The Vermont State Crafts Centers at Frog Hollow (Middlebury) and Windsor display the works of Vermont artisans. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra, in Burlington, makes extensive statewide tours. Marlboro College is the home of the summer Marlboro Music Festival, co-founded by famed pianist Rudolf Serkin, who directed the festival from 1952 to 1992. Among the summer theaters in the state are those at Dorset and Weston and the University of Vermont Shakespeare Festival. The Middlebury College Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, founded in 1926, meets each August in Ripton.
The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington serves as a major performance center for the area. The Center presents year-round FlynnArts classes in music, theater, and dance for children, teens, and adults. It is also home to the Lyric Stage, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Stage Company, and the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Other musical performance and education venues include the Vermont Jazz Center in Brattleboro and the Vergennes Opera House, which presents concerts, films, dance and theater presentations, and various literary readings, as well as operas.
In 2003, the Vermont Council on the Arts and other Vermont arts organizations received grants totaling $1 million from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Vermont Humanities Council supports a number of literacy and history-related programs, as well as sponsoring annual Humanities Camps at schools throughout the state. In 2000, the National Endowment for the Humanities contributed $1,302,176 for nine state programs. The state provides over 18,000 schoolchildren with arts education programs. The state has approximately 100 arts associations and five local arts groups.