Rent the Artist in Residence room

4th Floor—Artist-in-Residence Studio

The Artist-in-Residence Studio allows the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts to bring both national and international artists to our region. The artist is given space to work and exhibit and is an integral part of the Firehouse Education Program. There are “open studio” hours, private classes and time for the artist to work privately. The program builds extensive outreach

Rent the LBG room or the Roth room

2nd Floor—Lorraine B. Good Room and Bill & Nicky Roth Room

Burlington City Arts programs the Lorraine B. Good Multi-Media Lecture Hall and Conference Center on the second floor with lectures, exhibitions, classes, films and many special events. It is also frequented by other community organizations, and is available to rent for private use.
Located in the heart of downtown Burlington on the Church Street Marketplace, the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts offers a unique blend of historic architecture, contemporary design, and distinguished exhibitions providing a dynamic setting for conferences, corporate trainings, holiday, birthday, and retirement parties, wedding receptions, rehearsal dinners, bridal showers, and more.

The secluded second floor can be rented in its entirety as a small conference center or private party setting, or can be rented by room for smaller events and meetings.

The floor features:
- Capacity for 125 people with both rooms or 50 people in either individual room
- Full warming/serving kitchen
- Full range of multi-media presentation equipment available in-house for lectures, films and meetings

Rent the Gallery!

Ground Floor—Firehouse Gallery

The Firehouse Gallery has been central to BCA’s identity since it was opened in 1995. The gallery’s mission is to promote excellence, experimentation, and education in all forms of contemporary art. The Firehouse Gallery fulfills this mission by presenting thought-provoking exhibitions, supporting innovative and emerging artists, and engaging the public through exposure to high-quality artwork, exhibition-related discussions, and arts activities. Much current art has historically been misunderstood, disliked, and rejected in its time. Firehouse Gallery exhibitions provide important contextualization of contemporary art and encourage critical discussions. Exhibitions and education programming are part of our ongoing effort to build and sustain audiences for contemporary art outside of a major urban center.

About Mallory, Events Coordinator

Quick bio about one of the four Event Staff:

Mallory is a part-time Events Coordinator for the BCA Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts. Mallory is no stranger to the events industry after spending 3 years as an Event Hostess at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center in Burlington, VT, which taught her the importance of an Events Department at a non-profit site. At both locations Mallory is responsible for supporting the Event Manager by facilitating and acting as host for personal and community events, assisting with the management of internship programs, and creating successful client/vendor relations.

Passionate about non-profit organizations, Mallory works full-time at Saint Michael’s College in the Office of Admission. In this role, Mallory manages all social networking activities for prospective student recruitment, works with current students in the Founder’s Society Club, and manages the NY and Western MA territories.

To contact Mallory please email malloryl.wood@gmail.com

Why Blog?

This blog has been created in order to spread the word that the BCA Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts is open for event rentals. The four lovely ladies of the Event's Staff here at the Firehouse will be maintaining this blog. We will let you know what events we are working, and of course how you too can book your next business or social gathering in one of our unique rooms. We can hold up to 130 people on our secluded 2nd floor, up to 140 people in our 1st floor gallery, or up to 100 in our outdoor plaza.

If you are interested in hosting your next event at the BCA Firehouse contact:
Lisa Long
Firehouse Events Manager
P 802.865.5849
llong@ci.burlington.vt.us
http://www.burlingtoncityarts.com/