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By ALEX HANSON

Community art projects sound antithetical to the common conception of how art is made. Isn’t most art the product of a tortured genius working alone in his studio?There’s no question that in the Upper Valley, a lot of art is made in solitude, either...

By ALEX HANSON

Spring has been pretty dismal, but it appears the sun will put in an appearance at the monthly First Friday art walk in White River Junction.The weather didn’t cooperate the first time Revolution, the independent clothing emporium, unveiled public art...

By ALEX HANSON

Hanover’s Ledyard Gallery opens an exhibition of art in an uncommon medium.“Art in Wood: the White Mountains, Mt. Monadnock, and Acadia,” brings to the Howe Library marquetry by Peterborough, N.H., woodworker and artist Craig Altobello. The show opens...

By ALEX HANSON

The Saint-Gaudens National Historic Park opens for the season this weekend. Since the park’s major works are the massive outdoor sculptures of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, what the opening of the park means is that the buildings and their contents reopen...

By ALEX HANSON

When readers first meet Nikki Griffin, the heroine of Save Me From Dangerous Men, the debut novel from Canaan native Saul Lelchuk, she’s working the pool table at a West Oakland bar, sizing up a man in order to take him down.At first, she seems like a...

By ALEX HANSON

AVA Gallery and Art Center experienced three decades of growth under longtime Executive Director Bente Torjusen.But even as it moved from Hanover to the former H.W. Carter and Sons building in Lebanon, then purchased and renovated the building, the...

By ALEX HANSON

Painting remains the dominant mode of art-making in the Upper Valley. And I’m not blithely strolling out on a limb in so stating.Why that’s so is a subject for another day, or for an undergraduate thesis. Today, I’m setting painting up as a foil, so I...

By ALEX HANSON

One of the great New England art stories of the past 20 years is the ongoing restoration of the many 19th- and early-20th-century painted theater curtains that once brightened the region’s public buildings.Since 1996, an effort led by Vermont resident...

By ALEX HANSON

When the Aidron Duckworth Art Museum opened, in 2002 in its namesake artist’s former home in Meriden, it had a simple mission.Duckworth, a British artist who settled in the Upper Valley in 1976 and became an influential art teacher, set up a trust...

By ALEX HANSON

The Saint-Gaudens Memorial, which partners with and supports the Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site in Cornish, plans to recognize the Darmouth College library for its work in conserving the papers of the site’s namesake artist, Augustus...

By ALEX HANSON

Since boyhood, Frank J. “Jay” Barrett Jr., has collected vintage postcards of Hanover, where he grew up.In the 1990s, he pitched to a publisher the idea of turning his trove of images into a book. They asked if he could guarantee sales of 100,000...

By ALEX HANSON

At her day job, Alison Palizzolo presents at a buttoned down pro. She’s the PR coordinator at the Hood Museum of Art.Her recent artwork is something else. It’s pleasingly messy, a mix of acrylic paint, ceramic stucco and an iridescent medium, which...

By ALEX HANSON

Although he has left AVA Gallery and Art Center after leading it for a little over two years, Paul N. “Trip” Anderson III has moved into a role that will enable him to advocate for the Upper Valley’s arts organizations.Anderson is working part-time as...

By ALEX HANSON

Tom Ball has been working as a tattoo artist in the Upper Valley for over 30 years at his shop Tatunka Tattoo, which is now in South Royalton. He also makes art by burning designs into wood and painting the results. A show of his work is on view at...

By ALEX HANSON

After finishing a degree in studio art, Matt Brown moved back to Lyme, his hometown. He made art while working in construction.In 1993, the then young Hood Museum of Art exhibited prints by Hiroshige, the legendary Japanese printmaker of the “floating...

By ALEX HANSON

Late in 1983, after the Polish government lifted a period of martial law that had been in force since December 1981, Viktor Witkowski’s parents decided they had to leave their country.At the time, Witkowski was 4½ years old. They crossed from Poland...

By ALEX HANSON

The gentle word-play in the title of James Sturm’s new graphic novel, Off Season, reflects both on the characters he was writing about and the national mood. Leached of color and warmth, Sturm’s panels chronicle a troubled moment in a marriage amid...

By ALEX HANSON

Group shows at Upper Valley art venues are like a sampler of what’s going on in the neighborhood, a way to take the temperature of the area’s sizable population of visual artists.The Library Arts Center, in Newport, N.H., opens one of the bigger and...