FEATURED ARTISTS
First Floor & Second Floor Galleries
Kurt Budliger, photographs
Kurt is a professional outdoor and landscape photographer based in Middlesex, Vermont. He has been photographing the natural landscape for over 30 years and has been a professional photographer for the past 20 years. His photographs and articles have appeared in numerous books, calendars, advertising campaigns, magazines and are routinely used by non-profit conservation organizations working to protect wild lands. His clients have included Outdoor Photographer, Popular Photography, Backpacker Magazine, Downeast Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Vermont Life Magazine, Eastern Fly Fishing, The Drake, Patagonia, 1% for the Planet, Trout Unlimited, Trust for Public Land, The Nature Conservancy, and many more. Kurt strives to capture unique and fleeting moments in nature when light, atmosphere and composition combine to create something special and not often seen.
Kurt has also been a professional educator for over 30 years. Prior to becoming a professional outdoor photographer and workshop leader, Kurt was an outdoor and environmental educator, interpretive naturalist, guide and then a middle school science teacher in Vermont. He holds a BS in Natural Resources from Colorado State University and an MS in Teaching from Plattsburgh State University. He continues to teach digital photography with Vermont State Colleges and leads many landscape photography workshops throughout the US and abroad. Kurt is the founder and lead instructor at Green Mountain Photographic Workshops. When he’s not traveling and shooting he lives, laughs and plays with his wife and two daughters in his adopted home state of Vermont.
Websites: www.kurtbudliger.com www.greenmtnphotoworkshops.com
Instagram: @kurtbudliger
Facebook: kurtbudligerphotography
First and Second Floor Galleries
Allen Aardsma, woodcarvings
Allen Aardsma started carving at the age of 10 after his father gave him a small, gold-plated penknife. Seeing him whittling away on a stick with this gift one day, a friend introduced him to Walter Foster - a local carver who whittled small birds. After meeting Mr. Foster of Parishville, NY, Allen could often be found sitting quietly and carving - by the hour! Since then, Aardsma has carved over 3,000 birds-the majority of them have been pocketknife carvings made with the very same Buck 307 jackknife that he traded a 4X Bushnell rifle scope for over 35 years ago. The remainder are “power-tool carvings”, shaped by using electric, flexible shaft tools with a wide variety of grinding and sanding bits along with a wood burner, or - in a few cases - chainsaws and angle grinders. Mr. Aardmsa says that every time he tries to painstakingly replicate a bird or animal, his appreciation for excellent artists increases in addition to the Creator of these amazing creatures.
Website: http://www.pondsidestudio.net/
First and Second Floor Galleries
Bruce Hathaway, sculptured metals
Bruce Hathaway describes himself as one of those artists who took the long way around. Growing up in a small northwester village in Ohio, 100 feet from a blacksmith shop, Bruce would spend hours sitting on the floor watching the crotchety old smithy hammering red hot metal on an anvil and sharpening plow points amid long arcs of golden sparks. Planning on being an architect in college, he first experimented with plaster of Paris over wire mesh and soldering strips of steel. After changing majors and working as a social worker in upstate New York, Bruce found his way down to Connecticut, where he worked on welding submarines! Heading north again to a small town near Burlington, Vermont, he started a small welding business and then in 1999 (some 34 years after his first experiments with sculpture) Bruce took it up sculpture again using skills learned in building machines of war and, hopefully at least, sympathy for the pathos of life gleaned from social work. Drawing on Futuringistic painters of the 20th century and Art Nouveau of the late 19th for influences, you can find Mr. Hathaway’s stunning award-willing creations in galleries, public spaces, and sculpture parks across Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Ohio and Michigan.
Website: www.sculpturedmetals.com
Children's Room Gallery
Students of CVU, paintings and photographs
The CVU High School visual art department is proud to share student work from a variety of classes. CVU offers Visual Art classes in the disciplines of Photography (digital & analog), Painting, Drawing, Graphic Design, Sculpture and Ceramics.
This exhibit is a collection of photographs from Digital Photography, Darkroom Photography and Photo II; Drawings from our Drawing II course and paintings from Painting II.
Students self-selected artworks they are proud of including still-life, landscapes, portraits, close-up studies, street photography and digital photo collages. The broad range of work provides a glimpse into what CVU students are creating on a daily basis.
