Art at the Kent

Art at the Kent Contemporary art at an historic crossroads. Exhibits & events on a seasonal basis. See website. Visitors are welcome during daylight hours.

In this most unusual of years, the entire indoor exhibition 20/20 Hindsight has been postponed until September 2021. Instead, for 2020, Art at the Kent showcases a selection of outdoor art by several 20/20 Hindsight artists. Starting September 11, visitors can safely view these works during daylight hours on the grounds of the Kents' Corner State Historic Site at 7 Old West Church Road, Calais, Ve

rmont. We invite you to enjoy original sculpture, installations, assemblages and the written word by a group of contemporary Vermont artists who explore historic trades and technology in new and surprising ways. Please note the building is closed and public facilities are not available. Limited parking on Old West Church Road, opposite the museum. Thank you for wearing a mask and maintaining at least a 6-foot distance from other visitors.

Here’s wishing you all a fun, creative, joy-filled, not-too-bumpy, bright and sunny ride into and through the New Year!H...
01/01/2026

Here’s wishing you all a fun, creative, joy-filled, not-too-bumpy, bright and sunny ride into and through the New Year!
Happy 2026!

Starting January 1st out with this memory from 2025’s Art at the Kent exhibit “HOLDING: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled”—
Chip Haggerty’s “Radio Flyer” (2024), acrylic, crayon, pencil, brown bags, duct tape.
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Holding on, holding up, and seemingly holding up the sky as the season unfolds in Kents’ Corner.From the fall exhibit, “...
11/18/2025

Holding on, holding up, and seemingly holding up the sky as the season unfolds in Kents’ Corner.

From the fall exhibit, “HOLDING: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled,” Jon Roberts’s “Field Ensemble 1,” 2025 (metal coatings on wood, patina, paint), still stands in good company, and offers good company, out in the quiet snow-kissed field.
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📸: M. E. Jacobsen

Good morning! What are you waking up to today—coffee, tea, or maybe a wafting memory? Like this recollection, from a ped...
10/22/2025

Good morning! What are you waking up to today—coffee, tea, or maybe a wafting memory? Like this recollection, from a pedestal in the now-closed exhibit “HOLDING: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled,” of a captivating piece by artist Vermont Jennifer Koch: “Speciman #48” (2007)—tea cup, Japanese beetles, oak.
Though we can’t sip it, its essence lingers, doesn’t it?
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#3-dart
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📸: M. E. Jacobsen

Closing.My how we’ve all experienced change through the brief but influential era of this exhibit.:::: Cornelia Den...
10/13/2025

Closing.
My how we’ve all experienced change through the brief but influential era of this exhibit.
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Cornelia Denker Emlen

When the people crowd grows to be too much for you, make your way to the serene escape of the cedar grove, where Stephen...
10/12/2025

When the people crowd grows to be too much for you, make your way to the serene escape of the cedar grove, where Stephen Procter’s “Chrysalis” (2024) leans in to the trees, the dappled light, the whisper of passing conversations.
Vessel of stoneware and textured concrete, holding steady in the “HOLDING” exhibit just outside the wood portion of the Kent’s connected buildings.
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📸: M. E. Jacobsen

What a delight it’s been to have the work of Barre-Vermont-born outsider/self-taught/folk artist Gayleen Aiken (1934-200...
10/12/2025

What a delight it’s been to have the work of Barre-Vermont-born outsider/self-taught/folk artist Gayleen Aiken (1934-2005) on display at the Kent for this year’s Spotlight!
Fitting for a final day of the exhibit “HOLDING: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled” to share images of music and friends as you’re sure to hear some 🎶 and see some smiling dear ones at today’s Closing Celebration if you come.
Many thanks to Rural Arts Collaborative for the generous loan of work by Gayleen Aiken! (See a link in comments to RAC’s website.)

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📸: M. E. Jacobsen

Beauty and hand-wrought design have always been a part of the old Kent Tavern, aka, lovingly, the Kent Museum, officiall...
10/12/2025

Beauty and hand-wrought design have always been a part of the old Kent Tavern, aka, lovingly, the Kent Museum, officially, Kents’ Corner State Historic Site. Look and you shall find. Here, original, historic, iron boot scraper on a granite stoop at the Kent.
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📸: Mary Elder Jacobsen

This just in! Fresh from the artist himself, this newly (as of yesterday eve!) installed steel and mixed media piece by ...
10/11/2025

This just in! Fresh from the artist himself, this newly (as of yesterday eve!) installed steel and mixed media piece by Jon Roberts, catching its own reflection, with a visage considering it/her/him/their-self, much as visitors have been doing throughout the run of this popular and very peopled show!
Thanks for adding to the wonderful views outside and within.
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📸: Mary Elder Jacobsen

Up close and the long view. Stephen Procter’s “Slender Jar” (2024), of stoneware and mottled slip, graces one of the Ken...
10/11/2025

Up close and the long view. Stephen Procter’s “Slender Jar” (2024), of stoneware and mottled slip, graces one of the Kent’s granite stoops.
What might a jar of this size have been holding back in the day?
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📸: M. E. Jacobsen

Who are we? Who have we been? Who might we become? Questions we may reflect on as we ponder art on display by 22 Vermont...
10/11/2025

Who are we? Who have we been? Who might we become? Questions we may reflect on as we ponder art on display by 22 Vermont artists for “HOLDING: Mementos Kept, Memories Kindled.”
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On pedestal:
“I and Myself” [low-fire clay], by sculptor Susan Wilson
On wall:
“Austere Simplicity” (2025) [oil on panel], painter by Bonnie Baird

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Bonnie Baird
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📸: Mary Elder Jacobsen

On such a sunny Saturday as this, maybe you have time for one last dip, or two! Here at the Kent, at top, Vaune Trachtma...
10/11/2025

On such a sunny Saturday as this, maybe you have time for one last dip, or two! Here at the Kent, at top, Vaune Trachtman’s “Pentimento” (2024), from the series ALL THAT IS, photogravure with surface roll [Akua ink on Shiramine paper] summons memories of notes written out by hand, swimming caps, and watery childhoods, and, below, Graziella Weber-Grassi’s “Diver” (2020) [collage] perhaps reminds us to practice til perfect or take a chance and go for it!
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Graziella Weber-Grassi Vaune Trachtman

Colorful carved wooden figure sculptures by Olaf Saaf dot this Kent room like players in the outfield of a ball game in ...
10/11/2025

Colorful carved wooden figure sculptures by Olaf Saaf dot this Kent room like players in the outfield of a ball game in the foreground, while Leonard Ragouzeo’s framed India ink work hits a home run on the wall beyond.
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