Stone Valley Arts

08/31/2026

Exciting events and classes coming up this fall at SVA!

Starting Monday Sept 7 @ 5:30 PM (yes, on Labor Day!): Ballroom Dance classes with Patti; SVA dance classes are every Monday and Wednesday evening. Walk-ins welcome. $18 per class. Or $60 per four week session per person. Free open house class for new students the first Monday and Wednesday of each month. Bachata on Mondays; Tango and swing on Wednesdays.

Thursday, September 3, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Move with Diane: Essentrics Stretch and Strength. Bring a mat and water. The cost is $10.

Thursday, September 3, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Drop in Drawing. Work at your own pace in a quiet, welcoming space—perfect for all experience levels. This is a self-guided session, so bring whatever materials you enjoy using: paper, pencils, markers, charcoal, ink, watercolors, pastels, or your medium of choice. Stay for the full two hours or drop in for part of the time. Admission is free, with donations appreciated.

08/28/2026

This weekend at Stone Valley Arts!
One Room Theatrics presents: "Bug"
Tickets:
Ages 18+

Friday-Sunday, Aug. 28-30 —POULTNEY— One Room Theatrics will return to Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill for a limited three-performance run of Tracy Letts’ psychological thriller “Bug,” a dark production that explores isolation, trauma, paranoia and conspiracy.

08/24/2026

Coming up Stone Valley Arts Center :

August 28-30, 2026: One Room Theatrics presents: Bug

Written by Tracy Letts

Directed by Mike Mitrano

Performances will take place at Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill (145 East Main Street - Poultney, VT) on August 28, 2026 (7pm), August 29, 2026 (7pm) and August 30, 2026 (2pm). Tickets are $20 and will be available at the door (cash only) or online in advance at one of the following links...

8/28 at 7pm https://ORT-Bug1.eventbrite.com

8/29 at 7pm https://ORT-Bug2.eventbrite.com

8/30 at 2pm https://ORT-Bug3.eventbrite.com

Stone Valley Arts and the Vermont Watercolor Society invite visitors to experience the Westside Hub Exhibition 2026, a celebration of watercolor painting and the creative community of Southwest Vermont. Presented at Stone Valley Arts, located at 145 E. Main Street in Poultney, the exhibition brings together artists whose work reflects the expressive range, luminous color, and fluid beauty of the watercolor medium. Opening Reception : Sat Sept 12, 4-6 pm.

The show highlights the Westside Hub of the Vermont Watercolor Society, offering a regional showcase of member artists and their unique approaches to landscape, still life, abstraction, portraiture, and everyday scenes. From delicate washes to bold layers of pigment, the works on view demonstrate watercolor’s ability to capture atmosphere, movement, and emotion with freshness and immediacy.

Visitors are encouraged to enjoy the exhibition during Stone Valley Arts gallery hours, Saturdays and Sundays from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Whether you are an artist, collector, student, or art lover, the Westside Hub Exhibition 2026 offers an opportunity to connect with local creativity and discover the vitality of watercolor in Vermont.

Every Thu, 9-19 am: Essentrics with Diane.

Thu, Sep 3, 6-8 pm: Drop in Drawing with Denise. All levels
Free.

Pictured below: Pocket Change by Lynn Lynn D. Pratt

08/19/2026

SVA Literary Open Mic is a week early this month - Friday, August 21.
As always, come and share your words: poems, stories, fiction, songs, and confessional memoir - your deepest, darkest secrets - if you dare! Just kidding, or not? You can email David to reserve a 10-minute spot or sign up when you arrive Friday eve.
Audience is always welcome and much appreciated - bring a friend!
Hope to see you Friday.

08/10/2026

An Intimate Night of Jazz

The Jazz Cafe at Stone Valley Arts is back on Wednesday, August 12 at 7pm and excited to feature a wonderful quartet with Harry Drum on sax. Ron White on bass, Nick Aloi on drums and Gary Schmidt on piano. They will bring an intimate and exciting night of well known jazz tunes. If you’re looking for a place to listen to great music and maybe even dancing a bit of swing, SVA’s jazz night is the place for you to relax and enjoy! Come listen to this seasoned jazz group of Vermont musicians, they really swing and create and enjoyable evening.

The Jazz Cafe at Stone Valley Arts offers a unique, intimate setting to hear and enjoy live jazz music performed by professional and upcoming Vermont musicians. The Jazz Cafe is free, open to the public.

Pictured: Christopher Smith Art

08/08/2026

This is the last weekend the Ekphrastic Collaboration is up! We’re open Sat and Sun 1-4 pm.

08/08/2026

This is the last weekend the Ekphrastic Collaboration is up! You don’t want to miss it! Stone Valley Arts Center

08/05/2026

This week at Stone Valley Arts:

Thursday, August 6, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM: Move with Diane: Essentrics Stretch and Strength. Bring a mat and water. The cost is $10.

Thursday, August 6, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM: Drop in Drawing: Work at your own pace in a quiet, welcoming space—perfect for all experience levels. This is a self-guided session, so bring whatever materials you enjoy using: paper, pencils, markers, charcoal, ink, watercolors, pastels, or your medium of choice.

Saturday, August 8 and Sunday August 9, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM: SVA's first Ekphrastic Collaboration Exhibit, the culmination of over six months of collaboration between words and art. We have crafted a unique show rooted in mutual inspiration among participants. You are invited to see how 21 artists and 19 writers responded to one another's work.

07/24/2026

SVA is pleased to offer this moving and thoughtful workshop called “Expressing the Sorrows of Our World through Collage” on Saturday, July 25 from 1pm-3pm with death doula Jackie Proulx.

What would it be like to explore, process, and even learn to embrace our grief in community? Grounded in one of the five gates of grief presented by Francis Weller in The Wild Edge of Sorrow, we will express the individual and collective grief we experience for our world through the art of collage. Whatever it is that you are grieving about our world, come explore those feelings in this creative, communal space.

Ticket price, collected at door: $35

07/22/2026

Wednesday night Jazz Cafe Stone Valley Arts