista Rupe
Friday, August 6 -Front Porch Music Series - KOWALSKY BROTHERS
Friday, Aug. 20 - Front Porch Music Series - ENERJAZZ
Saturday, Aug. 21 - East Poultney Day - Gallery open to public
Monotype Guild of New England Open Call : Priority Prints
September 3 - October 17, 2021
Opening Reception Sunday, Sept. 12, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
SVA Artist Members Show
October 21 - November 21
Opening Reception Sunday Oct. 24, 2:00 -4:00 pm
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THANK YOU ! THANK YOU!
HILLS and HOLLOWS FUND of the VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION in support of general operations in 2021
and
STEWART SHOPS in support of the FRONT PORCH MUSIC SERIES!
We invite you to visit the
SVA ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP
Click on the green link above to be taken to the gallery and gift shop.
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AND ...It's never too late to donate to our Capital Campaign!
$200,000 * 200 Gifts Needed * 200th Birthday Celebration
Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill has been Inspiring Creativity in Poultney and throughout the Lakes Region for eight years and remains a vital force of cultural activity in these challenging times. SVA is fortunate to have a permanent home in the former Masonic Lodge, a historic treasure built in 1822. Restoration is well underway, and there is still much to do: new slate roof, front porch repairs, and exterior painting, for starters. SVA's Capital Campaign has a goal of $200,000, and we are already more than halfway there! Only $84,000 remains to be raised. We invite you to be part of our fundraising and our future. Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill is a public good, an important community asset, a cultural resource to be enjoyed by you, your family and your neighbors. Together we can achieve success!
Please make checks payable to Stone Valley Arts.
P.O. Box 47 Poultney, VT 05764
Actuaries estimate we will need 200 gifts to reach our goal: Five at $5,000, Ten at $2,000, Fifteen at $1,000, Twenty at $500, Thirty at $250, and 120 gifts of $100 or less. Please give at whatever level is comfortable for you. We appreciate every gift.
SVA is a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization. Donations are tax-exempt to the extent allowed by the law.
Be one of 200 donors and receive an invitation to the Bicentennial Celebration in 2022!
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Stone Valley Arts extends gratitude for the generous support from grants awarded in 2020
that have helped us to sustain operations and continue with historic renovation
and have been vital to keeping cultural programming alive and accessible to the community.
THANK YOU !
COVID-19 RELIEF GRANT
Offered through the National Endowment of the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council
The Hills and Hollows Grant
Offered through the Vermont Community Foundation
Cultural Facilities Grant
Offered through the Vermont Arts Council
The 1772 Foundation Vermont Historic Preservation Matching Grant
Offered through a collaboration between The Preservation Trust of Vermont and the 1772 Foundation.
Essential Character and Services Matching Grant
Offered through The Preservation Trust of Vermont
and is made possible through the generous support of the Johnson Family Foundation.
The Robert Sincerbeaux Fund Matching Grant
Offered through The Preservation Trust of Vermont
Stone Valley Art on BLACK LIVES MATTER!
Stone Valley Arts understands our responsibility to offer meaningful conversation through events and programming that speak to who we are and how we can better understand each other. Artists through their work, advocate alternative perspectives that can challenge assumptions, beliefs, and community values.
We believe that the arts unify us and help us understand other cultures.
That is why our cultural programming is so important and beneficial to our community at this time.
Creativity is a means by which we seek to reveal truths and express individual and collective experience in order to shape and heal humanity. While it may be tempting to lament our limited resources in reaching such a goal, to do so would not acknowledge a black community that has been fighting this struggle with limited resources for its entire existence. As so many people still suffer inhumane and unjust treatment, Americans must realize the moral responsibility we all owe to each other and to society at large.
The image on right "Until the end of time" by Will Kasso Condry
Read at the Vermont House session on June 10, 2020
by Robin Chesnut-Tangerman.
Inspiration
Each of us is here because we are inspired to serve.
Our inspiration comes from different sources.
For some it is an obligation to give back, for others an opportunity to fix things gone wrong or to chart a new course for Vermont that will be more fair and
equitable. But for all of us, I think it is fair to say that our inspiration is something
larger than ourselves; a gift perhaps, or a calling. Something spiritual even.
Moving from the spiritual to the mundane, dictionary.com defines inspiration
as “the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially
to do something creative.”
They also note the spiritual dimension - as in divine inspiration.
But the fundamental meaning of the Latin root word is simply to breathe in.
To breathe in. In-spire.
To breathe in oxygen - and with it to breathe in ideas and stimulation and motivation
and determination and creativity and devotion. And divine grace.
And all of this is lost when I Can’t Breathe.
Stone Valley Arts understands our responsibility to offer meaningful conversation through events and programming that speak to who we are and how we can better understand each other. Artists through their work, advocate alternative perspectives that can challenge assumptions, beliefs, and community values.
We believe that the arts unify us and help us understand other cultures.
That is why our cultural programming is so important and beneficial to our community at this time.
Creativity is a means by which we seek to reveal truths and express individual and collective experience in order to shape and heal humanity. While it may be tempting to lament our limited resources in reaching such a goal, to do so would not acknowledge a black community that has been fighting this struggle with limited resources for its entire existence. As so many people still suffer inhumane and unjust treatment, Americans must realize the moral responsibility we all owe to each other and to society at large.
The image on right "Until the end of time" by Will Kasso Condry
Read at the Vermont House session on June 10, 2020
by Robin Chesnut-Tangerman.
Inspiration
Each of us is here because we are inspired to serve.
Our inspiration comes from different sources.
For some it is an obligation to give back, for others an opportunity to fix things gone wrong or to chart a new course for Vermont that will be more fair and
equitable. But for all of us, I think it is fair to say that our inspiration is something
larger than ourselves; a gift perhaps, or a calling. Something spiritual even.
Moving from the spiritual to the mundane, dictionary.com defines inspiration
as “the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially
to do something creative.”
They also note the spiritual dimension - as in divine inspiration.
But the fundamental meaning of the Latin root word is simply to breathe in.
To breathe in. In-spire.
To breathe in oxygen - and with it to breathe in ideas and stimulation and motivation
and determination and creativity and devotion. And divine grace.
And all of this is lost when I Can’t Breathe.
D. Ciobanu, Pieces of Me, acrylic on nine small canvases
Pieces of Me (Us)
I am one, I am all.
We are one
You, us, all sisters and brothers,
Have the same DNA
We are the same molecules
Same particles of the universe
Same breeze, same color, same smell.
DNA is never wrong
You cannot change it, you cannot color it, you cannot dilute it
We are one.
Three million years of us, all in one, all apart
I am all, I am one.
My crying splits us
My DNA cries.
Dedicated to all human (R)evolutionary movements.
California, 2013. Vermont, 2020.
D. Ciobanu
Pieces of Me (Us)
I am one, I am all.
We are one
You, us, all sisters and brothers,
Have the same DNA
We are the same molecules
Same particles of the universe
Same breeze, same color, same smell.
DNA is never wrong
You cannot change it, you cannot color it, you cannot dilute it
We are one.
Three million years of us, all in one, all apart
I am all, I am one.
My crying splits us
My DNA cries.
Dedicated to all human (R)evolutionary movements.
California, 2013. Vermont, 2020.
D. Ciobanu