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.
Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!
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.
Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!
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.
Please call (802) 434-2167 or email museum@birdsofvermont.org several days in advance to schedule your visit. Admission is free for members!
Our 2021 art show, Expanding Voices, explores and reflects the past year. Visual arts, poetry, 3D, and prose pieces capture the variety of solitudes, connections, race issues, changes and changelessness, new skills, and understandings we experienced in 2020.
Forty artists, photographers, writers, and poets had their work selected for this year’s show. They range from under 10 to over 80 and speak from their varied experiences of birding, the pandemic, faith, and social issues.
We invited you to explore the visual and written art at your own pace, to be inspired, to ask questions, and to browse through the book of artists’ statements.
Show runs through October • Included with Museum admission
Many of the originals are for sale, and several artists have prints, cards, and other items available in our gift shop.
Artists, poets, writers, and photographers include:
Adam Forguites
Alison Forrest
Ariel Kaile McKnight Burgess
Betty Mitchell
Carol McDowell
Carol Talmage
Carolyn Crotty
Cat McKeen
Cathleen H Barkley
Charlotte O
Chris Selin
Christy Witters
Deana Allgaier
Diahann Addison
Francine Fox
Jane Ploughman
Juniper M
Kateland Kelly
Katherine Guttman
Kir Talmage
Laura Fried
Lily Hinrichsen
Lori Hinrichsen
Louanne Nielsen
Lynn Cummings
Marcia Vogler
Mariposa Ottens
Meg Walker
Miriam Adams
Nancy Stone
Nicandra Galper
Oscar A. Sanchez Guillen
Prudence M
Sarah Rosedahl
Sau
Sharon Radtke
Stefani Allegretti
Summer Stratton
Tina Valentinetti
Tricia Knoll
Our 2021 art show, Expanding Voices, explores and reflects the past year. Visual arts, poetry, 3D, and prose pieces capture the variety of solitudes, connections, race issues, changes and changelessness, new skills, and understandings we experienced in 2020.
Forty artists, photographers, writers, and poets had their work selected for this year’s show. They range from under 10 to over 80 and speak from their varied experiences of birding, the pandemic, faith, and social issues.
We invited you to explore the visual and written art at your own pace, to be inspired, to ask questions, and to browse through the book of artists’ statements.
Show runs through October • Included with Museum admission
Many of the originals are for sale, and several artists have prints, cards, and other items available in our gift shop.
Artists, poets, writers, and photographers include:
Adam Forguites
Alison Forrest
Ariel Kaile McKnight Burgess
Betty Mitchell
Carol McDowell
Carol Talmage
Carolyn Crotty
Cat McKeen
Cathleen H Barkley
Charlotte O
Chris Selin
Christy Witters
Deana Allgaier
Diahann Addison
Francine Fox
Jane Ploughman
Juniper M
Kateland Kelly
Katherine Guttman
Kir Talmage
Laura Fried
Lily Hinrichsen
Lori Hinrichsen
Louanne Nielsen
Lynn Cummings
Marcia Vogler
Mariposa Ottens
Meg Walker
Miriam Adams
Nancy Stone
Nicandra Galper
Oscar A. Sanchez Guillen
Prudence M
Sarah Rosedahl
Sau
Sharon Radtke
Stefani Allegretti
Summer Stratton
Tina Valentinetti
Tricia Knoll
Time for Winter Hours! On Nov 1, the Museum switches to winter hours: ‘Open By Appointment’. Please call to schedule a visit for yourself—family—school—group!
Season’s Tweetings from the Birds of Vermont Museum
Art of Birds, clockwise from upper left: needle-felted Owls (Susi Ryan’s class); Flood Birds (carved by David Tuttle from trees washed out during the 2013 flood); Eagle quilt (Carol McDowell for the Birds of a Fiber exhibit); Northern Parula (wood carving by Bob Spear); Scarlet Tanager ornaments (carved by Dick Allen and painted by Kir Talmage); Wren (carving by Elizabeth Spinney)
In selecting art for the Birds of a Fiber exhibit, we hoped to allow the variety of media to hint at the diversity of birds. We had hooked rugs and traditional penny rugs, photographs rendered in cross-stitch, crocheted and fabric sculptures, needle felted miniatures, multimedia collages, paper sculpture, and quilts.
We hope you had a chance to see some of these works for yourself! There is not enough room to show all the works here in our mini slideshow. However, all the artists are listed below.
J. Malone led a group of Girl Questers in making an entire exhibit of felted birds.
Detail of one of C. McDowell’s quilted wall hangings
D. Littlepage’s textile collage of a Northern Cardinal.
K. Guttman uses soft fabric sculptures and reclaimed decorative cages to create art stories.
E. Gagne’s crosstitch showing a birdhouse near a pond.
“Cat’s Cradle” by N. Tomczak, from watercolors and yarn.
E. Talmage repurposes old books into paper sculptures, like this birdhouse from an old Audubon encyclopedia.
Ann Wetzel’s Penny Rug, made of wool felt and other fabrics
Needle felted owls by M. Barnes and K. Talmage. Wool, less than 2″ tall.
R. Hadden’s hooked wall rug showing birds and habitat.
M. Lowe pieces quilts from selected colors, building up entire images.
The center bird is a White-breasted Nuthatch crocheted by E. Spinney
Ann Wetzel, penny rug
Carol McDowell, quilted art
Dawn Littlepage, textile collage
Elizabeth Spinney, crochet
Erin Talmage, recycled paper
Eve Gagne, cross stitch
Kir Talmage, needle felted wool
Marya Lowe, quilted art
Morgan Barnes, needle felted wool
Robin Hadden, rug hooking
Katherine Guttman, mixed media (fiber, glass, and metal)