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Show Open
July 31 - October 5
Opening Reception
Sunday, August 18
In conjunction with BigTown Conversations:
An Afternoon with Vermont Filmmaker Jay Craven
Join us for films, food and conversation!
4pm screening of Craven's 1984 documentary short Gayleen, an exploration into the world of Vermont folk artist Gayleen Aiken, and his new film Northern Borders as part of the 100 Town Tour.Question and answer session with the filmmaker will follow.
Based on the award-winning novel by Howard Frank Moser, starring Bruce Dern, Genevieve Bujold, Jessica Hecht and Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Northern Borders tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge, who in 1956, is sent to live on his grandparents' Kingdom County Vermont farm. There he meets eccentric people including his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. A humorous and sometimes startling coming-of-age story, Northern Borders evokes Vermont's wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted past, and an aura of enchantment.
Northern Borders was produced through a unique partnership between Jay Craven's non-profit Kingdom County Productions and Marlboro College. The outcome of a semester-long film intensive called
Movies from Marlboro, it was produced on a lean budget, in a collaboration of young filmmaking professionals, students and recent graduates, working in substantial roles in every level of production.
For more information and a full schedule of the opening reception events, visit our website. For sales inquiries please contact Anni Mackay: anni@bigtowngallery.com Folk Art Panel Discussion
Saturday, September 21With Vermont Folklife Center Director, Greg Sharrow, artists/collectors Marcy Hermansader, Mark Goodwin, Peter Thomashow, and Bhakti Ziek and BigTown Gallery owner, Anni Mackay.What is the lure and attraction so many feel for folk art? How does the intensely personal quality of folk art resonate with the contemporary artist? Bring your own questions and join the conversation.
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BigTown Projects Summer Reading Series Begins
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Saturday, August 3, 5:30pm
Free & Open to the Publicrefreshments to follow
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Kellam Ayres's poems have appeared in the New England Review, The Collagist, and The Cortland
Review, and are forthcoming in DIstrict. A graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, she recently received a fellowship to the Vermont
Studio Center. She works for the Middlebury
College Library and serves on the admissions
board for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
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Vijay Seshadri is the author of four books of poems-
Wild Kingdom, The Long Meadow, The
Disappearances and 3 Sections, which will be
published at the end of August-and many essays,
memoir fragments and book reviews. His poems
have been published in Antaeus, The New Yorker, the Paris Review and Best American Poetry. His work
has been acknowledged with a number of honors,
among them NEA and Guggenheim Fellowships and
the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of
American Poets. He lives in Brooklyn and is the Myers
Professor of Writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
"Seshadri is a son of Frost by way of Ashbery: both the
high-frequency channels of consciousness and the
jazz of spoken language are audible in these poems."
-The New Yorker
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Upcoming Readings - Save the Dates!
Aug 10 John Elder & Woon-Ping Chin
Aug 24 Cristen Brooks & David Huddle
Aug 31 Ann Aspell & Major Jackson
Tax deductible donations toward future programming welcome.
For sponsorship opportunities please contact Rachel: info@bigtowngallery.com
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Bread & Puppet Returns to BigTown Gallery
Saturday, August 31, 2013 at 2pm
admission $8
Contact the gallery to reserve your tickets
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The Total This & That Circus includes the following ingredients:
Daffodil combat forces battling F-35 jets; the elimination of the 800,001st Palestinian olive tree, totally unattended by the National Outrage Orchestra; an Animal Rental Facility, which offers disenchanted customers of civilization instant transformation into frog or deer, cricket or rat. There will also be new characters, such as underprivileged Corporate Dwarves, overshadowed by Ordinary 99% Giants promoting brand-new economy-shrinking ventures, while the Lubblerland National Dance Company enhances the program with eternal values gloves-on dances presented to the gloves-off practitioners in Guantanamo and elsewhere.
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BigTown Gallery
99 North Main Street
Rochester, VT 05767
NEW Hours
Wed-Fri 10-5
Saturday 12-5
Sun-Tues by appointment
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