Green Mountain Woodcarvers May 2025 Carve-In

Hands of older, light-skinned person. The left hand is wearing a Kevlar carving glove and holding a partially-carved piece of wood. The right hand is holding a carving knife and is carving the wood.

The Museum is delighted to host the Green Mountain Wood Carvers (GMWC) May Carve-In! Stop in to watch a wood carver at work, ask a question, or learn about this carving club.

The Green Mountain Woodcarvers will be carving in the workshop. The GMWC is a group of carvers from Vermont with members from around New England. They meet monthly for “Carve-Ins” around the State and host a annual Show and Class (in August). We’re delighted to have them at the Museum!

At the Carve-In, carvers talk and work on a variety of woodcarving projects. Carvers are always happy to explain how they carve and to share their expertise with others. Ask questions and become a GMWC member!

Carvers meet in the workshop or treehouse (weather permitting).

More info at the Green Mountain Wood carvers website: http://greenmountainwoodcarvers.org/

April 2025 events

A barn-style dark wooden building at the end of a wooden bridge, with a slate walkway in front. Some benches are at the viewer's left, next to the entrance. Trees with buds tinting the otherwise bare branches are visible to the left. It is early spring (April).

We’re busy getting ready for Opening Day in May! Choosing art, organizing volunteers, checking trails… While we do this, the Museum is open by appointment and for special events.

The trails are open from sunrise to sunset, every day—we recommend using the south trails (Spear, Discovery, Story) rather than Gale’s, Pop’s, or Bob’s, thanks to flooding last July. Trail maps and more information are available on our website, and are posted at the museum and at trail kiosks as well. (Let us know if the wind moved any!)

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Opening Day for the 2025 Season

Young children peer through the glass of a double entrance door.

Welcome everyone!

Enjoy “Summer” Hours

Today we switch to our “open” season. The Museum is open 10 am – 4 pm, Wednesday – Sunday, every week from May to October.

Drop in or plan your visit; attend an event or wander the trails.

Check out our 2025 art exhibit, Birds and Myth: meanings, metaphors, and guides.

Of course, our trails, tree house, bird blind, and pollinator sanctuaries are open! Bring a friend and a picnic (and good shoes and bug repellent). Spend time listening for frogs and birds at the pond or for birds from the accessible tree house. Trails are open sunrise to sunset every day.

By-Appointment Season 2024-2025 (April)

white, five-petaled flower with long, smooth leaves growing at the base of a gray rock.

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Behind the scenes in April: we’re jurying the submitted art, contacting artists, and hanging the art for Birds and Myth. We’re also working on grants, welcoming volunteers, tidying permanent exhibits. We’re excited about returning migratory birds and planning lots of birds walks for May and June!

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Or sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/

“The Gift of Art” show continues (April)

Watercolor painting (excerpt): shows a white woman in a yellow shirt looking upward through binoculars. The point-of-view is from above, so only her head and arms are clear.

“The Gift of Art” is our off-season art show.

This often-changing exhibit displays varied works from previous shows, selections from our gift shop, and elements of our long-term collections. See how art weaves together myriad media, styles, and visions. What’s present in April may be quite different from what we had up in November, so consider a repeat visit!

Explore previous themes, find a gift for someone, and celebrate art in our lives.

Open when the Museum is : From Nov 1 – April 30, that’s by appointment and for special events. Art shows are included with admission.

Past Exhibits

2024: The Power of Perspective
2023: Spark! fueling a love of birds
2022: Fine Feathers: at play with structure and function
2021: Expanding Voices: perspectives on birding
2020: Borders: illusions that constrain us
2019: Pollinate This!
2018: Common Grounds
2017: B1rding by the Numb3rs
2016: In Layers: the art of the egg
2015: Birds of a Fiber
2014: Perilous Passages

 

March 2025 events

Crocuses pierce a light coating of snow in the foreground; a wooden bridge in the midground leads to a dark barn-type building in the background (the Birds of Vermont Museum). Leafless trees frame the background to either side of the bridge and museum.

The Birds of Vermont Museum is busy behind the scenes, but here are a few events to know about. Feel free to post this on your sites, boards, etc., and thank you! The Museum is open by appointment and for special events (like the Great Backyard Bird Count) at this time of year. Free admission for members!

The trails are open from sunrise to sunset, every day—we recommend using the south trails (Spear, Discovery, Story) rather than Gale’s, Pop’s, or Bob’s, thanks to flooding last July. Trail maps and more information are available on our website, and are posted at the museum and at trail kiosks as well. (Let us know if the wind moved any!)

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By-Appointment Season 2024-2025 (March)

A Wild Turkey is seen through an office window.

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Behind the scenes in March: we’re reviewing submissions for the new art show, feeding birds, working on special projects, hosting the spring board meeting…

We invite all artists to pick up their works from previous shows!

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Or sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/

“The Gift of Art” show continues (March)

Ink drawing of patterns , a bird in flight, and insects

“The Gift of Art” is our off-season art show.

This often-changing exhibit displays varied works from previous shows, selections from our gift shop, and elements of our long-term collections. See how art weaves together myriad media, styles, and visions. What’s present in March may be quite different from what we placed in November, so consider a repeat visit!

Interested in our next show, Birds and Myth? Check out the call to artists (deadline March 18, 2024 ): https://birdsofvermont.org/2025/01/02/call-to-artists-birds-and-myth/

Explore previous themes, find a gift for someone, and celebrate art in our lives.

Open when the Museum is : From Nov 1 – April 30, that’s by appointment and for special events. Included with admission.

Past Exhibits

2024: The Power of Perspective
2023: Spark! fueling a love of birds
2022: Fine Feathers: at play with structure and function
2021: Expanding Voices: perspectives on birding
2020: Borders: illusions that constrain us
2019: Pollinate This!
2018: Common Grounds
2017: B1rding by the Numb3rs
2016: In Layers: the art of the egg
2015: Birds of a Fiber
2014: Perilous Passages

 

Deadline for submissions to Birds and Myth

The Birds of Vermont Museum’s 2025 art show is centered on the ideas of birds, myth, meanings, metaphors, and guides. We invite art submissions that bring birds and their meanings into your art to retell an old story, weave several together, represent your beliefs, and/or create a myth for the future.

The entire Call to Artists with all details is at https://birdsofvermont.org/call-to-artists-birds-and-myth/

TODAY is the last day to submit artworks in any media, by new or returning artists, of any age, to the Birds and Myth art show by 11:59 PM! Continue reading “Deadline for submissions to Birds and Myth

By-Appointment Season 2024-2025 (February)

Camel's Hump: view from the Birds of Vermont Museum's backyard

From November through April, we’re open by appointment and for special events. Individuals, families, and groups are all welcome at all times of year. Our trails are open year-round, sunrise to sunset.

Behind the scenes in February:  We’re working on some special projects this month and doing some quiet birding. A few artists might stop in to pick up works from last year’s show and we hope many of them are imagining or creating new ones for Birds and Myth.

Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!

Or sign up to attend special events: these are listed on our calendar at https://birdsofvermont.org/special-upcoming/