Burlington City Arts

Artful Word: Polly Apfelbaum’s 'Evergreen Blueshoes' - BCA Center 04/18/2014

For the last twenty-five years, Polly Apfelbaum’s work has situated itself as a hybrid of painting, sculpture, and installation. exploring the intricacies of color, Apfelbaum weaves her way through ideas of Minimalism, Pop aesthetics, and Color Field painting to blur the lines between two and three dimensional art making. Evergreen Blueshoes, a reference to a late 60s psychedelic rock band, continues her investigation of counter culture and experimental alternatives to art making. Apfelbaum’s exhibition at BCA expands her interest in color, the horizontal plane, and blurring the distinctions between fine art and craft as she designs and produces finely woven rugs and wallpaper. Make sure you wear nice socks and be prepared to leave your shoes at the door as you make your way through the exhibition.

Artful Word: Tarrant Gallery - "The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers" 04/01/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

The Vermont Folklife Center's Vision and Voice Documentary Workspace project The Golden Cage: Mexican Migrant Workers and Vermont Dairy Farmers, an exhibition of photographs, text, and audio (in Spanish and English) that explores the relationships between farmers and Mexican workers on dairy farms in Addison County. The Golden Cage is on display in the Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center, Friday, April 1 through Saturday, June 11. At the opening reception, Brandon-based photographer Caleb Kenna gives a slide presentation and discusses how the project came about.

Artful Word: BCA - Art for Social Impact Panel Discussion 03/25/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

Texas-based photographer Michael Nye’s exhibit About Hunger and Resilience—brought to the UVM Davis Center by Hunger Free Vermont and the Vermont Foodbank—will open on March 27th. In anticipation of the exhibition, local filmmaker Bess O’Brien and local photographers Dan Higgins and Caleb Kenna will join Nye to discuss how art can affect deep and lasting social change. Fran Stoddard of Vermont Public Television will facilitate the panel for this event that is free and open to the public. Hors d'oeuvres and refreshments provided.

Artful Word: BCA - Jessica Nissen’s Rorschach Drawings 03/05/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

Jessica Nissen’s Rorschach Drawings explore perception, the subconscious and extremes of spontaneous creativity. Based upon the controversial psychological test of the same name, it features over 30 drawings from her All in Our Head series. Originally designed to evaluate personality traits and underlying mental disorders, Nissen uses the psychological test as a point of departure, drawing and painting directly on top of her own Rorschach inspired inkblots. Her inspired, free-associated responses range from hybrid creatures to suburban architecture. These intriguing and exquisitely rendered illustrations are both playful and hallucinogenic.For more information, please click here.

Jessica Nissen splits her time between NYC, where she works as a scenic artist for the entertainment industry and Vermont, teaching drawing at Middlebury College.

Artful Word: Drawing Strength - Alisa Dworsky 01/17/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

With ropes and bamboo, artist and architectural designer Alisa Dworsky transforms the east and west galleries into complex physical environments. In the installation Surface Tension, black hand-crocheted rope is used to build a landscape suggestive of topographical maps and computer-generated virtual worlds. Dramatic peaks, formed by an upward pull in the rope, are balanced by a series of suspended counterweights. Points of View, a complex network of bamboo tetrahedrons, fills the west gallery. Blue reflective tape on the structure suggests a waterline horizon, which creates a shimmering, level plane when illuminated with provided headlamps. With the play of rigid and organic lines, as well as the projection of shadows on the gallery walls, Dworsky reinterprets two-dimensional drawing into three-dimensional form.For more info, please click here.

JOY & RACHEL BISSEX ON CITY ARTS 07/06/1992

Channel 17 Live Show

Joy Hopkins hosts Rachel Bissex and discuss City Arts

BURL. CITY ARTS PROMO 06/26/1992

Burlington City Arts Summer Update with Laura Rowell

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