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Vermont College of Fine Arts is moving its residency programs to Colorado. What does that mean for Montpelier?

By Connor Cyrus,
Andrea Laurion
Published March 21, 2023 at 4:45 PM EDT
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Vermont College of Fine Arts has called Montpelier home since its founding, but its graduate residencies will now be held out of state.

Live call-in discussion: Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier awards graduate degrees in writing, visual art and other creative pursuits. They announced last year that their residencies would move to a different campus out of state. Now, three of their buildings have sales pending, and a health and wellness center might be moving in. We'll explore what these changes mean for our capital city and what might be coming next to Montpelier.

Our guests are:

  • Leslie Ward, president of Vermont College of Fine Arts
  • Katie Trautz, interim executive director of Montpelier Alive
  • Sydney Lea, charter trustee and former instructor at VCFA

Broadcast live on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Editor's note: Montpelier Alive is a Vermont Public underwriter.

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Connor Cyrus
Connor Cyrus was co-host and senior producer of Vermont Edition from 2021-2023.
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Andrea Laurion
Andrea Laurion joined Vermont Public as a news producer for Vermont Edition in December 2022. She is a native of Pittsburgh, Pa., and a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. Before getting into audio, Andrea worked as an obituary writer, a lunch lady, a wedding photographer assistant, a children’s birthday party hostess, a haunted house actor, and an admin assistant many times over.
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