Canal Street Art Gallery presents: the Charles W. Norris-Brown: Distant Thunder Studio show, on view from April 21st through June 10th. Join the Gallery on 3rd Friday Gallery Night in Historic Downtown Bellows Falls from 5-7pm, April 21st, to celebrate the opening of the show. All Gallery events are free and open to the public. 

The Charles W. Norris-Brown: Distant Thunder Studio show exhibits all of the original artworks from the late artist’s graphic novel Thunder Basin within a re-creation of Norris-Brown’s studio as an interactive exhibition including artmaking for the public, digital cataloging of the graphic novel, and culminating in the launch of a Thunder Basin website. 

“I call my studio Distant Thunder. Sometimes I have a real studio. Other times Distant Thunder Studio is within me.” -Charles W. Norris-Brown. 

The Distant Thunder Studio show reveals the entire body of work from Thunder Basin, an unfinished graphic novel by Charles W. Norris-Brown. This collection is presented within a re-creation of the late artist’s studio. Finished works along with drawings, storyboard frames, studies, and writings are all included. Visitors are invited to interact with the show through exploring Norris-Brown’s notebooks, plein-air studies, sketchbooks, brushes, and palettes. Art supplies and a space to create are provided as part of the exhibit. Those who are inspired may write, draw, and paint with watercolor or ink, to make their own artwork and writing about Thunder Basin. 

Fans of the artist may become further involved through volunteering and assisting in the digital cataloging of all works pertaining to Thunder Basin to be available during the Distant Thunder Studio show, including artworks, sketchbooks and notebooks. Help bring one artist's vision to life of developing his graphic novel into a Creative Commons licensed work to be accessible for community-based projects world-wide. The goal of the digital cataloging process is to bring Charles W. Norris-Brown’s ‘unfinished’ work back to being a ‘work in progress’ and published on a Thunder Basin website.

Thunder Basin is the artist’s third book and unfinished work. Here a girl loses her beloved cell phone in the forest. Trickster Coyote picks it up and runs away with it, leading her to explore the forest, and ultimately, herself. This quest unfolds in the Thunder Basin along the west flank of Mt Mansfield, Vermont.

Select artworks in the show which are not for sale are available as pre-ordered, full size archival pigment prints on cotton rag paper. These reproductions are available only during the show. At the end of the exhibit each edition is closed, and then printed. 

Canal Street Art Gallery presents: the 5th Annual Vermont Summer Group Show, open June 16th and on view through September 2nd. Join the Gallery on 3rd Friday Gallery Night in Historic Downtown Bellows Falls from 5-7pm, June 16th, to celebrate and meet the artists. All Gallery events are free and open to the public.

The 5th Annual Vermont Summer Group Show brings new artwork to Bellows Falls from local and regional artists. The exhibit is one of the gallery’s annual open calls to artists. The show presents artworks in all mediums, styles, and subject matters to celebrate the diversity and abundance of art here in Southern Vermont. 

Canal Street Art Gallery presents: GLASS | PASTEL, a group show exhibiting fine art glass and pastel painting. GLASS | PASTEL opens September 15th and is on view through November 4th. Join the Gallery on 3rd Friday Gallery Night in Historic Downtown Bellows Falls from 5-7pm, September 15th, to celebrate and meet the artists. All Gallery events are free and open to the public.

The GLASS | PASTEL show is a newly envisioned medium focus show, of the type Canal Street Art Gallery exhibited in its first four years. These past exhibitions included A World Suspended in Color: Fine Art Glass, A Changing Form: Fine Art Ceramics, and A Moment In Frame: Photography. One of the goals of these shows was to bring together artworks from different artists using the same medium to achieve common, unique, and sometimes surprising results. Visitors to these shows were presented with an opportunity to learn in depth about how these artists used their materials and techniques to create their art. 

Canal Street Art Gallery brings the medium focus show back with GLASS | PASTEL, presenting two mediums side by side. Pastel is a painting medium which is made into sticks using different color pigments held together by a binder. Hand held, these pigment sticks are applied directly to a prepared surface. Pastel paintings are known for saturated colors and layered textures. Glass is a material used by artists as rods, or canes, of colored glass. These are then held, heated and manipulated using hands and tools to create three dimensional objects. Fine art glass is known for its intricate layers, detailed patterns, bold colors and unmistakable forms and shapes.

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