Clothespin doll making activity for Community Mandala
Nov
22
11:00 AM11:00

Clothespin doll making activity for Community Mandala

Join us in the Winooski School lobby from 11am -1pm during Parent/Teacher conferences to make a clothespin doll self-portrait! The doll portraits will be added to our Mandala Community Weaving to illustrate our community diversity. The large finished Mandala will be displayed at the Winooski school. This is a great opportunity to participate in a community art project!

The Mandala Community Weaving project is made possible with support from the Spark Connecting Community grant form Vermont Community Foundation.

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Onion Fest
Oct
20
10:00 AM10:00

Onion Fest

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Join us to celebrate Winooski’s Onion Fest at the Winooski Farmers Market! Coming from the Abenaki ‘Winoskitekw,’ meaning ‘onion land river,’ Winooski is known as Vermont’s Onion City. We’re excited to celebrate our roots with this Onion Festival!

During Onion Fest, come into the Mill Museum gallery in the Champlain Mill to make a clothespin doll for our Mandala Community Weaving project and add a ribbon for what you love about Winooski.


This will also be the last day to see our Community Fiber Arts exhibition which features Story Quilts by local seniors and Knitted blankets from our Stitch Together program in collaboration with AALV’s Women’s Cafe group.

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Winooski Fiber Fair
Sep
1
10:00 AM10:00

Winooski Fiber Fair

Join us for a day of fiber fun, featuring vendors offering a variety of high quality fiber goods, community mandala-making, local non-profit guests offering fiber-related education and activities, and a raffle to support the Heritage Winooski Mill Museum!

Activities and fiber artists selling goods will be set up outside the Champlain Mill next to the Farmer’s Market.

Come inside the Mill Museum to see a new Community Fiber Arts Exhibition featuring Story Quilts and Community Blankets created by participants in two collaborative community art projects: our Stitch Together knitting group at AALV and our Story Quilt project with the Winooski Senior Center and Heineberg Community Senior Center.

Guests providing activities & demonstrations:

Mill Museum -Mandala Community Weaving activity|
Billings Farm & Museum -Wool demonstrations & drop-in craft
Ethan Allen Homestead -Flax demonstrations
Fleming Museum of Art - Info on new Quilt exhibition 
Rokeby Museum - Underground Railroad weaving activity

VT Textiles Raffle in the museum gallery! Featuring textile goods from VT businesses and artisans! Support Mill Museum programming while bidding on a wide range of amazing local products. Tickets can be purchased during the Fiber Fair and pre-view dates (August 29-30).  Drawing at 1:45pm on Sept. 1st.  Winners do not have to be present at drawing.  

Donor list is growing! Here are some of our contributors so far. We will post a list of raffle items soon.

Bee’s Wrap
Billing’s Farm & Museum
Ethan Allen Homestead Museum
Fourbital Factory
Green Mountain Spinnery
Must Love Yarn
Rokeby Museum
Skida
US Sherpa
Vermont Green Football Club
Vermont Hats

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Community Fiber Arts Exhibition
Aug
29
to Oct 20

Community Fiber Arts Exhibition

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EXTENDED TO SUNDAY OCT 20th! The new exhibition features two community arts projects: Story Quilts and Community Blankets.
On Display:
The two Story Quilts created by 18 participants at the Winooski Senior Center and Heineberg Community Senior Center. Each square represents something personal about the person who designed it. The workshops were held from May-August 2024 and taught by Lisa Therrien.
Five knitted blankets created by 18 participants in our Stitch Together program in collaboration with AALV. Workshops held twice a month over a year and taught by Elin Melchior.

The Story Quilt Project is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council Creative Aging Grant. Stitch Together programming is supported in part by the Vermont Arts Council Arts Project Grant, Vermont Mutual Insurance, Ben and Jerrys, Northfield Savings, and VT Federal Credit Union.

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