Ten landscapes that I painted between 2005 & 2008 will be at The Board Room @ Hauke Campus Center at Champlain College (375 Maple St., Burlington) from August 3 through December, 2009.

The Gallery at 215 College: an artist’s cooperative always has a notebook of my work and past statements for visitors to review.

My 2009 exhibition at 215 College Gallery opened Feb. 6. The title of the show was NEW VIEW because of the more formal landscapes painted on panoramic shaped stretched canvases. There are many floral images, also, reminiscent of previous work but differing in medium (acrylic) from past years.

The exhibit at 215 College Gallery in 2008 was shared with Sara Katz of Charlotte. We both had been painting big square pictures planes in acrylic paint and found that subjects of the landscapes were different, the color tones, hues, and values were compatible and made a beautiful show.

In 2008, Burlington City Arts placed my work at the head office of National Life Insurance Co. in Montpelier. It combined many older favorite pieces of mine with several from the 2008 exhibit at 215 College. Prior that that, City Arts has placed my work at the Maltex Building, Office Environments in So Burlington, and the Burlington International Airport.

HEALING LEGACIES curated exhibit on Martha’s Vineyard
In June, 2004- Tracy Tyler O’Reilly and I presented an exhibit of art: paintings, video, photography, poetry, textiles – from the collection of Healing Legacy: artwork and writing by women with breast cancer. I had been asked to curate an exhibition from the collection of work in the slide registry of Healing Legacies. It was not only work that had personal meaning to the artists but was also beautifully rendered work. Set in tiny Firehouse Gallery (large enough to hold one fire engine) in Oaks Bluff, Martha’s Vineyard – the space was loaned to Healing Legacies for the duration of the two weeks by a gallery coop member. A highlight of the time there occurred at the opening – attended by several hundred people and fed by many (donated) Vermont products. Tracy and I were interviewed on the local TV station and written up in the newspaper. We felt that we had tremendous impact on our audience; many who wandered in after tennis and stayed for hours - or better – returned with their friends/family. Although Healing Legacies has changed its emphasis to focus more heavily on writing, the message this show told was that any of the arts can be an aid in healing, and – for those of us on the other side of breast cancer – what it is that our friends are experiencing from their side of the disease.

SPORT PAINTING
For the winning 2005 basketball team at UVM, their sportsmanship was seriously tested by participating in my Sport Painting event as part of Burlington City Arts spring auction. Dressed in white tyvek jump suits, they bounced paint-soaked balls onto a 4’ x 5’ canvas – with direction from their coach for the evening (me). There were encouraging shouts from the 200+ crowd that included their “real” coach, Tom Brennan, the evening’s auctioneer, Rich Tarrant and our city mayor, Peter Clavelle. This sport painting event was an early run-through of my own reality game (developed well before current reality shows) to encourage active participation between an audience and painters – working with direction on a single canvas. Auctioned off in a frenzy of competition, the resulting painting is now on view at the Shelburne Athletic Club, Shelburne, VT.

BABY NEWPHEWS AND LEAH PROJECT (October 05-April 06)
I have five nephews and one niece and between them, they have eight sons and one daughter. This project included these “babies” from 2.6 years to 14 years of age. I wanted to create an art piece in which they could all participate with me: this became my “babies” project. I sent each child a watercolor box, a good brush, 3 pieces of good watercolor paper and a fine-line black ink pen. I asked each child to draw (make marks) on the papers and also paint over the lines. They sent these to me – where I photocopied them and painted over their work (or added lines and color). I then photocopied the end results. Some had many iterations – others had very few. I put all the work into a bound book, with the pictures, names and birthdays of everyone. Since there were families from my side and my husband’s side, they were introduced to each other by this book. Now, they will also know me from the collaborative work done and published. To get good paint brushes into the hands of little people is not common. To have an art project outside of school, with a ‘real’ artist, and aunt is a treat on all sides. Each child has a copy of the final book. I have encouraged them to continue coloring in these.

215 COLLEGE ST. ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE
In the fall of 2005, I was asked to join a new artists’ cooperative gallery in Burlington. The space was rough (an artist’s old studio) and was in need of new walls, re-finished floors, and track lighting. I took this design project on and acted as general contractor for the developing group so that when we opened on April 7, 2006 we were very well received for both the art and the space itself. For the rest of 2006, the group shows will be doubles, and next year, we’ll each have single exhibits. Look for my double (with Jessica Scriver) opening Oct. 27, 2006.