While some venues may have decided to close their doors early due to the weather, be assured that Gallery Walk is never cancelled. It's really a collective of separate events, 53 this month (!), that are promoted as a whole. In 12+ years of events (about 150), there have been only two or three days when the weather was too risky to run a full evening's gallery tour; folks closed up shop when they decided it was time to do so.
Tonight, for example, we know that the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Windham Art Gallery, and Vermont Center for Photography are all open. Susan Berry Taylor's new studio on Elliot Street will be open -- she drove in from her home in Rowe, Mass. We've heard that Vermont Artisan Designs could not stay open due to a shortage of staff, but we expect that many of the eateries with exhibits will be up and running and looking for their Gallery Walk patrons.
There are, of course, many people who live right in and near the downtown, so they will hopefully venture out. If the weather keeps you from driving to town this evening, then remember Gallery Walk is not just a single night. It's really all month long. Just use your Reformer A&E section, or print out the article from their website, or use the www.gallerywalk.org site listings (which are about to be updated, a bit on the late side due to all the phone calls I've been fielding today!) as a starting point.
Then pick up a printed guide at any of the venues, and make your own self-guided "tour" any day/s of the month that suit you and any guests coming to town. The art in most spaces, including the eateries, changes every month (every other month in a couple of cases), so there's always something new to see.
Joy Wallens-Penford
Coordinator, Gallery Walk
info@gallerywalk.org