Saturday, June 21, beginning at 6:00 pm
Bryan Gallery - Jeffersonville

New York Times best selling auther Tobin Anderson considers the politices of beautiful scenery and hidden national longings behind our sense of landscape in this lecture/discussion. As the state prepares to review Act 250 and it's implications, Anderson poses several questions: What do we value about Landscape in the first place? Why are the inhospitable Green Mountains beautiful? And, what is actually attractive about a ruined barn? Anderson addresses attitudes toward landscape in general, traditional New England landscape painting and contemporary Vermont artists to discuss how different societies have found the sublime in their surroundings - and what that may mean for our future. A Q & A will follow the discussion.

Anderson's satirical science fiction novel, Landscape with Invisible Hand, has been made into a movie starring Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk.

This event is free and open to the public.
Registration is encouraged, HERE

A Vermont Humanities Council program, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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