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State Curator David Schutz is again rearranging and refreshing the art hung on the walls of the Statehouse.

From Jan. 23-27, ten virtual events will take place teaching 7th-12th graders about the Holocaust

The Fletcher Free Library will soon exhibit The Courage to Remember, 40 panels about the Holocaust that have been seen by millions worldwide.

The Vermont Holocaust Memorial holds its third educators’ workshop, “Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy: The Holocaust as a Case Study,” to study the Holocaust through the lens of media,

Better yet, call it by its new name: The Current. After nearly a decade of pondering whether to keep a contemporary art gallery, workshop and educational center named after a woman with a problematic connection to Nazis, the art center’s leadership has rebranded the place, leaving history in the past and looking ahead. According to The Current’s executive director Rachel Moore, an art center located in Stowe that serves the greater community for arts education but draws people from al...

A name change for Stowe’s Helen Day Art Center — part of an ongoing rebranding of the organization that includes a new strategic plan and expanded educational offerings — has led to a larger discussion about the history of the woman behind the building’s name and attitudes that in some ways shaped the Stowe community’s past. So, who was Helen Day Montanari? Was she the ahead-of-her-time modern woman as some claim, or an anti-Semite who helped foster hatred and discrimin...