External Exhibitions

Bette Ann Libby (pictured) 

Bette Ann Libby has spent 50 years as multi-disciplinary artist, working in the mediums of painting, sculpture, stoneware and ceramic shard mosaics.  Utilizing upcycled materials such as ceramic shards, discarded house paint and banners, her work explores a variety of themes including those of strong women, the universality of tea, love, home, and the beauty of nature - as is reflected in this series of paintings entitled Hello Earth. 

Libby has spearheaded many community projects in a variety of mediums over the last several decades. She is the founder of Studios Without Walls in Brookline, MA, and the creator of Banners on Bridge Street in Waitsfield, VT.  Over a dozen of her community mosaic murals are permanently installed in VT and MA. The artists’ work reflects her passion for bringing communities and art together.

Howard Center Arts Collective: A Sense of Place 

The Arts Collective Photo Project: 2025, led by Arts Collective member and professional photographer, Sarah Barnett, features the work of five artists from the Collective: Bill Bell, Bernie Greene, Scott Mackenzie, Anna-Marie Mattson, and Neal Muse.

Over the course of five months, Barnett worked one-on-one with each artist, teaching them camera operations, exploring the Burlington region, and supporting over nine hours of time for each artist to photograph. Throughout this process, Barnett worked with the artists to consider what places and subjects they wanted to explore through their work, empowering each of them to develop their artistic style and voice. After the photographs were created, Barnett worked with each artist to review their catalogue of images and select their top three photos to include in the exhibition. With Barnett’s support and guidance, each artist explored new or favorite places, documented their experiences, and shared their work with the community.

The Howard Center Arts Collective is open to adult artists who have lived experience with substance use, mental health challenges, and/or developmental disabilities via their own personal lived experience, through family members or friends, or through their work. Artists of all skill and experience levels are welcome, and no connection to Howard Center is needed to participate. The Arts Collective works collaboratively to ensure that there are opportunities for artists with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use challenges to connect, create, and exhibit work. They strive to create a supportive, non-hierarchical community that fosters mutuality, creative expression, and empowerment. Their Collective values the transformative power of the creative process on a personal, social, and systemic level, and acknowledges that we are stronger when everyone has a voice.

Casey Blanchard (pictured)

Primarily a self-taught artist, Casey explores her experiences through the engaging and often unpredictable print medium of monoprinting. She is most interested in the spiritual aspects that emerge in the image, particularly relating to how we live in the world and how the world lives in us. In the beginning, the work may be a search for answers, but in the end it's more about being here without them.

Casey Blanchard was born in Greenwich, CT in 1953. She lives in Shelburne, VT with her husband, Dan Cox, and their daughter, Julia Cox. Her artwork is found on the walls of health care facilities, private residential collections, corporate offices, the hospitality industry, on web designs, and various published materials.

Johanne Durocher Yordan    

Johanne is a Burlington based artist who works out of her studio on Pine Street. She was born in Quebec, Canada, but has lived most of her life in Vermont. It was not until 1998 that Johanne began committing herself to her artwork and finding her own voice. She studied at the University of Vermont and has since developed a diverse body of work that is a testament to her ability to succeed as an independent artist. Creating work that fits a variety of audiences, while always building upon her unique self-taught style, is the secret to her success. Johanne has always been the type of person who explores on her own, tapping into the unknown and developing her own fashion and techniques. Many of her paintings include found or collected items which add depth and meaning to combine form and function to her work. Her abstract work captures her emotions and represents her unique style and expression. Johanne has exhibited her work extensively throughout Vermont in both solo and group exhibitions over the past 12 years.

Cameron Schmitz

Cameron Schmitz grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut and spent idle time in her youth drawing. Encouraged by two artistic parents, including her mother who is also a painter, she learned at a very early age the joy and satisfaction of participating in the visual arts. 
Schmitz holds a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing from the University of New Hampshire, in addition to studying Art and Art History at Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy. 

Following a month-long artist residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2006, Schmitz moved to Vermont after discovering Vermont's rugged landscape to be uniquely inspirational. Now located in the Brattleboro area, Schmitz actively exhibits her work regionally and nationally. Her work has been featured at Fitchburg Art Museum's biannual exhibition, Ne England/New Talent, Green Mountain College, Kyoto Seika University in Japan, Emory University, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, and Rogue Space in Chelsea, New York. Her work is represented by The Drawing Room Art Gallery in Cos Cob, CT and Furchgott Sourdiffe in Shelburne, VT, and she is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art in Boston. In addition to her painting practice, Schmitz is also the Gallery Curator of The Drawing Room Art Gallery and teaches painting at the River Gallery School in Brattleboro, VT.

Carl Rubino
 
I strive to create unique interpretive, impressionistic and abstract images that relate my personal vision of or reaction to the subject matter before me.   Before I even pull out the camera I try to experience all that my subject reveals, or even what it makes illusive – not just the obvious, like the literal view, the colors, texture and patterns - but the less obvious sensual aspects, the energy and the “feeling” that it conveys. Whether in landscape, abstract, street photography, fine art nude or whatever else captures my interest, I seek to find and interpret life’s visual symphonies, one click at a time. 

I feel that to a large extent my photographs consist of three different points of view: the raw material that is the literal subject matter of the image that my camera captures; what I see, sense, and work to portray when I interpret that subject; and what the viewer sees when looking at the image on the wall.  Those may be three very distinct views of what is essentially rooted in the same thing.   That, to me, is stimulating art.  And that is a great part of what draws me to photography.

Jeff Schneiderman 

Jeff Schneiderman works as a wedding, portrait and fine art photographer in Williston, VT.  He has been taking photographs for over 35 years, traveled extensively throughout the U.S. and the world and has made Vermont his home for the last 27 years. Patterns are a major theme in Jeff’s work as he is fascinated with the designs in nature how they are reflected in things manmade.  More of Jeff's work can be seen at: www.jeffschneiderman.com."

Krista Cheney

Krista Cheney is a native Vermonter, currently living in St. George, Vermont. She studied English Literature and Agricultural Economics at the University of Vermont. She has studied photography since 2003, taking classes and workshops at local venues and the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine.

Carolyn Enz-Hack

Carolyn Enz-Hack's work includes painting, sculpture, and scenery design. While she has spent most of her life on a farm she holds a degree in theatrical design from Rutgers University and has spent years designing for the theatre. Her rural sensibility is informed by themes explored in ancient theatrical and religious literature, and by developments in cross-disciplinary Science. Each piece is an attempt to process the exterior world through an internal lens. Her most recent solo exhibitions have been at the Castleton Downtown Gallery in Rutland, Vermont, and Creare Inc. and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center both in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is the recipient of a Vermont Arts Endowment Award, a painting merit award from the Chaffee Center for the Arts, a residency at the Vermont Studio Center, and her work has been selected for exhibition in regional and nationally competitive shows.

Erinn Simon

Erinn Simon is a fiber artist and yarnbomber. She crochets tapestries, toys, baby mobiles, vegetables, baked goods, blankets, scarves for trees, and the occasional bloodthirsty zombie cupcake. Her work has appeared in group shows in Burlington, Seattle, and Australia and she ships her one of a kind creations to customers around the world. She lives in the Old North End of Burlington with her husband and three kids. You can find her on facebook as Callie Callie Jump Jump.

Nancy Chapman, oil on canvas (Blue Path)

Nancy Chapman’s landscape works are stemmed from memory.  Finding herself aware of nature’s active dialogue, Chapman explores painting as a way for her to touch what cannot be literally touched. Celebrating natural beauty through form, texture, line and color - Chapman’s goal is not to describe a scene for the viewer, but rather to render the setting’s spirit and to reveal the story.

Julie Dunigan, collage-acrylic relief printing and painting (Blue path & Mary Fletcher)

Julie Dunigan’s work combines collage, relief printmaking and painting as a template to explore color.  With line drawings inspired by the architecture of nature and human-built structures she finds visually intriguing, an internal excitement emerges and gives rise to a collaboration with color, one which can often lead her to the edge of herself. Dunigan finds the concept of color to be an infinite labyrinth, and feels enormous joy and relief in the completion of a piece and the inherent learning that energizes the process to begin again.

Francois de Melogue, photographs (McClure 4)

Francois de Melogue sees the world not as a static backdrop, but as a living story. Drawn to the characters in the landscape, his work explores the beauty of things that have slipped out of the modern pace yet keep their presence intact. Through the camera, he looks for the dignity in age and the beauty of impermanence. Creating images shaped by time and place, the artist searches for moments where life feels grounded and enduring. Through a practice that often moves beyond the visual to capture the full atmosphere of a moment, images are given a second life in which meaning isn’t tied to usefulness. De Melogue’s goal is to offer a quiet place to look again, to notice what endures, and to let it stay with us a little longer.

Becky Chappell, mixed media (Smith Patrick 3)

Becky Chappell’s process begins with playful exploration with many different media and tools, with no thought of the outcome, providing the artist a level of freedom to experiment. As the painting progresses, Chappell finds herself more aware of what wants to be expressed, turning her focus to refining and details, utilizing shapes and marks that speak to her to create a strong final composition.

Todd Cummings, digital illustrations (Breast Care Center & Shepardson 2)

Todd Cummings finds inspiration in nature through his time outdoors and in the backcountry. His work celebrates the wild, natural places of Vermont and New England all that nature offers the mind, body, and soul. Cummings’ technique is a fusion of photography and illustration. Using his camera, he gathers visual documentation of places he loves. Back in his studio, he uses these reference photos, digital drawing tools, and software to create modern illustrated, travel-style art pieces that reveal the essence of a place through his unique vision and experience. 

Greg Nicolai, photographs (Hematology/Oncology) 

Greg Nicolai aspires to turn the subjects he photographs into something more interesting, finding joy in the process even more than the end result. Forms, shapes and patterns - regardless of the environment - create the initial interest. The artist seeks to emphasize and intensify these details, utilizing color only to help further define the subject. Nicolai feels that finding the best composition presents a fun challenge, and discovering that elusive element which animates a photograph to be the reward.

Lorraine Manley, acrylic paintings (Breast Imaging)   

Lorraine Manley has long been fascinated by exploring forms of creative expression. As a native Vermonter, she is influenced by the natural beauty of her surroundings, painting the landscapes near her home in Milton, VT. Through her intuitive and energetic use of a palette knife and brush combined with vivid, lush, and intense hues, Manley seeks to capture nature and its seasons through texture and color.