Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts, co-owned by Petria Mitchell and Jim Giddings, have been steeped in the New England regional arts scene for over four decades. Both professional artists and affiliated with numerous arts organizations and nonprofits, the owners have developed broad knowledge and insights into the world of artmaking, artists and galleries. They have a passion to work with fellow artists and create novel ways to exhibit their artwork. Giddings suggests that his world view has been shaped by what he has looked at and looked for.
Painting permits an investigation and a search for harmony in those looked-at things. Together, Mitchell and Giddings have mixed and matched painting, art handling, maintenance, art installation and teaching. Each point of focus affects everything else, and in what was a natural evolution, the creation of a fine art gallery provided the ideal opportunity to share the conversation among artists, collectors and lovers of the visible creative act.
These passions merged in 2013 with the purchase of a space, and after exhaustive renovations, a cutting edge gallery opened to the public September 18, 2014, in the heart of downtown Brattleboro. Celebrating the inaugural exhibition for Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts, guest Wolf Kahn proclaimed. “You’ve brought Paris to Brattleboro!” In December, 2019, Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts relocated upstairs to its present street level location. Extensive remodeling and architectural surprises are highlighted by a flood of natural light and an inviting storefront window on Main Street. The expanded gallery features spacious rooms and high ceilings to offer an unrivaled installation of large work.
Together these changes reinforce Mitchell•Giddings Fine Arts mission to exhibit and promote artists who consciously engage with the myriad of challenges of personal expression within their chosen medium. Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts curates a diverse collection of innovative works that stimulate the seasoned collector and aesthetic explorer.
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118 Elliot presents ‘The Long Way’, an Exhibit of Drawings by Aron Namenwirth, which will open with an artist’s reception from 5-9 PM during Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk on Friday, October 6, 2023.
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The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series and Twilight Music present an evening of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans by the Soggy Po’ Boys, on Sunday, October 8 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT.
118 Elliot presents ‘The Long Way’, an Exhibit of Drawings by Aron Namenwirth, which will open with an artist’s reception from 5-9 PM during Brattleboro’s Gallery Walk on Friday, October 6, 2023.
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series and Twilight Music present an evening of brass-fueled, swinging music of New Orleans by the Soggy Po’ Boys, on Sunday, October 8 at 3:00 pm at West River Park in Brattleboro, VT.
The Next Stage Bandwagon Summer Series presents “dirty gospel” band Reverend Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, on Saturday, October 14th at 3:00 pm at the Putney Inn.
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) welcomes the public to a celebratory closing party for the exhibition “Anina Major: I Land Therefore I Am,” on Friday, October 6, during Gallery Walk.
Next Stage Arts presents Internationally renowned composer and 2018 Guggenheim Fellow Felipe Salles’s groundbreaking multimedia work “The New Immigrant Experience”, on Friday, October 13 at 7:30 pm at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, in Putney, Vermont.
16th annual Domino Toppling Extravaganza returns to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) on Sunday, October 8, at 5:30 p.m.
