Early American Decoration at SVAC Maine Exhibit
At the Southern Vermont Art Center Manchester the exhibit curated by Jessica Bond of Dorset surveys the origins of art in decoration. The show traces how practical objects became decorated to lessen vulgarity and drudgery as artisan pride and folk art emerged. Bond's self-assembled collection includes painted tin papier mache wood velvet and plastered walls.
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Jessica Bond
Dorset
Southern Vermont Art Center
The Pownall Exhibit Showcases Theorem Painting Traditions
The Pownall exhibit presents Theorem painting tracing early 18th century European roots. Mrs Bond reproduces original designs like lace-edge and Chippendale trays with wall stencils from Vermont to New Hampshire. Also featured are tin painting designs linked to Pennsylvania Dutch artisans. visitors can enjoy a reminder of historical craft.
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Europe
Pontypool
Wales
Vermont
Manchester
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Berks
Lancaster
Shaftsbury Youth Earns Top Catholic Scouting Honor
Shaftsbury 12 year old John Cole a communicant of St John the Baptist Parish and member of Troop 331 BSA Shaftsbury was among 15 Vermont candidates who passed a board of review Saturday for the Ad Altare Dei award for Catholic scouts
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Shaftsbury
John Cole
St. John the Baptist
BSA
Vermont
Board of Review
Young Cole
Charles S. Cole
Leo Racine
Camp Holy Cross
Mallets Bay
Burlington
Cole
Robert J. Joyce
Camporee
Joyce
United States
Walter Miller
St. John the Baptist Church
John
P.V. Roach
Roach
Holy Cross
Eagle Square Mfg. Co
Five One-Man Shows Open Saturday at Art Center
Five Vermont artists Barbara Comfort Bess Moore William H Gale Harry Shokler and Virginia Webb will open at the Southern Vermont Art Center June 25 July 13. Comfort taught in public schools and WW II sailors commissioned a portrait of their captain. Moore paints watercolors and landscapes and shows in western Massachusetts and SVA. Gale a Starksboro resident has won more than 40 awards and works in private and corporate collections. Shokler renowned for Vermont village scenes and seacoast oils and serigraphy authored a serigraphy textbook. Webb studied in Paris then at Dorchester and the Art Students League and shows in Vermont Massachusetts and New York. The exhibits run daily 10 5 and Sunday 1 5. closed Mondays.
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Manchester
Vermont
Southern Vermont Art Center
Barbara Comfort
Landgrove
Bess Moore
Brattleboro
William H. Gale
Starksboro
Harry Shokler
Londonderry
Virginia Webb
New
Smithsonian Art Museum
Washington
New England
Mexico
Brittany
Ireland
Paris
Julian Academy
Jay Connaway
Dorset
Robert Brackman
Frank Mason
Art Students League
Massachusetts
New York
Art Center
Arthur Jones
Elsa Bley
Stuart Eldredge
Robin Spry Campbell
Putney
Elfriede Abbe
Ithaca
Lynn Eckhardt
Mannchester
Faris Doctors Out of Town for Family Death
Shaftsbury physicians Arthur and Elizabeth Faris will be away from Tuesday June 21 through Friday June 24 due to a death in the family.ADV
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Arthur
Elizabeth Faris
ADV
Vermont Bankers Convene at Equinox for Advertising Talks
The 56th Vermont Bankers Association annual convention meets June 23-26 at Equinox House Manchester. Bryan Houston will outline ad strategies while Robert D. Cumming and Pascal Cantona join sessions. Seven bankers will be honored with 40 or 50 year club certificates.
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Manchester
Vermont Bankers Association, Inc
Bryan Houston
Fletcher Richards Company, Inc
New York
Houston
Robert D. Cumming
Alice Cobb
Equinox Village
Pascal Cantona
Washington, D.C
Manchester Village
Cantona
Miami Beach
Elizabeth Arden
Helena Rubenstein
Cobb
Washington
Ip H. Hoff
Association
Wilfred E. Leach
Bellows Falls Trust Company
Earle E. Storrs
Factory Point National Bank
Manchester Center
Harold L. Pierce
Montpelier National Bank
James Levie
The
Peoples National Bank of
Barre
Henry Z. Persons
Brattleboro
Edwin W. Lawrence
Rutland
Vermont Bank and Trust Company
J. Pearle Hinman
Wells River Savings Bank
Gertrude E. Mikkelsen
Montpelier
Chittenden Trust Company
Glenn E. Chapin
Howard National Bank and Trust Company
Burlington
Gerald H. Cabot
Windsor
Vermont National Bank
Clarence S. Campbell
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Art Review
SVAC
By Peter Schoffstall
Vera Langlais
North Pownal Congregational Church
Saviour
Methodist
Baptist
Congregational Churches of
Pownal
Madge Kenyon
Elizabeth Hatch
Howard Isherwood
Earle Church
James Metcalf
David Hubbard
John C. Hatch
WSCS
Pownal Methodist Church
George Renner
Boy Scout Troop
John Maxmillian
Mansonville
Quebec
Canada
Owl’s Head Mountain
Maxmillian
Mt. Anthony Lodge No. 13
F&am
Bennington
Norman Baker
Susan Keough
George Sura
Hoosick Falls Central
Calvin Pederson
Hawaii
Chicago
Hoosick
Ada M. Breer
Guild of All Saints Church
Paul B. Cipperly
Guild
Philip A. Lewis
Marion Cipperly
Genevieve Piritz
Blanche Rietz
Jessie Tatro
Muriel Gageway
Troy
Verda Philpott
Leona Webster
Petersburg
Harry E. Cipperly
Ladies Aid Society of the Baptist Church
Frances Prince
Viola Bonner
Denver
Colo
Nancy Skeff
Barbara Skeff
Monte Vista
Harold G. Lohnes
Cathy Dickie
the Pines
Norton
Mass
Baptist Church
Henry H. Dickie
New Orleans
Louisiana
Rotterdam
England
Scotland
London
Fran Stacy
Jackie
Robert E. Cummings Jr
Cummings
National, Savings, State and Trust
Robert M. Wilson
State Highway Board
Phil
Lady Harlech
Lord Harlech
Washington Opera Society
Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Pascal
Harte Theatre
Max von Sydow As
Jesus
Dorothy McGuire
Mary
George Stevens
John Wayne
Centurion
Claude Rains As
Hered the Great
Technicolor
United Artists
Paramount Pictures
Kurt Unger
Sophia Loren
Judith
Be the
Iad
Walt Disney
Civa
Bennington Banner
Main St
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
U.S
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Tom Brennan
Jack Watson
Vichy
Ondine
Peer
Lion
Pygmalion
Roses
Ivanov
Williamstown Theatre
Williamstown
Technicolor Panavision
Vernier
Noveck—Shultz, Inc
Nichols
Maidenform
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