Green Mountain Academy welcomes Williams College Professor Magnús T. Bernhardsson to talk about understanding the current war in Iran in the context of the region's complex history. What is going on in the Persian Gulf? What should be kept in … Continued
Green Mountain Academy is excited to partner with the Southern Vermont Arts Center and the Manchester Historical Society to present this talk about the extraordinary history of art in our region. Manchester Historical Society curator, Shawn Harrington traces the evolution … Continued
Green Mountain Academy welcomes multimedia artist Brece Honeycutt whose long-term project, Prismatic Utopia, explores the practical, temporal, and spiritual uses of color in the Shaker community between 1790 and 1860. Shaker writings carefully documented where color could be used, who … Continued
Green Mountain Academy welcomes Holly Salmon, the John L. and Susan K. Gardner Director of Conservation at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, to talk about the restoration of its Dutch Room gallery. The Dutch Room is a grand … Continued
Green Mountain Academy is excited to partner with Manchester Music Festival and Southern Vermont Arts Center to present the screening of Four Rational People. Goethe once said that a string quartet is like “a conversation between FOUR RATIONAL PEOPLE,” and … Continued
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) is excited to partner with the Southern Vermont Arts Center (SVAC) to present the encore screening of REUNION: Ordinary Lives Viewed Up Close. As the Niskayuna High School Class of 1962 approaches their … Continued
Green Mountain Academy welcomes food scholar and author, Darra Goldstein, to talk about The Art of Corn. This program looks at imagery that takes corn as its subject, in the process showing how corn moves from material to metaphor. From … Continued
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning welcomes author and historian, Candice Shy Hooper, to talk about the wives of Lincoln’s generals. You know the old adage: behind every great man, there is a great woman, but as with most things … Continued
Green Mountain Academy welcomes economist, Peter Radford, to talk about economics and democracy, and how the two are inextricably linked. Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf has argued that modern democracy is, at its core, a product of sustained economic growth … Continued
Green Mountain Academy welcomes textile conservator, Michelle Pagan, for a fascinating presentation exploring the national search for 19th-century schoolgirl samplers. Through research tracing the Revolutionary War ancestors of the young girls who stitched these intricate works, we’ll uncover the stories … Continued
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning is excited to bring back National Theatre Live, the best of British theatre broadcast to cinemas around the world, with this screening of Life of Pi. Puppetry, magic, and storytelling combine in a unique, … Continued