Resident Artists
 Hoyt
Barringer
Clay Resident
BA, University of Vermont
Hoyt is the clay resident at the Shelburne Art Center. Hoyt apprenticed
to the sculptor Toshiko Takaezu for a year before living in the west
of Ireland, operating a small wood-fired pottery with his wife, Nancy.
Three years of apprenticeship with Todd Piker (a former student of Michael
Cardew) followed. Hoyt and Nancy continue the pursuit of wood firing
and the use of local natural materials to connect their work specifically
to Vermont.
Joe Powers
Wood Resident
 Joe
has been building furniture for five years beginning his study of furniture
design at Notre Dame followed by an apprenticeship under Timothy Clark.
Following his apprenticeship Joe has been building commissioned furniture
pieces from his studio off Pine St. in Burlington and serving as manager
of Northend Hardwoods. 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
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.
Sue Brownell
Sue Brownell has been playing with clay since her first classes at the
Shelburne Art Center ten years ago. After two years teaching at the
University of Vermont Pottery Cooperative, she built a home studio and
now splits her working time between there and the SAC pottery community.
She has sold her pottery at private sales and numerous local craft show.
Lately she has been exploring the possibilities of handbuilding with
slabs and extrusions.
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.
Danilo Gonzalez
Danilo attended art schools in the Dominican Republic, his native
country, and took workshops at the Louvre and at the Art Students League.
He has worked with great masters such as Robert Blackburn and Cruz Diez.
His work has been shown in the United States, France, Italy, Switzerland,
Belgium, Cuba, Venezuela, Mexico, and Colombia, winning several recognitions
and awards in biennials and art contests.
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.
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. He is a member and former President of the Guild of
Vermont Furniture makers a statewide association of master level furniture
makers dedicated to the promotion of quality craftsmanship, excellence
in design, and the pursuit of artistic vision.
Ann Joppe-Mercure
BA visual arts and science, MEd
Ann has taught art and art education to students from ages 3 to 80 in
the Burlington area for over 25 years. She currently teaches visual
arts to children ages 5 to 10 at Underhill Central School and art education
and bookmaking to graduate students at Saint Michael’s College.
Ann is on the program committee for the newly formed Book Arts Guild
of Vermont.
Loretta Languet
BFA, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Loretta has worked and studied at craft schools including Haystack Mountain
School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine and Peters Valley in Layton, New
Jersey. She currently shows her work at the Vermont Clay Studio in Waterbury,
Vermont, and the Shelburne Art Center in Shelburne, Vermont.
Meryl Lebowitz
Meryl has been creating unique visual art for more than 30 years. A
self-taught oil painter, Lebowitz has experimented with painting not
only on canvas and paper, but on a variety of unlikely surfaces, from
violins to scrap metal. Her paintings range from the realistic to the
surrealistic, often combining photographs with the painted image. Her
subjects are familiar: local faces and landscapes, the interior of her
studio or favorite restaurants, friends and family, but their appeal
is universal. Her award winning work can be found in collections throughout
the United States.
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.
Susanne Peck
A newcomer to Vermont, Susanne Peck has been drawing portraits professionally
for 15 years. Her most valued instruction came privately from Elizabeth
Steig in the Boston area and from courses at Denison University, the
Westchester Art Workshop and most recently from portrait painter Laurel
Stern Boeck at Katonah Art Center in New York. Peck has taught clay
and drawing/painting to children and adults at Northern Westchester
Center for the Arts as well as Katonah Art Center and Frog Hollow in
Vermont. She is also a potter and has had a career in classical music.
Jennifer Smedley
BFA, MS Art Education, Alfred University
Jennifer has taught pottery, woodworking, and art to children and adults
in Vermont, New York, and Connecticut.
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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