Stone Valley Arts welcomes people of all ages and levels of experience to participate
in our visual art, music, theater, dance and literary arts programming. SVA believes that the arts bring
vitality to our community, support open dialogue, build relationships, encourage collaboration,
help to define local identity and enhance quality of life. We hope to see you soon!
in our visual art, music, theater, dance and literary arts programming. SVA believes that the arts bring
vitality to our community, support open dialogue, build relationships, encourage collaboration,
help to define local identity and enhance quality of life. We hope to see you soon!
STONE VALLEY ARTS
presents !
SVA MEMBER ARTIST SHOW
October 24 - December 5
Opening Reception : Sunday, October 24
2:00 - 4:00 pm
Exhibit to feature prominent regional artists that work
in painting, drawing, photography and mixed media
Mary Alacantara, Donna Ciobanu, Joan Curtis, Chuck Helfer,
Burnham Holmes, Deena Howard, Derek Huntington,
Mary Fran Lloyd, Denise Letendre, Dale Lott, Tom Merwin,
Gabi Moore, Brigitte Ruttenberg, Carolyn Stellatella,
Dona Mara Friedman, Richard Weis
OPEN GALLERY HOURS : SUNDAYS from 1:00 - 4:00 pm
during all on-site events and by appointment.
contact: erikaschmidt.sva@gmail.com or 802 325 2603
Poultney Music Jam ! !
Come join us on Sunday afternoons, October 24, November 21, and December 19, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., for an acoustic music jam at Stone Valley Arts, 2nd floor. Bring your instruments, bring your voices, bring your ideas. We'll take turns, teaching each other new song numbers, and we'll be keeping it simple. We'll follow bluegrass jam rules but we're not restricting ourselves to bluegrass! Rock, folk, blues, Americana: as long as everybody can join in! Feel free to bring lead sheets. This is an in-person event. If unvaccinated, please wear a mask. Donations welcome! Stone Valley Arts is located at 145 East Main Street, Poultney, VT. Any questions just write to Bennett at bennett_lovett_graff@hotmail.com.
GARY SCHMIDT and FRIENDS in CONCERT
A FUNDRAISER for STONE VALLEY ARTS
Sunday, November 14
4:00 pm
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ON-SITE CLASSES and continuing Zoom Class
MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER GO TO: 'Classes and Events' page
TUESDAYS at 9:30-10:30 am October 5, 12, 19, 26
WoodSpryte Arts Early Learning Adventures;
Literacy-based integrative arts for the very young
with Rosemary Moser
October 6th Christina Katerina & the Box Big box play! We’ll turn a giant box into our colorful play place!
October 13th. Two Old Potatoes & Me Potatoes are not only delicious, but fun to paint with! T
his isn’t your typical potato printing, though…We’ll get wacky and do marble painting with potatoes!
October 14th Let’s Get the Rhythm We’ll find rhythm in our bodies and in percussion instruments. Get ready for a parade!
October 27th Humbug Witch It’s almost Halloween, so let’s break out the costume box! We’ll explore what it is to get “costumed”, celebrate with music & movement, and then “return to normal”
TUESDAYS ! SEPTEMBER 21 - NOVEMBER 9
BALLET and JAZZ COMBO DANCE CLASSES FOR CHILDREN
taught by Alycia Hollister
4:00 - 4:55 pm : ages 5- 8
MONDAYS - 7:30 - 8:30 pm : ZOOM CLASS ONLY
QI GONG taught by Mary Joan Waid
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TUESDAYS 5:00 - 6:00 pm
SLOFLO YOGA w/ Brooke Hughes-Muse
for class update contact Brooke : treesongvt@gmail.com
IN -PERSON CLASSES RESUMES IN OCTOBER
WEDNESDAYS 7:30 - 8:30 pm ZOOM CLASS ONLY
HERMETIC TAI CHI taught by Mary Joan Waid
Figure Drawing Every 1st Wednesday
contact Phil Whitman at: philwhitman@gmail.com
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Many thanks to the TOWN OF POULTNEY RECREATION DEPARTMENT
in support of summer programming for children and families !
Many thanks to the VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
SPARK GRANT for support of multicultural experience events !
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
OPEN GALLERY HOURS : Sundays from 1:00 - 4:00 pm
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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 multicultural 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.
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 multicultural 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.
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