page_title: Brattleboro, Vermont
section_title: Arts and culture
hierarchical_section_title: Brattleboro, Vermont / Arts and culture
caption_attribution_description: The Brattleboro Museum &amp; Art Center on Vernon Road in Brattleboro, Vermont is the former Union Station, built in 1915. The facade is quarzite rubble which was mined locally, across the Connecticut River in New Hampshire. It was converted into a museum in the 1970s. The building is located within the Brattleboro Downtown Historic District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Source: "The Visitor's Guide to Brattleboro and the Vibrant Villages of Southern Vermont" (2010))
context_page_description: Brattleboro, originally Brattleborough, is a town in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The most populous municipality abutting Vermont's eastern border with New Hampshire, which is the Connecticut River, Brattleboro is located about 10 miles north of the Massachusetts state line, at the confluence of Vermont's West River and the Connecticut. In 2010, Brattleboro's population was 12,046.
  Marlboro College Center for Graduate and Professional Studies and SIT Graduate Institute are located in the town. There are satellite campuses of three colleges as well: Community College of Vermont, Union Institute and University, and Vermont Technical College. The town is home to the New England Center for Circus Arts and the Vermont Jazz Center.
  The Brattleboro Retreat, a not-for-profit mental health and addictions psychiatric hospital, is also located in the town.
context_section_description: Brattleboro has a thriving arts community. It was listed in John Villani's book The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America, in which it was ranked #9 among 'arts towns' with a population of 30,000 or less.
  On the first Friday of every month, an event known as Gallery Walk is held, during which galleries, artists, arts organizations, and even ordinary stores display new art works or hold performances. Included in the organizations that participate are the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, the Hooker-Dunham Theater and Gallery, the In-Sight Photography Project, River Gallery School, Through the Music, and the Windham Art Gallery. Gallery Walk is a mid-1990s creation of, and continues to be sponsored by, the Arts Council of Windham County.
  Other notable arts organizations in Brattleboro include the Brattleboro Music Center, the Vermont Theatre Company, the New England Youth Theater, the Brattleboro Women's Chorus, the New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), the Vermont Performance Lab, and the Vermont Jazz Center.
caption: Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, formerly Union Station
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