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FILM SCREENING
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker
Directed by Chris McKim, 2021
105 minutes, English. Adult content.

 

Screenings:
Saturday, 17 May 2025 at 4 PM
Saturday, 13 September 2025 at 4 PM

Presented in conjunction with our exhibition, David Wojnarowicz

Free with the price of admission.

Each ticket grants admission to our galleries from 2pm for self-guided visitation of our exhibitions, and to the film screening starting at 4pm. Galleries close at 4pm. Space is limited, advance reservations are recommended.

 

 

Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a fiery and urgent documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plague until his death from it in 1992 at the age of 37. Exclusive access to his breathtaking body of work – including paintings, journals, and films – reveals how Wojnarowicz emptied his life into his art and activism. Rediscovered answering machine tape recordings and intimate recollections from Fran Lebowitz, Gracie Mansion, Peter Hujar, and other friends and family help present a stirring portrait of this fiercely political, unapologetically queer artist.

 

 

 

 

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FILM SCREENING
Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists
Directed b
y Leslie Buchbinder, 2014
105 minutes, English.

 

Screenings:
Saturday, 14 June 2025 at 4 PM
Saturday, 25 October 2025 at 4 PM

Presented in conjunction with our exhibition, Gladys Nilsson.

Free with the price of admission.

Each ticket grants admission to our galleries from 2pm for self-guided visitation of our exhibitions, and to the film screening starting at 4pm. Galleries close at 4pm. Space is limited, advance reservations are recommended.

 

In the mid 1960s, Chicago was an incubator for an iconoclastic group of young artists collectively known as the Imagists. A cousin to the contemporaneous phenomenon of Pop Art, Chicago Imagism took its own weird, wondrous, in-your-face approach. The Imagist artists - including Roger Brown, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Karl Wirsum, and more - each had their own unmistakable styles: scatological, meticulous, comical, and absurd.

"Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists" is the first film to tell the Imagists’ whole story, from their notoriety in the 1960s, to a precipitous fade from prominence in the 1980s and '90s, and ending with their 21st century resurgence in popularity. Almost 50 years after their first show, the Imagists have influenced generations of artists across the world, from Jeff Koons to Chris Ware and beyond. The Imagists' roller-coaster ride through art history is re-created with a wealth of archival footage and photographs, and over forty interviews with the Imagists themselves, critics, curators, collectors, and contemporary artists.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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AFTERNOON FOR EDUCATORS
Tuesday, 12 August 2025 | 2 PM - 4:30 PM
544 VT ROUTE 106, READING, VT 05062

Learn How to Read a Painting
Participate in Visual Thinking Strategies
Collaborate with Colleagues

 

Educators are invited to join us for a guided tour of the current exhibitions, Pop Perspectives: Ramos, Rosenquist, Ruscha, Joel Sternfeld, David Wojnarowicz, Gladys Nilsson and Outdoor Sculpture, followed by a forum for questions and discussion with light refreshments.

 

* Participants will receive a certificate of completion that they can submit for 2.5 hours of relicensure credit. *

 

Free.
Please register by 6 August 2025

Space is limited and registration is required

 

 

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BENEFIT CONCERT

Sunday, 24 August 2025 | 4 - 5:30 PM (early admission to galleries at 3 PM)
Hall Art Foundation
544 VT ROUTE 106, READING, VT 05062

 

The Hall Art Foundation & Cameo Arts Foundation, Inc. present

 

CAMEO BAROQUE

“Purcell and Telemann: Foundations and Inspirations”
Chamber music of the 17th and 18th centuries performed by Cameo Baroque on period instruments

 

A benefit concert to support The Reading-West Windsor Community Resiliency Fund

 

Performed by Cameo Baroque

Beth Hilgartner: recorders and voice

Leslie Stroud: traverso

Laurie Rabut: viola da gamba

Ernie Drown: harpsichord

 

Voluntary donations to be collected at the door. All proceeds raised will go to the Reading-West Windsor Community Resiliency Fund, a developing initiative of the Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf.

 

The Reading-West Windsor Community Resiliency Fund (RWWCRF) is an evolving initiative developed by the Reading-West Windsor Food Shelf, in response to regional flooding in July 2023 and financial needs that emerged as a result of the devastation. The vision of the RWWCRF is to promote healthy, resilient and caring communities by providing responsive support to residents of Reading and West Windsor who are experiencing serious disruption or challenges to daily life. By marshalling and coordinating the resources of multiple organizations and services, the RWWCRF hopes to reduce barriers to seeking and receiving help. Support domains include, but are not limited to, housing and transport, food security, financial support, physical and mental health, social spiritual connections and child care/senior care.

 

Each free ticket grants admission to our galleries from 3pm for self-guided visitation of our exhibitions, and to the concert starting at 4pm.
Space is limited. Advance registration of tickets is strongly recommended.

 

Organized in partnership with Cameo Baroque

 

Questions? Email  vermont@hallartfoundation.org