Category: arts

Rokeby breaks ground on $1.4m visitor center

Posted on March 19, 2012 |

• Ferrisburgh
• arts
• Featured
• Rokeby Museum

By Andy Kirkaldy

FERRISBURGH — More than a decade after Rokeby Museum officials first envisioned the concept, workers have broken ground there on a visitors’ center that will house an exhibit on the Ferrisburgh historic site’s pivotal roles in the Underground Railroad and anti-slavery movement.

If the weather continues to cooperate with general contractor Naylor & Breen Builders if Brandon, the roughly $1.4 million Rokeby Museum Underground Railroad Education Center will be finished by August.

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Slideshow: Local sculptor reflects on art and life

Posted on March 1, 2012 |

• Feature Article
• Multimedia
• arts
• sculpture

By Christian Woodard

To New Haven sculptor Dennis Sparling, “art is about the mystery of things.”

Sparling, 67, fabricates sheet copper and wire into dynamic sculpture. Last year, Sparling finished work on his 9-foot-tall, 600-pound representation of Leonardo daVinci. The sculpture integrates daVinci’s drawings and paintings with his feats of engineering, architecture, and anatomy – all ranged around the standing patriarch.

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King sets motherly love to music

Posted on February 16, 2012 |

• Orwell
• arts
• feature

By Andrea Suozzo

ORWELL — Michael B. King’s music ranges from blues to rock to reggae, but these days it’s taken on a different theme: Many of his new songs are about mothers and their children.

The 55-year-old Orwell resident spread his own mother’s ashes this past summer, around the same time that his band, The Jesters, broke up after an 18-year run. Both milestones made him step back and think about his next project.

“I knew I had to replace my music with something,” he said.

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Alum brings acrobatics to VUHS

Posted on February 2, 2012 |

• Vergennes
• arts
• education
• VUHS

By Kyle Finck

VERGENNES — A few lucky students at Vergennes Union High School laid down their pencils and math books on Monday for a special assembly in the middle school gym.

Theo Spencer, a 2006 graduate of the school, returned to his alma mater to take students down the path that led him from a state champion track star at VUHS to an acrobat studying circus art at the University of San Marcos in Argentina.

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