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SUMMARY:About The Size of It: Group Show
DESCRIPTION:Group show featuring artwork by Mary Therese Wright\, Ellen Cone Maddrey\, Tina Olsen\, Liza Cassidy\, Gayle Robertson\, and John Loggia \nOfficial Opening December 5th Gallery Walk. 118 Elliot open gallery hours: Thursdays 3 to 6 pm \nThe exhibit “About the Size of It” is open at 118 Elliot Street in Brattleboro. The exhibit features the work of six painters who make up the 118 collective of artists: Tina Olsen\, Ellen Cone Maddrey\, Gayle Robertson\, John Loggia\, Liza Cassidy and Mary Therese Wright. The exhibit explores the notion of size in painting – the miniature and the monumental. Also on exhibit is the window display\, “All Under One Sky\,” the collective’s contribution to the Brattleboro Festival of Miniatures. \nThe artists contemplated the miniature and the monumental in painting\, and how it is expressed in their individual work. In most representational painting\, the image is exactly that – a representation of a (usually) much larger scene. The majestic landscapes of Bierstadt and Church are miniature when compared to the scenes they represent. But any painter\, whether the work is representational or abstract\, faces the question of how large to make the image. Queries arise for the artist and the viewer: how does the size or shape of a painting relate to what the painter is expressing\, or what the viewer is seeing and feeling? This exhibit allows both the artists and the viewers to “try out” different sized works\, discover how the eye reacts to each\, and form new ways of seeing. \nThe 118 artists’ collective also worked together to create the window display “All Under One Sky” as a contribution to the Brattleboro Festival of Miniatures. These artists tend to create art from their physical interaction with the materials\, rather than starting with specific ideas that are translated onto a visual medium. They used this process to work together in an improvisational mode\, creating the universal sky that connects us all. The colors and shapes\, and the light they create\, remind us of the vastness of the natural beauty that surrounds our daily lives. Moving from “monumental” to “miniature\,” the artists added whimsical miniature scenes of  life under the sky. \nPlease enjoy our offering of color and line to brighten the winter solstice and holiday season. The exhibition will be on view at Gallery Walk\, December 5\, during 118 Elliot open gallery hours\, Thursdays from 3 to 6 pm\, as well as during all 118 Elliot events and by appointment.  \n  \nGayle Robertson has been artistically active all her life. Her experiences in the fields of lighting design\, computer graphics\, 2D and 3D traditional media\, spirituality\, end of life and bereavement\, mix to bring different lenses to what happens in her studio. She uses her art as a way to engage with the moments of life and a tool for exploring all its meaning\, calling upon her materials to bring her interests to light. She lives in Southern Vermont where she enjoys being part of the vibrant arts community. \nTina K. Olsen has been painting and working therapeutically in the expressive arts most of her life. She moved to Brattleboro in 2006 to live near her daughter and found a community of artists at the River Gallery School and 118 Elliot. Olsen’s works in oil and watercolor bring life to the healing light of nature. \nEllen Cone Maddrey came to painting later in life after careers as a lawyer\, an elementary school teacher and a parent of three. Her artistic inspiration is deeply embedded in the mountains and waters of Seattle\, her childhood home\, and the natural world of Vermont. Her paintings express the comfort and thrill of nature through color and shape. She lives in Montclair\, New Jersey\, and has a second home in Wilmington\, Vermont.  \nJohn Loggia has been painting and working in the arts since 1979. He has maintained a practice of drawing and painting while working in film as a production designer and producer. In 2015 John opened 118 Elliot\, an arts and education center in Brattleboro\, Vermont that he runs with his partner. John\, a jazz musician\, feels that playing music and painting are two sides of the same coin with each practice informing the other and encouraging experimentation\, risk\, and unexpected revelations. \nMary Therese Wright’s artwork and community based projects have been shown throughout the United States. Wright has a keen interest in materiality whether painting\, printmaking or metalsmithing. Her current work is a response to the vibrant colors and dynamic shapes of nature. She lives in Jacksonville\, Vermont\, and draws inspiration from her deep relationship with the trails and water of Lake Whitingham. \n Liza Cassidy is a visual and performing artist with a long time studio practice in Brooklyn NYC\, and for the last seven years in her home town of Brattleboro\, Vermont.  Her focus is on large scale abstract mixed media collage utilizing discarded materials\, mostly receipts\, to convey human experience\, and plein air landscapes in oil.  She teaches Sequencing at River Gallery School as well as painting\, studio art\, and community mending/sewing sessions. She is also a long time collaborator with Theaterlab in NYC as a writer\, director and performer.
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LOCATION:118 Elliot
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SUMMARY:How Did We Get Here? Democracy in Peril
DESCRIPTION:Two local activists and history teachers will present a lecture and discussion on the forces that shape our current political condition. Nick Biddle earned tenure as a professor of Latin American history at Appalachian State University and later became executive coordinator of The Alliance For Democracy\, a national non-profit dedicated to campaign finance reform and corporate accountability. Tim Kippt taught U.S. history and political science for 39 years\, mostly at Brattleboro Union High School. \nAccording to Biddle and Kipp\, “Trump’s bulldozing of the East Wing of the White House is a grim metaphor for what his regime is doing to the republic. Running the country like one of his many failed businesses\, Trump is shredding the Constitution.” Utilizing a structural analysis this presentation will explore how fundamental weaknesses of our governing systems enable Trump’s authoritarianism. \nBiddle will begin by underscoring the clear disdain for democracy held by the so-called “Founders.” Governor Edmund Randolph spoke for all of them when he opened the Constitutional Convention by declaring that “our chief danger arises from the democratic parts of our government”. In September 1787 the delegates announced the Constitution. It opens with five words — “We the People of the United States.” \nEnfranchisement has been the key measure of who “We the People” are. Property qualifications\, gender and race have been criteria to limit civil and political rights. The disfranchised are effectively excluded from the protections enumerated in the Constitution. Each time an expansion of suffrage occurs a reactionary movement to disfranchise ensues. It’s been a tug of war since 1787. \nBiddle will review a little understood weapon in the arsenal of disfranchisement\, the development and expansion of “corporate personhood.” Utilized by corporate lawyers since the 19th century\, corporate personhood has lifted a billionaire class to unprecedented heights of wealth and political power. Corporate personhood was used in the 2010 Citizens United case by the Supreme Court to equate money with free speech. Since then billions of dark money dollars have captured our political system. How does corporate personhood work? What makes it so dangerous? What can be done to disrupt it? These are questions we will explore. \nKipp will cover how the structural weaknesses of the Constitution have been exploited by the Trump regime to construct the most anti democratic government in U.S. history. \nFirst\, Madison and his fears about unethical leaders will be examined. Followed by a look at basic principles and formations such as popular sovereignty\, and checks and balances. These essential components of the founding document today are unable to withstand the resistance of the current regime that actively undermines the integrity of congressional hearings and oversight powers. \nNext the legislative function of government is analyzed. Lawmaking itself is compromised by an executive that has little appreciation for the democratic process. Executive orders and emergency decrees and the outright ignoring of the legislative branch are the new normal. The Republican Party willingly collaborates with the Trump regime. The presentation will conclude with a look at the judicial process. \nThe Justice Department and the Supreme Court have abandoned their historic obligations as custodians of the rule of law. Trump has transformed Justice and the highest court into instruments of partisan power. No longer do they serve as neutral overseers of a constitutional process. \nThese are the most perilous times this country has endured since the Civil War. The Constitution itself is under direct attack from those in power. A long train of historical influences has determined how and where we are today.
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LOCATION:118 Elliot
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SUMMARY:Architecture + Design Film Series: Modernism\, Inc.
DESCRIPTION:Doors open at 6pm\, Screening starts at 6:30pm. Running time 118min. \nThe Architecture +Design Film Series continues Wednesday\, December 10th with MODERNISM\, INC.: THE ELIOT NOYES DESIGN STORY. For the full season lineup\, visit the ADF FILMS page. \nModernism\, Inc. provides a rich\, thoughtful exploration of Eliot Noyes’ influence on design\, architecture\, and the corporate world. Coining the term\, “Good Design is Good Business”\, Noyes built design programs that essentially “branded” some of America’s most powerful postwar corporations. This film weaves Noyes’ story with the broader context of corporate America’s embrace of Modernism during the period of postwar economic expansion\, and culminates in the backlash against Noyes and his generation at the Aspen Design Conference during the countercultural upheaval of the Vietnam era. One of the\, “Harvard Five”\, Noyes also helped transform New Canaan\, CT into a laboratory for residential Modernism. The idea of beauty with utility\, which was generated from the Bauhaus art movement\, continues to remain vital today\, and for this\, we thank Noyes. \nDirected by Jason Cohn\, 2023\, USA.
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