Island: A Conversation – Town of Rockingham, VT

Island: A Conversation – Town of Rockingham, VT

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Don’t miss this upcoming event in Town of Rockingham, VT. Happening on Saturday, January 25, 2025 at Waypoint Center. Doors open at 1:00 PM.

Join Susan Mikula, Charlie Hunter, and others for conversation about the history, present, and future of the island in Bellows Falls, VT.

Join photographer Susan Mikula, curator Charlie Hunter, and others for a conversation about the rich history, present, and future of the Island, a 30-acre shelf of bedrock in downtown Bellows Falls, Vermont. Originally a peninsula bounded on three sides by the Connecticut River, it became an Island in 1802, when the construction of a canal bypassing the Great Falls was completed, effectively severing it from the mainland. Once a gathering, ceremonial, and burial place for Abenaki and Iroquois people, the Island has been defined by human manipulation for centuries. Railroads, resort hotels, farm machinery, armament manufacturers, paper mills, and busy roadways have all come and gone. Today, the Island quietly awaits its next chapter. Bellows Falls resident and founder of the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project, Robert McBride, will moderate the conversation, which will take place at the Bellows Falls Waypoint Center, fittingly located on the Island itself.

This event is presented in connection with the exhibition Susan Mikula: Island.

Susan Mikula lives and works in New York City and rural western Massachusetts. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles, and Northampton and Provincetown, Massachusetts. It is in private collections in the United States and Europe, as well as in the permanent collection of the U.S. Embassy, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Charlie Hunter is a painter who lives in Bellows Falls, Vermont. This is the second exhibit he has curated for BMAC, the other being Boxcars: Railroad Imagery in Contemporary Realism. As a painter, Hunter says his goal is “to paint beautifully that which is not traditionally considered beautiful.”

  • Registration recommended; walk-ins welcome, subject to availability.

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Event ID - 1083373833299

Event Venue - Waypoint Center

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Event City - Town of Rockingham

Event State - VT

 

Date And Time

Saturday, January 25th, 2025 @ 01:00 PM (EST)
 

Venue

Waypoint Center
 

Location

17 Depot Street, Town of Rockingham, VT 05101
 

Event Types

Fine Art
 

Event Category

Vermont

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