Two of Burlington’s most celebrated arts institutions, Burlington City Arts and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, turn 30 this year. Fittingly, they’re celebrating three decades of culture together with a visual-art project that draws on a stellar lineup of more than 30 Vermont artists. Their works are currently on view at the Flynn’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery.... Read more

You don’t have to be a man in a dress to be a drag queen. Drag, as Evie Lovett presents it in her tender and hilarious black-and-white photographs at the BCA Center, is simply about transformation, and anybody can do it.... Read more

Visitors to the “Adam Putnam: Magic Lanterns” exhibition now at the BCA Center will no doubt be drawn to the show’s eponymous “lanterns” installed in the front and back rooms of the gallery — “Untitled (Red Hallway)” and “Untitled (Green Hallway),” respectively. The devices, which date to the 17th century and much later figured in early motion-picture development, here project unpeopled architectural interiors upon the walls.... Read more

You don’t have to check in to check out Heidi Broner’s appealing show of paintings at the Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin. The 17 canvases hang in a busy lobby that’s currently accessorized with menorahs and wreaths. It is possible, however, to focus on Broner’s studies of intently concentrating laborers despite the many distractions, including a loop of Christmas Muzak.... Read more

Whether coming or going, Vermonters will be among the 23 million passengers nationwide who are flying for the holidays. Those who pass through Burlington International Airport will be able to take in exceptional works by local artists this month, courtesy of the Burlington City Arts leasing program.... Read more

Painter Barbara Wagner gives the old aphorism “nothing ventured, nothing gained” a more positive spin in the title of her solo exhibition at Stowe’s Green Mountain Fine Art Gallery: “Something Ventured — Something Gained.” The “something gained” is 15 exuberant mixed-media abstractions from several different series.... Read more

Middlebury’s Edgewater Gallery calls its current show “Short Stories,” but the title is only partly literal. All of the 100-plus works on display are indeed short, as in no more than a foot or so tall. Many of them, however, do not tell a story, as in a readily comprehensible narrative.... Read more

A new forest has sprouted in Jeffersonville, and it offers more color than the usual foliage season. Simply titled “Trees,” the juried members’ exhibition at Bryan Memorial Gallery is alive with deciduous foliage and conifers. Nearly 200 pieces by 65 artists appear in the show.... Read more

Creatures fly, squawk, slither and swim in Burlington’s Flynndog gallery this month — that is, in illustrations by Montpelier artist Delia Robinson. The drawings are from a new collection of poetry, a bestiary, by University of Vermont Italian professor Antonello Borra. In the Middle Ages, the Bestiarum vocabulum became a popular form of illuminated manuscript. A traditional bestiary was a catalog of animals, some fanciful and some real, each entry with a religious subtext.... Read more

Janet Fredericks’ show of new, insect-themed artworks is almost as literary as it is painterly. In addition to the usual artist’s statement, visitors to “Minute Particulars” at Shelburne’s Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery can peruse a four-page handout of works by poets such as Dylan Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins. The key passage, which gives the show its title, comes from William Blake: “He who wishes to see a Vision, a Perfect Whole, must see it in Minute Particulars.”... Read more