Dear Friend,

As 2025 comes to a close and the charitable giving season gets underway, please consider supporting the work of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center by becoming a BMAC member or making a donation to our Annual Fund. We’re wrapping up one of our most productive and rewarding years ever, and with your help we can do even more to support artists and enrich our community in the year ahead.

• Over the past 12 months, BMAC served over 19,000 people from all walks of life. Children and seniors, neighbors and tourists, seasoned museumgoers and curious newcomers came to see Susan Mikula’s evocative photographs of the Bellows Falls “Island,” a new immersive installation by Adrienne Elise Tarver, children’s drawings of imaginary creatures transformed into GLASSTASTIC sculptures, and much more.

• 60 school groups visited BMAC in the past year—a total of 1,012 kids, each of whom left officially certified to lead their own museum tours for family and friends as Junior Museum Guides.

• Our education staff made a whopping 263 visits to local public schools, Head Start classrooms, and senior centers—bringing art and companionship to those who couldn’t easily get to the museum.

• We presented 89 events—artist talks, concerts, workshops, and domino topplings—contributing mightily to the social, cultural, and economic vitality of downtown Brattleboro and the surrounding area.

• Dedicated to supporting our community’s increasingly diverse population, we hosted the Asian Cultural Center of Vermont’s Lunar New Year celebration, produced and presented audio recordings of newly-arrived refugees’ responses to artwork on view at the museum, and collaborated with contemporary Ukrainian artists to share their artwork and stories with our audiences.

• And we continued to offer art outside the museum’s walls, with programs like Artful Ice Shanties and Brattleboro’s first-ever Sucka Punch Graffiti Jam, a three-day art party that transformed a neglected block in downtown Brattleboro. Each of these events attracted over 1,500 participants and onlookers.

BMAC is more committed than ever to being a source of light and hope—to bringing people together through art and fostering understanding, appreciation, and respect for all.

Please give as generously as you can to help us continue doing this vital work in the year ahead. I thank you for your kind consideration.

With gratitude and warm wishes,

Danny Lichtenfeld
Director