Resident Artists
 Barbara
Efchak
Ceramics Resident
Barbara has been making pottery since 1978. She earned her MA in Studio
Ceramics from Montclair State University and received her BA in Fine
Arts with a concentration in painting. Barbara has taught ceramics to
both children and adults. She was a clay studio technical assistant
at Montclair State University. Although rooted in functional vessels,
Barbara's most recent work explores thrown and then altered forms that
are of botanically influenced. Barbara is an exhibiting member of the
Brandon Artist Guild, Shelburne Art Center and has exhibited and sold
her pottery and paintings in New York, New Jersey, and Vermont.
Joe Powers
Wood Resident
 Joe
has been building furniture for seven years beginning his study of furniture
design at Notre Dame followed by an apprenticeship under Timothy Clark.
Following his apprenticeship Joe served as manager of Northend Hardwoods
and has been building commissioned furniture pieces in his studio. His
joinery utilizes machine and hand tools in combination to achieve the
highest level of performance. His work combines graceful designs in
solid wood and sawn veneer with sound construction and an experimental
approach.
Visiting Artists
Marc Awodey
Marc received his MFA in painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1984,
and he teaches fine arts at Burlington College, and the Community College
of Vermont. His works have been exhibited widely, and placed in numerous
private collections around the United States. Marc is also the art critic
of Seven Days, and the Vermont regional editor of Art New England.
Robert Babcock
Robert Babcock, an acclaimed sculptor with over 40 years of carving
experience, has been teaching stone carving classes and workshops in
Vermont and Virginia for several decades. In addition to his own sculpture
workshops, he is also an instructor at and sits on the Board of Directors
at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center of West Rutland, Vermont.
Babcock is largely self-taught, but his modern abstract techniques
were refined with study at the Torpedo Art Factory in Alexandria, Virginia
and the University of Vermont. His works are in many collections throughout
the world and can be viewed at: www.sculpturesbybabcock.com.
Gretchen Begnoche
BA in studio art, University of Vermont
Gretchen is a local artist with a 10-year history in the design and
craft of Tiffany-style copper foil and lead came stained glass construction.
She is currently a resident artist with Lawrence Ribbecke Architectural
Stained Glass Studio located in Burlington.
Andrew Berends
Andrew has been a potter since 1976. He received a BFA from the New
York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. The following year
he traveled through Spain, working with several traditional folk painters
and learning “old school” techniques. In 1986, he received
a MFA from Montana State University at Bozeman in ceramics and drawing
then went on to be an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center
in Snowmass, Colorado.
Jean Cannon
Jean earned a BA in art education Johnson State College and also studied
art at the University of Wisconsin and Vermont Studio Center. She has
been a restoration artist, a freelance fiber artist, and a teacher of
art to adults and children at several schools and art organizations
in Vermont, including Shelburne Art Center.
Robert Carsten, PSA
Robert is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Scholar to
the Academia di Belle Arti, Italy. He is a Signature Member of the Pastel
Society of America, “Copley Artist” in the Copley Society
of Art and an Artist Member of the Academic Artists Association. Featured
on the cover of, and in an interior article in the November/December
2004 issue of The Pastel Journal, his art has garnered over
thirty awards. Recent awards include the Best in Show at the Thorne
Regional Biennial, Keene State College. Robert shows his art regionally
and nationally.
Adam Conway
Adam has been working in clay for over a decade at the Shelburne Art
Center, and is now the manager of the Clay Studio. He has taught children
and young adults both at Shelburne Art Center and Burlington City Arts.
Jolene Garanzha
Jolene received the MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa in 1991.
She has been a working artist in the Burlington, Vermont area since
1991 and has exhibited work in the Midwest, New England, and locally.
She currently teaches at the Community College of Vermont and the Firehouse
Center for the Arts. Jolene specializes in printmaking, painting and
drawing.
Garrett Hack
Garrett Hack studied civil engineering and architecture at Princeton
almost 30 years ago but became a furniture maker. Later study at Boston
University's Program in Artisanry influenced his style of contemporary
designs based on classic forms. His work and Federal-inspired brick
shop have been featured in the New York Times, Preservation,
Home Furniture, and Fine Woodworking, where he is a contributing
editor. Garrett's love of hand tools, so integral to his work, inspired
his writing of The Handplane Book and Classic Handtools
(Taunton Press, 1997, 1999). He is a member of the New Hampshire Furniture
Masters.
Les Hakey
Although having diverse careers in archaeology, recruiting and technology
sales, Les has now found his true love in teaching and is currently
a 7th grade social studies teacher. Academic art experience focused
on changing perspective in a wide variety of medium including animation
and holography. Les has maintained his interest in drawing and sculpture
from childhood and his recent art work continues to focus on both abstract
as well as realistic drawing and wood sculpture. Les earned his BA Studio
Art and Anthropology at the University of Vermont.
Randall Henson
After working as a carpenter, electrician and New England Culinary Institute
trained chef, Vermont native Randall Henson found that furniture making
satisfied his desire to create something of enduring quality and beauty.
Traditionally made Windsor Chairs are his focus and he works true to
the centuries old methods of construction to build remarkably fine and
durable chairs. Randall demonstrates and teaches furniture making at
The Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, at Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury,
NH, at The Ethan Allen Homestead in Burlington, and at The Fairbanks
Museum in St. Johnsbury.
Robert Huntoon
Robert is a busy teacher and award-winning landscape painter. His work,
included in Painting with Water Soluble Oils (North Light Books)
and American Artist magazine, are exhibited throughout New
England, and in private collections throughout the country.
Mark Krawczyk
Mark makes chairs, tables, bowls, spoons, and other useful wooden objects
using centuries-old tools and techniques. He uses locally-sourced hardwoods,
including oak, ash, hickory, black locust and walnut and seasonally harvests
his chair seat material – hickory bark and cattail leaves. He received
his training at woodworking schools in the United Kingdom and North Carolina
in 2003-2004 and began RivenWoodCrafts in the winter of 2005. His workshop
is located along the Burlington Waterfront. Mark also works as a natural
builder, permaculture designer and dry stone mason.
Mara McReynolds
Mara studied music, dance, and the arts in New York City from early
childhood. After then working on organic farms across the states and
in Ireland for ten years, Mara settled in Burlington where she has been
guest teaching paper and bookmaking at Community College of Vermont
for four years. Mara is also a weaver, teaches the banjo, and makes
handmade soap.
Pilar Netzel
BA, Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Metal Arts and Master of Arts in Teaching, The University of The Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Pilar’s interest in metal arts has included the creation of jewelry,
utilitarian objects, and sculpture. She has shown and sold her work
in Philadelphia, New York, and Vermont. Pilar has taught at The Philadelphia
Museum of Art, The University City Arts League, The Main Line Arts Center,
The Springhouse School of the Arts, and The Lake Champlain Waldorf High
School.
Erik Rehman
Erik Rehman earned a degree in ceramics from the Tyler School of Art
in Pennsylvania. He currently lives in Burlington, where he teaches
at the Living and Learning Pottery Coop at the University of Vermont.
Sarah Sprague
Sarah has been playing with different types of art media for as long
as she can remember. A few of her favorites are black and white and
digital photography, working with clay and working with metals. She
is licensed K-12 Art and earned a Masters in Education from Johnson
State College.
Tad Spurgeon
Tad went to Andover, and did graduate work in photography at Yale. He
was a photographer before becoming a painter. Tad is self taught and
makes many of his own materials. He brings a wealth of technical information
to his classes. He has shown his work in Boston, New York and Vermont.
Kathy Stockman
Kathy Stockman holds a graduate degree in education from Harvard University
and has studied stone carving at the DeCordova Museum School in Lincoln,
Massachusetts and The Carving Studio in Rutland, Vermont. Her sculptures
have been shown in juried exhibits at the DeCordova Museum. Sculpting
and teaching crafts since the age of 16 and carving stone for the past
10 years, Kathy has most recently been team teaching with Bob Babcock
at the Shelburne Art Center, CVU Access program, and out of her studio
on her farm in Shelburne.
Ralph Tursini
Since studying forestry at the University of Vermont, Ralph has worked
in the fields of forestry, fine furniture making, and woodturning. Further
study with furniture designers-makers Beeken & Parsons followed.
Ralph has worked with professional woodturners Luke Mann and Dick Montague.
He teaches woodturning at the Shelburne Art Center, through public demonstrations,
and from his studio in Cambridge, Vermont.
Timothy Waite
Timothy Waite has been designing and building furniture since
1993. After receiving a BA in studio arts from the University of Vermont
in 1992, he went to work for five years as a custom designer and builder
in a two-person shop. He now works out his own studio in Burlington
creating limited-run, finely crafted furniture for galleries and clients
throughout the United States.
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