Come meet the artists while enjoying music and nibbles.

Gallery Talk with artist August Burns.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with freshly baked goods, tea, and live music with Dorothy Robson.

Artwork by: Bhakti Ziek

Explore the basket not only as a functional vessel, but as a sacred container for stories, keepsakes and remembrance. Participants will learn foundational basketry techniques, while examining what we carry, and the ways in which the physical basket and the act of weaving are holders- of object and tradition. All participants will make and leave with a finished basket, and skills to make more in the future. 

 No experience necessary. All materials provided. Please reach out to Alexa for permission for weavers under 18 years old. 

Participants are encouraged to bring something personal to weave into their basket, such as a scrap of fabric from a loved ones old clothing, a length of ribbon from a special occasion, a strip of old sheet music or letter, a shoelace from a memorable hike or journey, a snippet of a map from a special place, a strand of embroidery floss in a meaningful color, a vine from your favorite tree- and on and on- the possibilities are endless.  

Register at https://wovncountry.com/shop 

Fee: $85 

Gallery Talk with woodturner Tom Dunne.

Gallery Talk with conceptual realist painter Kate Gridley.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with freshly baked goods, tea, and live music.

^{Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio}

Film historian Rick Winston will host the viewing of Obit., the documentary film chronicling the NYT obituary team and their remarkable skills shaping the story of countless lives.

Harmony Belle Devoe & Carlene Kucharczyk

Unplug for a serene hour to hear Vermont writers present their words aloud in the historic Old West Church, followed by receptions down the road back at the Kent.

Little Tree Tea will once again bring their tea stall pop-up to Kent along with wood fired pottery by Silene DeCiucies from Dirt Floor Studios. Enjoy high quality loose leaf tea and the beauty of wood fired clay. Available to taste and to buy.

Gallery Talk with artist Chip Haggerty.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with freshly baked goods, tea, and live music with Benedict Koehler and Hilari Farrington.

Kent artists describe the sources of their creative inspiration in a fast-paced slide presentation.

Diana Whitney & LN Bethea

Unplug for a serene hour to hear Vermont writers present their words aloud in the historic Old West Church, followed by receptions down the road back at the Kent.

1:00 PM talk followed by interactive papermaking demo with artist Veronica Y Pham

Veronica Y Pham will present an artist talk on her recent works and installations within Vietnamese hand papermaking processes. This is a public workshop open to the community to participate in Vietnamese papermaking through a large-scale collaborative piece. Participants will work together in the papermaking, watermarking, and pulp painting process to create a collective piece. Participants will experiment using local materials for the papermaking process using milkweed, hemp, regional paper mulberry, and recycled cotton rag. 

Free 

Limited to 40 people on a first come basis.

Open to all ages

Rain date: Saturday, September 27, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Gallery Talk with photographer Jordan Douglas.

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods, tea, and live musicwith Drew Clay.

Covid Remembered with historian Amanda Gustin and artist Daryl Burtnett: A visual presentation and conversation about the impact of Covid-19 in the Green Mountain State through the eyes of an historian who organized an exhaustive oral history collection project and an artist who documented how the pandemic took the ultimate toll on Vermonters.

Gary Clark & Helen Whybrow

Unplug for a serene hour to hear Vermont writers present their words aloud in the historic Old West Church, followed by receptions down the road back at the Kent.

Kintsugi is a Japanese method of pottery repair that honors both the damage and the repair as beautiful parts of an artwork’s history. It gives new life to something that might otherwise become waste, and in the process creates a visible memory. Learn more about the history, philosophy, and process of kintsugi as we celebrate the beauty in the broken with Claire Graybuck.

Free

Rain date: Sunday, September 21, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Kintsugi is a Japanese method of pottery repair that honors both the damage and the repair as beautiful parts of an artwork’s history. It gives new life to something that might otherwise become waste, and in the process creates a visible memory. Learn more about the history, philosophy, and process of kintsugi as we celebrate the beauty in the broken with Claire Graybuck.

Free

Rain date: Sunday, September 21, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

Come meet the artists and enjoy light fare with music by Kraatz Carromato.

Closing Celebration with music by Trio de Rumba

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh baked goods, tea, and a special conversation from 10:30-12:00 PM.

10:30-12:00 PM
Sip while you knit and pearl...

Bring knitting or another lap-project and join Leslie Roth for a conversation about knitting without a pattern. Many knitters and crafters adapt patterns or create projects from scratch guided by their skills and inventiveness. This conversation offers a chance to talk about the process, share experiences, and ask questions.

^{Image: weaving with recipes by Bhakti Ziek}

Vermont writers present their work

Join naturalist and educator Dave Muska on a guided walk through our local landscape. Combining mindfulness practice and naturalist inquiry, we’ll awaken our senses and curious minds to find the world illuminated. Topics will wander as we do and may touch on wildlife tracking, identifying wild plants and mushrooms, ecological history, techniques for daily mindfulness, adopting the caretaker mentality, and more. Rain or Shine

Adult-focused. Limited to 16.

Register on Eventbrite. $25

Calais trail TBA

Enjoy a Friday morning visit to the exhibition with fresh-baked goods and tea.

^{Image: paper cut by Luciana Frigerio}

Internationally published author and humorist Eve O. Schaub challenged her family to attempt the seemingly impossible: to live in the modern world, for an entire year, without creating any trash at all. The resulting memoir, Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste, has been featured in The New Yorker and was described by Bill McKibben as filled with “humor and grace.” Through storytelling and humor, Schaub reveals shocking truths she learned along the way about garbage, plastics, and the recycling industry. This talk will trace the high and low points met by Schaub’s family on their Zero Waste journey, focusing on lessons learned and where we go from here.

2024 Kent artists describe their creative inspiration and where it leads.

Vermont writers present their work