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June 7-July 29, 2006 Studio furniture created by members of the Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers and by Random Orbit Studio (Doug Jones and Kim Kulow-Jones) complemented by acrylic paintings by local artist Kasy Prendergast. The Guild of Vermont Furniture Makers is represented by: Jim Becker, Doug Clarner, Janet Collins, Per Courtney, Bob Gasperetti, Dale Helms, Randall Henson, Steve Holman, Lars Larson, and Walt Stanley.
May 2-June 3, 2006 Abstraction X Three features three Vermont artists: Jason Boyd, Cristina Pellechio and Susan Russell. Each artist brings to the Art Center a distinct artistic flavor, and together they create a delightful, yet purposeful mix of media and abstract art. Boyd, a young Richmond artist, has found his voice through the wood he works with as a carpenter. Using reclaimed wood in assemblages and other materials in collage, Boyd’s inspiration and process are rooted in a need to express a life-long reverence for nature and the earth. His studies in landscape design, Chinese landscape painting, and eastern philosophy also inform his art. Pellechio works primarily with the simple silhouette of a circle and its relationship to its interior. Her ceramics reflect her time spent hiking in the woods or walking along the shore. The moments of pensive and calm contemplation make their way onto the patterns and surfaces of her clay, and the graceful, accommodating and versatile form of the circle lends itself to the use multiple layers, color and embellishment. Russell’s mixed media pieces show her ability to combine color and design in well-ordered and meticulous ways. Her work reflects her need to feel the paint, the color, and the texture. She uses these elements to say things about a deeper level of life, which centers on non-visual truths.
February 22-April 30, 2006 Danilo Gonzalez studied at the National School of Fine Arts in the Dominican Republic and at the Art Students League in New York. His work has been exhibited in his native Dominican Republic, in Europe, Colombia, Cuba, and in the United States. Since childhood, Danilo has created in many mediums, focusing mainly on painting and sculpture. He expresses his concerns about our society and the clashes between man and nature through his vibrant acrylic abstracts and portraits.
January 9-February 18, 2006 Fine art and antiques from China, Japan, and Island Asia. Highlights
of the exhibit include a fine Tang Dynasty female "Polo Player"
(China), a beautiful Edo period six-panel screen "springtime
sparrows with Lingbi and blue waters" (Japan), and 800-year-old
Treasure Porcelain Teaware (Island Asia). Gifts to Cherish included beautiful, handmade objects created by Vermont artists in a range of prices starting under $10.
60 Years in the Making: Student and Instructor Retrospective 1945-2005
Shelburne Art Center (formerly known as Shelburne Craft School) presents an exhibition of work made by students and artist-instructors at the Craft School over the past 60 years. The exhibition at the Art Center’s gallery shows the wide spectrum of fine art and craft taught at the School through the years and includes work by students as young as 7 and as old as 70.
From a stained glass panel by instructor Gretchen Begnoche to a maple cabinet by student Peter Jensen, a silver piece by student Lin Morris, and functional and sculptural ceramics representing 15 students and instructors, the show makes a strong case for the value of lifelong learning, the social and aesthetic benefits of a community art center, and the joy of making art.
Shelburne Craft School Gallery on the Green and the Flynn Center’s Amy E. Tarrant Gallery announce the upcoming exhibition Curtain Up! Textiles in the Theatre. This exciting co-presentation, with installations at both venues, offers viewers an insight into the process of costume and set design that creates so much of the excitement of live theatre, dance, puppetry, film, and circus. The exhibition runs concurrently at the two locations. Curtain Up! Highlights:
August 2–September 7, 2005
Artists featured in the exhibit are Miriam Adams, Sandra Berbeco, Jude Bond, Jean Cannon, Autumn Cipala, Church & Maple Glass, Katherine Clear, Creative Women, Diane Gabriel, Jamie Greenbaum, Tom Homann, Jennifer Koch, Ginny Joyner, Loretta Languet, Ann Levy, Random Orbit, Diane Rosenmiller, Nicholas Seidner, Kelli Sinner, Davis TeSelle, Shanley Triggs, Janet Van Fleet, and a display of tea and tea accoutrements by Dobra Tea.
Watercolor by Ann Levy
Art
by Any Name: Outsider? Folk?
Private Lives: Selected Personal Work
May 2–June 4, 2005 A chance for aficionados to see selected works by Tad Spurgeon not previously exhibited. Tad has been an especially well-regarded instructor at the Craft School and has shown and sold his work in Vermont and elsewhere for years. Now he chooses pieces that hold particular meaning for him as an artist and shares them with gallery visitors and collectors.
Presenting the work of artists working in New England who have studied Japanese craft, incorporating its rich traditions and aesthetics. Exhibiting artists include: Nancy Moore Bess-baskets; Elizabeth Billings-Ikat weaving; Jan Cannon-ceramics; James Jack-James Kelso-metal jewelry; Michael LaFosse-origami; Tim Rowan-ceramics, Jeff Shapiro-ceramics; Ikuzi Teraki-ceramics; Malcolm Wright-ceramics. The exhibit and related programming draw inspiration from the work of Soetsu Yanagi, who coined the Japanese term mingei (“folk art”) as a way of appreciating the rich tradition of Japanese crafts. The exhibition seeks to deepen our understanding of the influence of Japanese artistic traditions by presenting the work of craftspeople from both cultures who now live and work in our region. Through this exhibition the spirit and philosophy of traditional and contemporary Japanese crafts will be explored.
Retreating in the Backyard Works by Vermont artists: Eloise Beil, Carol Hinrichsen, Carol Norton, and Delia Robinson The show’s title, Retreating in the Backyard, is taken from one of Carol Hinrichsen’s paintings and refers to the elements of nature explored in many of the paintings on display as well as the notion of looking for and finding inspiration close to home. Working in different mediums and with different subjects, the artists present glimpses of the world from various points of tight examination and distance. Delia Robinson’s layered acrylic works attempt to express life’s complexity while Eloise Beil paints with a traditional nineteenth century palette of earth pigments. Carol Norton previously has worked in watercolor and now adds the oil medium to further deepen her expression of the environment, especially water. Carol Hinrichsen’s abstract oil paintings illuminate her chosen theme of Home as she paints, draws, builds, observes, and wonders about the meanings of home and its many manifestations.
Catherine Hall: New
Encaustic Paintings Catherine Hall's recent encaustic paintings exhibit a wide range of techniques for using this luminous wax-based medium, including collage, sgraffiti & gold leafing. Look for faces, abstracts, beetles & dragons! "I have used the wax-based encaustic medium for over twenty years, since teaching its history (starting with the ancient Egyptian art) and technique at Trinity College, in a course called Traditional Techniques. I have used it both on sculpture (as did the ancient Greeks) and in painting (as did Jasper Johns, famously, in his flag paintings of the 1960's). It is a versatile and seductive medium, appealing also because of its scent of beeswax, mixed with resin and pigment and heated to a liquid state. The surfaces can be built up or smoothed down, r-melted or treated with gold and sliver leaf, or embedded with texture collage or even photographs. Lines can be scratched in and filled with other colors of wax or pigment (sgrafitto). One can continually change the composition by simply melting parts away and refilling with wax and other compositional elements." —Catherine Hall
Exhibiting artists include: Dorothy Caldwell (Ontario), Gretchen Kottke (North Dakota), Margo Mensing (New York), Victoria Z. Rivers (California), and Diane Shullenberger (Vermont).
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Treasures
from Asia 
A
few examples of our handmade gifts in all price ranges: Under $25—bottle
stoppers, teacup pins, calendars, baby booties, ornaments, framed
prints, earrings, books, felting kits; Under $50—ceramic cups
and bowls, silk scarves, jewelry, prints, wooden coat hooks, paperweights;
Under $100—hand-woven table runners, ceramic pitchers, blown
glass, pocketbooks. We have a group of specially-priced framed monoprints
and gouache paintings by Susan Smereka for only $50 each, and colorful,
appealing prints by Ginny Joyner priced from $60.
November
3–December 1, 2005
The
Art Center invites all to view the work and appreciate the decades
of creative output being celebrated in the exhibition. Work in many
mediums created by beginners through advanced students reflects the
high level of instruction provided at the Art Center as well as the
level of commitment by students to master a craft or a fine art medium.
This exhibit was generously supported by TD Bank North. 
60
Years in the Making highlights work by current instructors, including
Doug Jones, Tad Spurgeon, Hoyt Barringer, Jean Cannon, Pilar Netzel,
Gretchen Begnoche. Former instructors and resident artists are represented
by Woody Smith, Judith Bryant, Dale Helms, Barbara Murphy, Bob Green,
Cindy Lewis, Betty Atwood, Stan Marc Wright, Julie Baker Albright,
David Albright, Mark Siminitus, and others.
Curtain
Up! Textiles in the Theatre
Enter
the many-layered world of tea in this exhibition of teaware and related
objects. Work by 16 artists in various mediums will surprise you with
expressions of tea rituals and references from cozy to meditative
to fanciful and flamboyant. Ceramics, painting, sculpture, assemblage,
and mixed media combine to present new and old ways of acknowledging
the art of tea as a form of social sustenance.
The
Term “Outsider Art” seeks definition from within and without
the art world and is sometimes known by other terms: Visionary; Brut;
Naïve. What does it mean? Arguably, the field is held together
by one common thread—a compulsion on the part of the maker,
who, with no formal artistic training, portrays personal images and
visions.
Home
Improvement
International
exhibiting fiber artists and painter incorporating cloth and the stitched
line in two- and three-dimensional work. Exhibit, curated by Kathryn
Lipke, runs April 7–May 30, 2004.
What
Can You Do With A Brick?
Marilyn Gillis Art Quilts 
From
May to June 30, 2003, the Gallery on the Green featured Surf &
Turf, an exhibition of three painters in three mediums, each inspired
by color and movement: Ayn Baldwin Riehle's undersea images and the
landscape interpretations of Amy C. Storey and Mollie S. Burke. 
Ayn
Baldwin Riehle’s vivid watercolors are derived from scuba diving
and snorkeling in Caribbean waters. Paintings are infused with patterns
and movement of delicious color in a fluid atmosphere where gravity
has no hold. 
Honoring
the Barn
Judith
Rey, Denis Versweyveld, and Marshall Webb.