Vermont Edition: Artist Wrap-Up in Morrisville & Stowe
Eliza Delaney is a student at The University of Vermont. She spent two days working on her collage art in the Morrisville studio. "I juxtapose multiple images collected from art magazines that I find interesting and beautiful in a way that creates new meaning for the works. At the same time I am creating work of my own while learning about the work of another artist."
Chip Irvine, a multimedia artist spent time painting in the Morrisville studio. After talking with Chip I learned that he recently moved to Vermont from Baltimore. Quite a change of scenery. I am now wondering how the new air and change of scenery might influence his work.
Sam Thurston of Lowell, Vermont
Alisha Laramee was a 2010-2011 Vermont Arts Council Creation Grant recipient. Her idea was to create ten essays exploring the ideas of movement, migration, place, identity and travel.
Work by Renee Russo 
This project was made possible by grants from the following organizations: Vermont Arts Council, NEA, Vermont Community Foundation, and the Oakland Foundation. A big thank you to all the participating artists and volunteers as well!
Vermont Edition: Diane Gayer presents ‘Designs on the Future’
Diane Gayer is the director of The Vermont Design Institute, a non-profit design and community development collaborative based in Burlington, Vermont. She came to the Helen Day Art Center to give a talk about new ideas in planning and environmental design. She spoke about designing for and with nature as a basis for restoring current environments as well as planning with circulation and community connectivity in mind. All in all it was a great evening that sparked conversation about the way we design our surroundings.
Vermont Edition: Brian Zeigler
Meet Brian Zeigler. He's been spending many Tuesdays in Stowe's studio. He began by making a collage on the exterior of the studio, the one that faces the public as they begin their walk/run/bike ride on Stowe's recreation path. He incorporated Joshua Sevits's spray paint, the HFA sign, and then was added to by Meg McDevitt's UVM sculpture class and Marisa Diapola's painting - oh, and a hub cap.
Brian's been creating "cartoons" with empty bubbles for both the inside and the outside of the studio, hoping to engage both the artist residents and the public to complete this work. I think he's found it slightly challenging. As an artist in this project, he's really tried to engage people in the process, whether it's with a sign outside that asks you to write what makes you think of home or the empty thought bubbles.
Thank you, Brian!
Vermont Edition: Ten Sabbaths with Julia Shipley
Meet Julia Shipley: Our Writer in Residence!
above: a postcard designed by Julia for her HFA residency
Read about her experience online!!!!
Julia will be writing an article for Stowetoday.com every week throughout the course of her Ten Sabbaths in Residence at the Stowe habitat.
The title of her latest article, What is Art? tells of her interaction with a curious passerby.
"...No sooner had I settled in when a woman with coppery hair and a visor reading "The Dunes" stopped by and abruptly asked, "So what is art?" My eyes widened...."
Click on the link below to get the whole scoop.
http://www.stowetoday.com/this_week/arts/article_cb48f816-c37d-11e0-90f9-001cc4c03286.html
Photos by Liz Crawford
Vermont Edition: Meg McDevitt Teaching in the Studio
Last week Meg Mcdevitt who is an artist and professor at The University of Vermont brought her summer sculpture class to the Stowe habitat! While in residence for the week her students worked on their sculpture projects in and outside of the studio.
Vermont Edition: Building Day
Hey Everyone!
Mandi here...Good afternoon from Vermont! Allow me to introduce myself. An intern at Helen Day Art Center and an art student at The University of Vermont, I hail from a large peninsula called Florida. I moved because I didn't want to wear a bikini year round to keep cool.
Along with my fellow intern Eliza I will be posting little bits and bobs from our experience thus far working on the Habitat for Artists project. There is a great line up of artists and writers in residence at the Stowe and Morrisville studios, so keep up with our updates and feel free to comment or ask questions!!
Building Workshop Day 2 with Simon (& Aiden too!): Eliza and I first learned how to create the studios so that we could assemble them two weeks later on our own. What better way to learn than to have hands on experience. No textbooks here, such joy! Recently I took a class titled: Wood Frame Construction. Unfortunately, the class lacked any physical constructing so I really appreciated having this opportunity to learn by actually doing.
After a great day of work and fun, Eliza and I had become more comfortable working with tools and were pretty confident in our ability to re-create the habitats when the time came.
Some might say Simon and Prince have a striking resemblance. Any comments?
Vermont Edition: July 15 – September 25, 2011
Greetings from Vermont! The habitats are up and running. Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, VT; Vermont Festival of the Arts in Waitsfield, VT; and River Arts Center in Morrisville, VT are all hosting the studios this summer. This assemblage allows three disparate, yet neighboring towns to connect for a concentrated two months. While each site will function differently, accompanying each will be a series of lectures, workshops or events, open to the public. The project will culminate in a gathering of communities September 24, 2011. Events at Helen Day Art Center will occur Thursdays at 6p.m. Please check websites for further details.
Curated by Rachel Moore.
The Morrisville Habitat!
With an early morning start the studio was built and finished with enough time to watch the sun go down.
HFA and ART@WORK
ART@WORK
An exhibition with a group of Hudson Valley based artists from the Habitat for Artists collective at Med Excel, New Windsor, NY
The works on view are by several artists who currently participate in a collective art project called HABITAT for ARTISTS. The aim of this ongoing project which began in 2008 - is to create opportunities for artists and the community to engage in conversation about creativity, sustainability and the role of the artist in public life.
It is an interesting fact that there are now more artists living and working in the region that ever before as housing and affordable studio space become sparse in the New York City vicinity. The attraction for artists to this area has been in place since the 19th Century when the first American painting tradition began, The Hudson River School. Artists at that time were creating landscape paintings from the beautiful region we call the Hudson Valley. This same location is what unites this group of artists today.
Reflected in ART@WORK is a small representation of the diversity of subjects and approaches to artmaking by numerous artists who live and work in nearly every river town from Yonkers to Albany. Although most of these artists do not draw or paint directly from the landscape today, the influence of the region is evident in the work. Artists always respond to the habitat they work and live in and the Hudson Valley can be an inspiration in its topography, light, history and oratory.
The Hudson Valley is undergoing a transition from its industrial history as an access route of material resources (that fueled the Industrial Revolution of New York City) back to a national resource of natural beauty. Artists are now showing us the value of everyday life in the Hudson Valley from small to large - so that we can discover the beauty and awe in all things - not just the majesty of the landscape.
Jessica Poser points to the area’s industrial and historical past in her archaeological paintings mapping and logging its previous use and activity. Richard Bruce reflects on the landscape and reconstructs his internal landscape on canvas from memory. Marnie Hillsley studies the trees light and color that surround her studio and creates layers of images and watercolors that morph into topological maps.
Grey Zeien builds his color from layers of paint applied and removed leaving residue as do previous histories and people who lived in the region. Draper draws from collected material and transforms the everyday into grand gestures, daring every one to dream . Kathy Feighery takes utilitarian objects and gives them a life that describes the inhabitants but are conspicuous by their absence .
Aside from showcasing these wonderful diverse works, part of the aim of this exhibit is to highlight the phenomena of this influx of serious, talented artists to the region and a generation of a NEW Hudson River School. What connects these artists, what inspires them, what keeps them in the area ? Perhaps it’s this shared experience of life near the Hudson?
The participating artists work out of Rosendale, New Paltz, Cold Spring, Peekskill and Beacon including: Chris Albert, Richard Bruce, Simon Draper, Kathy Feighery, Carla Goldberg, Marnie Hillsley, Jessica Poser, Molly Rausch, Tom Sarrantonio and Grey Zeien.
Currently at The Temporary Project Space, 1215 Park St, Peekskill, NY
HFA presents The Studio Recycled
January 17th to March 31st 2011
Artists from the Huson Valley set up studio, creating work around a theme of recycling
individually and collectively.
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