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By ALEX HANSON

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A couple of years ago, CraftStudies was in transition.The nonprofit craft education organization had sold its building in Hanover and planned to purchase and renovate the former 25,000 Gifts building in White River Junction. It...

By ALEX HANSON

THETFORD — During the coronavirus pandemic, Ed Eastridge, who for the past two decades has been the Upper Valley’s most prolific guitar teacher, was forced to move his lessons online.This was a feature of the performing arts at the time. There weren’t...

By ALEX HANSON

BRADFORD, Vt. — Bert Dodson, an influential artist and illustrator who spent the bulk of his prolific career in the Upper Valley, has died at the age of 83.A draftsman of daunting skill, Dodson asserted that drawing, and art-making in general, is...

By ALEX HANSON

RUTLAND — A federal judge has granted Vermont Law School’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an artist whose murals the law school wants to hide behind a wall.But lawyers for artist Sam Kerson said he will appeal this week’s ruling by U.S....

By ALEX HANSON

At tonight’s First Friday receptions in White River Junction, a pair of recently opened galleries will do something local art viewers don’t often see.Both Tourist, a gallery on South Main Street that opened in January, and Kishka Gallery & Library,...

By JIM KENYON

When I saw a construction crew toiling away this summer on the facade of the Black Family Visual Arts Center in Hanover, my spirits soared.Could Dartmouth actually be removing the Black name from one of its leading downtown buildings?No such luck.On...

By NICOLA SMITH

Penelope Bennett began making art in circumstances in which art might be the last thing on anyone’s mind.During the German bombardment of London in World War II, Bennett’s mother urged her two young daughters to draw and paint to take their minds off...