Artists invite you to fill our streets with playful, artful + social expression!
The 2023 season is rolling!
Join us in Brattleboro at Gallery Walk
This year Artful Streets will be activating Harmony Park + Harmony Tunnel again with the Human Connection Project joining super powers with lots of local artists and organizations in pursuit of diverse + equitable public arts engagement!
Artful Streets invites everyone to be part of the art-making and sharing, creating experiences of participatory arts and social engagement, designed to be inclusive of our diversity—age, gender, race, culture, identity, ability and experience. Artful Streets is agile, designing for “the gaps”—spatially and programmatically—and focusing on human interaction and expression. We’ll do this by occupying interstitial spaces throughout town with Pop-Up Art Stations during Gallery Walk. Each month Pop-Ups will feature local cultural artists and organizations, offering activities based on a theme.
Read about the 2022 and 2021 Artful Streets seasons.
may 5: What’s the Word?
We’ll honor and celebrate diversity with local students through their art and poetry. Join the Library in making a collage of your essential word. Take part in the Brattleboro Mapping Project. And join the River Gallery School in making “What’s the Word?” art.
jun 2: Let’s Move!
Let’s dance off the icy winter. Learn a bunch of new moves or a whole new dance with local dance instructors from SideStream Studio and Brattleboro School of Dance.
july 7: Step Up
Step up and speak, sing, or make something that rings true to what matters to you. Artful Streets invites organizations with a social mission to share the good work they are doing in our community and inspire us all to step up. We’ll have an open mic, art stations, places to exhibits, questions to engage, and ways to get involved. How do you want to “Step Up”?
aug 4: Game On!
Are you ready to bring it? Game on! Chess Alley is back by popular demand. And RiverFest Weekend kicks off with river play on dry land. Maybe you have a favorite game and want to teach others? Bring it (and a table and chairs, if needed), set it up near Harmony Park and invite others to learn and play.
sep 1: Technicolor Town
Let’s make Brattleboro colorful! Have you ever had an idea of how to make a spot in our downtown more vibrant, engaging, playful and just plain cool? Use lighting, chalk and reused materials to create a splash of color in your part of town. And don’t miss “The Tunnel of Technicolor Transformation” where you can turn up your own style!
oct 6: Eye See You, Brattleboro
Together let’s tell the bigger, deeper story of the people, places, flora and fauna of this place we call Brattleboro. Through all media, let’s create a collective self-portrait of Brattleboro. Paint, photograph, write, perform, or install your lens. And come and see Brattleboro through the eyes of others we live amongst.