Artist: Various
Medium: Various

Organization: Timco Art Gallery, located next to Timco Jewelers, features paintings, photographs and other various media created by of a number of mostly Vermont artists. The space for the Gallery which operates on a commission basis is donated. A portion of each sales benefit area schools for art supplies.

Organizations: Castleton University Bank Gallery showcases local and regional artists throughout the year. The Fourth Corner Foundation was created to teach and promote sustainable and environmentally responsive architecture, landscape architecture, and art. This website is an exchange of ideas to such ends.

Growing Food, Growing Farmers is an intimate look at the expanding community of young farmers in Rutland County and the surrounding area. The exhibit showcases farmers through large-format photographic portraits by Macaulay Lerman. Sharrow’s metaphor of the “wheel,” a central theme of the exhibit, is conveyed in the form of biographies and audio interview excerpts that complement the portraits of more than a dozen current and former farmers, many of whom trace some aspect of their agricultural trajectory to the Cox’s mentorship and generosity.

The ethnographic interviews conducted by Sharrow and Kolovos, and the resulting biographical and audio content in the exhibit, share the experience and insights of the farmers in their own words. The large-scale photo portraits—nearly 4 by 3 feet—were created with a similar intention in mind. Lerman’s photographic process is ethnographic in spirit and echoes the philosophy of deep listening and collaboration that forms the Folklife Center’s approach to cultural research. 

This exhibit is made possible with support from the Vermont Folklife Center Vision & Voice Gallery underwriters including: the Rotary Club of Middlebury, VT; Cabot Creamery; the Vermont Community Foundation; the Vermont Arts Council; Castleton University: and by the Center’s many generous supporters across the state.

The Castleton Bank Gallery is currently exhibiting in their window spaces in collaboration with Rutland Art Ramble. 

Growing Food, Growing Farmers is the product of a collaborative ethnographic research approach: making visible the experiences of one community of farmers that exists within the larger network of local food production in Vermont.

This exhibit is made possible with support from the Vermont Folklife Center Vision & Voice Gallery underwriters including: the Rotary Club of Middlebury, VT; Cabot Creamery; the Vermont Community Foundation; the Vermont Arts Council; Castleton University: and by the Center’s many generous supporters across the state.

The Castleton Bank Gallery is currently exhibiting in their window spaces in collaboration with Rutland Art Ramble. 

Organization: Stone Valley Arts is a 501(c)3 non-profit community arts organization that provides classes, workshops, presentations, and events in the visual, performing and literary arts for all ages and levels of experience. Their goal is to inspire interest, participation and provide enjoyment, enriching the quality of life in the region by integrating the arts into the fabric of the community.

 Lopi LaRoe aka LMNOPI at B & G Gallery 

LMNOPI is an American artist living and working in Southern Vermont, dedicated to utilizing her artistic skills as a way to amplify messages emanating from within movements for social, economic, racial and climate justice. Her primary mediums are painting and printmaking, which she utilizes to create both sanctioned and unsanctioned interventions in the commons. 

All of the works in this window display are original, one of a kind paintings and limited edition screen prints. Collector inquiries please email the artist at Lmnopi@lmnopi.com 

1. Rise Up 

house paint on birch board 

Study for the new mural located in the Howe Center at CrossFit RisingStar across from the West Ridge Center. It is dedicated to the recovery community to encourage people to stay strong and keep on the path with courage and serenity. 

Oct 2020 

Rise Up Sober Fitness and Recovery Project 

2. Be the Light 

house paint on archival paper 

Portrait of Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate of the United States 

Feb 2021 

The Hill We Climb- Inaugural Poem 2021 

3. The Exquisite Rebel 

house paint on paper mounted on mylar scroll 

Portrait of Voltarine de Cleyre. Free Thinker, Abolitionist, Anarchist and Feminist born in 1866. 

She was a prolific writer and speaker. 

2018 

read her 1910 essay The Dominant Idea 

4. Kenna 

screen print with paint intervention 

Portrait of Kenna Ferrell, daughter of Brittany Ferrell, co-founder of Millennium Activists United in Ferguson, MI. Limited edition screen print from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019. 

2014 

Unapologetic and Undeterred: Brittany Ferrell Speaks Her Peace. 

5. No Borders on Stolen Land 

pencil and acrylic on archival paper 

Portrait of Mother and Child at the southern border. 

2018 

6. After Lange 

Limited edition silk screen print of two American migrant kids from 1930 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

7. Libertad 

Limited edition screen print of two South American migrant kids from 2017 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

https://lmnopi.com/uprising-portfolio 

social media links: Instagram

Facebook

 Lopi LaRoe aka LMNOPI at B & G Gallery 

LMNOPI is an American artist living and working in Southern Vermont, dedicated to utilizing her artistic skills as a way to amplify messages emanating from within movements for social, economic, racial and climate justice. Her primary mediums are painting and printmaking, which she utilizes to create both sanctioned and unsanctioned interventions in the commons. 

All of the works in this window display are original, one of a kind paintings and limited edition screen prints. Collector inquiries please email the artist at Lmnopi@lmnopi.com 

1. Rise Up 

house paint on birch board 

Study for the new mural located in the Howe Center at CrossFit RisingStar across from the West Ridge Center. It is dedicated to the recovery community to encourage people to stay strong and keep on the path with courage and serenity. 

Oct 2020 

Rise Up Sober Fitness and Recovery Project 

2. Be the Light 

house paint on archival paper 

Portrait of Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate of the United States 

Feb 2021 

The Hill We Climb- Inaugural Poem 2021 

3. The Exquisite Rebel 

house paint on paper mounted on mylar scroll 

Portrait of Voltarine de Cleyre. Free Thinker, Abolitionist, Anarchist and Feminist born in 1866. 

She was a prolific writer and speaker. 

2018 

read her 1910 essay The Dominant Idea 

4. Kenna 

screen print with paint intervention 

Portrait of Kenna Ferrell, daughter of Brittany Ferrell, co-founder of Millennium Activists United in Ferguson, MI. Limited edition screen print from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019. 

2014 

Unapologetic and Undeterred: Brittany Ferrell Speaks Her Peace. 

5. No Borders on Stolen Land 

pencil and acrylic on archival paper 

Portrait of Mother and Child at the southern border. 

2018 

6. After Lange 

Limited edition silk screen print of two American migrant kids from 1930 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

7. Libertad 

Limited edition screen print of two South American migrant kids from 2017 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

https://lmnopi.com/uprising-portfolio 

social media links: Instagram

Facebook

 Lopi LaRoe aka LMNOPI at B & G Gallery 

LMNOPI is an American artist living and working in Southern Vermont, dedicated to utilizing her artistic skills as a way to amplify messages emanating from within movements for social, economic, racial and climate justice. Her primary mediums are painting and printmaking, which she utilizes to create both sanctioned and unsanctioned interventions in the commons. 

All of the works in this window display are original, one of a kind paintings and limited edition screen prints. Collector inquiries please email the artist at Lmnopi@lmnopi.com 

1. Rise Up 

house paint on birch board 

Study for the new mural located in the Howe Center at CrossFit RisingStar across from the West Ridge Center. It is dedicated to the recovery community to encourage people to stay strong and keep on the path with courage and serenity. 

Oct 2020 

Rise Up Sober Fitness and Recovery Project 

2. Be the Light 

house paint on archival paper 

Portrait of Amanda Gorman, Youth Poet Laureate of the United States 

Feb 2021 

The Hill We Climb- Inaugural Poem 2021 

3. The Exquisite Rebel 

house paint on paper mounted on mylar scroll 

Portrait of Voltarine de Cleyre. Free Thinker, Abolitionist, Anarchist and Feminist born in 1866. 

She was a prolific writer and speaker. 

2018 

read her 1910 essay The Dominant Idea 

4. Kenna 

screen print with paint intervention 

Portrait of Kenna Ferrell, daughter of Brittany Ferrell, co-founder of Millennium Activists United in Ferguson, MI. Limited edition screen print from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019. 

2014 

Unapologetic and Undeterred: Brittany Ferrell Speaks Her Peace. 

5. No Borders on Stolen Land 

pencil and acrylic on archival paper 

Portrait of Mother and Child at the southern border. 

2018 

6. After Lange 

Limited edition silk screen print of two American migrant kids from 1930 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

7. Libertad 

Limited edition screen print of two South American migrant kids from 2017 

from the Uprising Portfolio of 2019 

https://lmnopi.com/uprising-portfolio 

social media links: Instagram

Facebook

Sculptures created in the Kenya Artist in Residence program by James Kangaroti, Peter Walala, Margaret Otieno and Harrisson Mburu.

For over a dozen years Cambridge, Mass. artist Alan Colby created more than 200 two and three-dimensional portraits of urban adults and children. His series, collectively titled “Visible Republic”, have become a common experience between the artist and the community.

Artist: Jake Paron
Medium: Marble sculpture

Organization: The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center/Kuona Trust (Nairobi) Kenya Artist in Residence series offered eight African sculptors the unique opportunity to create new work and participate in our programs from 2003-2011. The CSSC provided the artists with room, board, and a stipend, funded by donor Ruth Hunt Wood, during their one-month visits. The Kuona Trust made the selections and administered a Ford Foundation grant for transportation. In addition to the benefits of cultural exchange, artworks created by the Kenyans continue to be sold at the CSSC.

Sculpture on display in downtown Rutland, Autumn 2020:
Margaret Otieno, 2003,“Owl,” Champlain Black marble, steel
Harrisson Mburu, 2006,“Buffalo,” Steel
Peter Walala, 2008,“Bird,” Wood, Steel
James Kangaroti, 2010,“Hope,” Jacaranda wood
Alan Colby, “Gail," Visible Republic series, enamel on plywood, 1991/1992

Kerry O. Furlani

Standing-She figures

 In this grouping of standing wood figures, I wish to honor the female. My vision for this series began with a desire to deepen my woodcarving know-how through life-size female sculptures. What followed, in time, were larger questions I had never asked and grew eager to explore: "What is the embodiment of female energy?" and "How is it revealed in sculptural form?”  

These figures, in part, came to fruition from my experience as a woman: my dreams and desires and darkness. Each section, of each figure, was brought to light incrementally after a period of unknowing gestation. Their life-size scale seemed to usher in a new found awareness of my process as a sculptor: How I search for and discover and clarify my forms internally through bodily instincts. And how I am fueled, in equal parts, by my strength and vulnerability; my fire and tenderness and uncertainties. 

 I have envisioned seven Standing-She figures for this series, a nod to the ancient priestess "Council of Seven" of prehistoric Goddess culture, where we began, with honor and reverence to the female form. These sculptures are underpinned by the findings I have gleaned from my research of Goddess culture. I'm so grateful to these scholars, my surrogate sisters, for their writings that have helped me to embolden my vision. 

Carolyn Shattuck

The artist is known as a painter and printmaker.  Shattuck also has a national reputation as a book artist.

In her wildly colored, abstract-plus-figurative art, Shattuck’s aim is to show connections and contrasts between the energy in the water and the energy on the street, reflecting the blend of lifestyles she experiences every year during her four months near Key West.  The collages depict two opposing aspects of the area: the loud, boisterous life of the ethnic neighborhoods with music, dancing, motorcycles versus the serenity of life out in a kayak viewing the denizens of the deep. The natural world has its own super-abundance: shore birds – plovers and sandpipers, horseshoe crabs, and other wildlife.  Shattuck documents this barrage of disparate information.

 Shattuck  enjoys using a variety of seductive materials in these new collages: pieces of artist-created print patterns, Japanese papers to effect transparencies, and prints of her own delicate drypoint sketches, to mention a few.  Some of the collage pieces involve printmaking with fiber dyes and transfer stencils.

ABOUT WANDER ON WORDS

Wander On Words™ is a celebration of hand-lettered art, photography and design. We strive to be constantly creating in order to inspire others, spread positivity, and rekindle a love for nature.

Colleen Wilcox, artist and founder of Wander On Words™, uses hand-lettering to create inspirational designs out of words, and transforms them into cards, prints and apparel. Wander On Words™ is a manufacturer of inspiration and passion for the outdoors.

ABOUT WANDER ON WORDS

Wander On Words™ is a celebration of hand-lettered art, photography and design. We strive to be constantly creating in order to inspire others, spread positivity, and rekindle a love for nature.

Colleen Wilcox, artist and founder of Wander On Words™, uses hand-lettering to create inspirational designs out of words, and transforms them into cards, prints and apparel. Wander On Words™ is a manufacturer of inspiration and passion for the outdoors.

Chaffee Art Center Artists:

Sculpture by Nick Santoro

Ann McFarren

Arlene O'Connor

Christine Holzschuh

Christine Townsend

Debbie Scranton
Jennie Johannesen
Jen Rondinone

Lisa Walker

Mary Crowley

Matt Lerman

Chaffee Art Center Artists:

Sculpture by Nick Santoro

Ann McFarren

Arlene O'Connor

Christine Holzschuh

Christine Townsend

Debbie Scranton
Jennie Johannesen
Jen Rondinone

Lisa Walker

Mary Crowley

Matt Lerman

Chaffee Art Center Artists:

Sculpture by Nick Santoro

Ann McFarren

Arlene O'Connor

Christine Holzschuh

Christine Townsend

Debbie Scranton
Jennie Johannesen
Jen Rondinone

Lisa Walker

Mary Crowley

Matt Lerman

Chaffee Art Center Artists:

Sculpture by Nick Santoro

Ann McFarren

Arlene O'Connor

Christine Holzschuh

Christine Townsend

Debbie Scranton
Jennie Johannesen
Jen Rondinone

Lisa Walker

Mary Crowley

Matt Lerman

More than just a shared workshop with all the tools you don't have space for or couldn't afford on your own, The MINT is a community of people sharing their knowledge, experience, and ideas in addition to tools, equipment, and workshop space. Our members include hobbyists, DIY enthusiasts, educators, students, entrepreneurs, non-profit, and for-profit companies.

More than just a shared workshop with all the tools you don't have space for or couldn't afford on your own, The MINT is a community of people sharing their knowledge, experience, and ideas in addition to tools, equipment, and workshop space. Our members include hobbyists, DIY enthusiasts, educators, students, entrepreneurs, non-profit, and for-profit companies.