Vermont's Painted Theater Curtains
A conservation project to preserve historic painted scenery

 

 

 

Vermont Painted Theater Curtains

The Painted Theater Curtain Project began in 1988 with a survey to find and assess the condition of Vermont’s collection of painted curtains. At the time we knew of a half dozen, but the number is now up to over 150. Of that number, we have cleaned, mended, and judiciously in-painted 76 curtains as of January, 2005. About 65 of these have been installed for use on their home stages in town halls, grange halls, community theaters, and opera houses. Another half dozen are ready to be installed when the stage is ready for them. We have put only three or four curtains into “deep” storage because they are really too fragile to be used. All this has been accomplished since we began stabilization work in Chittenden and Sudbury in November, 2002.