Events
War and Work in Post-Coup Myanmar
A Presentation by Steev Lynn and Dr. Remeline Damasco
Sponsored by Asian Cultural Center of Vermont ACCVT
Steev Lynn and Dr.Remeline Damasco will discuss their work in a liberated area of Myanmar during the ongoing civil war, sharing firsthand experiences of humanitarian, medical, and community support efforts.
Both Lynn and Damasco the indigenous Karen language and support the efforts of Myanmar's people to restore democracy following the military coup.
Steev Lynn works in livelihoods and agriculture in developing countries and formerly directed a program helping resettled refugees establish new lives in Myanmar. Since the 2021 military coup, he has reported on the resistance movement, visited conflict zones, trained local medics, and continued agricultural development work.
Dr. Remeline Damasco is an internal medicine physician practicing in Brattleboro and Keene. She spends part of each year treating patients and training medics in a liberated area of Myanmar.
Doug Trump
Opening Reception
Graced by both spontaneity and a passion for subtlety, Trump’s paintings are simultaneously active and cerebral; they douse the viewer in energy and reflection. Like most of his work.....is composed of layers of paint and tension and time. There are words and drawings.....covered over with collaged elements and the spontaneous convergence of so many brushstrokes and trancelike energy. As he attempts to unravel life’s mysteries, Trump creates landscapes that carry the viewer into a timeless reality.
Trinkett Clark (1951 - 2006)
Curator of American Art
Mead Art Museum Amherst College
Debi Pendell | Reading meanings
Opening Reception
Debi Pendell’s works are investigations of semiotics, language, and meaning based in the format of landscape painting. Concentrating on abstract elements of recognizable shapes and characters in combination with materials and processes, Pendell plays with symbols of both visual art and language and how people “read” them and make meaning from them.
Letters, numbers, math equations and such are used abstractly, serving as value, texture, pattern and spatial indicators. Trees, birds, circles, and other images are used as abstract symbols in the same way.
Often viewers mistake Pendell’s works for encaustic, however only acrylic gels and mediums are used. She bases her paintings in collage and employs painting, drawing, and mixed media. Layers of the clear acrylic encaustic-like treatment embed the collage elements within layers of the various processes and materials.
A history of the Brown – Crook family in China during the past century
A Presentation by Carl Crook
Carl Crook’s family lived continuously in China for more than a century, spanning four generations. Beginning with his grandparents from Canada—who met and married in China—and extending to his own children, who spent much of their early years there, this multi-generational history forms the foundation of his perspective.
This presentation will be accompanied by photographs, beginning with Crook's grandparents, who were missionaries (1912-42) and devoted thirty years to building progressive educational institutions in Chengdu, from primary school through the college level. His parents, who also met in China, dedicated their lives to education and to the study and documentation of rural Chinese society. Crook's family experiences reflect both joy and turbulence across a century of profound transformation in China.
Sponsored by The Asian Cultural Center of Vermont ACCVT
Marni Rosner and Carl Crook's Collections of Chinese art
Opening Reception
The exhibition, introduced by Marni Rosner, brings together works representing China’s diverse cultural regions. From Urumqi, Xinjiang Province, Uighur artist Aniwar Mamet presents works in traditional Chinese ink as well as acrylic. Wang Rongchang (also known as Naruo), a Naxi painter and muralist of the Dongba tradition from Lijiang, Yunnan Province, is represented by both ink on paper and oil on canvas. Papercuts by Liang Changsheng offer a playful reimagining of Buddhist tales, while portraits of Tibetan herdsmen by Sichuan-based artist He Duoling evoke the years he spent living among Tibetan and Yi communities in Western China.
Sponsored by The Asian Cultural Center of Vermont ACCVT
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JOHN Christian Anderson - Art Talk
Join us for a stimulating talk with our current exhibiting artist John Anderson. He will discuss his early years growing up in Los Angeles pointing to several events that in retrospect shaped his artistic sensibility. This will include a brief overview of his education, artist who have been an influence, and his employment at The Exploratorium in San Francisco where he designed and built science exhibits. The presentation will end with John selecting several works in the show and discussing the process that went into creating them.
CAI Xi - EDGE: 90'S WHITE WORKS
Opening Reception
Edge-White Works draws inspiration from the cement workers and street cleaners who shape and maintain the everyday surfaces of New York City.
Arriving in New York in 1987, Cai embraced the conviction that art can emerge from anywhere. In the 1990s she began to look closely at the city’s overlooked surfaces—cement sidewalks, subway walls, and weathered buildings. Their erosion, texture, and material presence became the ground of her inquiry.
JOHN CHRISTIAN ANDERSON - THRESHOLD
You're invited to the opening reception for John Christian Anderson’s new exhibit. Come explore his imaginative sculptures and installations, meet the artist, and celebrate an evening of art and community.
Art Talk with Karen Becker
Join us for an inspiring art talk with artist Karen Becker, who will share insights into her creative journey and discuss the works featured in her current exhibition at CX Silver Gallery. Come connect, learn, and experience the art together.
Art Talk: Cai Xi, Then and Now
Join us at the gallery for an art talk by Cai Xi.
A journey from China to United States
Three generations of artists
Art Talk: Nye Ffarrabas and Mark Waskow
Nye Ffarrabas with her möbius-strip-shaped event score at C.X. Silver Gallery
Art Talk: Nye Ffarrabas and Mark Waskow, Saturday May 8th, 5:30 p.m. Brattleboro Museum
Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS a Verb!
At 92, Nye Ffarrabas, formerly Bici Forbes Hendricks, occupies a significant place not only in the postmodern art world but also in our global cultural zeitgeist. During the early and mid-1960s, she (as Bici) was part of New York City’s Fluxus community, an experimental and creative laboratory that viewed life and art as inseparable and, in some respects, one and the same.
Artist Talk: Melissa Rubin & Amy Beecher in Conversation
Join us for an Artist Talk featuring Melissa Rubin and Amy Beecher in conversation on Saturday, March 15th, from 1-3pm. This event coincides with the solo exhibition Field Notes: Recent Work by Melissa Rubin, currently on view at the gallery through May 25th, 2025. During the talk, Beecher and Rubin will explore the themes, visual elements, and psychological layers of this compelling exhibition, delving into the process, imagery and inspiration behind the works on display. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the artist through a Q&A session, where questions and discussions will be encouraged.
Author Dinner with Eileen Christelow
Make a dinner reservation with children’s book author and illustrator, Eileen Christelow on Saturday, April 20th 5:30pm.
Celebration of Christopher Sproat Installation Catalogue
Join us in a celebration of Christopher Sproat Installation and book launch.
Art Tour and Dinner
Join artist Christopher Sproat for BLACK BOX MUSEUM tour in Putney at 3:30pm and viewing Sproat exhibition and dinner at 5:30 in CX Silver Gallery Brattleboro
Dinner $50/person BYOB/W
Please call 802-257-7898 x 1 to make dinner reservations (limited seating)
FLUX by John R. Killacky | Opening reception and forum
Killacky’s videos have been screened in festivals, galleries, museums, hospitals, and universities world-wide and are in the collections of numerous libraries and universities. His work has been televised locally in Minneapolis, Houston, and Vermont and nationally on Free Speech TV and PBS, and Cultura24 in Holland.
Charles Ramsburg Artist Talk
Charles Ramsburg’s work is a visual journal, most often drifting toward abstract imagery, occasionally being explicitly narrative. His art mines the worlds of nature, psychology, theology, and philosophy. He works in a multitude of mediums: charcoal and eraser on paper, acrylics, wood, metal, leather, papier-mâché and twine. Each of his series, although in different mediums, follows the pull of what Kandinsky called “inner necessity” – meaning the communication between form and the human soul. And, there is another reality that Ramsburg wrestles with – being essentially blind in one eye.
“I have no idea,” he said, “how other people see the world. I’ve had to fabricate my own version of the complexities of dimension.”
Over his fifty-plus years of working, Ramsburg has attempted to unpack various belief systems, but found them wanting. Hence, for instance, his Text Series and Pathing Sticks are etched with a writing system of his own. And because of his love of nature, his language, his “inner necessity”, is drawn, etched, carved, even welded into his work.