The Center for Arts and Learning offers space where artists, musicians, writers, and small nonprofits can practice, create, and serve the community. We show works by local artists, offer performances and events, and serve as a hub for the arts in Montpelier. We are open from 8 AM to 5 PM Mondays through Fridays and from 10 AM to 4 PM on Saturday and Sunday.
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News
Join CAL’s Community of Artists: Memberships are now available
We’ve received many requests for a membership program here at CAL, and have thought through all the benefits we can provide for our artistic community. Our focus will be to develop and maintain a self-organized cohort for artists of all disciplines. Please read on for more details of our program and how to apply. If …
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Exhibit: Separations | Migrations
The summer show in the second floor Community Gallery features works in conversation around forced migration and the emotional trauma of family separation. Centered around Deborah Goudreau’s Separation Series, the exhibit includes visual art from Sarah Ashe, Holly Hauser, Lisa Myers, and Jeremy Vaughn. Additional text and a display of family relics fill out the …
“Tracking Time Through COVID” with Liz Le Serviget
Middlesex-based painter Liz Le Serviget’s solo exhibit at The Center for Arts and Learning’s Member Gallery, Tracking Time Through COVID, is a colorful visual journal of the artist’s everyday life since shutdown. It features cards, reflections, portraits and a diaorama. As part of the show, the artist invites viewers to mark their passage through COVID …
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Programs
Studio Rentals
CAL’s studios are in hot demand for creators who want a space outside of their home to focus on their work and be part of a creative community. Each includes wifi, utilities, limited parking, access to a shared shop sink. We host musicians and their students, so you’ll sometimes hear their work trail through the halls. We host artists who often display their work in our two galleries and some of the other common areas in the building. Interested? Please contact us if you’d like to come see the spaces.
Short-term space rental
Space for rehearsals and performances is also available, usually on an hourly basis, through the Monteverdi Music School at director@monteverdimusic.org or at 802-229-9000. The T.W. Wood Gallery and art classroom spaces can be rented for events and meetings – full details on the T.W. Wood website.
Exhibit Artwork | Perform at CAL
CAL exhibits artwork in our downstairs and upstairs gallery spaces. We focus on emerging artists and community-based groups. We also feature performers at Art Walk events and at concerts throughout the year. If you are interested in potentially exhibiting work or performing at CAL, please let us know.
Fiscal Sponsorship
CAL offers fiscal sponsorship to other non-profit community organizations and start-ups with missions that align closely with CAL’s own to enhance the cultural life of central Vermont. Sponsorship decisions are decided by the Board of Directors on a case by case basis. For an application, please contact the CAL Director, Phayvanh Luekhamhan, at director@cal-vt.org.
Space Rental
What’s Currently Available (and coming soon!)
CAL’s studios are in hot demand for creators who want a space outside of their home to focus on their work and be part of a creative community. Each includes wifi, utilities, limited parking, access to a shared shop sink. We host musicians and their students, so you’ll sometimes hear their work trail through the halls. We host artists who often display their work in our two galleries and some of the other common areas in the building. Interested? Below are the studios available for rent.
Temporary and Rehearsal Studios and Classrooms
While we prefer long-term leases on the rooms in the above listings may be available for daily or one-month adjusted fees. For example: The Stage Room would be $40/ day.
Existing studio artists qualify for discounted rates on all CAL spaces, including temporary rentals of any existing space. If you are already in CAL and are interested in temporary additional space, please contact Phayvanh.
Space for musical rehearsals and performances is also available, usually on an hourly basis, through the Monteverdi Music School.
Art classrooms can be rented for events and meetings through The T.W. Wood Gallery.
Member Organizations
The Center for Arts and Learning is a collaboration between the T.W. Wood Gallery and the Monteverdi Music School.
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- Bob Blais, cello instruction
- Capital City Band
- Friends of the Winooski
- Green Mountain Youth Symphony
- Kindermusik
- Lake Champlain Rock Art
- Liz LeServiget, artist
- Onion River Exchange
- Summit School of Traditional Music and Culture
- And other individual artists, writers, and makers