Nicki is a photographer who deals with traditional images of landscapes and communities in the Mad River Valley. As an avid snowboarder, he has recently begun exploring ways of capturing the beauty of winter. He is currently exploring manipulating the digital image to add an even more “artistic” touch to his images.
Rita Ioannidis
Rita is know as the “Flag Lady” for her acrylic paintings of flags on repurposed wood salvaged from old buildings. She has 12 years of painting experience and operated the Starving Artists’ Gallery in Waitsfield, VT for many years before opening her own gallery, Art In The Village, in Warren, VT. Her “pop art” style of painting of diverse subjects is whimsical, colorful, appealing and fun.
Diane Dolliver
Diane has a passion for painting in pastels in the great out doors, especially the barns, bridges and farm structures. She participates in the annual Vermont Plein Air Festival and the numerous shows throughout the year in the Mad River Valley. Her paintings are filled with splashes of bright color used to create a strong sense of light.
She is a member of the Essex Art League and the Vermont Pastel Society.
Elizabeth Ryan Swartz
Representational oil paintings of both the landscape and the little towns and villages around New England. These paintings are expressions of a love of the natural world and the desire to capture that beauty on canvas.
Susan Lee
Most of Susan’s photos are taken while traveling, capturing sights that tell a story and give the viewer a sense of the location. She is interested capturing color and patterns in nature. There is a recent interest in exploring artistic image enhancements and various ways of presenting images. She enjoys collaboration with friends/clients to create custom photos.
As a hobbyist, she is happy to show her work but doesn’t expect awards. Several of her photos have been selected by the travel company Tauck Tours to use in their brochures and yearly calendar.
Carol Dallas
Carol likes to think of her paintings as capturing a moment in time, including the emotion experienced at the moment. Much inspiration is taken by the Vermont landscape. She strives to work a painting to reflect the color and light of an object or landscape. Her ultimate goal is to share the moment with the viewer and to celebrate the beautiful place in which we live.
Instagram: Carol Dallas Studio
She is a member of Essex Art league and Sanibel-Captive Art League
Bonnie (Edith) Barnes
Bonnie Barnes has traveled extensively, studying photography in places all over the world. Her interest is in the natural world, its topography and its people. Her images are often dreamlike and non-literal. She has worked mainly in Black and White silver gelatin, but is currently experimenting with color prints. Presently her focus is the pursuit of digital photography in all its forms. Bonnie has been active on a number of boards which support artists and emerging artists, writers and musicians. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Mad River Valley Arts.
She has had numerous solo shows of her work.
Watercolor Workshop With Richard Sneary, AWS, NWS
Presented by Valley Artists Guild
Warren, VT
June 13, 14 & 15 – 9:00 am to 3:30 pm
Enjoy three days of painting with nationally recognized artist and experienced workshop presenter, Richard Sneary, AWS, NWS. Sneary’s paintings are recognized for their depiction of light through the use of value and color and always illustrate a sense of place, its character and the story being told. This will be a plein air and studio workshop. Experience with the medium of watercolor is expected.
Class size is limited.
$325
Registration at 802-583-2224
Elga Gemst, Mad Women In the Attic
Elga has been playing with glass, literally, since she was a little Latvian kid in Montreal amid the family picture-framing and art supply business. Now her attic studio, Mad Women In The Attic in Moretown Village, is where she cuts, breaks, grinds, fuses, melts and otherwise plays with amazing glass from around the world.
Group workshops of 1 to 4 adults and/or kids can be arranged.
Text only: 802-371-9768
Luke Iannuzzi Pottery
Contemporary wheel thrown tableware and raku fired pots. Private and group wheel classes, raku workshops, decorative pots, dinnerware sets and custom restaurant ware.
Naked Raku and Related Bare Clay Techniques – Gallery title page photo
Offering raku workshops featuring naked techniques as well as wheel throwing experiences.