Arts Walk Returns To Middlebury 4/9

By: Apr. 01, 2010
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The stores are open late. The streets are full of happy people, sharing tips on where to go next. Art and music are everywhere - in galleries, shops and restaurants. This is the scene at the Middlebury Arts Walk, which bows in for its second season on Friday, April 9, from 5-7 pm.

Created last year by a local group, ArtsConnect, the event celebrates area artists while throwing the spotlight on everything that makes Middlebury special: a downtown of charming shops and restaurants, a collection of exciting new galleries, and one of the most dramatic sites of any town in the country, sitting directly atop the Otter Creek Falls.

The Arts Walk will take place on the second Friday of every month, from now through October. Admission to all of the sites is free.

Over 30 sites are taking part in this year's season, including galleries such as The Art House, Edgewater Gallery, PhotoPlace Gallery, and the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater. Also open for viewing will be the Ilsley Library, Vermont Folklife Center, Henry Sheldon Museum, and the Old Stone Mill.

Shops and restaurants that will display art while staying open for business include the Middlebury Inn, Otter Creek Used Books, Stone Leaf Teahouse, and the newly-renamed Skihaus of Vermont. Jointing the Arts Walk for the first time are Danforth Pewter on Seymour Street, and the Middlebury Studio School on Mill Street.

Special opening receptions will feature Nostalgia, a juried photography exhibit at the PhotoPlace Gallery, and the roller-blade art of Jean Cherouny at The Art House.

The Middlebury Arts Walk is making ripples as far away as Burlington. During last year's Arts Walk season, SEVEN DAYS reported that "Addison County's shire town is becoming one of Vermont's premier cultural destinations."

The Middlebury Arts Walk. Friday, April 9, 5-7 pm. Free. Maps available at sites around town.

CAPTION: Celebration, by Barbara Baker-Bury, will be on display at The Edgewater Gallery during the Middlebury Arts Walk, April 9, 5-7 pm.



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