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Henry Sheldon Museum, Public

Sheldon Museum: By Seen And Unseen Hands – Spirit Artists And Their Art In The 21st Century

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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]The Sheldon Museum presents: By Seen and Unseen Hands: Spirit Artists and their Art in the 21st Century, a talk by Associate Champlain College Professor Stephen Wehmeyer, Since the earliest days of its history, the American Spiritualist movement has been closely tied to the visual arts.  Renowned mediums like the Bangs Sisters and the Campbell Brothers trafficked in “precipitated” paintings – artwork purportedly produced by spirit hands – while the emergent technology of photography offered believers (and the occasional charlatan) a new tool for capturing visible records of an invisible world.  Spiritualism thrives in the present day, and the visual arts remain a vital part of the expressive culture of modern Spiritualists.  Since the mid-1990s, Stephen has been exploring the artistic work of Mediums and Spirit Artists from Spiritualist communities in Western New York, Southern California, and New Orleans.  This presentation explores the role and function of visual arts in the lives and work of these latter-day Spiritualists, whose vernacular visions of unseen worlds continue to intrigue, delight, and inspire.

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Producer: Henry Sheldon Museum

Growing Bright Futures, Public

Growing Bright Futures: Dr. Morgan Crossman

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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]Host Cheryl Mitchell speaks with Dr. Morgan Crossman, Executive Director, Building Bright Futures. Growing Bright Futures is a joint production of Treleven, Building Bright Futures, Let’s Grow Kids, and Middlebury Community Television. Recorded 11/8/19. To learn more about Building Bright Futures: http://buildingbrightfutures.org/ [/ezcol_2third_end][ezcol_1third]
Producer: Cheryl Mitchell & Darla Senecalv

Henry Sheldon Museum, Public

Sheldon Museum: The Hutchinson Family Singers – Huzzas, Horrors, And Bumps In The Night

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[/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]The Sheldon Museum presents “The Hutchinson Family Singers: Huzzas, Horrors, and Bumps in the Night,” a talk by Dale Cockrell, a specialist in American popular music. The Hutchinson Family Singers were the best-known, most-loved, and most-hated musicians in nineteenth-century America.  Their passionate commitment to talking and singing about the sisterhood of social reforms garnered them notoriety on all sides of a wide range of divides (including spiritualism).  Too often overlooked, though, is that they bear a primary responsibility for the ways in which American popular music was then made, heard, and appreciated, legacies still much manifest today.

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Producer: Henry Sheldon Museum