GALLERIES - current and upcoming exhibits

In the Galleries:

Awarded Best Art Gallery & Best Art School
Times Argus Readers' Choice Best of the Best 2019

Studio Place Arts re-opened on June 16th, and we look forward to seeing you!
We have some new approaches in place:

Face masks or coverings will be required.
There will be daily public hours and daily opportunities for scheduling private visits. SPA will be observing the occupancy limits established by the state of Vermont.
During the summer, our hours are:

Tues-Fri: 11AM-2PM public hours;
2:30-4PM private visits.
Sat: Noon-2PM public hours;
2:30-4PM private visits.
Schedule your private, 30 minute visit: 479-7069
(Your visit needs to be confirmed with a staff member; please do not leave a message.)

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Exhibits:

Digital Exhibition Series
Shelter in Place: July 10, 2020

Our third installment of a 3-part digital exhibit of artwork made during the global health crisis shutdown. The Governor’s executive order in March marked a precipitous time of change and adjustment for artists, creatives and others. Artists were challenged on many personal levels by the public health crisis; some were moved to create artwork in response. Most artists experienced a cataclysmic alteration of the art world itself, as gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and museums were quickly cancelled and closed. Additionally, sources of materials and space that artists use in their art-making practices became potentially less available. This period of time nonetheless has offered a chance for new focus and different provocations.

Exhibiting Artists:
Alexandra Bottinelli, Paul Calter, Jeanne Cariati, Theresa DeSalvio, Linda Di Sante, Mark Dixon, Cindy Griffith, Marianne Kotch, Nikolas Kotovich, Marie LaPre Grabon, Joan Mellon, Maggie Neale, Katharine Noiva, Julia Pavone, Kathy Stark, Katalin Tolgysi, Janet Van Fleet, Dana Walrath

Click here for Artist Statements and Artwork Details...

*Scroll down to see the Shelter in Place June 5th & June 19th exhibits.

Main Gallery:
March 17 – August 14, 2020
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; Veske & Spanle; Ann Young

For more information about the statewide collaboration, “Seeing the World through Technology,” a project of the Vermont Curators Group that includes more than 35 exhibitions of art, history, science design and craft, visit: www.vermontcuratorsgroup.com

Family Fun! We encourage you to bring your children for a gallery visit and play SPA's “Eye Spy in the Gallery” scavenger hunt game -- a fun interactive way to introduce your children to art and engage them with the exhibit.
Click here for the "Eye Spy" Scavenger hunt list!

Above: FUTURES (on display in the main gallery)

Second Floor Gallery:

Silent Auction to Benefit SPA Programs
Bidding Concludes August 15th, 4PM

Support our community center for the arts and enjoy the talents of local artists! Now that our gallery doors are open, you may stop by to preview items in the auction. In addition, you may review the auction on-line (see below summary) and bid via Paypal. This year, we have a “BUY IT NOW” option.

We are grateful to the many artists who have contributed to our Silent Auction. This means that 100% of your bid supports creative programs at SPA.

Click here for Silent Auction details and online bidding...

Third Floor Gallery:
March 17 – August 14, 2020
The Edges and the Corners of the Day
Recent work by Pamela Wilson, Sarah Burns, Kimberly Hamlin and Alana Rancourt 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.

Above: The Edges and Corners of the Day - Recent work by Pamela Wilson, Sarah Burns, Kimberly Hamlin and Alana Rancourt Phinney (3rd fl gallery)

In the Quick Change Gallery:

Woodblock Prints by Autumn Tomlinson
July 1 - August 8, 2020

Artist Statement:

The work seen here was inspired by the three years I worked in Antarctic. What started out as an attempt to illustrate an Antarctic Origin Story of my own making evolved into an investigation based off of environmental observations in the ice, and a symbolic overlay of objects and action.

Throughout this work I begin to play with the layering technique that is ingrained within the medium of printmaking itself. Drawn to the muting nature of this process and the ability to concretely divide printed layers, I find the process an interesting means of displaying importance and inciting curiosity. I have since moved to printing on Mylar and Vellum due to the translucent qualities.

The Quick Change gallery is a mini art venue created from an up-cycled phone booth located on the second floor of Studio Place Arts.

Digital Exhibition Series
Shelter in Place: June 5, 2020

The Governor’s executive order in March marked a precipitous time of change and adjustment for artists, creatives and others. Artists were challenged on many personal levels by the public health crisis; some were moved to create artwork in response. Most artists experienced a cataclysmic alteration of the art world itself, as gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and museums were quickly cancelled and closed. Additionally, sources of materials and space that artists use in their art-making practices became potentially less available. This period of time nonetheless has offered a chance for new focus and different provocations. In this digital exhibition, artists share work made during the global health crisis shutdown.

Exhibiting Artists:
Colleen Cole, Mark Dixon, Cindy Griffith, Cecelia Kane, Marianne Kotch, Orah Moore, Lisa Myers, Diane Sophrin

Click here for Artist Statements and Artwork Details...

(Above: Shelter in Place, Digital Exhibition Series: June 5, 2020)

Digital Exhibition Series
Shelter in Place: June 19, 2020

Our second installment of a 3-part digital exhibit of artwork made during the global health crisis shutdown. The Governor’s executive order in March marked a precipitous time of change and adjustment for artists, creatives and others. Artists were challenged on many personal levels by the public health crisis; some were moved to create artwork in response. Most artists experienced a cataclysmic alteration of the art world itself, as gallery exhibitions, art fairs, and museums were quickly cancelled and closed. Additionally, sources of materials and space that artists use in their art-making practices became potentially less available. This period of time nonetheless has offered a chance for new focus and different provocations.

Exhibiting Artists:
Anne Cummings, John Douglas, Martha Elmes, Naomi Hartov, Holly Hauser, Meg Miller, Orah Moore, Ryan Sarah Murphy, Meri Stiles, Janet & Manny Van Fleet, Dana Walrath, Ann Young

Click here for Artist Statements and Artwork Details...