Saturday, March 14, 2026

5:00 pm

Art Opening: Benjamin Aleshire — “Blue Period”

Location:

Foam Brewers - Burlington Waterfront

Visual Arts

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Art Opening: Benjamin Aleshire — “Blue Period”
Saturday, March 14
5–8pm Reception
Free | All are welcome

Join us at Foam Brewers for the opening reception of Blue Period, a new exhibition by Vermont photographer Benjamin Aleshire.

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Blue Period presents a series of large-scale cyanotype portraits by Vermont photographer Benjamin Aleshire. Printed in the sunshine and rendered in deep Prussian-blue tones using a process invented in 1842, Aleshire employs the same iron-salt chemistry which was traditionally used to manufacture architectural blueprints.

Accompanying the cyanotypes will be some of Aleshire’s latest work on analog color film, shot on 40-year-old 35mm and medium format cameras.

The subjects of Aleshire’s portraits range widely, from Vermont luminaries like Peter Schumann, who he worked with as an apprentice at Bread & Puppet Theater, to acclaimed novelist Raven Leilani, former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, and local heroes like citizen journalist and comedian Jonny Wanzer.

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Benjamin Aleshire was born and raised in Rutland County, VT. A 2020 James Merrill fellow at VT Studio Center and recipient of a Creation Grant from the VT Arts Council, his photography and printmaking have been exhibited at the BCA Center, where he was artist-in-residence in 2012; the Prospect 3 Biennial, in New Orleans; the Kunstlerhaus Vowerkstift in Hamburg, DE, where he worked with the Peace Paper Project; and the Generator, in conjunction with his residency there in 2022. Special collections at UVM, St. Lawrence University, the Beinecke, and the University of Arizona have acquired his work.

Aleshire has traveled widely with 35mm and medium format film cameras since his teenage years, shooting portraits of the characters he encountered while performing as a puppeteer with Bread & Puppet Theater, touring the US with the VT Joy Parade in a veggie-oil powered bus, and playing trumpet for the House of Yes, the Spielpalast Cabaret, the Mexican circus Cabaret Capricho, and the Krewe of Eris, an underground Mardi Gras marching band in New Orleans. His work composing poems for strangers as a poet-for-hire in the street with a manual typewriter—part installation, part performance art, and part literary hustle—took him to Paris, Havana, Barcelona, London, and Madrid, where he was featured on television in Spain, and in The Times of London during his stint at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

From 2020-2023 Aleshire was a Goldwater Fellow at NYU, and he currently serves as Creative Director of Aleshire Gallery, a new cooperative darkroom and contemporary art space in Brandon, VT.

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The reception will run from 5–8pm in the brewery. Light snacks will be provided in Deep City. Beer, wine, and other beverages will be available for purchase.

Following the reception, join us for a free concert by Jeff Wilson in the brewery.

The exhibition will remain on view through April.

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Art Opening: Benjamin Aleshire — “Blue Period”

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