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Experience Studio Place Arts (SPA), a vibrant, three-floor, non-profit community visual arts center in historic downtown Barre, Vermont. Our mission is to enrich people around the region by making the visual arts accessible to everyone through education, art exhibitions (free of charge) and contact with working artists. Join us and be part of a dynamic art community.
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In the Galleries:
The Governor has announced that museums, galleries and libraries in Vermont will be able to resume serving community members.
Studio Place Arts re-opened on June 16th, and we look forward to seeing you! We have some new approaches in place:
2:30-4PM private visits. Sat: Noon-2PM public hours; 2:30-4PM private visits. Schedule your private, 30 minute visit: 479-7069 (Your visit needs to be confirmed with a staff member; please do not leave a message.) July 4th Holiday Weekend: SPA will be closed on Sat., July 4th. Keep in touch with SPA via this website, Facebook page, and Instagram. 
Digital Exhibition Series
Shelter in Place: June 19, 2020 Our second installment of a 3-part digital exhibit of artwork made during the global health crisis shutdown. The Governor’s executive order in March marked a precipitous time of change and adjustment for artists, creatives and others. Artists were challenged on many personal levels by the public health crisis; some were moved to create artwork in response. Most artists experienced a cataclysmic alteration of the art world itself, as gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and museums were quickly cancelled and closed. Additionally, sources of materials and space that artists use in their art-making practices became potentially less available. This period of time nonetheless has offered a chance for new focus and different provocations. Exhibiting Artists: Anne Cummings, John Douglas, Martha Elmes, Naomi Hartov, Holly Hauser, Meg Miller, Orah Moore, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Meri Stiles, Janet & Manny Van Fleet, Dana Walrath, Ann Young 
Silent Auction
While the gallery doors may be temporarily closed, you can still support SPA, your community art center, and enjoy the talents of local artists! We've expanded our annual fundraising event to include a virtual silent auction... and best of all, 100% of your bid supports SPA art programs.
Be sure to check back for more terrific artwork: NEW art will be posted on Thursdays each week. Bidding concludes August 15, 2020. Click here for Silent Auction details... Exhibit Dates: March 17 – August 15, 2020 
(Artwork Featured Above: Control All Delete by Patrick Casey)
Main Gallery: FUTURES - Studio Place Arts (SPA) is proud to participate in “Vermont’s “2020 Vision: Seeing the World through Technology” as Vermont museums of art, history, and science, as well as galleries and other exhibiting institutions, will collaborate on a suite of exhibitions around the theme. Here at SPA, we want to celebrate the role artists play in envisioning the future. This show features works of science fiction, in traditional and non-traditional media. Exhibiting Artists: Nelson Asencio; Jason Galligan Baldwin; Deb Barnwell; Tom Batey; Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.; Patrick Casey; Theodore Ceraldi; Anne Cummings; Linda Di Sante; John Douglas; Rich Dufresne; Jaroslav Kosmina; Xavier McFarlin; Rob Millard Mendez; Thomas Merwin; Ryan Sarah Murphy; Maggie Neale; Julia Pavone; Ned Richardson; Michael Ridge; James Secor; Matthew Sylvester; Robert Towne; Venske & Spanle; Ann Young For more information about the statewide collaboration, “Seeing the World through Technology,” a project of the Vermont Curators Group that includes more than 35 exhibitions of art, history, science design and craft, visit: www.vermontcuratorsgroup.com Second Floor Gallery:
Silent Auction to benefit SPA programs 
(Artwork Featured Above: Moonrise Vase by Pamela Wilson)
Third Floor Gallery: The Edges and the Corners of the Day Recent work by Pamela Wilson, Sarah Burns, Kimberly Hamlin and Alana Rancourt Phinney This show highlights four artists whose personal art-making dovetails with community-based social practice. The artists selected are women mid-career, working in traditionally feminized craft and performance mediums. Each have eschewed urban craft/art-making markets and set down roots in small New England downtowns. 
In the Quick Change Gallery
Through June 27, 2020: Movement, Momentum and Narrative: New Hampshire 2020 Primary A collection of photographs by Josh Kuckens exploring candidate events, voters, and the political spectacle leading up to primary day in New Hampshire. The race has changed drastically since votes were cast in the Granite State. These pictures now serve as a time capsule of sorts, when the field was crowded, and early political narratives that have since shifted were still in place. The Quick Change gallery is a mini art venue created from an up-cycled phone booth located on the second floor of Studio Place Arts. 
On display at Morse Block Deli:
Peanut Butter Garlic Toast: Paintings by James Secor (260 N. Main St., Barre) 
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In the Media:
'2020 Vision': Technology abounds in Vermont art institutions
The Times Argus / Rutland Herald, Feb. 29, 2020 by Mary Gow Arts Correspondent 
Autumn Tomlinson talks printmaking and her residency at SPA
Seven Days, February 19, 2020 by Susan Larson 
Art and stone: Rutland and Barre create a living legacy
Times Argus / Rutland Herald, Feb. 15, 2020 by B. Amore 
Autumn Tomlinson Earns SPA Studio Residency
Times Argus / Rutland Herald, Nov. 23-24, 2019 Staff Report 
New Sculpture by Sean Williams Honors Stone-Cutting Community
Seven Days, October 30, 2019 By Susan Larson 
Studio Place Arts has been awarded the 2019 Times Argus Best of the Best Readers' Choice Award for Best Art School & Best Art Gallery.
Diane Sophrin:
Present Continuous: Commentary and Form Seven Days, Arts and Life, May 2019 
Art Review: Janet Van Fleet, 'Vanishment,' Vermont Supreme Court Lobby
Seven Days, May 1, 2019 by Pamela Polston *Van Fleet is one of the founding members of SPA and a resident artist 
Art Review: Teresa Celemin's 'Works on Paper,' Studio Place Arts
Seven Days, April 24, 2019 by Meg Brazill 
Help clean up Vermont and save our Earth!
Free posters created by Studio Place Arts to download, print, and distribute in your community. Click here... 
Video Tour: Deep Blue, Silent Auction, Works on Paper by Teresa Celemin, 2019 - Studio Place Arts. Video by Shannon Lee Gilmour Video Tour: Strictly Sedimentary, Going on Twenty, Interaction, 2019 - Studio Place Arts. Video by Shannon Lee Gilmour 
Artists Layer it On:
'Strictly Sedimendary' at SPA Times Argus, January 19, 2019 |
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