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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:
NOTE: The Governor's “Stay Home, Stay Safe” order has been extended to May 15, 2020. The galleries and classroom at SPA are closed to the public as our state responds to the current public health crisis.
SPA is increasing its work to bring on-line options to people of all ages. Keep in touch with SPA via this website, Facebook page, and Instagram. TAKE CARE & MAKE MORE ART! 
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 May 29, 2020. Click here for Silent Auction details... Exhibit Dates: March 17 – June 6, 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. A Reception for these exhibits is scheduled to take place during the annual BASH, the Big Arty SPA Happening on: Friday, May 29, 2020 from 7-9PM (NOTE: These dates have been updated recently.) 
In the Quick Change Gallery:
Through May 31, 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 December 17, 2019 - March 24, 2020 (260 N. Main St., Barre) 
SAVE THE DATE!
BASH – Big Arty SPA Happening Friday, May 29, 2020 7-9PM The BASH is SPA’s annual, community-based fundraising party, and it includes major art exhibits, light refreshments, live music, and a diverse Silent Auction. Our BASH raises essential funds for programs that help SPA bring all members of the community into our art center to become creators of art through in involvement in classes, workshops, lectures and studio experiences, and to view original art exhibits throughout the art center (exhibits are free). Cash bar by Morse Block Deli. Main Fl Performance: Chad Hollister and Primo Chad Hollister and Primo have been touring together for over 20 years. Their chemistry is clear as they weave through Chads original songs. They’ve opened for Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Tom Petty as well as Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band. Their music is a voice for the positive and reminds you that music and art are a true gift! Tickets: $20 Advance (thru April 16)/$30 Day of event Would you like to receive our email updates or do you have questions?
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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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