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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: Scott Lenhardt - Good House 03/11/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

Taking inspiration from classic fantasy artist Frank Frazetta, snowboarding culture and his own native Vermont landscape, Scott Lenhardt envelops visitors in a parallel reality of otherworldly landscapes. From a hulking sculptural giant dominating the east gallery to delicate hand-carved bird-like creatures in the west gallery, Lenhardt’s work is simultaneously idyllic and unnerving. Rich with fantastical flora and fauna, Lenhardt presents his enigmatic scenes in a diverse range of mediums including drawings, paintings and illuminated multi-layered paint-on-glass light boxes. A highly successful commercial artist, Lenhardt has the distinction of having created over 45 snowboard designs for Burton Snowboards—more than any other artist.

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: MLK Statue Unveiling at H.O Wheeler 01/18/2011

A video by community producer James Gero. The statue was created by sculptor Chris Sharp, a teacher at Burlington High School and former student at the school to which he is presenting the statue.

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.

Artful Word: Martin Luther King Jr. Day 01/17/2011

A video by community producer James Gero.

Artful Word: First Night Burlington 2011 12/31/2010

A video by community producer James Gero. This video is about the 28th First Night Burlington Event.

Artful Word: Pomerleau Family Holiday Party 12/05/2010

Community producer James Gero's video about Tony Pomerleau's Holiday Party for Families.

Artful Word: Tree Lighting Ceremony in Burlington 11/26/2010

Tree Lighting Ceremony produced by community producer James Gero.

Artful Word: Homunculus - Steven Budington 10/29/2010

In Steve Budington’s Homunculus, human bodies unravel, fly apart, and merge with prosthetic technology. Budington’s new body of work takes as its point of departure the neuroscientific concept of the “cortical homunculus”: a remapped image of the human form that scales body parts in relation to the degree of sensory input present in each area. In a radical redefinition of figurative painting, Budington’s imagery emphasizes embodied experience: the proliferation, or complete absence, of sensory organs; Gore-Tex in exchange for skin; and male and female genitals spliced onto the same body. From iPods to cosmetic surgery, artificial hearts and neuroplastic implants, our culture increasingly extends and enhances the physical body. Budington explores and questions how this next step in our physical evolution will transform our sense of self and our perception of the environment we inhabit.

Steve Budington lives in Burlington and is a professor of painting at the University of Vermont.

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