The SPACE Gallery 266 Pine St., Burlington, Vermont
Opening Receptions:
First Friday Art Walk May 3rd, 5-9pm. Slap on a name tag, mingle, snack and drink! BRING ART SUPPLIES TO DONATE to our next event in June!!
Second First Friday reception June 7 from 5-9pm Art Supply Sale Fundraiser to benefit the gallery collective and future offerings!
Exhibition Duration: May 3 - June 21, 2023
Open Hours: Thursday (new hours!), Fridays and Saturdays from 12-5pm.
All month during APRIL, 2024. My poem, Black Birds, is part of PoemCity, Montpelier 2024. It’s in the outdoor courtyard at Christ Church, 64 State St.
“In and Out, Up and Down: Embroidery and its Kin!” Contemporary stitches at Studio Place Arts, 201 N. Main St., Barre, Vermont. See below: MARCH 16 - APRIL 20, 2024
“My Stitched Spine,” (below) is part of this group show. Exhibit runs through April 20, 2024. Excellent review in Seven Days, April 11, 2024! Thank you, Pamela Polston.
TWO OF MY POEMS are featured in POEM TOWN, RANDOLF 2024, in Randolph, Vermont through the month of April. See website https://www.poemtown.org/ for locations of poets (hint: I’m at the bottom b/c I start with “W”) and spectacular schedule of events!
April 1, 2024
My poem, Black Birds, is included in PoemCity Montpelier, Vermont 2024 Opening Reception 6-8 PM
Kellogg-Hubbard Library 135 Main St., Montpelier, VT
PoemCity 2024 kicks off with this opening reception and open mic. Join us for dessert, a poetry book swap, and the opportunity to read your poem. All are welcome. Contact Michelle Singer at msinger@gmail.com for more information.
See the poem in the lovely outdoor Christ Church Courtyard, 64 State St.
Elsewhere in April 2024: APRIL 4th, 5 to 6:45 p.m. CORPOREAL POETRY at The South Burlington, VT Library, 180 Market Street, hosts a wide-ranging art exhibit of words made visible and poetry reading. Refreshments served in the Community Room. Join us!
SAVE THE DATE!
JULY 2-26, 2024 The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JULY 5, 2024
266 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont
“Poetic License” is an innovative multi-media and fiber exploration. It will include words and poems from my new book from Salmon Poetry in Ireland, O Song.
It’s a pleasure to announce this solo art exhibition in many mediums.
POETRY READING MID-MONTH!! date to be announced
Friday, FEB. 2, 2024 5-9pm OPENING RECEPTION for ALL THE FEELS A group exhibit @ The SPACE Gallery
266 Pine St. , Burlington, Vermont “LETTER FROM MY SISTER,” (below) is a mixed media contribution that features my sister’s handwritten letter after her miscarriage. In the piece, I explore the lens between inner and outer worlds. Show runs through FEB 23, 2024
Nice mention of my assemblage, MEDALLION, in this review in Seven Days about ART OF THE BOOK: seven days review
I have 2 mixed media assemblages in this show. Hope to see you!
I'm excited to be part of AFTERLIVES, a provocative online exhibit featuring artists from all over the United States and beyond!
Afterlives is Surface Design Association’s Spring 2023 Online Exhibition is a (generously defined) fiber art organization. The image above is a detail of my piece, TOMBOX. Click the link to enjoy the whole collection! https://www.surfacedesign.org/.../afterlives-selections.../
“Whether material or conceptual, these artistic transformations call attention to lived experiences including migration, childhood, disability, and climate anxiety. These artists pull us in close and invite us to connect through shared identities or empathize with those outside our own."
-Guest curator, Destini Ross
APRIL 2023 Art created by Lyna Lou Nordstrom in response to my poem, It’s Rising. Exhibited in Montpelier, Vermont as part of “Vision and Voice,” Poem City, Center for Arts and Learning, Main Street.
FEB. 3-MARCH 25, The SPACE Gallery. 266 Pine St. My piece, “The Feel Of IT” in group show, All the Feels. RECEPTION March 3, 2023
OCTOBER, 2022: 2 love poems in this gorgeous anthology! Available NOW at Phoenix Books, Burlington, VT & other fine book sellers.
JOIN US FOR AN ART SOCIAL WITH JAZZ TO CELEBRATE THIS GROUP SHOW SPONSERED BY VERMONT SURFACE DESIGN - SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2023 3:30 -5PM!
OCTOBER 7, Friday, 2022 — 5-9PM “DARK MATTER” Opening Reception. I have 2 pieces of art in this creepy, yet thoughtful group show featuring many dark arts
The SPACE Gallery, 266 Pine Street, Burlington, VT
SATURDAY, SEPT. 24, 2022 8pm Reading poems with friends at “Lit Night at the Lamp Shop” / raidiobean / 12 N. Winooski Ave. Burlington VT
JUNE 3—AUGUST, 2022 “MEMBERS SHOW,” The S.P.A.C.E. GALLERY, 266 Pine St., Burlington VT. Pictured: ‘Tethered Vest’ mixed media w/ handmade vest. GALLERY HOURS: FRIDAY & SATURDAY NOON-5PM
FEB. 18 - MARCH 26, 2022 “ALL THE FEELS” exhibition at The S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, 266 Pine St, Burlington, VT. Pictured: “Ghost Bone Box” mixed media w/ light, wood, and x-ray.
APRIL 1- MAY 21, 2022 “FOOL ME ONCE” Opening reception on Friday, APRIL FOOL’S DAY :) 5-8pm at SPACE Gallery, 266 Pine Street, Burlington VT. Expect the unexpected in this group exhibit of surprises & foolery. Pictured: “What You See Is What You Get” carved mirror. A second reception is on Friday, May 6, 5-8pm. Show runs through May 21, 2022. Gallery hours - Fri + Sat noon-5
My new, full length collection of poems, O SONG, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2024! I’m thrilled to be working with the unique and venerable press. Click this link to learn more about Salmon Poetry, Ireland and their inspiring mission.
The poems in the book have been incubating, stewing and thickening for a long time and I am eager for them to see the light of day! O SONG examines the ordinary that’s not so ordinary: love, longing, death and the surprising music of stillness and experience.
Salmon Poetry was founded by Jesse Lendennie who powerfully and lovingly directs all creative aspects as Managing Editor. It is produced and designed by Siobhan Huton. O SONG will be distributed in the U.S. and in Ireland.
Click on this link to learn more about Salmon Poetry, Ireland and their inspiring mission.
Recent & Upcoming
I have four works of art in this exciting show. Here is a link with more info.
See my art and hear me talk about it. Click this title: CONNECT and SIFT: Moving Intuitively Through Mixed Media Art.
This show combines powerful visual art as well as dance. I’m honored to have two pieces in it. Thanks to Monica Callen for organizing it.
An exciting show of fiber artists of all stripes in New England! I’m thrilled to be part of it!!
MARCH, 2021 Chosen as a finalist for the Diane Gabriel Award by BCA, Burlington City Arts.
I’m thrilled to be chosen to exhibit in Art Hops’ annual Juried show.
JULY 2019 - Our show, CADENCE, a four-person show highlighting the thread of deep connection in our art at SPACE GALLERY, Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont
Four pieces chosen as part of South End Art Hop Juried Show, Amy Tarrant Gallery, Main St. Burlington VT SEPT 2019. Among them, “My Stitched Right Hand” shown above.
LIFT at TW WOOD Gallery, Montpelier VT. Part of “Following the Rules/ Breaking the Rules”
Phyllis Cavanagh and I with my piece, “Book Catchers” at the Chaffee Gallery, Rutland, Vermont.
“Little Kells Room” at Wild Fibers Exhibit, many media
WHAT SHINES
From Hidden Messages art statement:
This piece Is a kind of heart, using color as the first come-on, as flowers signal the bees. What Shines is inspired by the radiance of the human heart. The poem that glows from the chest shows how emotion can lead the way. There are as many interpretations to any art piece as there are people, but here are a few more from me.
The poem in the small red box is an echo of the ambiguities in my mother’s life: her great patience along with her sudden urgencies. In it, I recall her voice and the many layers of meaning it held. Her life was equal parts struggle and the pursuit of beauty, love and the sensuous. She was, as the poem says, “Drawn to what shines and the storm.”
Sharon Webster