Arts & Culture

Thanksgiving season can be a busy time of year for wreath makers. And as climate change pushes the first frost back, it's making it harder to meet deadlines.

Gabor Szilasi, 95, has been based in Montreal since the late 1950s. He's known for immortalizing both landscape and people, and for his optimistic, joyful approach.

Artist Minoo Emami destroyed 22 of her paintings by fire, including early works dating back to 1998. She called the burning a “ritual rooted in mourning.”

The R&B star led all artists with nine nominations for the 66th Grammy Awards. She'll compete with Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Jon Batiste in album, song and record of the year.

Lyric Theatre Company opens its 50th season this week with a production of The Prom. The company operates out of South Burlington with a focus on community, volunteerism and diversity.

Since 2019, the Lullaby Project has paired parents and caregivers in vulnerable situations with local musicians from Scrag Mountain Music and facilitators from Writers in Recovery, the Lund Center and KidSafe Collaborative, among other groups. Then, the personal lullabies are performed during a concert.

It's the only literary magazine published at a public university in the state.

Facing a long-term budget shortfall amid low enrollment, Vermont State University this week announced a series of faculty buyouts. Vermont Public's Mary Engisch spoke to a Performance Arts and Technology professor who accepted one.

In the new documentary Stitch, Breathe, Speak, a group of parishioners from several predominantly white New Hampshire churches create quilts featuring the last words spoken by George Floyd before he was murdered by a Minnesota police officer in 2020. The film touches on what the quilt panels and Floyd’s words brought to the ones making them.

Nye Ffarrabas is an artist known for her contributions to the Fluxus art movement. She also served as one of the key inspirations for John Killacky's film Flux, part of the 18th season of Vermont Public's Made Here series.