|
In the Galleries: |
Awarded Best Art Gallery & Best Art School Times Argus Readers' Choice Best of the Best 2019 Main Floor Gallery: Botanical Blitz
|
|
Exhibits: January 21 – March 7, 2020 Reception: Sat., Jan. 25 from 3-5pm Main Floor Gallery: Botanical Blitz The gallery turns into a botanical refuge with a lavish display of color involving works that depict the plant, insect and animal worlds. Artists: Heidi Albright; Tom Batey; Caitlin Bingham; Pria Cambio; Krista Cheney; Ginger Cloud; Jeffrey Cooper; Alice Dodge; Martha Elmes; Elizabeth Fram; James Frase-White; Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert; Michele Johnsen; Margaret Kannenstine; Lynda Knisley; Nikolas Kotovich; Meryl Lebotwitz; Michelle Lesnak; Jillian Lauren Lisitano; Sue Millar Graves; Rob Millard Mendez; Elizabeth Nelson; Lynn Ocone; Julia Pavone; Michael Ridge; Leslie Roth; Susan Sawyer; Marcie Scudder; Jayne Shoup; Fern Strong; Nancy Tomczak; Catrine Turrillon; Ellen Urman; Janet Van Fleet; Gail Yanowitch; Arthur Zorn In the Second Floor Gallery: Making My Mark: Recent Monoprints by Lois Beatty “Beatty’s pieces are at once playful and elegant, layering colors and lines into soft, dreamlike, configurations. Loosely tangled strands of color weave in and out of the foreground. The strands wax and wane in thickness, producing a sense of languid, graceful movement, slowed perhaps, as if under water…. She creates a visual archaeology of the layers that have gone into the print by burying shapes so deep in the background that they appear only as floating, pastel-colored, marks, while letting darker, more intense shapes and hues loom large. This lends a three-dimensional feel to a flat surface that tells the story of its own creation, even as the tangled strands of color—a recurring feature in Beatty’s pieces—disrupt this sense of chronology.” — Emma Jean Holley, The Valley News In the Third Floor Gallery: 20 Years of SPA! A celebratory exhibit including highlights from shows that took place in each of the years since 2000, when SPA first opened its doors. Artists: 2000: Emiko Sawaragi Gilbert; 2001: Pria Cambio; 2002: Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.; 2003: W. David Powell; 2004: Carolyn Shapiro; 2005: Meg Miller; 2006: Cully Renwick; 2007: John Douglas; 2008: Larry Bowling; 2009: Ruth Hamilton; 2010: Kita Yoshiaki; 2011: Robert Chapla; 2012: Rob Millard Mendez: 2013: Beth Robinson; 2014: Jeneane Lunn; 2015: Kristin Schuyler; 2016: Chris Jeffrey; 2017: Paul Calter; 2018: Jack Rowell; 2019: Anne Leeds; and featured Lifetime Retrospective Shows: Giuliano Cecchinelli; Rebecca Merrilees. |
Second Floor Gallery: Making My Mark by Lois Beatty
Third Floor Gallery: 20 Years of SPA!
|
|
In the Quick Change Gallery (2nd Floor)
Offerings: Found wood sculptures by Janet Van Fleet February 6 – March 7, 2020 Janet Van Fleet is a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Vermont. Van Fleet’s work often makes reference to political, environmental, and social issues. For more info on Van Fleet: https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/janet-van-fleet-is-fearless-about-making-art/Content?oid=20384719 |
|
|
On display at Morse Block Deli Peanut Butter Garlic Toast: Paintings by James Secor December 17, 2019 - February 29, 2020 (260 N. Main St., Barre) |
|
|
SAVE THE DATE!
BASH – Big Arty SPA Happening Friday, April 17, 2020 7-9PM The BASH is SPA’s annual, community-based fundraising party, and it includes major art exhibits, light refreshments, live music, and a diverse Silent Auction. Our BASH raises essential funds for programs that help SPA bring all members of the community into our art center to become creators of art through in involvement in classes, workshops, lectures and studio experiences, and to view original art exhibits throughout the art center (exhibits are free). Cash bar by Morse Block Deli. Tickets: $20 Advance (thru April 16)/$30 Day of |
Main Floor Performance:
Chad Hollister and Primo Chad Hollister and Primo have been touring together for over 20 years. Their chemistry is clear as they weave through Chads original songs. They’ve opened for Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Tom Petty as well as Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band. Their music is a voice for the positive and reminds you that music and art are a true gift! |
|
Upcoming Exhibits:
March 17 – May 2, 2020 Reception will take place during the BASH: Friday, April 17, 2020 from 7-9PM Main Gallery: FUTURES - Studio Place Arts (SPA) is proud to participate in “Vermont’s “2020 Vision: Seeing the World through Technology” as Vermont museums of art, history, and science, as well as galleries and other exhibiting institutions, will collaborate on a suite of exhibitions around the theme. Here at SPA, we want to celebrate the role artists play in envisioning the future. This show features works of science fiction, in traditional and non-traditional media. Exhibiting Artists: Nelson Asencio; Jason Galligan Baldwin; Deb Barnwell; Tom Batey; Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.; Patrick Casey; Theodore Ceraldi; Anne Cummings; Linda Di Sante; John Douglas; Rich Dufresne; Jaroslav Kosmina; Xavier McFarlin; Rob Millard Mendez; Thomas Merwin; Ryan Sarah Murphy; Maggie Neale; Julia Pavone; Ned Richardson; Michael Ridge; James Secor; Matthew Sylvester; Robert Towne; Ann Young Second Floor Gallery: Silent Auction to benefit SPA programs Third Floor Gallery: The Edges and the Corners of the Day Recent work by Pamela Wilson, Sarah Burns, Kimberly Hamlin and Alanna Phinney This show highlights four artists whose personal art-making dovetails with community-based social practice. The artists selected are women mid-career, working in traditionally feminized craft and performance mediums. Each have eschewed urban craft/art-making markets and set down roots in small New England downtowns. |
(Artwork Featured Above: Control All Delete by Patrick Casey)
(Artwork Featured Above: Moonrise Vase by Pamela Wilson)
|
|
Spring Exhibits:
May 12 – June 27, 2020 Opening Reception: Sat., May 16, 4-6PM Main Gallery: Cranbrook Connections The Cranbrook Academy of Art located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, is known as one of the preeminent centers of education in fine art, crafts, design, and architecture since the early 1930s. SPA will be honoring the late Marc Awodey, local artist and art critic, who attended Cranbrook, by organizing an exhibit in 2020 of work by artists in the greater Vermont area who also attended Cranbrook. Second Floor Gallery: Artworks by Randall Neal Third Floor Gallery: Digital Natives: Art of Central Vermont’s Next Generation A showcase of visual and experiential artwork by students of the Digital Media Arts program at the Central Vermont Career Center. |
Above: Cranbrook Connections
Above: Student artwork from the Digital Media Arts program at Central Vermont Career Center.
|
Would you like to receive our email updates or do you have questions?
Call: (802) 479-7069
or send an EMAIL
Call: (802) 479-7069
or send an EMAIL
