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MFA in Visual Art Alumni/AE News
Welcome to VCFA's MFA in Visual Art alumni news page. Between this page and our our twice-yearly printed college newsletter we hope to bring you all the news on your fellow alumni. This web venue allows us to focus on those news items that include links, video, and any other interactive media. We are still adding items to the page (our alumni are incredibly active) but if you have news to add, please use our VCFA news form here.
Pete Driessen, '98VA, is the recipient of a 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant ranging from $2,000-$10,000. Driessen also was awarded a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council Community Arts Grant in 2012 for his independent, alternative gallery TuckUnder Projects.
Brad Birchett, '05VA, has an essay, Discipline and Practice, recently published by Integrative Teaching International in their academic journal Future Forward: Foundations NOW.
Nellie Brannan, '00VA, participated in an art exhibit called WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY MAKES: 24 Hour Art Challenge in Melbourne, Florida. Twenty-four artists had a 24-hour period to create an artwork based around a small set of prompts and guidelines to be revealed that day. These works will be sold to raise money for Very Special Arts Brevard. One focus of the project was the creative process and why artists make art; a portion of each participant’s work day was videotaped for a documentary about the project that was screened prior to the special reception.
xtine burrough, '01VA, with Paul Martin Lester, published Visual Communication on the Web. Burrough’s exercises are accompanied by Lester’s concise introductions to relate history, principles, and visual communication theories to the practice of web design. Each paperback book includes a free subscription to the interactive e-book format (Routledge 2012). Visit here for more information.
Karen Ristuben, '11VA, is one of eight artists paired with MIT/WHOI scientists to produce collaborative artworks for the Boston Museum of Science. With a chemical oceanographer she has explored the impact of ocean acidification on pteropods, a shell-bearing plankton, and its implications for the ocean. The piece called "350dotEGG" communicates the issue through 350 acidified eggshells as analogous objects to shell-bearing marine organisms. Scientists say that atmospheric carbon shouldn't be above 350 parts per million; the world is currently at 390 ppm and rising. For more information, visit here.
Lynn Imperatore, '99VA, has been selected as part of the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) exhibit 'Drawn/2013', taking place in Bristol, United Kingdom. Lynn will also be part of the exhibition's 'Drawing Lab' as part of the HATCH:Drawing Research Project, of which she is co-founder and co-editor. Visit here for more information.
Clea Felien, '07VA, has a film in the upcoming One Minute Film Festival 2003 - 2012 exhibition at Mass MoCA, featuring films shown during the last ten years at the One Minute Film Festival in upstate New York every July 4th. The festival was organized and hosted by artists Jason Simon and VCFA MFA in Visual Art Visiting Artist Moyra Davey, who invited artists, writers, film and video makers, and their friends and families to come with food, drink and a one minute movie. The exhibition will celebrate the 10 years of the festival, including a special exquisite corpse film celebrating the ten year anniversaty. This hour-long film was created by artists each receiving the last second of a previous film and building a new minute based on that glimpse. The exhibition opens March 23, 2013. Visit here for more information.
Molly Heron, '11VA, has a site-specific public art installation called Petri Towers at Columbia University in the A. C. Long Health Sciences Library, Hammer Health Sciences Building (Lobby Level), 701 West 168th St @ Ft Washington Avenue, New York City. The opening reception is Wednesday March 6th, 6–8 PM. Visit here for more information.
Nils Karsten, '03, had a solo exhibition at Churner & Churner Gallery in New York City. Suburbia Hamburg 1983 featured pieces from Nils' new body of work.
The show opened on December 20, 2012 and ran through February 02, 2013.
Lori Robeau, '08, has a new solo exhibition opening in Hartford, Connecticut. The mixed media installation, titled Consumption, reflected the loss of the natural world due to the dominance of industrialization and consumer culture.
The show opened on October 2 at the 100 Pearl Street Gallery and ran through January 4, 2013.
Janet Filomeno, '06, was part of a small works exhibit at the J.Cacciola Gallery in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood. The show, titled Napoleon Compex, opened on December 18 and ran through December 30, 2012.
Rocco Scary, '07, was part a group exhibition at the Karl and Helen Burger Gallery at Kean University. The Garden Statement Project brought together five artists whose work highlights issues and concepts relevant to the State of New Jersey.
The five artists, Pat Brentano, Rachael Faillace, Michelle Mechanic, Joseph Gerard Sabatino, and Rocco Scary, are all New Jersey residents with personal histories and conceptual interests characteristic of the state.
The show opened on September 12, and ran through December 19, 2012.
Diana Gonsalves, '11, had work in the Art Fundraiser Exhibit at the Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Dibden Center for the Arts, Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont.
This exhibition included painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and digital prints to support the Visual Arts Fund. It opened on November 26 and ran through December 16, 2012.
Janet Filomeno, '06, had work in the Montclair State University Faculty Exhibition in the George Segal Gallery. The show opened on Sept.11 and ran through December 8, 2012.
Janet Kawada, '98 had a solo, interactive performance in autumn, 2012 at Kingston Galllery in Boston. For the exhibit, titled Shift in Time, an interactive performance, Janet sat in the gallery for 5 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 5 weeks or a total of 125 hours, winding one ball of string to mark time. There was another chair for viewers to sit and wind their own ball or carry on a conversation with the artist.
The show opened on October 31 and ran through December 2, 2012. The entire 125 hours is streamed through the Kingston website.
Bruce Laird, '98 had a self-titled solo exhibition of his new work at the Noho Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.
It opened on October 30 and ran through November, 24, 2013.
Renee Lauzon's installation, If We Are Two, They Will Have to Believe Us, came to Burlington, Vermont's Fletcher Free Library.
On November 3rd, at 4pm, Fletcher Free Library hosted Renee D. Lauzon's audio installation. Her current aesthetic investigation in sound forms a process of listening with two kinds of ears. It pulled together themes of violence through veins of diegetic narrative, interlocution, and perfunctory definitions and statistics gathered from various websites, including Wikipedia and the FBI. This work deals with how violence is spoken in our culture.
Krisanne Baker had a solo exhibition at the Tidemark Galleryin Waldoboro, Maine. In this self-titled exhibition, the artist examined the contents of one drop of water creating a local water consciousness exhibition.
It opened on October 17 and ran through November 10, 2012.
The Words and Video exhibition, an evening of videoart projections exploring the intersection of language/text/poetry and moving images, included work by several members of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art Program community, including faculty members Humberto Ramirez and Michelle Dizon, Artist/Teacher Jen Morris, and current student Jon McAuliffe.
This event, ran on October 11 at the Center for Digital Art’s 3rd floor studio at the Cotton Mill building in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Cynthia Atwood had a solo exhibition at The Little Gallery@ Deb Koffman’s Artspace in Housatonic, Mass. Titled Notebook Pages, the show opened with a reception on Saturday, October 6 and ran through October 28th .
Leigh Anne Chambers, '10, had work in a show in Charlottesville, VA in October. The exhibition, titled Entropy was shown in the Passage Gallery of Chroma Projects: An Art Laboratory. The show opened on Oct 5 and ran through October 27, 2012.
Mona Brody, '00, had a solo exhibition titled Mona Brody: Temenos, at The Painting Center in New York City.
The show opened on October and ran through October 27, 2012.
Rebecca Doughty's, '94. collection Inkies was shown at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Inkies, Rebecca's newest body of drawings, focused on the simple flow of brush and ink. Ink silhouettes of hybrid animal figures tumble, hop, contort, or struggle to move forward in their white space.
The exhibtion opened on September 21 and ran through October 24, 2012.
Hawley Hussey had work in a group exhibition. titled Word. This show was Curated by Meridith McNeal and was at the Corridor Gallery in Brooklyn, NY from Sept. 9th through Oct. 28th
Five alums of Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art Program were part of a group exhibition in Rosebury, Oregon. Renee Couture '10 (curator), David French '10, Amy Stout '11, Todd Baldwin '10 and Kate Renner '10, all had work in Conditions of Possibility at the mpqua Valley Arts Association Regional Arts Council's Red Gallery. The show featured photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture from eight artists who explored notions of possibility through a variety of imagery.
Conditions of Possibility opened on September 7 and ran through October 26, 2012.
Jo Ann Block, '11, had work in an exhibition at the Baum Gallery at The University of Central Arkansas.
Titled Juried Bodies of Work: The Baum MFA Biennial 2012, it was on view from Thursday, September 6 – Thursday, October 25, 2012.
Muriel Angelil, '00, had a solo exhibit of abstract and semi-abstract paintings at the Beverley Tassinari gallery in Newbury College, in Brookline, Massachusetts. The works in the exhibition, titled Back to the Past, A Daughter of the Nile, were an expression of Angelil’s reminiscences about her experiences growing up in Alexandria, Egypt. .
It was on display from September 6 to October 31, 2012.
Collette V. Fournier, '03, was part of an exhibit titled Get It On The Record, at the Visceglia Gallery, Caldwell College in Caldwell, NJ. The show ran from September 6 through October 5, 2012.
Collette is a member of Kamoinge, Inc. an African American photography collective, and Kamoinge received a Soros/ Moving Wallsgrant to document Hurricane Katrina, 18 months after the hurricane devastated New Orleans and the Lower Ninth Ward.
Included in the exhibition were three digital color photographs entitled "American Justice", "Mike Moody" and "Tyrone Williams". She spent two weeks in New Orleans concentrating her lens on the Lower Ninth Ward photographing and interviewing a distraught community. "American Justice" shows a torn American flag that is flapping in the wind but has survived the deadly hurricane winds.
Kristi Hargrove, '04, was part of a group exhibition at the Frist Center for Visual Art's Conte Community Arts Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. The show, titled Metamorphoses: Drawings by Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford, and Chris Scarborough, opened on June 8 and ran through September 30, 2012. The show of Nashville-area artists, featured "41 drawings, all of which reveal scrupulously rendered forms, the origin of which are often unclear, conveying a sense of mystery and transformation."
Katy Martin had two films that she made (from 1978-81) about Jasper Johns and silkscreen printing on view through August 19 at the Harvard Art Museums in conjunction with the exhibition, Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of the Print. They are also streaming from Harvard's website.
The films themselves received a very favorable review and on the blog, Art:21, her Hanafuda was described as "an extraordinary bit of filmmaking."
Riki Moss curated and participated in a 
group exhibition titled Mutual Gaze/Call and Response. The event took place in the Energy Co-op of Vermont Gallery which is part of the Winooski Pop-Up Gallery District through August 4th.
Linda Stillman had a solo exhibition titled From the Garden – Flowers as Pigment at The Gallery at R & Fin Kingston, New York. The show ran through Saturday, July 28, 2012 and was curated by Laura Moriarty.
Katy Martin had a solo exhibition titled After Bada Shanren at the The Narthex Gallery at Saint Peter's Church in New York City. The show ran from May 25 - July 15, 2012, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 31, 6-9 pm and a gallery talk Sunday, June 10 at 3 pm.
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Krisanne Baker's video short Content Aware Anxieties was part of the Petroleum Paradox exhibition at the Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery on west 20th Street in New York City. The show ran from May 24-June 23, 2012 and Krisanne's film on the dangers of 'fracking' was shown on May 24th from 6 - 8 p.m.
David French was part of a group exhibition at New Jersey Arts Incubator Gallery in West Orange, NJ. The show was titled Mudluscious , the name taken from the poem “In Just" by American poet E. E. Cummings, "proposes a poetic investigation of fertile ground both earthly and as embodied by the artist's imagination." It opened on Friday, May 4 and ran through May 25, 2012.
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Debra Arter's piece "Hot Date" (paper lithograph) was a part of HERstorically Speaking, a juried exhibition sponsored by the National Association of Women Artists. The exhibition took place from March 25 - May 23, 2012 at Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick New Jersey..
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Julie Puma had an exhibition at the Ice Cube Gallery in Denver. The show, titled Let's Get it Straight, featured large-scale photographs that focus on “alternative relationships." It opened on March 29 and ran through April 21, 2012.
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Linda Stillman was part of a show at Hunter College's Times Square Gallery. The exhibition, titled Notations: The Cage Effect Today, was curated by Joachim Pissarro with Bibi Calderaro, Julio Grinblatt & Michelle Yun. Linda's work, Daily Paintings, detail: 2007: a year of paintings of the sky was included in the show. It opened on Friday, February 17 and ran through April 21, 2012.
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Linda Ganus was part of a group exhibition at New Century Artists in New York City. In her series, titled Wunderwald:, the forest stands as a metaphor for the tangled secrets of adulthood, rooted precariously in the perspective and memories of a child. The show ran through April 14, 2012.
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Nan Hass Feldman had a solo exhibtion at Fountain Street Fine Art in Framingham, MA. The show, titled Dreaming East, Dreaming West, opened on March 16 and ran through April 15, 2012. It included 50 paintings that "reimagine the landscape of southwest China in the bold, brilliant colors and elemental figures of a fable."
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Muriel Angelil had a solo exhibition at the Belmont Gallery of Art in Amesbury, MA. The show, titled Memories of Egypt, opened on March 16, 2012 and ran through the 26th.
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Leah Grimaldi had an exhibition with Charlene Liska. The show, titled Getting There: Terror and Desire in Uneasy Times, ran from March 9-31, 2012 with an opening reception on Saturday, March 10, 6-9pm at Atlantic Works in South Boston, MA.
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Krisanne Baker was part of a group exhibition in Maine titled MERC: Mainers Recycling Cardboard. “MERC” opened on Friday, February 24 and was on display in Engine’s gallery at 265 Main Street in Biddeford until March 31, 2012.
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Katy Martin and her husband, filmaker Bill Brand, were part of a group exhibition at dm contemporary in New York City. The show, titled ♥+ Art : Artist Couples Collaborating and Exhibiting Together, featured recent work in various media, including painting, sculpture, video art, and mixed media, by the artist couples listed below:.
Jackie Battenfield & David Headley
Isabel Bigelow & Luis Castro
Katy Martin & Bill Brand
Michael Kukla & Marietta Hoferer
Sheila Pepe & Carrie Moyer
Tamiko Kawata & Ian Ferguson
It opened with a reception on February 10 6:00 - 8:00 pm, and ran through March 30, 2012.
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Valerie Hird had a solo exhibition opening at the Nohra Haime Gallery in New York City. The show, titled The Fifth Day, opened on January 17 and ran through March, 2012.
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Irene Abraham had a solo exhibtion at Waldorf College Art Gallery in Forest City, Iowa. The show, titled Irene Abraham: Seeing is Believing, opened with a reception on February 10 from 7:00-9:00pm, and ran through March 22, 2012.
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Debra L. Arter was awarded first place at the Art in ME competition in Boothbay Maine for her aseemblage construction entitled Day in and Day Out using scavenged linoleum flooring.
Her piece Hot Date (paper lithograph ) will ba part of HERstorically Speaking, a juried exhibition sponsored by the National Assocaition of Women Artists. Exhibition will take place from march 25 - May 23 2012 at Johnson and Johnson World Headquarters Gallery, New Brunswick New Jersey. ('08)
Gustavo Godoy had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Jacksonville in Florida. The show, titled Project Atrium: Gustavo Godoy, opened on November 19, 2011 and ran through March 11, 2012.
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Brian Zeigler had work in the opening show of a new gallery in Waitsfield, Vermont. The show, entitled Pop-Up Preview opened at Quench Artspace on Friday, February 24, 2012.
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Joan Grubin was part of a two-person show at Gallery 61 at the New York Institute of Technology. The show, titled Location/Dislocation: Re-Imagining Space, featured the work of Grubin and Josette Urso. The exhibition opened with a reception on Thursday, January 26 from 5-7pm and ran through February 23, 2012. Click here for more information.
Cate Bourke had a solo exhibition at the West Cove Gallery in West Haven, CT. The show, titled Crewel Linen: Unfinished Business was in memory of the 146 workers who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in 1911 New York City. The show opened on January 1 and ran through February 29, 1012.
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An 
exhibition at Goggle Works Center for the Arts in Pennsylvania featured six alums and one current student from VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program. The show, titled Big Draw, was curated by alumna Suzanne Fellows and featured work from VCFA alums Don Decker, Linda Ganus, Denise Karabinus-Telang, John Santoro, Pauline Foss, Maria McMahon and current student Cathy Jones. It opened on January 6 and ran through February 19, 2012.
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Nils Karsten was part of a show at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York. The exhibition, titled Jam Session, opened on November 30 and ran through January 24, 2012 with a reception on Sunday, December 4.
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Lynn Imperatore was part of a show in Bergen, Norway this January. The show, titled Bisensual, included drawings from eight artists who are based in Bristol, UK. It opened on January 9 and ran through January 13, 2012.
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Lory Lockwood was part of an exhibition at the Bennett Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee. The show opened on December 3, 2011.
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Todd Baldwin had a solo exhibition at the Vox Populi Gallery in Philadelphia. The show, titled you took this out of context, opened with a reception on Friday, December 2 from 6-11pm and ran through January 1, 2012.
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Kristi Ryba had a show at the Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, South Carolina. The exhibition, titled The Art and Science of Memory, ran throughout the month of December 2011, with an opening reception on December 2 from 5-8 as part of the annual December French Quarter Gallery Association Artwalk.
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Luc Demers was part of an exhibition at the Rose Contemporary Gallery in Portland, Maine. The show, titled Enter Night, included the work of six artists and opened with a reception on Thursday, November 17 at 5:00, and ran through December 31, 2011.
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Damali Abrams was part of a new video exhibition at The Jones Hall Gallery at the University of Memphis. The show, titled Identity Cinema: Volume Two, featured work by Damali Abrams, Jovan Erfan, and Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz. It opened on November 10 and ran through December 23, 2011.
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Leigh Anne Chambers was part of a show at the Selden Arcade and Gallery in Norfolk, Virginia. The exhibition was with Marjorie Puryear and opened on November 5 at 6:00pm and ran through December 18, 2011.
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Nils Karsten had a new solo exhibition at The Bogart Salon in Brooklyn, New York. The show, simply titled Nils Karsten 1969, 1970, 1971, opened on Friday, December 9, 2011.
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Kevin Knopp was part of a two-person show at the Tomorrow River Art Gallery in Amherst, Wisonsin. The exhibition, titled New Works-Knopp & Reineking, opened on Friday November 18 with a reception from 5-7 and ran through Sunday, December 11, 2011.
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Nan Hass Feldman participated in the Historic Fenway Studios Annual Open Studios in Boston. The event was held on Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, 2011.
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She also had a solo exhibition titled Places I've Been: Real and Imagined at the Concord Art Association. This show ran from November 1 through 30, 2011. The opening included a poetry reading from Alan Feldman.
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Blair Vaughn-Gruler opened a solo exhibition in Nevada. The show, titled Poetry of Geometry: Recent Paintings, was at the College of Southern Nevada Fine Arts Gallery in North Las Vegas through December 2, 2011.
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Janet Kawada had a solo exhibition in the Members Gallery at Kingston Gallery in Boston. This show of new work was titled Home and ran through November 27 with a gallery talk on Thursday, November 10 at 6:00pm
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Craig Stockwell curated a show 
at the Marlboro College's Drury Art Gallery in Vermont. The show, titled Progress?, included work from several VCFA community members: Craig himself, current student Jon McAuliffe, faculty member Humberto Ramirez, as well as several VCFA Artist/Teachers. The exhibition ran from October 25 to November 20, 2011.
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Rhonda Wall had a solo exhibition at New York City's Accola Griefen Gallery. The show, titled Rhonda Wall: Delirium, Danger and Determination, opened on October 20 and ran through November 26, 2011.
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Jeff Daniel Silva showed his film Ivan and Ivana internationally this past November. On November 2nd, 2011 it was shown as part of Viennale, the Vienna International Film Festival, and then on November 11 and 13, 2011 at RIDM, (The Montreal International Documentary Festival) in Montreal, Canada.
Sabrina Fadial was part of an exhibition at the T.W. Wood Gallery in Montpelier, VT. The show, titled The Body Human: Off the Wall and On, opened with a reception on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 from 5:00-7:00pm, and ran through November 13, 2011.
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Katy Martin presented with Linda Cummings as part of the Yale University Making Sense: Colloquium on Beauty, Creativity, and Healing. Their presentation, titled Stirring the Waters: Beauty, Longing, and Fear took place directly after the keynote speaker on Saturday, November 5, 2011.
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David Willburn has co-curated an exhibition titled Queer State(s) with Noah Simblist. Queer State(s) explored the ways in which Texas artists queer gender identity and the performance of sexuality through visual representation. The show ran at the University of Texas of Austin's Visual Arts Center from September 9 to November 5, 2011.
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Laura Mylott Manning had a solo exhibition at the Dino Eli Gallery in New York City. The show, titled Chalk, Crumble and Grind -- Chalk Dress, ran from October 10 through October 30, 2011 with an artist reception on October 28 at 7:00pm.
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Renee Couture curated an exhibition that included the work of fellow VCFA alumna Lexi Ryckman-Harriet (summer '10) and VCFA Artist-Teacher Charlene Liu. The show, titled Mapping Affection displayed seemingly quiet works that map moments and memories, places and spaces, objects and impressions through drawing, painting and photography. It opened at Umpqua Community College's Art Gallery in Roseburg, OR on September 12 and ran through October 27, 2011.
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Riki Moss and her partner Robert Ostermeyer had a lighting piece at Vermont's Shelburne Museum's Paperwork in 3D show. The exhibition featured the work of 23 contemporary artists who transform flat sheets of paper into amazing three-dimensional art. It opened on May 15 and ran through October 15, 2011.
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Kat Schneck was part of a video and performance exhibition titled Letting Go, sponsored by the Newark Arts Council. She shared her video E/Motions and performance Eiffel Tower. This event took place on Saturday October 22, 2011 from 3 to 9pm. The outdoor event was rain or shine on Halsey Street, New Street, Central Avenue and Broad Streets in Newark, NJ.
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Linda Stillman had two months of her "Daily Paintings" of the sky included in the show Jersey Bounce at the Visual Arts Center of NJ in Summit, NJ. The show ran through September 25, 2011 and was curated by Mary Birmingham.
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Linda also had work in the show Just...Air at the Alliance Gallery at the Delaware Arts Center in Narrowsburg, NY. This exhibition ran through August 20, 2011.
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Mona Brody had work in Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry exhibition at the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ. The show opened on June 19 and ran through September 18, 2011.
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Pamela Calore had a 
show that featured her photo essay of New Bedford, Mass. The exhibit, titled Time Has Left Its Mark - Photographs of Pamela Calore, opened at the New Bedford Art Museum on June 8 and ran through 9/11/11.
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Via Vermont was an exhibtion at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art in Anchorage, Alaska that featured the work of all Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni. The show was curated by alumnus Don Decker.
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Karen Ristuben had a special one-day installation and presentation at the Cape Ann Museum's White-Ellery House in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The work, titled Beneath the Blue, an artist's perspective on the complex issue of ocean plastics, took place on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 from 11:00am-3:00pm.
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An 
exhibition titled Nature Nourishes opened at ArtSpace in Hartford, Connecticut and included work from eight VCFA MFA in Visual Art Program. Nature Nourishes was a multi-media group exhibition whose artists push the boundaries of how Nature is perceived and the various ways it nourishes human kind.
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Brian Zeigler was part
of the Winooski POP-UP Gallery event in Winooski, Vermont. Starting at the end of June, fifty artists took over five empty buildings in downtown Winooski and worked in teams to transform them into gallery spaces.
This unique art event opened June 24 and ran through July 31, 2011. Click here for more information.
Nils Karsten was part of the85th Annual International 
Competition: Printmaking exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia. The show opened with a reception, gallery talk by Sarah Suzuki & awards ceremony on Saturday, June 4 and ran through July 30, 2011.
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Nicolas Gadbois had an exhibition at the GVG Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show, titled Flood: new paintings by Nicolas Gadbois, opened on June 24 with a reception from 5-7, and ran through July 8, 2011.
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Fiona Phillips was part of an exhibition at A Gallery in Salt Lake City, Utah. The show, Summer Solstice Event, opened on Tuesday, June 21, 2011. Fiona had new work as well as a continuation of the Glamorous Work
series of paintings.
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Jonathan Marrs had a screening of his film With You as part of an evening of short films at the Whitsell Auditorium of the Portland Art Museum. The film is a collaborative work based on conceptual performances done by Jonathan Marrs and Josh Ferdaszewski.With You was sho
wn on Wednesday, June 29 from 7-9pm.
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Leah Grimaldi was part of a two-person exhibition at the Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston in mid-June. The show, titled Inn3r, included new work by Leah and Chris Spuglio, and opened on June 11, 2011.
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Nils Karsten had a second New York show this April in addition to the one at Illumuinated Metropolis. His second self-titled exhibition included approximately 45 works on paper spanning 1998 to 2011 and opened at Ubu Gallery on east 59 street on Friday, April 15 and ran through July 1, 2011.
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Barbara Lidfors had a solo exhibition at the Stadttheater in Fürth, Germany titled "Public and Private Spaces." The show opened on March 20 and there was an artist talk on April 9 at 2:30pm. It ran through May 12, 2011.
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David French
was part of a group exhibition in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The event, titled Compositions in Music and Art, included the work of 15 artists that find their inspiration in music and music performances. It opened on March 19 and ran through May 8, 2011.
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's film, Ivan & Ivana was shown at the Independent Film Festival of Boston on April 30 and May 1, 2011. The showings took place at the Somerville Theatre on Saturday April 30th at 2:30PM and Sunday May 1st at 8PM. Ivan & Ivana was also presented at the Visions du Réel festival in Switzerland.
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Nils Karsten had a show at Illuminated Metropolis in Chelsea. The show, titled Can't Find My Way Home, opened on April 7 and ran through April 30, 2011. The show featured exclusively from his new body of work, 6' x 6' album cover woodblock prints together with large scale prints of rock ‘n roll song lyrics and small scale collages.
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Janet Filomeno had a new exhibition in New York City this spring. This two-person show (with Hollis Heichemer) was at the J. CACCIOLA GALLERY in Manhattan from March 24 to April 30, 2011.
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Suzanne Fellows and Jane S. Noel had a joint show this April titled Moving on. . . at the Schmidt Gallery of the Goggleworks Center for the Arts in Reading, Pennsylvania. It opened with a reception on April 1 from 5:30-7:30 and ran through April 18.
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Joan Grubin had a show in Cranford, NJ this April. This solo exhibition, titled Joan Grubin: Propositions in Paper, was at The Tomasulo Gallery at Union County College. It opened with a reception on Friday, March 11 from 6-8 pm, and runs through April 16, 2011.
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Deidra Krieger curated a new exhibtion titled “Let’s Play Nice” at SINErgy Project Space + Gallery in Philadelphia. The show also included work by VCFA Alumni Abby Sadauckas, Amanda Dillingham, Jacob Galler, Kat Schnek and Denise Karabinus Telang. The works investigated play and invite viewer participation while offering critiques of topics as varied as identity, the wedding industry, the art world, and early rave culture. Other works provided genuine entry into a reimagined everyday and crosscultural exchange through sincere invitation for engagement. It ran through April 16, 2011.
Robert O'Connor had an exhibition of new work titled "Facing Laramie" that featured sound by fellow alumnus, Matt Page. This new work was a reflection on a recent trip O’Connor made to Laramie, Wyoming (made notorious in 1998 by the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard – a gay University of Wyoming student). It was at the LZ Project Space/NY Studio Gallery from March 17 through April 9, 2011.
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rk Dial had a screening of two of his short films on Saturday, April 2, 2011. The films, titled McDonough County and Plain Folk, were shown at both The Western Illinois Museum and the West Central Illinois Arts Center.
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Emily Lanctot had a show at the DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University in Marquette. The show, titled UP FOCUS: Ryan Brayak and Emily Lanctot, ran through April 3, 2011.
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John Santoro had a show in Portland, Maine. The exhibition, titled In the Neighborho
od of the Back Cove: A Celebration of Place opened on April 1 at Borealis Bistro in Portland and ran through May 31, 2011.
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MFA in Visual Art alumna and Assistant Program Director Sabrina Fadial had a new two-person show in North Carolina. Titled Fadial it featured the sculptural work of Sabrina and paintings by her father, artist J. Murray Fadial and ran from March 1 through 31 at the Max L. Jackson Gallery at Queens University in North Carolina.
Elizabeth Bisbing
had a new exhibition and performance at the SOHO20 Gallery Chelsea in New York City. The show ran through March 26, 2011 and was titled
Writ Small
.
Writ small
was an exhibition and performance series whose roots and intention are derived from painting. Bisbing constructs intimate collages with hand-painted paper. Using the narrative of a character called “Little Betty Jane”, Bisbing fabricates wonderful vignettes based on Art historical backdrops, religious iconography, contemporary culture and personal
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Joan Grubin had a solo exhibition in Maine. The show, titled SCISSOR / PAPER / LIGHT: Installations opened on February 4 and ran through March 18, 2011 in the Lord Hall Galleries at the University of Maine at Orono.
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Riki Moss was part of an exhibition titled Hello From Vermont. The show featured the work of nineteen contemporary artists from Vermont. This exhibition was held at Galerie Maison Kasini in Montreal and included painting, sculpture, ceramics, fiber, and installation and ran from February 12 through March 5, 2011.
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Lory Lockwood had a new show open at the Reynolds Ryan Art Gallery at the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. The exhibition, titled The Art of Reflection, opened on February 10 and ran through March 3, 2010.
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Marya Schwartzkopf had a new exhibit open on October 23, 2010 in Easton, PA. The multimedia show, titled Eye Candy, is at the Museum of Ethnography and runs through June 30, 2011.
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Brad Birchett had a new solo exhibition that ran from February 4 through the 17th. This exhibition of intermedia installations titled Earth and Time was at the Myers Gallery-Living Arts of Tulsa. Brad’s work involves an investigation of time through objects and physical movements. His art pieces include documentation, sound, drawings, objects, multiples, bio-art, collections, interventions, and installations – often in layers building over time.
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Nan Hass Feldman was part of a new group exhibition titled Unscripted which was at the Fountain Street Fine Art's first show & part of its grand opening celebration. Nan's work was chosen along with artists from Boston and beyond. The show ran from January 27th--February 27th, 2011.
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Work from Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Arts students Scott Cantrell, Leah Grimaldi and Linda King Ferguson was chosen to be part of the North American Graduate Art Survey annual exhibition. Their work was chosen from 700 pieces and was on display at the Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota Regis Center for Art.
The show ran through February 16, 2011. Click here for more information.
Gustavo Godoy had a new solo exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University. The show, which opened on November 9 and ran through February 13, 2011, was titled Fast-formal Object: Flayed White.
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Michelle Hagewood had a two-person exhibition with CA resident, Erica Hansen titled Vanishing Point, which opened on November 13th and ran to January 1, 2011. This exhibition is the culmination of her time at the Creative Alliance studio residency in Baltimore.
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David French had a new solo exhibition at the Simon Gallery in Morristown, New Jersey. The show ran through December 16th and featured compositions that "fuse the pure emotional charge of innovative modernism with ironic and satirical impressions of everyday objects and images."
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Molly Heron was part of a group exhibition at Gallery Joe in Philadelphia. Titled New Talent 2010, it was an exhibition of drawings featuring four artists, all new to the gallery. It opened on November 20 and ran through December 18, 2010.
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Daniel Weiss was part of a group exhibition at Dordt College Campus Center Art Gallery in Sioux Center, Iowa. This Collage and Assemblage Invitational Exhibition represented a blend and cohabitation of traditional and new media techniques.
The show opened on October 13 and ran through December 1, 2010. Visit the Gallery's website for more information.
Luc Demers had a solo exhibition at the Coleman Burke Gallery in New York City. The show, titled Darkened Rooms, featured new photography which "reinterprets the tension between light and dark." It ran through November 27, 2010.Click here for more information.
Elizabeth Bisbing was part of a group exhibition at the NARS (New York Art Residency & Studio) Foundation's Main Gallery. The show, titled Ready Set Create, ran through November 20, 2010. The exhibition showcased some of the multitudinous voices, thoughts and studio practices that fill the eighty artist studios at NARS.
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Larry Caveney was in Rome, Italy this October participating in the Sguardi sonori 2010-2011: Infinite Spaces - Festival of media and time based art. His work was part of the Video Art portion of the show. It ran until October 30, 2010.
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Fiona Phillips had a solo exhibition at St. George Art Academy in St. George, Utah. The show, titled Glamorous Work, included new paintings and hand made "art" dresses. Joining her at the opening was the St. George Contemporary Dancers who performed a new piece choreographed in response to the dresses and paintings.
The show opened with a lecture where Fiona discussed her work and the idea of a "glamorous housewife" or "domestic goddess" as it relates to contemporary women on Friday, October 8 at 5:30. Exhibit ran through October 30th. Click here for more information.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Patricia McInroy will be art of the ATA (Artists' Television Access) 5th Annual Film & Video Festival on October 21 in San Francisco. The show, titled Human Nature, will include her film Found: Nothing Missing.
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Marya has a new exhibition titled FABRICations opening at the Alvin H. Butz Gallery at the State Theatre in Eaton, PA. The multimedia show opens with a reception on September 23 and runs through
November 12th.
For more infromation visit the Gallery's website.
Barb Goldsand had a solo exhibition at The Garage in San Diego. The show, titled Inside The Eye; reconstructing the gaze, scrutinized the notion regarding the "medical gaze" as discussed by author Michel Foucault in The Birth of the Clinic. In her statment the artists said: "As a registered nurse, I came to the uncomfortable realization that my nursing career was basically an embodiment of that Gaze--which had been conditioned primarily through nursing school training, then as a consequence of on the job experience within the medical field."
The Garage is owned and operated by another VCFA alumnus, Larry Caveney. For more information on the event click here.
Blair Vaughn-Gruler had a solo exhibition open at GVG Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The show, titled Viscosity and Geometry included paintings that "explore the subverted geometry of the self, the interior scaffolding of personal subjectivity, and the curious relationships between structure and memory."
It opened on September 24 and ran through October 15.
Leigh Anne Chambers had a solo exhibition at the Artspace Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. The work of this Portsmouth-based artist, "converges at a place between an interest in social ordering or how a society determines what is tasteful and an engagement with materials to consider what art can be."
The show opened on September 24 and ran through October 17 in the main gallery.
The show opened on Friday, September 10 at 6:00pm and ran through October 30.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Janet Filomeno had a one person exhibit at the Simon Gallery in Morristown, NJ. The show, titled Mapping Memory & Tides of Change, ran through October 9, 2010.
For more information visit the Gallery's website.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna and Trustee Joan Grubin had an installation on the Art Wall of the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. The exhibition ran from September 10 through October 10, with an opening reception on September 16 from 5-7pm.
For more information, visit the Bowery Poetry Club's website.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Mona Brady had an exhibition of her work, titled Found Walking, that opened on September 14th, 2010 at Gallery Loupe in Montclair, NJ. In this series of work, Brody channeled her process of unearthing, selecting and collecting remains from decayed plants and trees to generate imagery that extends beyond the woods and becomes “wearable objects.”
The exhibition ran through October 9, 2010. For more information, visit the Gallery's website.
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Valerie Hird had a captivating new exhibition titled The Maiden Voyages Project. The show was comprised of the physical illustrated diaries of five women as well as the computer animated version of the recorded entries. It was on view at the Nohra Haime Gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City from July 20th through September 11th, 2010.
For more information on the show, click here.Below is a preview of the project:
Lynn Imperatore is beginning her second year of Practice-led PhD Study at the School of Creative Arts/University of the West of England in Bristol, UK. Her work was recently featured at the Brighton Art Fair and the Palace Art Fair (Fulham Palace, London) - drawings and silverpoint. She's settled into her studio at BV Studios in Bristol - with about 80 other artists - and is helping organise their very first Open Studios this fall.
Lynn asks that anyone who finds themselves over here in the southwest of England - please be sure to get in touch!! ('99)
VCFA Alumnus Larry Caveney inteviewed about his inspirations as an artist. (5/10)
Maria Driscoll McMahon received a grant for “The Burdocks Project: A Creative Study of the People of the Town of Barton,” ayear-long, multi-disciplinary art project incorporating drawing, video documentation, sculpture and performance art based upon the personal stories and memories of residents of the villages of Waverly, Lockwood and Barton, PA. Click HERE to read an article about the project. (5/10)
Fiona Phillips work was included in the statewide Dixie Invitational Exhibit at Dixie State College in Utah from February through March 2010. She had three pieces chosen including "Lily Pond Memory". Fiona also was invited by Best of America books to be included in their 2010 edition. Her paintings "Lancashire Skyline" and "Ice Cream Sandwich" are published in Best of America Oil Artists Volume II. (5/10)
Andrea Katz had an installation in a recent show called “Eye On Wall Street” that was exhibited in the Federal Building on Wall Street in NYC. (5/10)
Debra Arter was a recent recipient of a Maine Arts Commission "Good Idea" Grant. Funds will be used to purchase large rollers for her bacon viscosity printing project. (5/10)
Steven Simon had a solo show at L2kontemporary Gallery in Los Angeles, entitled “Perhaps” in March and April, 2010. The show included three large sculptural “paintings” created from tens of thousands of pieces of painted pasta and other materials that reflect Simon’s continuing research into altering visual perceptions, as well as commentary on the ecological state of the environment today. (5/10)
In/organic Transmissions by Patricia McInroy from qarrtsiluni magazine on Vimeo. (5/10)
MFA in Visual Art alumnus Gustavo Godoy had a new solo exhibition open in January at the Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, California. The show, titled Fast-formal Object: Big White featured unconventional sculptures that encompass what he calls “an interactive exercise in construction.”
The second stage of his experimental re-interpretation piece, titled Fast-Formal Object: Act Two, at the Honor Fraser Gallery in Los Angeles, CA. Moving the work from the gallery’s carefully designed main space where it was placed for the first stage, into raw, vaulted secondary space, the Act Two offers a challenge to the pristine "sanctuary" of the first abstract construction. (5/10)
Diedra Krieger’s review of a show she saw during her artist residency in Costa Rica was published on the artblog.org's website. (5/10)
Visit Paul Calter's web site. (5/10)
Lory Lockwood was part of a show at the Womanmade Gallery in Chicago, IL. The exhibit was called the 13th International Open and ran through the end of April. She was also part of “Navel Gazing: Fresh Squeezed Visions of Florida,” a juried show of sixteen national artists presenting their views on Florida which ran utnil April 11, 2010 and then traveled. The video above is for a show she did in 2008 called Chrome and Chroma: A Motorcycle Art Exhibit. (5/10)
A new exhibition at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center, located in New Canaan, CT, features the work of two alumnae of VCFA's MFA in Visual Art Program. The show "witnesses ongoing visual dialogue between artists Susan Newbold and Alex Rheault is what viewers will experience in 'Natural Overlaps.' For almost two years, these artists have explored drawing and printmaking techniques in both collaborative and solitary practices." (5/10)
For the full article visit NorwalkPlus.com.
MFA in Visual Art alumna Laura Mylott Manning's piece, "Memories of Play" was part of the 2010 Wearable Art Exhibition in British Columbia, Canada January and February 2010. The exhibition was displayed in the Port Moody Arts Centre and in selected locations in and around the city of Port Moody during the 2010 Vancouver/Whistler Olympic Games in British Columbia, Canada.
"Memories of Play" is a dress constructed from a twenty-four foot, vinyl soccer net and is designed to capture the person who wears it. (5/10)
January & February 2010 brought an art exhibit at the University of South Carolina Lancaster that was curated by Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Brittany Taylor and featured the works of her fellow VCFA alumni/ae. The show, titled Un-Words, featured works that demonstrate “things that unsettle in daily life such as relocating, raising a child, and our rapidly changing environment.” Taylor is also an archive assistant and adjunct instructor at USCL.
Artists represented in the exhibit were, Yip Chan from suburban Maryland; Charmaine Felix-Meyer from Los Angeles, CA; Michelle Hagewood from Baltimore, MD; Kelly Jones from Castleton-on- Hudson, NY; Jonathon Marrs from Portland, OR; Lisa Martin from Monroe, Maine; Shaw Osha from Olympia, WA; Jolanda Pieta van Arnhem from Charleston, SC; Marcy Pope from Francestown, NH; Olaitan Valerie from Oakland, CA; and Brittany Taylor from Lancaster, SC. (5/10)
MFA in Visual Art alumna Clare Murray Adams had a new exhibit titled "Reference Points" that featuredclothing imagery. The show ran at the Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery at Coker College in Hartsville, SC in late January and early February 2010. (5/10)
Michael G. Benedict Barnoya wrote a four-page article in Spanish treating titling, naming and interpreting works of visual art and other things within a context of cultural memory, empowerment and the discourse of ownership that will appear in the second publication (the 2nd book), published by Puertas de Día S.A. treating the work of renowned Guatemalan artist María Elena López de Lamport entitled María Elena. Sin título The book will be presented in June 2010 in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title at the Mexican Embassy in Guatemala City. (5/10)
Nicolas Gadbois will have a solo exhibition in September at Mesa College in San Diego of the work he showed at his VCFA graduating residency last year. This show is curated by Todd Bartel, a visiting artist who often comes to Vermont college for critiques. (5/10)
Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Visual Art alumna Bonnie Baxter had a solo exhibition this past March and April at Galerie Division in Westmount, Quebec, Canada. For more information about the exhibit and event please visit the gallery's website. (5/10)
Linda Smith is exploring the possibilities of textural painting and e commerce via her new Etsy website. (5/10)
Abby Sadauckas was part of S)Edition: Prints As Activism, a group exhibition held at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She will also take part in an exhibition in July 2010 titled Women in Grains show at the Woolen Mill Gallery in Reedsburg, WI. (5/10)
Roy Nicholson announced that METRO in Los Angeles finished the lighting for his mosaic for the Gold Line Portal in Union Station. It consists of two 55 feet long mosaics and a skywell with four 8 x 8 foot panels. (5/10)
Martha Savage has small, handmade books for sale at Sideshow at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD. (5/10)
damali abrams’ video, Walking with Linda Montano will be included in the Jamaica Flux Video Slam. The video presentation took place in April 2010 at the newly reconstructed Jamaica Performing Art Center in New York City. In addition, damali has a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery running in May and June 2010. She also started an art blog: damaliabrams.blogspot.com. (5/10)
Madelyn Roehrig is in the second year of her Andy Warhol project. She is finishing up her movie with 36 people talking to Andy at the gravesite including her own conversations. Pittsburgh Filmmakers is helping to be an "umbrella" non-profit the project is continuing into year two with a visit to NY to Union Square hopefully on August 6th for Andy's birthday. (5/10)
Charmaine Felix-Meyer had recent exhibition at JAUS, Los Angeles, Nov 2009. Her piece, entitled “All New Construction!”explored the line between fantasy and reality, drawing and sculpture, two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces.In March she was one of four artists invited by VCFA alum Amanda Dillingham to participate in an exhibition focused on site-specific installation art at the Renaissance Center in Dickson, TN. (5/10)
Patricia McInroy is now teaching as an adjunct photography instructor at the University of New Mexico and as a writing tutor at Central New Mexico College. This spring she has a show called New Directions | Down+Out in Seattle and Portland, Oregon one of her videos will screen at the Taos Shortz Film Festival. She also continues to teach photography to teenagers who are incarcerated through the Fresh Eyes program. (5/10)
Rhonda Wallhad a solo exhibition titled “As the World Turns Then & Now” that ran from January through April 2010 at the Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ. (5/10)
Michelle Hagewood was recommended by the National Screening Committee of the Institute of International Education (IIE) for a grant under the Fulbright U.S. Student Program to study in Australia for the academic year 2010-11. This spring, Michelle will appear in the 2010 South Regional publication of New American Paintings, and will have her first solo show in Baltimore, Specimens of Infrastructure at the Metro Gallery. Michelle is also currently a semi-finalist for the 2010 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape prize, and will exhibit at Artscape, Baltimore in July 2010. (5/10)
Cheryl Wolf’s most recent big project involved painting a mural in a subsidized housing complex as a joint effort between her and her students. She ran it as a Special Topics class to bring students into the community via outreach. The weather was so bad it took five months to complete the project. (5/10)
Olaitan Valerie will have a solo exhibit - "Memory Traces" in the Thoreau Gallery at the Thoreau Center for Sustainability in the Presidio in San Francisco beginning mid-June 2010. (5/10)
Krisanne Baker’s piece titled “World Water Crises: Potential Effect/Cumulative Effects”--a public-service-announcement style piece of digital activism concerning water conservancy and desertification–was invited to screen at The Green Screen Environmental Film Festival held in Los Angeles this fall. The short film about water quality was premiered last summer at VCFA alum Robert O'Connor's FilmOneFest in Atlantic Highlands, NJ. (5/10)
Sharon Whyte is still teaching painting part time at Clark College in Vancouver, but has also opened a new private studio in Salmon Creek area of Vancouver, WA. She is conducting plein air workshops at various locations around the Pacific Northwest and is planning a seagoing workshop (aboard the Carnival Cruiser Splendor) to Puerta Vallarta, Cabo, and Mazatlan. She has had recent exhibits at Bethany Vineyards in Battleground, WA, and at East Fork Cellars Gallery and Showroom in Ridgefield, WA. (5/10)
Kim Miller screened videos and performed at the Portland Q Center in February, 2010. Jedidiah Chavez, another VCFA grad, curated the show titled "Yesterday: Today: Tomorrow." She also received the Mary L. Nohl Individual Artist Fellowship Grant in 2010 and self-published Radical Reject #2. (5/10)
Rocco Scary was part of the exhibit Beyond The Text: Artists' Books from the Collection of Robert J.Ruben which is at The Grolier Club in New York City through the spring. He also had work in PULP: Artworks made of paper, at the Arts Guild of New Jersey in Rahway. (5/10)
Valerie Hird‘s piece “Cycles Of Power” was part of an exhibition titled Sacred and Profane: Eye of the Beholder held this spring at The Portsmouth Museum of Fine Art. Additionally she is part of a lecture/panel at the Portsmouth Museum on the 25th of March. Also as part of the Vermont Commission - Art of Action she was in a group exhibition in the Senate Rotunda in Washington, DC in April 2010. (5/10)
Brad Thomas Birchett has a piece in the juried exhibition Departures at the Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne, NJ. He also has an exhibited sound art piece in No New Tale To Tell; a juried exhibition at the Claypool-Young Gallery, Morehead State University; Morehead, KY. And Birchette is part of a third exhibit in Honorairies; at 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA. (5/10)
Maggie Nowinski had a solo exhibition of her project Swallowed, a large scale multimedia installation at the Hampden Gallery at The University of Massachusetts in Amherst in January and February of 2010. The project was created from thousands of plastic water bottles, hundreds of photographs and drawings and a variety of audio and video recordings. (5/10)
Robert O'Connor will be having a solo exhibition of paintings, prints and video titled "October" at The Tides Art Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ, April 10 - May 7 2010. (5/10)
Jake Galle was one of 19 artists in the Portland Museum of Art Biennial. In the last few months he has been a part of a variety of different shows, including: Video in Progress 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Gdansk, Poland. Digital to Physical Anderson Ranch Arts Center, CO. Duration:London in London, and Cielo Abierto El Museo del Barrio, NYC. He has also been collaborating with VCFA alum, Elizabeth Conneron an installation/ performance in Vashon, WA as well as with VCFA alum, Abby Sadauckas, curating a show. In mid April he’ll be installing a new piece for the Coleman Burke Gallery in Brunswick, ME. (5/10)
Kristi Ryba exhibited work completed during her fall ’09 VCFA residency at The McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC in Untold Stories at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC from March 12 – April 25, 2010. In addition, she and Mary Jo Rosania (MFA-V Feb’05) exhibited their videos in The Litany Of Everyday Life at SoHo20 Chelsea, New York in January, 2010. (5/10)
Tina Rice opened InSight Design Studios LLC in Connecticut this past October. Her company focuses on website and graphic design for small to mid- sized businesses. (5/10)
Jane S. Noel moderated a panel titled Bend Me, Shape Me: Self Portraiture and Stereotype at the national Society of Photographic Education conference in Philadelphia on March 6, 2010. The conference theme was Facing Diversity: Leveling the Playing Field in the Photographic Arts. (5/10)
Timothy Gaewsky’s video, Noise on the Outside was selected for the group exhibition “You Become Your Thoughts,” juried by Marisa C. Sanchez at Punch Gallery, Seattle, WA. The video was also apart of a video exhibition at the BS Gallery in Iowa City, Iowa, curated by Caleb Engstrom. In addition, he was asked to create the video, Tell(ing), for 'Imaging the Apple', curated by John Neeson and Elizabeth Gower, at the AC Institute [Direct Chapel] in New York, in March. Other exhibitions include a group exhibition of video work at Reference Gallery, Richmond, VA in April and a solo exhibition at Northend Studios, Detroit, MI in July. (5/10)
Lucinda Bliss has been on a sabbatical break from her position as core arts faculty in the Union Institute & University undergraduate program and has been enjoying the extra studio time. She has been concentrating on developing a new body of drawings—stacks of teetering birds and geometric forms—and has been working on a bead installation based on memories of reading Jack and the Beanstalk. (5/10)
Jodi Hays has been working with artist William Pope.L for a Nashville-based film project exploring cultural identity and race. (5/10)
Liz Parkinson had a solo exhibition titled Field Work: Pattern and Preoccupation which ran in March and April 2010 at The Visual Arts Centre Of Clarington in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada. Her installation and works on paper have been exhibited most recently at Harbourfront Centre and Loop Gallery in Toronto. (5/10)
Kim [Brennan] Bentley will be showing her work and giving a talk at the Colby Museum of Art in Waterville, ME on Ceramics as Sculpture this spring. (5/10)
Sheila Ali is curating a show at her newly formed art & green energy center called The Irma Freeman Center for Imagination named for her grandmother who produced over 500 works of art during her lifetime, most of which she did over the age of 70. The exhibition opened in February 2010. The Center has two other exhibitions: Threads of Memory: mixed media by Joan Brindle and A Friendship in Flowers: paintings by Irma Freeman. (5/10)
Tony Dattilo is writing a brief introductory text on visual culture for graphic designers and his band Paundy just completed a European tour. (5/10)
Elizabeth Bisbing has been working in collaboration with Leslie Madigan on a community outreach project titled “The Her in Hero Project.” The program references women’s place in history and their influence on the arts, social justice and politics. The project aims to give girls a chance to dream about the future –to see themselves through the success of others. Their first session was with a troop of Girl Scouts in New York City and was very successful. (5/10)
Patricia Denys’s piece “Goddess Box,” was accepted into the 5th International Artist's Book Triennial Vilnius 2009. This exhibition included 131 artists from dozens of different countries. She presented her fourth paper, “The Artist as Witness and Warrior,” at the School of Visual Arts 23rd Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, NYC, October 2009. The paper was then published in Proceedings. (5/10) She is also a participating contributing artist to “A Book About Death,” a collaborative project conceived by American artist Matthew Rose for the Emily Harvey Foundation in NYC.
A video of the New York show is below.
Joan Grubin had two works in a show titled "In Full Color" at Hosfelt Gallery in New York which ran through February 2010. (5/10)
Nils Karsten’s two large pieces, “Sticky Fingers” and “Gimme Shelter,” were shown for the first time in the New Prints 2010 winter exhibition at International Print Center New York (IPCNY). The show then travelled to the University of Philadelphia as part of the programming for Philagrafika 2010 and the Southern Graphics Council Conference 2010: Mark, Remarque. Also, as a companion project to the new body of work he has launched a website. (5/10)
Tania Kupczak helped design and manage the production of OntheBoards.tv, an on-line initiative that offers HD video of contemporary theater, music and dance performance. In February, she screened a new short Super 8 film, "winter storm," at the NW Film Forum as part of a program of shorts by Seattle. She is currently working on a series of hand-drawn maps of Greenland for Peter Gilbert's newest documentary, "Burning Ice," which will air on the BBC and Sundance Channel later this year. (5/10)
Muriel Angelil has continued creating installations and exhibiting them in Boston area parks three or more times a year. The rest of the time she has been painting or creating monotypes in her small studio in Amesbury, MA. She is also placing a site specific installation along the Muddy River in Brookline MA from May 1 to June 15 2010. This installation will be shown with a group of sculptors called Studios Without Walls. (5/10)
Monica Rabinowitz exhibited her pivotal multimedia installation “Line #5 – Knyazhevo” at the Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2009. She was awarded grants and research awards to produce this work from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, and Amherst Cultural Council. Monica is currently living in London, England and is teaching photography and art at a sixth form college. (5/10)
Jane Waggoner Deschner was in a fiber arts show titled "connective threads" at Sweet Lorraine Gallery in Brooklyn in January and "Sensational Remix" in Syracuse in March 2010. She is also doing a residency at Kimmel Harding Nelson in May and will be artist-in-residence at Red Deer College in Red Deer, Alberta, in September/ October. Check Needle Magazine for an article in Issue No. 2. (5/10)
Barbara Lidfors lives and works in Fuerth, Germany, but has had opportunity to exhibit in other European countries, often as part of cultural exchanges. Her recent paintings deal with two complimentary themes: Private Spaces and Public Spaces. Visit her website. (5/10)
Renne Emiko Brock-Richmond earned a Certificate in Virtual Worlds from University of Washington & now is the program’s instructional mentor. She teaches at Peninsula College. In 2010, she celebrates exhibiting & creating community arts projects like the 5th Annual North Olympic Fiber Arts Festival, 4 years of First Friday Art Walk Sequim, 3rd Annual Opulent Art Show, & Sequim Humanities and Arts Alliance. (5/10)
Joan Hanley (now: Hari Kirin) signed her first publishing contract for a book: Art & Yoga: Kundalini Awakening in Everyday Life which is due out summer 2011. She teaches a yogic, community-based approach to Art at Lesley University, Omega Institute, Kripalu and weekly to the Antrim Girls Shelter. In September 2009 she curated VCFA faculty member Humberto Ramerez’s one-man show, Heaven and Earth at the Sharon Arts Center Gallery. In 2008 she changed her name legally to Hari Kirin when she took Amrit (sweetness) vows. (5/10)
Craig Snyder’s short film Wait was recently included in the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, as well as the Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival. He recently exhibited work at Logdson 1909 Gallery in Chicago in a group show about sexual desire produced by College Art Association’s Queer Caucus that coincided with the 2010 CAA Conference. (5/10)
Alexandra Broches had her photograph Wolf selected for inclusion in the 84th Annual International Competition: Photography at the Print Center in Philadelphia, Pa, May 1 - July 24, 2010. Her work was also exhibited in a three-person show at the Visions Towards Wellness Gallery in Stony Creek, CT, in April 2010. (5/10)
Jane Jenny has been teaching art camp for kids every summer in Lake Tahoe. This summer she will also be teaching other artists from the north Lake Tahoe area how to do site specific installation art. She is working on getting her website completed and still remains very "low tech". (5/10)
Melanie Maganias Nashan continues to shoot local and destination weddings. She was recently included in the book Wedding Photography Unveiled by Jacqueline Tobin, editor at Photo District News (PDN) that focuses on inspiration and insight from 20 wedding photographers. (5/10)
Barbara Sullivan continues to teach foundations at the University of Maine at Farmington. This year she is teaching Fresco Workshops at both The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine and at Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, ME for the Program called Open Door. Barbara has also been included in a show at The University of Maine Museum in Bangor, ME called I-95 Triennial Invitational Exhibit running through June, 2010. Her current fresco work addresses issues of both food production and consumption in America. (5/10)
Mary Seymour attended a painting workshop in San Miguel D’Allende, Mexico in March 2010. In addition, she is one of thirty artists from Canada, the U.S. and Europe selected to participate in 24th edition of Le Symposium de Peinture de Baie-Comeau, June 29- July 3, 2010, Lac de Pavillion, Baie-Comeau, Quebec. Mary has a painting in the Ontario Society of Artists' Donation exhibition to the Government of Ontario. (5/10)
Meridith McNeal has been part of several exhibitions, including: “In the Footsteps of the Starry Messenger” (one person) at Figureworks, Brooklyn, NY and “A Light Above the Rest,” at MyPAC in Miami, FL. Her piece Giulietta Dress, 2010, score and libretto from Les Contes d’Hoffmann, trim and mannequin will be included in Figureworks 10th Anniversary exhibition. In addition she has been awarded another Visiting Artist Residency at the American Academy in Rome in the spring/summer 2010. (5/10)
Deb Hall exhibited in a three-person show titled Abstractions: Crow, Hall, Kalina at The Ohio State University in the Pearl Conard Gallery this past February and March. After completing a NYSCA grant, Deb Hall exhibited the work in a two person show with Laura Von Rosk at Riverfront Studios in Schuylerville, NY in December 2009. Most recently, Deb's work was included in a Visual Poetry Exhibit at the Case Gallery at Skidmore College. (5/10)
Georgianne Scholz moved from the big city of Chicago and took to the peace and quite in the country NW of Chicago. She now lives in an old schoolhouse with her own studio space and gallery. She has been teaching art in public schools since she graduated from VCFA. (5/10)
William Larzelere "Larz" is still the Art Department Chair at Miami Country Day School and is teaching Photography, Drawing, Painting, Jewelry Design and A.P. Studio Art. This is his 25th year teaching Art at MCDS. He started Larlo Design with his wife, artist Marliza Lopes and he continues to collaborate in glass and metal. Additionally, in 2008 he started studying Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine and will be graduating in 2011. (5/10)
Bruno Capolongo: Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts (the exclusive Toronto dealer of Bruno’s work).will once again host a spring exhibition of gallery artists between May 15 and June 15 of 2010. Also, one of Bruno’s largest encaustic landscapes “The Golden Hour” will be at Gallery Stratford's Being in Time exhibit, through June 6, 2010 in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. (5/10)
Pete Driessen has work in the group exhibit “Foot in the Door 4,” at the MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN. He was also part of “Monster Drawing Rally” at Midway Contemporary Art in Minneapolis, MN and he will have a solo exhibition at the Waseca Arts Center, Waseca, MN. (5/10)
Katy Martin’s work was part of several group exhibitions, including: Three-Person Salon, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York City, NY; March/April 2010, Inside/Outside: Short Videos from China, Montclair Film Form, Montclair State University, NJ; Artists Exchange International, Galerie Am Meer, Berlin, Germany; June 2010. She also curated Nostalgia Reborn: Chinese Contemporary Artists at the Gershwin Hotel, New York City. (5/10)
Rebecca Doughty received an award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in the 2010 Artist Fellowship Program. (5/10)
Riki Moss installed large paper sculptures in On The Planet, an international exhibition in Nagoya, Japan. The video will be screened at the COP 10 UN conference on Biodiversity later this year. A new version of the installation travels in June to the Holland Paper Biennial at the Rijswijk Museum and Museum CODA in Apeldorn. (5/10)
Paul Calter has a solo show at SPA (Studio Place Arts) in Barre, VT titled "In a Network of Lines . . ." and will exhibit new and old abstract geometric works. The exhibition runs from April 27 to June 12, 2010. (5/10)
Carol A. O'Neill had work in the group exhibition Contemporary Icons: Tempera, which ran from November to December 2009 at the Downtown Art Gallery, Westfield State College, Westfield, MA. She was also part of the juried exhibition Art on Paper, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD which ran March - April 2010 (5/10)
Jeff Daniel Silva