Frog Hollow Vermont State Craft Center — Attraction in Burlington

If you have unlimited resources this is a great place to shop. There are some beautiful pieces of pottery and some furniture and jewelry and a lot of prints, framed and unframed. Everything is incredibly expensive. I kept chiding myself, "This is art. You are paying for art not just wood and clay." Some of the "art" really was beautiful. Like the $6000 chair. To me that really is a masterpiece. Having said that, I will also tell you that a chair really isn't a chair if no one is allowed to sit in it and sadly, for that price, I think that would be the case. Then there are the prints. Many, many pretty and pleasant photographs, nicely matted and framed,but I just can't imagine paying $600 for a nicely framed picture that I could take myself. Again, some were truly art, but in my opinion, most were just good photos. We did buy two instrumental cd's recorded by a Vermont musician. They were $15 each and quite good. Overall though, I left feeling like maybe if I sharpen my camera skills just a little I could make a little extra cash. It's great to support local artists but unless that artist is highly acclaimed, completely unique or the creator of something you just can't live without, I think they are maybe a bit overpaid...

Very upset ,We were having a great Sunday just walking around Church Street window shopping watching the festival of fools. It was a great day we were having a grand time we wandered into Frog Hollow we had been there before and I wondered if they still had the clay robot sculptures, not there but still some interesting things like $200 simple wooden cutting boards and a chair priced at $6000 a slab of wood with a little wrought iron, still and all fun to look at, my daughter had her Ipad touch and saw a couple funny prints she took 3 or 4 photos the next thing I know she says let's leave and she seemed upset we get outside and she starts deleting her photos I asked why and she said she had gotten in trouble for taking pic's there was no sign saying no photos and it upset her greatly. In my opinion they should post no photo's not ruin a great day for a family they can stuff their over priced fire wood ,The day was salvaged with a trip to two book stores and a street merchant selling silver jewelry. I would peg Frog Hollow as not being family friendly But more of a fools paradise like the saying goes a fool and his money are...

The artwork and the crafts are beautiful and skillfully manifested at Frog Hollow. The people who staff the store, however, are not at all beautiful and have no skill whatsoever in being human. I am a local artist and Burlington, VT is my hometown. I stopped into the Gallery with my teenaged kid, recently, and we were never greeted nor were we spoken to, not even once, while we were there ~ even though we did get the up and down head-to-toe gaze a few times from both staffers who were present at the Gallery. Several other individuals and groups came in after us and every single party was greeted and was subsequently engaged during their visit. We were both dressed cleanly though humbly. We definitely did not exude a "tourist" vibe but I can assure you, we were looking to purchase an item for our home and the absolute and obvious disdain of the staff on hand cost them a sale. I want to support my fellow Vermont artists and craftspeople but I will be damned if I give anyone at Frog Hollow...