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The ice shanty is a Vermont institution. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center calls it art, too Brent Hallenbeck, Burlington Free Press © COURTESY "Suitcase Art Shanty" by Mike Haeg. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is presenting the exhibit "Artful Ice Shanties" Feb. 13-28, 2021. Ice shanties are a part of the Vermont landscape this time of year, with tiny shacks that protect ice fishers from the elements dotting ponds and lakes each winter. But are they art? A Vermont museum thinks so. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center this weekend begins the inaugural “Artful Ice S...

Thu, 01/28/2021 - 1:58pm -- tim Brattleboro Museum & Art Center partners with Retreat Farm in an artistic celebration of New England’s fishing traditions Vermont Business Magazine Most New Englanders have seen ice shanties on frozen lakes, but few, if any, have seen an ice shanty shaped like a fish—not to mention a stovepipe hat, a wishing well, or a wedge of cheese. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) and Retreat Farm present all this and more in the inaugural Artful Ice Shanties Design-Build Competition, an outdoor celebration of the delightful possibilities of winter. Over a do...

Editor’s note: Please send visual art listings to jim.lowe@timesargus.com or jim.lowe@rutlandherald.com. All galleries and museums require masks and social distancing unless otherwise indicated. Virtual exhibits are not listed, but they can be found at Vermont Arts Online. Exhibit streaming Bennington Bennington Museum: Closed January–March, reopens April 2; Grandma Moses, ongoing; “Bennington Modernism,” ongoing; “Gilded Age Vermont,” ongoing, wealth and prosperity come to Bennington, 75 Main St., Bennington, 802-447-1571, www.benningtonmuseum.org Hours: 1 to 8 p.m...

All galleries and museums require masks and social distancing unless otherwise indicated. Exhibit streaming Barre AR Market: “ARTE at AR,” through Jan. 16, featuring Vermont painters Juliana Cassino Fechter, Charles Ryerson and Gabriel Tempesta, Alimentari Roscini Market, 159 N. Main St., Barre, 802-479-7069, www.studioplacearts.com Studio Place Arts: “Celebrate!” through Dec. 29, wide variety of art and craft created by 80 SPA member artists, on all three floors, SPA, 201 N. Main St., Barre, 802-479-7069, www.studioplacearts.com Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. public hours, 2:30...