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Valley News – Bert Dodson, prolific Vermont artist, dies at 83
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 everyone’s birthright and wrote and illustrated two books on drawing meant to encourage people to take it up regardless of prior experience. “Anyone who can hold a pencil can learn to draw with some degree of proficiency,” he wrote in Keys to Drawing, which came out in 1985. By that time, he was well-ensconced in the Bradford area, having moved there in 1977. He would spend the…
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It Happened Here: Larson Gallery opens at Yakima Valley College | Happened
For extra than 70 many years, the Larson Gallery at Yakima Valley Faculty has been a showcase for the arts. From touring exhibits of renowned artists to showcases of the will work of community artisans to Indigenous American artifacts, the gallery has improved the Yakima Valley’s lifestyle. And the gallery, which a short while ago moved into new digs on the college’s expanded campus, commenced with a gift from one particular of the city’s a lot more prominent inhabitants. Adelbert E. Larson is very best recognised for the 11-story Art Deco creating that bears his title and has grow to be an iconic landmark. Larson was also a productive entrepreneur…
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Valley News – With big October movies, will Vermont theaters get their audiences back?
It is a big thirty day period for movie releases, but cinemas all-around Vermont are ready to see if COVID-19 fears and the increased popularity of streaming services will retain theatergoers absent from the massive display screen. Following months of sparse attendance, movie theater owners hope a slew of huge-budget, specific outcomes-packed movies set to premiere this thirty day period could kick-start out their faltering field. But no matter whether Vermonters will trade the residing room for the auditorium to get their amusement is not nevertheless acknowledged. In any event, theater proprietors concur: If at any time a situation was designed to coax folks back into theaters, this would be…
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