 B.
Amore, Founder and former director of the Carving Studio and
Sculpture Center, is an artist in her bones. She has served on the
faculties of the Boston Museum School and Vermont College, and has
participated in international symposiums. Awards include Fulbright and
Mellon Fellowships, Vermont Council on the Arts Criterion Award, and
numerous public art commissions. She and Woody Dorsey recently installed
“Potomac Garden,” for the new EPA building in the Washington, D.C. An
Italian American Odyssey, Lifeline – filo della vita, the book of her
major exhibit at Ellis Island, was published in 2006. She is represented
by SOHO 20 Chelsea Gallery in NYC. |
 Canadian
artist Frank Anjo received his MFA degree from the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia and a BFA from the Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design. Frank integrates his fine art and technical
carving skills to create new and restore original architectural
detailing. Current projects include replacing wood features with stone
on an 80-year old house in Atlanta, GA. |
 Carving
stone and wood for nearly 40 years, Robert Babcock has his works
in private collections throughout the world and currently has galleries
in Vermont, Virginia and Kentucky showing his sculptures. A modern
abstractionist, his wood and stone sculptures are carved primarily with
hand tools. Largely self-taught, he has trained under several sculptors
at the Torpedo Art Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, and teaches at the
Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, the Burlington City Arts and
Champlain Valley Union High School. |
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Steven Brower studied painting at the Pratt Institute. He has
exhibited extensively in galleries and museums through out Europe and
the U.S. As this sort of activity does not pay, he has worked as a
professional model maker since the onset of adulthood. He also has
carpentry skills and can make pies. |
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Fran Bull’s art has been shown worldwide for
over 25 years. She studied painting at Bennington College and in 1980
she earned an M.A. degree from New York University in Art and Art
Education. In the mid 1990’s Bull expanded her creative focus by
exploring other media, and since that time her artistic output has
included performance art, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking and set
design, as well as painting. Fran Bull lives and works in Brandon,
Vermont where in 2005 she established Gallery in-the-Field, a fine art
gallery and performance space, whose mission is to present the work of
provocative, innovative living artists. |
 Rhode
Island School of Design alumnus Glenn Campbell worked in several
prestigious foundries before starting his own, Campbell Plaster and
Iron, now located in West Rutland. He uses his extensive mold making
architectural services experience to meet the exacting demands of
professional clients as well as the creation of his own work. Glenn’s
sculpture in plaster, metal and assemblage has been exhibited widely. |
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Mark
Carroll has a Masters Degree in Art Education from SUNY at Buffalo.
Mark has been a woodcarver for the past 25 years. After a career as a
high school art teacher, his professional work includes precise
sculptural model making primarily for the toy industry, life-size carved
wood figures for churches, and wood replicas for the Buffalo Science
Museum. His personal expression includes large abstract sculptures in
stone, bronze, or stainless steel for private collectors and corporate
office buildings. |
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Passionate about art and design, Robin Carter
has had a pencil or paintbrush in her hand since childhood. She
graduated with a BFA from Parsons School of Design and continues to
explore many avenues of art, from fashion illustration to art direction
in advertising. Since honing her craft under internationally respected
artists and craftsmen, she has created a range of surface treatments in
fine homes, offices and showrooms throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her
work has been featured in national publications and shown in galleries
in the United States, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. |
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Born in
Turin, Italy, Luciano Caruso came to
the United States in 1984. He received a scholarship to attend the
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has exhibited at the
Harvard Club where he was awarded first prize and his work is in many
collections. Luciano is currently employed as master mold-maker at
Skylight Studios, specializing in restoration and reproduction. |
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Joan
Curtis studied studio art at the Rhode Island School of Design and
Chicago Art Institute, ending up with a degree in art history from NY
University. Her mixed-media artwork is owned by the Middlebury College
Museum of Art, University of VT's Fleming Museum, and the Fuller Art
Museum, Brockton, MA, as well as numerous private collectors. |
Alicia Deya is a Cuban-born American artist whose family came to the
US in 1961. Alicia resides in West Palm Beach, Florida. Deya is the
former sculpture chair of the Armory Art Center, executive director of
the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, and has taught at numerous
universities and master artist workshops including the University of
Georgia Study abroad Program in Italy, Palm Beach Community College for
10 years, Louisiana State University, and Ohio State University. Deya
holds a BFA from LSU and a MA from OSU. Alicia has been invited to
exhibit in the Florence Biennale in December 2007. |
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Internationally recognized artist and educator
Carlos Dorrien was born in Argentina and currently lives and works
in Massachusetts and Vermont. He has been a faculty member in the Art
Department of Wellesley College since 1984. Carlos has extensive gallery
representation for his granite sculpture and work in other media. His
public commissions and symposium work can be seen at several historic
Boston buildings and elsewhere around the world. |
 After
working as an educator in the elementary school system for over 15
years, Judy Dow is now bringing her techniques to tap the
outdoors to introduce math, science, history and art techniques to her
peer educators through pre-service training. Winner of the 2004 Vermont
Governor’s Award for Outstanding Educator, Judy is recognized as a
Juried Artist by the Vermont Arts Council and was recently appointed to
the Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs. |
 James
Durrett was Studio Manager of the CSSC from 1998 through 2003. He
graduated from the University of Kentucky with degrees in both fine art
and education. He recently received his MFA from Vermont College. He is
now part of the faculty and staff at Montserrat College of Art in
Beverly, Mass. His work can be seen in various private collections in
Ct., Ky., Ma., Md. and Vt. One of his sculptures was featured recently
at the inaugural show of the Vermont Arts Council Sculpture Garden in
Montpelier. |
 An
architect, artist and sculptor for over 30 years,
Roger Evans
reflects his sense of humor and joy for life in his work. He has a BFA
from the University of Illinois and his work can be seen in many public
places in New Mexico and Colorado. His work is also in many personal and
corporate collections throughout the southwest and upstate New York. |
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Willard Hall was born and raised in
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. As a high school student he was awarded
scholarships to attend art classes at the Carnegie Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University and the Governor’s School for the Arts .He earned a
BFA from Boston University and an MFA, cum laude, from the New York
Academy of Art. He worked and taught in the stone trades in Barre,
Vermont for ten years. For the past eleven years, he has been employed
at Skylight Studios in Woburn, Massachusetts as an assistant to sculptor
Robert Shure. Willard is currently the Commissioned Artist in Residence
at Rivier College in Nashua, New Hampshire where he is also an adjunct
faculty member. |
 Lars Fisk was born in 1970 and raised in the town of Norwich,
Vermont. After attending High School in New Hampshire, he went on to
study art and art history at the University of Vermont in Burlington.
After graduation in 1993, a professional career began with graphic
design and by 1995, as Art Director of the weekly arts and culture
newspaper Seven Days. In 1996, Lars was hired by native Vermont band
Phish as Art Director of outdoor events. Throughout this time, Lars
developed his own work in sculpture, the most significant being an
ongoing series of Balls. Works from this series have been exhibited
throughout the northeast. Lars returned to school for a graduate degree
at Columbia University in New York City. After graduation in 2005, Lars
moved back to Vermont where he now works on his own projects as well as
being an administrator to an artist collective and residency program in
the former Street Department garages in Burlington. Lars is currently
represented by Taxter & Spengemann, NY. |
 Leslie Fry
has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in museums
and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. In addition, she
has received numerous public commissions. Her degrees are from the
University of Vermont (B.A., 1975), The Milton Avery Graduate School of
the Arts at Bard College (M.F.A., 1992). Between 1988 and 2002, she
taught studio art at the University of Vermont, St. Michael’s College,
the M.F.A. program at Vermont College, and New College of Florida. |
 John
Gardner received his BFA from the State University of New York at
Potsdam. He has traveled to numerous destinations to gain knowledge in
many forms of art. John’s recent sculptures incorporate steel, organic
materials and bronze in order to depict elemental relationships. |
 National
Sculpture Society member Christopher Gowell received her MFA from
Boston University and has sculpted the figure for forty years. She is
the Director/Owner of Sanctuary Arts, a realist art school in Eliot,
Maine where she teaches figure sculpture and technical sculpture
workshops and has a new bronze casting facility. Her commissioned and
fine art works are produced in bronze, silver, cement, resin and clay.
Her public commissions include a commemorative Franco-American bronze
for a riverside park in Nashua, N.H. and a bronze firefighter’s memorial
in Manchester, N.H. |
 Steve
Halford retired from the Rutland Public School system in 2006, where
he taught art since 1986. He has a BFA degree from Florida Atlantic
University and was an instructor for ten years in Florida and
Connecticut before coming to Vermont.
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 Wendy
Klemperer received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Harvard
University before moving to NYC in 1980 to study at Pratt Institute. She
has had fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH, the
Skowhegan School in Maine, and Sculpture Space in Utica, NY. She has
exhibited her work at Socrates Sculpture Park, the DeCordova Museum,
Chesterwood Museum, and the Polk Museum in Lakeland, Florida, as well as
many other venues throughout North America. She teaches welding at 3rd
Ward in Brooklyn and at the Educational Alliance Art School in NYC.
Wendy Klemperer lives in Brooklyn, NY and Nelson, NH.
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 Daniel Ladd has been working with trees for 26 years. He has done
projects for Museums, cities, private estates, and Arboretums. The
artist sees his work as conceptual, as a measured, considered
collaboration with nature. He has been based in Putney Vermont for 30
years, and is the father of two teenagers.
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 Jonathan LaFarge received his BFA degree from Montserrat College of
Art in 2003. Since then he has been creating and exhibiting his
sculpture. He is currently Studio Manager at the Carving Studio and
Sculpture Center.
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 Eric
David Laxman is an accomplished sculptor and furniture designer who
has created a diverse body of works in which he combines marble, granite
and a variety of metals. Laxman was recently awarded an Art in Public
Places Commission for the Sheriff’s Headquarters in Rockland County,
N.Y., and he is currently working on a figurative bronze sculpture
commission for the Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Ct. Recent
exhibitions include Uma Gallery on 57TH Street in New York City and Blue
Hill Cultural Center in Pearl River, N.Y. |
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Brandon,
Vermont and New Jersey painter Liza Myers
received her BFA from the University of New Mexico and an MFA from
Maryland Institute, College of Art. She has taught art extensively since
the mid 1970’s and refers to herself as an "artist of the Natural
World." Her paintings share her fascination with the details and
intricacy of light and shadow, color and texture, fur and feathers found
in the wild lands where she loves to spend her time. Liza paints in
watercolor, acrylic and oil. |
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Rodrigo Nava is a Mexican-born sculptor focusing on the exploration
of form in stone, as well as process-oriented art. He is a graduate of
the American University of Paris, and has been on faculty at the Putney
School in Vermont. He lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. |
 Bill
Nutt, a full-time professional sculptor, works almost exclusively in
stone. His carving is quite varied, ranging from detailed
representational sculpture, to totally abstract pieces, to traditional
lettering. He has taught both introductory, advanced and college stone
carving courses. With a background in geology and engineering (mostly
aerospace), he brings an unusual perspective to the sculptural arts. |
 Ryder
Owens has a BFA from the University of Montevallo and works as
Artist in Residence at the Vermont Marble Exhibit in Proctor. His
sculpture was featured recently at the inaugural show of the Vermont
Arts Council Sculpture Garden in Montpelier. |
 Marsha Pels received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design
and an MFA from Syracuse University. She has been the recipient of a
Prix de Rome in Sculpture, a Public Art Fund grant and a Fulbright
Scholar to Germany. Ms. Pels has lectured and taught widely throughout
the United States and Europe. Presently she is an Adjunct Associate
Professor at Pratt Institute of Fine Arts, N.Y. and a Visiting Associate
Professor at Dartmouth College, N.H. She lives and works in Brooklyn,
N.Y. |
 A Studio Art graduate of Dartmouth College,
Torin Porter has
exhibited his welded steel sculptures throughout Vermont, New Hampshire
and New York. He has also enhanced performances by noted artists Phish,
MOMIX Dance Company, Bread and Puppet Theater, Jane’s Addiction and
more. His welded steel sculpture was featured at the Carving Studio and
Sculpture Center during SculptFest05. |
 Mathieu Poster received an MFA in Sculpture from Rochester Institute
of Technology and is also an accomplished painter. His teaching
experience ranges from children to adults and includes the DeCordova
Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts and other private educational
organizations. On a recent trip to Thailand, ancient Asian ritual
artifacts and architectural elements further inspired his personal work.
Matt has taught Jewelry and Metal Crafting at adult, college and high
school levels at the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center since 2004. |
 Don Ramey is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. Since
1990 he has lived in West Rutland and earned a living in the sculpture
trades, working in marble, granite, bronze and other materials. His
personal work focuses on the figure and other organic forms as means of
expressing subtleties of the human condition. |
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Printmaker Carolyn Shattuck
received her MFA from Bard College in 1988. In addition to an impressive
exhibition record, her teaching experience includes instructing at
Castleton State College for more than 10 years. She has been exploring
sculptural forms and her recent artists’ books are a natural bridge
between two- and three-dimensional expression. |
 Gary
Haven Smith, in more than 30 years of professional stone working
experience, has maintained studios in Greece and Italy. Gary’s work in
granite, has resulted in his being widely commissioned by various public
and private entities. He received his BFA at the University of New
Hampshire and currently lives and works in Northwood, New Hampshire. His
work is currently exhibited throughout New England and in New York City. |
 John
Tidd received his BA in Chemistry from Middlebury College where he
also studied design and printmaking. He has studied welding in London
and the U.S., putting his talents to work to create sculpture and in
manufacturing snow-grooming equipment for the ski industry. His studio
in West Bridgewater, Vermont is filled with bins of interesting steel
shapes that he will share with the workshop. |
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Boston
based sculptor Bart Uchida explores 3-D
issues through direct carving, environmental and site-specific
installations, performance art and public art. Bart has worked
extensively throughout Europe, and more recently in Taiwan and
Macedonia. He has taught at the Boston Museum School, UMASS, Boston and
the DeCordova Museum. Currently he teaches at Montserrat College of Art
and is undertaking a major public art commission to develop a
neighborhood open space in Boston. |
 Nora
Valdez is an Argentine-born artist working and exhibiting since
1977. In 1982, she graduated from the College of Fine Arts (Mercedes San
Luis, Argentina) with the title of Professor of Arts. Her work has been
exhibited in a variety of venues in Argentina, Brazil, Europe, Japan,
Greece, Canada and the United States. Nora is in her second year as the
instructor of the CSSC/Peru Exchange Project, which is in its third
consecutive year.
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 Third
generation granite quarry owner Allen Williams is based in
Western Massachusetts. His extensive knowledge of architectural and
monument fabrication has led to expertise in the fields of conservation
of stone and vintage tools.
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 Brent
Wilson is the proprietor of Proctor Marble Company, where he
manufactures, fabricates and installs a variety of residential and
commercial stone products. He studied art at Johnson and Castleton State
Colleges. |
 James
Zingarelli has been teaching stone carving for nearly 20 years,
currently at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, as well as in
their Orvieto program in Italy. He received part of his training at the
Nicoli Studio in Carrara, Italy, holds a BFA from Pratt Institute and an
MA from Trinity College, Hartford, Ct. Jim has worked and exhibited
almost all types of stone including marble, granite, alabaster,
limestone and slate. He works with both hand and power tools and is
interested in poetry as well as sculpture. |
