Camp Name: Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
Schedule: Mon, Tues-Fri: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Established: 1972
Address: 10 Vernon St., Barrtelboro, VT
Phone Number: 802-257-0124
Fax Number: 802-258-9182
Email: office@brattleboromuseum.org
Director: Betsy Gentile
Website: http://www.brattleboromuseum.org/
Ages: all ages
Cost: $2 children, $3 seniors, $4 adults
Class Trip Programs:
At the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center we spend quality time with you and your students looking at art. During a tour, a museum interpreter (docent) facilitates a group discussion with selected works of art in a way that encourages students to find meaning in what they see and to express their thoughts verbally. Our hope is that students will find that the museum experience is accessible, and that art is relevant to their lives and experiences. The discussion portion of the viewing sessions are for the students. In order to succeed with our goals for the students, we ask that all chaperones please observe but do not comment or otherwise express opinions or give information.
In the final 45-60 minutes of the visit, staff or a docent will lead students in creating a work of art based on a current exhibit. All art created at the Museum goes back to school with the students.
Class Trip Pricing: Docent-led tours with activity: $5 per student Self-guided tours no activity: $2 per student, adults $4

Major Exhibits:
The museum holds six large galleries with exhibits rotated three times a year.

2007 Exhibits:
Four Sculptors: Other Dimensions:
New work from four Southern Vermont artists-Willard Boepple, Jon Isherwood, Paul Bowen, Millicent Young-making large-scale, abstract work. A variety of materials include: wood, steel, resins, computer-cut stone, and found materials. Each artist exhibits several works on paper related to their sculpture.

Worth a Thousand Words:
The impulse to tell stories is an old as mankind and as current as internet blogs. These contemporary painters-Matt Brackett, Herman Braun-Vega, Michele Fenniak, Trey Friedman, Philip Geiger, and Paton Miller-use narrative to engage us in stories both personal and imagined

Image & Text:
Inspired by Pierrot Lunaire, a group of poems by Albert Giraud and the song-cycle of the same name by Arnold Schöenberg, Cohen has joined the text of twenty-one poems (in English, French and German) with two images, each made by printing the same etching plate in the intaglio and relief method.

Book of Night:
Book of Night, a grouping of more than 100 paintings and sculptures, is organized by a large overhead wood and glass grid. Chuck DeWolfe's installation is lit from behind to create the illusion of a translucent wall.

Accumulated Mysteries:
Leslie Fry utilizes the ancient technique of casting in creating her layered imagery. In this series, a mold is fashioned, or an existing form selected, and cast in paper. Fantastical creatures- hybrids of women, flora and fauna-float in low-relief boxes. Fry's choice of paper, treated with delicate washes of ink, lends her elusive imagery an air of fragility.

The Bird Book:
The Bird Book is an artistic collaboration between Brian D. Cohen, his wife Holiday Eames, and several book artisans. Each printed and hand-colored image represents a bird whose name begins with a letter of the alphabet. The rhyming couplet for each page was written by Eames. Related books and other hands-on activities accompany the exhibit.

From Street to Studio:
The show features artists who worked in the NYC East Village art scene in the 1980s and traces their development from street artists to studio artists. The show features new work by painters Scot Borofsy and Brian Gormley, sculptor Ken Hiratsuka, as well as work by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.

Video Theater:
Documentary shorts on the '80s art scene in NYC.

The Life of Toussaint L'Ouveture:
Silkscreen Prints by Jacob Lawrence A series of 15 silkscreen prints made in the 1980's by Jacob Lawrence from his celebrated series commemorating the founding of Haiti. Renown for his ability to tell a story through his paintings, this highly acclaimed African-American artist is collected by every major American museum.

Will the Circle be Unbroken:
Three Generations of African-American Quilts: A passionate collector of African-American improvisational quilts, Eli Leon brings together stories as well as quilts. These quilts, made by four generations of a Texas family, span nearly a century in the lives of Gladys Henry, Laverne Brackens, Sherry Byrd, and Bara Byrd. Leon has collected extensive oral history from each quilt maker and includes a photograph and biography of each with the eleven major works in this exhibit. He has published numerous articles on African-American quilts and his collections are much in demand nationally. Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Four Generations of African-American Quilt makers was shown recently at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art in San Francisco.

Tibet Through the Red Box:
Original illustrations from the picture book Tibet Through the Red Box by Peter Sís are shown in conjunction with many of this author/illustrator's books and museum-created activities that bring the culture of Tibet alive for all ages.