Pastoral Exhibition 2008
Kent Tavern Museum
Calais, Vermont
Open Five Sundays in June, 1–5 pm
In several rooms of the historic Kent Tavern Museum, work by six artists is installed alongside art and objects from their personal collections to provide biographical insights into each artist’s creative history and inspirations.
Also on View:
Louise Andrews Kent’s
Miniature Rooms
Collection of the Kent Tavern Museum, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
Kent Family Portraits and
Landscape by James Franklin Gilman
Collection of the Vermont Historical Society
An Installation
In: A Poem by Carol Westberg
Sunday Events:
June 1
3:30 pm
Historic Site Tour
John Dumville, Historic Sites Operations Chief, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, leads a tour—inside and outside—of the Kent Tavern Museum.
June 8
2:00 pm
Artist Talks
Charles Shackleton and Miranda Thomas talk about their artistic histories and inspirations.
3:30 pm
Performance
Timothy Cummings performs traditional Irish, Scottish, and English music on bagpipes and Irish flutes.
June 15
2:00 pm
Artist Talks
Susan Jane Walp and John Kemp Lee talk about their artistic histories and inspirations.
3:30 pm
Reading
Carol Westberg reads selections from her recent collection of poems, Slipstream.
June 22
10:00 am
Nature Conservancy Hike at Chickering Bog
Join Rose Paul, naturalist with The Nature Conservancy of Vermont, on a walk into one of Vermont’s special natural places to see and learn about its enchanting orchids, carnivorous pitcher plants, and unique history.
See www.nature.org/vermont, click on Field Trips, or call The Nature Conservancy at 802 229 4425.
2:00 pm
Artist Talk
Glenn Suokko talks about his artistic history and inspirations.
June 29
2:00 pm
Historic Site Tour
John Dumville, Historic Sites Operations Chief, Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, leads a tour—inside and outside—of the Kent Tavern Museum.
3:30 pm
Exhibition Tour
Focusing on how history informs contemporary art, exhibition organizer Glenn Suokko leads a tour of works in the exhibition.
About Kents Corners
Kents Corners is a rare, rural community that has remained virtually intact for over 170 years. The 19th-century buildings include a tavern, barns, outbuildings, a sawmill, several houses, and, not far away, a meetinghouse. Most of the building materials used for the tavern and the neighboring structures were made or produced within Kents Corners or close by: brick was made on site, wood was harvested from the woodlands and milled at the sawmill, granite came from a nearby quarry, and ironwork was forged in the local blacksmith shop. The peaceful simplicity that Kents Corners personifies reflects a sensibility that makes it—and Vermont—unique in the United States.
Special thanks to the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation for providing the Kent Tavern Museum as the host site for the Pastoral 2008 exhibition.
Directions
From Interstate 89, take Exit 8, “Montpelier.”
At the second traffic light (with a sign that says “State House”), turn left onto Bailey Avenue.
At the traffic light, turn right onto State Street. Pass the Vermont State House and continue to the end of the street.
Turn left onto Main Street.
At the roundabout, bear right (this is still Main Street) and continue up the hill. (Pass Vermont Compost. Pass the Morse Farm.)
At the fork in the road, bear left onto County Road and continue for about 7 miles.
At at the bottom of the hill at Maple Corner, turn right onto Kent Hill Road and contine ¼ mile to the Kent Tavern Museum.
For more information about Kent Tavern see: http://www.historicvermont.org/kent/
