Arts & Antiques
Browse through our Antique Shops

Bridesmaids on the porch at Antiques By The Falls
Antiques By The Falls (22 Park St; 802-247-6600) – A fun assortment of antiques, folk art, and collectibles – featuring an eclectic variety of delightful and unusual small items, primitives, miniatures, glass, pottery, lighting, jewelry, toys, kitchenware, and original folk art. Come visit us next to the Brandon Inn (under the same roof as The Inside Scoop, ice cream parlor / soda fountain). Wireless Internet – BYO laptop or PDA!
Andrews Antiques ( 110 W. Salisbury Rd., Salisbury; 802-352-6016. e: andant@together.net
Branford House Antiques (Antiquing the way it was before the Internet) Home of “The Antique Poet” offering history, provenance, enlightenment, poems and bygone Americana. Also home to ”This Olde Office” specializing in antique office technologies and vintage office accrutrements. Branford House is an 1850s farmhouse on a historic and senic Vermont dairy farm on Route 7, just a few miles south of the beautiful Brandon Village. Open daily 10 to 5. 802-483-2971. Branford House Antiques is open in downtown Brandon on Fridays or by chance or appointment!
Brandon’s Creative Economy is red hot! With so many artists, there are many studios and galleries open to the public.
More than 50 of the area’s talented artists exhibit and sell their works at the Brandon Artists Guild (affectionately called the BAG). Brandon has been called “the art and soul of Vermont” because of the work of these dynamic, vibrant, and varied artists belonging to the BAG. The exhibit space is open to the public 7 days a week throughout the entire year. No tour of Vermont’s galleries is complete without a visit to this very special community of artists whose reputations extend far beyond the borders of Vermont. These are the folks who brought community art projects to Vermont. Brandon. Their shows have included: The Really Really Pig Show, Brandon Is For The Birds, Brandon Rocks, Its Reigning Cats & Dogs, Brandon: Thinking Outside the Box, Starring Brandon, Sunflowers! Food, Fuel, Fertilizer, Fun, and Art Makes Brandon Tick! Visit their website at: http://brandonartistsguild.org/ or call them at 802-247-4956
Brandon’s most famous artist, Warren Kimble has his own Gallery at 10 Park Street in downtown Brandon. Besides original works, Warren also sells his signed prints there. Open by chance or appointment.
The Judith Reilly Gallery, featuring Judith’s fabric art, is open on Friday and Saturday afternoons at 24 Conant Square. Visit with Judy in her historic home and marvel at her quilts and pen and ink drawings. For more information, contact Judy by email at: judith@judithreilly.com or at 802-247-8421. Her web address is: judithreilly.com
Visit the Medana Gabbard Gallery (open seasonally) at 1340 Grove St. (Route 7 North) Call 802-247-5520 or email to: danagabbard@msn.com for more information.
Take a class at Country Owl Studio – a wide variety of summer and year-round classes available. Call 802-247-3695.
Artisans at the Bend is located “at the bend” on Route 7 near the edge of the village. The barn is a studio/gallery for creating contemporary folk art paintings and sculpture. Owner/artists Robin Rodda Kent and Jim Barner’s works have been purchased by the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and carried by prominent galleries nationwide. Open by chance or appointment. Call 802-247-6637.
Surrounded by gracious countryside just outside of Brandon’s artistic downtown lies Brandon Music – Vermont’s classical music haven. Brandon Music is the North American headquarters of owner Stephen Sutton’s British classical music record company, Divine Art Recordings Group. Located in Warren Kimble’s former historic red barn studio and gallery, Brandon Music hosts the Divine Art CD Store, Harmony English Tea Room, a Vermont art gallery, and a vintage collector’s corner. The Divine Art CD Store showcases a wide collection of contemporary to rare classical music from the Divine Art, Diversions, Metier, and Athene record labels. Harmony English Tea Room – a chic English-style tearoom and live music café – sells specialty British teas and coffees, new and vintage tea-ware, and will schedule regular performances by new and visiting artists as well as special themed events such as “tea-dances.” An art gallery showcases and sells art from a variety of artists on a rotating basis. A collector’s corner is planned which will offer the sale of vintage and rare historic vinyl records while featuring a growing assortment of vintage music related collectables. Brandon Music is open year round and more information is available at www.brandonmusicvt.com or by calling 802-465-4071. 62 Country Club Rd.
Brandon’s Gallery-in-the-Field is a gallery whose mission is to present the art of provocative, innovative living artists, and to provide a forum for the sharing of issues and questions raised in the context of the art. They are a venue for teaching and learning, one where people leave inspired to experiment and create. Along with visual art, they sponsor a number of performance events such as music, poetry and prose readings, installations and improvisations. Click here for their current calendar of events. The Gallery-in-the-Field is located at 685 Arnold District Rd in Brandon. Call 802-247-0125.
Check out the folk art gallery of local artists John Hoare and Linda Hickox at Gingerbread House Fine and Folk Art Gallery (on Route 73E; 802-247-3380).
