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Students of the New England Center for Circus Arts perform for a crowd outside the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger
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BRATTLEBORO — When culture-minded residents decided to transform the town’s old train station into the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center in 1972, they acquired a lease for $1 a year and rather than wait for the ink to dry , opened with several paintings from such places. Local artist as the acclaimed Wolf Khan.
Everything else is still in the concept stage, he told reporters.
“Our plans are just the beginning,” one organizer said at the time.
In the half-century since then, much has changed—and still hasn’t.
The once-volunteer-turned-paid-professional nonprofit last spring struck a $1 annual lease with the town for a building sales contract.
Robbie, who made his debut in a Wolf Kahn landscape, will showcase works by everyone from Richard Morris Hunt (the Brattleboro-born architect who designed the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty) to pop art prince Andy Warhol. became. In honor of the late Khan and his artist wife, Emily Mason.
And the museum, which is about to celebrate its 50th anniversary, will host a public birthday party on Saturday, followed by a website documenting its first half-century of exhibits. Organizers also hoped to cut the ribbon on the headline-grabbing expansion announced just before the Covid-19 pandemic. But with the past as a prologue, the proposal is back in the planning stages and will be revealed in the coming months.
Director Danny Lichtenfeld said, “I feel that the spirit is still the same as it was 50 years ago.
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