Shelburne Art Center and Mobius host Dinner and Art event for local mentor pairs

Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 12:00 pm Nicole Marshall, at right, mentor from King Street Center, and her young friend Odreille explore their creativity in the clay studio at SAC.

On Monday, October 17, the Shelburne Art Center (SAC) hosted local mentor pairs for a Dinner and Art workshop. Mentors and mentees from throughout the county had dinner together, and created plates and mugs out of slabs of clay under the guidance of teacher Rik Rolla. The event is the first in a monthly series of Dinner and Art workshops hosted by SAC as part of its new partnership with Mobius, a local affiliate of the National Mentoring Partnership.

Sage Tucker-Ketcham, executive director of SAC, is excited to support local youth mentoring pairs by providing the space and guidance to enable them to engage in artistic activities together.

“For over 65 years the Shelburne Art Center has provided a creative environment for everyone of all skill levels to access arts and crafts,” said Tucker-Ketcham. “Mobius and the mentoring programs it serves are perfect partners for us to insure that our mission is being honored. With a generous scholarship donation we are able to provide an instructor and space for these creative mentor pairs. We are pleased, excited, and honored to have mentors and mentees here to share the joy of creating.”

Nicole Marshall, a mentor through the King Street Center, was grateful for this new opportunity to create art with her 11-year old mentee Odreille, especially since it challenged Odreille to learn a new artistic skill.

“I think that in the beginning she might have been frustrated that she was not as good at working with clay as she is at drawing people,” said Marshall. “After a little while, though, she seemed pretty engrossed in the project. She was actually the last one to clean up because she was still working!”

In addition to the Dinner and Art workshops for mentor pairs, the SAC is also a new sponsor of the 2011-2012 Mobius Mentor Discount Card. As a sponsor of the discount card, SAC is offering mentors and mentees the opportunity to attend its Saturday drop-in art classes together for free. 

The 2011-2012 Mobius Mentor Discount card allows mentor pairs in Chittenden County to engage in a variety of fun and exciting activities together at discounted prices at 42 local businesses, including SAC and Shelburne Farms. The 2011-2012 version of the card serves more than 500 mentors from nine local community-based mentoring programs. For a complete list of the card’s 42 sponsors and discounts, visit www.mobiusmentors.org/mobius-discount-card.

To learn more about how to become a mentor or support the local mentoring movement, call Marissa Wilkens at 658-1888 or visit www.mobiusmentors.org.

Thu, Nov 3rd 2011 12:00 pmSAC’s woodworking studio manager Zach Ogden with his own playful “Colossus Bad Wood Guy.”

Shelburne Art Center’s (SAC) woodworking studio manager Zach Ogden and four graduates of Burlington College’s program at the Vermont Woodworking School are creating “new out of the old and free” at SAC on Harbor Road in Shelburne village. The public is invited to participate in an event and exhibit called “Colossus and the Bad Wood Show,” which will be held Friday, Nov. 4, from 6 to 9 p.m.

This event is the brainchild of SAC’s Zack Ogden, an idea that recently brought the five woodworkers together to spend a day creating a sculpture out of scrap wood. “Sometimes, as fine woodworkers, we focus so much on the details that we lose the love of doing it,” said Rob Palmer, a student in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Craftsmanship and Design. “[Zack] wanted to break out of that and revisit the thrill of building something.”

Ogden, a woodworker, carpenter, artist, and former participant in Vermont Woodworking School’s Immersion Program, was inspired when on a job site this summer he noted a huge pile of scraps. “Normally they go to the dump or possibly to the McNeil plant,” he said. “I was talking to a friend who said he had no means for creative expression and I thought it would be a good idea to invite a bunch of friends here to do something.” Though it didn’t work out the first time, the idea of a day spent away from the rigors of regimented work for the artists reemerged and was a grand success.

Ogden commented, “There’s not much spontaneity in doing woodworking as things are thought out and materials are expensive. The idea was pretty much to have a show based around having fun,” he said; “instant gratification!”

Collecting scrap material from construction sites and letting loose of craftsmanship, Ogden said, they ended up with five individual sculptures, which will be on display in the Fish Bowl Gallery at Shelburne Art Center.

“It was awesome!” Palmer said. “We took free materials – two-by-fours, plywood, scraps – and built stuff; built what we could in a day.”

The artisans include Ogden; Rachel Brydolf-Horwitz, currently a student at Burlington College in the Craftsmanship and Design program at the Vermont Woodworking School; and Pat Ford and Kevin Coughlin, recent graduates of the same program.

“We had a lot of wood left over,” Palmer said, ” so we’re going to get there early and start a free-form sculpture using those materials and encourage people to add to it to make a crazy, free-form, far-out-there wood sculpture.”

“We’ll start it and allow other people to add on and it’ll be just one big kind of interactive sculpture,” Ogden said.

“Who knows what it will be,” Palmer said, “because people will add their own ideas. I thought this was going to be just us getting together for a day and it’s turned into this big show- it’s great!”

Since 1945 The Shelburne Art Center (formally the Shelburne Craft School) has been dedicated to offering Vermonters of all ages instruction across a range of traditional craft mediums

Artist Abby Manock has exhibited across the U.S. and internationally, including New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, Mexico, Connecticut, Boston, and most recently, El Salvador. When not traveling with her shows, Manock splits her time between Burlington, VT and Brooklyn, NY, where she is an adjunct drawing professor at Columbia University.

SANTA AND THE CITY OF NOW:

OPENING PERFORMANCE OCTOBER 21st 2011 5pm-8pm at SHELBURNE ART CENTER

Now she is on her way to Shelburne. Manock has set up a fall residency at the Shelburne Art Center. For their part, the Center is crafting a space for Manock, in a room dubbed the “Fish Bowl” due to its span of mosaic-lined windows facing the Center’s courtyard.

“We had the idea that students and visitors can watch Abby as she works,” notes Executive Director Sage Tucker-Ketcham regarding the choice of studio. The design for Manock’s work is spontaneous and expansive, and incorporates re-purposed objects, like cardboard, among others, respectfully.

Manock’s style ranges from drawings and sculptures to large-scale, interactive, and game-like performance projects that encourage viewer’s participation and collaboration.

An opening and performance will be announced in October.

Abby Manock
Born Palo Alto, CA, 1977. Lives and works in Burlington, VT and Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2007 MFA Columbia University, New York, NY
2003 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1999 BA Colby College, Waterville, ME

Abby Manock received her MFA from Columbia University in 2007. Her drawings and sculpture have been included in select exhibitions in New York, London, Berlin, Los Angeles, Miami, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and most recently at MARTE Contemporáneo in San Salvador, El Salvador.  Her large scale, interactive and game-like performative projects have been showcased by the Deitch Projects Art Parade in NYC in 2006, Performagia 2008 in Mexico City, the William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, as well as several major concert venues across the US.  She has lectured at the Art Center of South Florida, Bowdoin College, and the University of Connecticut, and is an adjunct drawing professor at Columbia University. She splits her time between Burlington, Vermont and Brooklyn, NY.

www.abbymanock.com
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www.abbyabby.com

WALL TO  CANVAS 2011 August 27th 2011

Brought to you by the Shelburne Art Center and Magic Hat Brewery, Wall to Canvas is an annual live art competition hosted at Magic Hat’s unique South Burlington Artifactory. This event brings together regional artists of all backgrounds to compete before a live audience, creating street art on canvas. The winner of the competition is selected by the spectators.

Our first Wall to Canvas took place on October 2nd, 2010, and featured twelve artists working with spray paint, stencils, and wheat-pasting. The winner, Montreal artist Regimental OneTon, received a grand prize of $500. All of artwork was auctioned off, with artists receiving 50% of auction proceeds.

The day was quite a success, with attendance far exceeding our expectations. Audience members enjoyed Magic Hat brews, BBQ, Nectar’s gravy fries, free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, and music by DJ ZJ, DJ Anubus, and others.

Shelburne Vinyard hosts concert event throughout the summer that feature local and regional artists, wine tastings, and more. On Thursday March 31st, they have been generous enough to donate 10% of proceeds to the Shelburne Art Center. The featured artists that night will be Mike Colbourn and the John Tower Project, offering “a mix of jam based rock and blues with a little alt-country on the side.” To learn more about this event, please visit the Shelburne Vineyard website.

Shelburne Art Center and Magic Hat to host Wall to Canvas Art Competition on Oct. 2

 

Fri, Oct 1st 2010 04:50 pm

 

From its inception in the 1940s the Shelburne Art Center (SAC) has been dedicated to providing affordable art education to people of all ages. Through the last six decades the SAC has offered classes and workshops in traditional crafts such as: woodworking, clay, metal, glass and visual arts. In an effort to broaden the art center’s appeal new forms of contemporary art are being introduced.

 

To explore these new contemporary styles of art, the SAC is pleased to announce their partnership with Magic Hat Brewery for the first Vermont Urban Art Competition, “Wall to Canvas” occurring Oct. 2 from noon to 5 p.m.

 

For the SAC this event is tapping into a new audience, explained Creative Director Holly Boardman. “We are contemporary craft, not just traditional,” said Boardman. “We are now reaching out to that audience.”

 

For Magic Hat this event is another way to “bring back that community vibe,” according to Magic Hat Artifactory Manager Dani Gleason. “This is right up our alley,” said Gleason. “It will be a great community event.”

 

The event will be a live two-hour competition with a dozen artists who will be creating their work on a 5X5 canvas with the winner being announced at the end. Each piece of art will go up for auction after the event as well. At the event, you can enjoy live music from New York City’s DJ Anubus, local DJ ZJ, and elite hip-hop mixer King Magnetic, as you eat from the BB-Q, grab a scoop of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, or seize an Elixir of your favorite Magic Hat brew from the Beer Garden. All proceeds will benefit the Shelburne Art Center. The event is free and open to the public with a $5 suggested donation.

 

The Art Center is also pleased to announce Urban Artist, Sterling from Montreal, an advocate for responsible urban and spray art, who will be in attendance. Sterling is the force behind the Montreal based magazine, “Under Pressure” which caters to the Urban Art culture. The event is for all ages to enjoy the creation of Urban Art right in front of their eyes.

 

“You can watch this live, which hasn’t been done before,” said Boardman. “For me, that is where the excitement begins. The SAC is recognizing an art form that people have not appreciated. It still deserves admiration; it’s beautiful and it’s still art.”

 

For more information of the event, visit the website at www.walltocanvas.com, call 985-3648, or tune into radio station 99.9 The Buzz to hear more about the event. Magic Hat will be open for their regular hours (10 a.m.-7 p.m.), for beer tasting and guided brewery tours from 1-5 p.m.

 

Don’t miss out on the Wall to Canvas event, Oct. 2, noon-5 p.m. at Magic Hat’s Artifactory located at 5 Bartlett Bay Rd, South Burlington.

 

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