The Shelburne Art Center was incorporated in 1945 as a nonprofit institution dedicated to providing a place for professional craftspeople to work at their craft and to teach that craft to the community.

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 has 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.