Established 1981 Website Official website Founded 1981 | Director Nathan Suter Phone +1 802-253-8358 Type of business Art Center | |
Location 90 Pond Street
Stowe, Vermont, United States Address 90 Pond St, Stowe, VT 05672, USA Hours Closed today SundayClosedMondayClosedTuesday10AM–5PMWednesday10AM–5PMThursday10AM–5PMFriday10AM–5PMSaturday10AM–5PM Similar Spruce Peak Performin, Stowe Mountain Resort, Green Mountain Fine Art G, Seminary Art Center, Vermont Studio Center Profiles | ||
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The Helen Day Art Center is a non-profit community arts and education organization in the village of Stowe, Vermont. Established in 1981, the Center hosts exhibitions of visual art by internationally and nationally recognized artists and local Vermont artists. "Exposed" is the Center's annual outdoor sculpture show. The Center also offers art classes in a variety of media for youth and adults, as well as guided tours of exhibits.
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History
The Helen Day Art Center was started by Helen Day Montanari and Marguerite E. Lichtenthaeler.
Dr. Lichtenthaeler who was born in Reading, Pennsylvania received a medical degree from Boston University in 1916 and practiced medicine for the next twenty-five years. In 1940 she moved to Stowe, Vermont with Helen Day Montanari. She established her own practice in town and continued to see patients until she was eighty years old.
Helen Day Montanari was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied the Italian language for a year at Radcliffe College. She later married General Carlo Montanari, who was killed in World War I. After the war was over, she brought her three children to the United States and settled in Newton, Massachusetts. A few years later, she came down with an illness and was diagnosed by Dr. Lichtenthaeler. The two women became lifelong friends and eventually decided to share a house in Stowe.
The two women shared intellectual interests, loved to travel, and shared a concern for the quality of life in their town. Dr. Lichtenthaeler was always counted on to rise during Town Meetings to plead for a library appropriation. Mrs. Montanari, who felt just as strongly left a $40,000 trust after she died for the establishment of the library. Years later, there was a successful campaign to raise the remainder of the money that was needed for the Stowe Free Library and the Helen Day Art Center.
Historic Time Line
A group of volunteers, under the leadership of Beverly Wood, met to discuss the formation of an Art Center. During the summer months, two art exhibits were held: Stan Marc Wright's paintings and Parker Perry's Samoan Tapa works. In December, the first official exhibit THE FESTIVAL OF THE CHRISTMAS TREES was presented.