River Arts Blog
River Arts Raffle Winner
Posted July 7, 2008Congratulations to Stacy Theberge, who won a River Arts gift certificate when she entered the raffle at the 2 Loons for Tea concert in May. Be sure to try your luck next time you visit the River Arts Center! Winners will be drawn on the first of each month and posted on the website.
Outdoor movies this summer!
Posted June 12, 2008We’re excited. Cool idea that MACC put together: Outdoor movies in the beautiful Oxbow park in Morrisville.
And if it’s going to rain, the movies will be at River Arts. Movies start at 8PM if it’s raining.
Lewis Franco and the Missing Cats
Posted June 11, 2008Saturday June 28, 7:30pm at the Air Conditioned River Arts Center. Join us for a swingin’ good time with favorites Lewis Franco, Will Patton, Dono Schabner and Micah Carbonneau. Everyone who participated in our spring swing dance class is encouraged to come and show their stuff, as well as everyone and anyone else interested in [...]
Fourth Annual Northeast Heritage Music Fest!
Posted June 1, 2008Come to the AIR CONDITIONED River Arts Center June 21 at 7pm to celebrate the acoustic music traditions of New England, eastern Canada, Scotland, Ireland, and the southeastern United States.
Join Ken Perlman and his 11 folk superstar faculty members (including ten time Irish Fiddle Champ Seamus Connolly) from the Northeast Heritage Music Camp for a [...]
River Arts Awarded Challenge Grant!
Posted May 14, 2008News Flash - Double your Donation!
River Arts has been awarded a $75,000 challenge grant for our capital campaign- and we’re well on our way to matching it. To date, we have received $49,000 in matching donations!
In order to receive this we must raise a dollar for dollar match. We need to match this grant with [...]
Two Loons for Tea
Posted May 12, 2008 \
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Catch a Rising Star
Posted May 12, 2008Sunday, June 8, 4pm: Our Eighth Annual Catch a Rising Star student performance, hosted by Peter Guihan - here at River Arts this year! The concert stars young classical musicians and those whose teachers may not be having a recital this spring, or those who’d like to perform for more friends and family. The air [...]
What a beautiful town - yes, I mean Morrisville!
Posted May 7, 2008 Today Benjamin Gould started volunteering at River Arts… so we sent him out to take pictures.
Pretty good gig, eh?
Here’s a shot of the building from Brooklyn Street.
Ahhh…
But then, I saw a couple of black flies today too.
Farmers and Artisan Market
Posted May 6, 2008This week, Wednesday, May 7, the market expands outdoors. Over 30 vendors will be on site in the River Arts Center and out in the Municipal Parking lot. A great place to come and get great food, art, local meat and produce while keeping your food dollar here in Lamoille County. Hope to see you there - and call if you have questions! 888-1261
Lots of new classes on the way:
Posted May 6, 2008New classes start the week of June 23 at River Arts.
Details here
Sign up here
For Adults: Mixed Media Painting with Dominique Gustin, Adult Hip Hop with Breanna Hart, Adult tap with Jenn Lindsay - and open studio figure drawing (weekly starting May 27)
For Youngsters: Lots of hip hop, tap and jazz dance, as well as painting [...]
River Arts - May happennings
Posted April 30, 2008
News from River Arts
April 30, 2008
It's Time for a Mailing Party!
Calling volunteers to join us at River Arts for a Mailing Party May 1, from 3-6pm. Grab your friends and come help us "Ring in the Arts"! We'll have snacks and drinks. Give a call: 888-1261 or email Sarah@RiverArtsVT.org and let us know if you [...]
Call to Volunteers!
Posted April 23, 2008River Arts is looking for people who can serve a variety of needs from daily office work to event planning and preparation. Fill out our online Volunteer Interest form and we’ll contact you when we need some help. Thanks!
Interested in getting started right away? River Arts will be having a Mailing Party Thursday, May 1 between 3-6pm if you want to stop on by! Call and tell us you’re coming
News Flash!
Posted April 15, 2008River Arts has been awarded a $75,000 challenge grant for our capital campaign! In order to receive this we must raise a dollar for dollar match. We want to match this grant with new donations and pledges as soon as possible. A 1:1 match will bring us $150,000 closer to our goal! Please click here to make a pledge or donation to bring the arts to everyone.
Benefit Concert: Roots Are Showing - a great success
Posted March 28, 2008Join us for an evening of great music while supporting a great cause at the River Arts Center on Friday, March 28th at 7PM. Part of WLVB’s Roots Are Showing program- bands featured on the radio show will play at the River Arts Center to support music scholarships.
Come visit the River Arts Center
Posted March 14, 2008The River Arts Center is nearing completion and our staff is scheduled to move in and set up our home base by the end of February. Programming in this intergenerational community arts space will begin in March. In warmer weather, the outside work (painting, landscaping, windows) will be completed.
Fundraising for the building project is currently in progress. To date, we have raised $679,066 in grants and donations.
Building tour video
Posted February 13, 2008A video of the building in early January
Many thanks to Natalie Stagnitti for filming and Phillip Roy for editing this short piece over at Green Mountain Access TV.
January work in and around the Arts Center
Posted January 17, 2008Tim Martell and Chip Wine working on the upstairs closet and banisters. Notice the wonderful wall color.
A Brief History of the Original Peoples Academy
Posted December 15, 2007In the early 1800s, public education in Morristown and most of Vermont was limited to scattered one-room schoolhouses. If you wanted to continue beyond eighth grade, you had to pay your own way to the Lamoille County Academy—
Plaster Restoration and Sheetrock
Posted November 27, 2007The Sheetrock mudding is almost done, and the walls are being primed. The trim is being restored as well. The building will be brought up to it’s original beauty soon! After that the painting and the floors will be next.
Leonard Spencer’s crew can be seen here prepping the upstairs ceiling for plaster restoration. Sticking out of the ceiling is the sprinkler system. This will be recessed into the ceiling once
Bell Tower and Ramp
Posted November 2, 2007The building crew can be seen adding copper flashing to the bell tower. The bell in the tower is the original according to Historian and Board Trustee Dawn Andrews.
Work on the Bell Tower
Posted October 26, 2007Yesterday Donny Blake’s crew started working on the bell tower. Otherwise the sheet rock is almost done, and the insulating was just completed today. Things are looking wonderful. Give a call if you’d like to look around! 888-1261
Insulation
Posted October 3, 2007Here’s what the new walls look like - before the sheetrock.
And here are the guys blowing the insulation into the old walls.
Accessibility work begins
Posted September 28, 2007This week the crew cut out the ceiling to make way for framing in the lift (elevator) that will make the upstairs accessible to all.
New Classes Announced!
Posted September 13, 2007We’ve just printed our new On the Rise brochure for classes starting the week of September 24! Offerings in music, dance, multi media and visual arts are on tap for a wonderful creative fall. Click here to see the brochure on line, or find it on the ”classes” page of our website.
Wonderful Progress on the Center
Posted September 5, 2007The progress of work is wonderful. This last few weeks the plumbing, heating and electrical systems have been roughed in.