FEATURED ARTISTS
First Floor & Community Room Galleries
Megan McSwain Mann, paintings
As a painter and art therapist, Megan spent her career exploring the connection between art and emotion, and the way that creating and witnessing art can help individuals better understand themselves and others. The creative process often works from the bottom up, allowing thoughts and feelings to emerge before there is language to fully articulate them.
In her painting practice, Megan is drawn to creating images that capture not only an object or place, but also the emotional atmosphere surrounding it. Light, color, and composition become tools for conveying the feeling of a place or object rather than simply documenting it.
In Megan's most recent work, she has been exploring the relationship between food and landscape. As a newer resident of Vermont, she has found inspiration in the region’s farm stands, farmers markets, and the beauty of the surrounding countryside. After moving from the city of Atlanta to the rural landscape of Charlotte, the seasonal rhythms of the land and its food culture have stood out as both unique and deeply compelling.
Website: meganmannart.com
Second Floor Gallery
Stacey Stanhope Dundon, paintings and pottery
She was first introduced to the pottery wheel at age five in Bucks County.
She earned an MFA in Ceramics from Wichita State University in 1995 and has worked as a studio potter ever since. In 1997, she built her first salt kiln in Alpharetta. She relocated to Orwell in 2010, where she currently resides on Lake Champlain with her husband Chris, two standard poodles, and three cats. When she is not throwing pots on the wheel, she teaches pottery classes, skis, renovates historic houses, and has recently been teaching herself to paint in gouache and watercolor.
She has brought together her love of rural life in her pottery, drawing, and painting.
Her clay decoration process involves wax resist. She begins by making a drawing on the clay, then paints with watered-down wax. The wax repels a black slip (liquid clay), which is brushed over the entire surface to reveal the image. The piece is glazed on the inside and fired to approximately 2200°F in a salt kiln.
Salt firing is a vapor-glazing process in which salt (sodium chloride) is introduced into the kiln firebox at high temperatures. The salt reacts with the silica in the clay to form a glaze.
Children's Collection Gallery
Champlain Valley Union High School, Senior Art Show
The CVU High School visual art department is proud to present the first annual “CVU Senior Art Show”.
This exhibit is a collection of Photographs, Drawings, Paintings and Digital Art from students in the graduating class of 2026.
All pieces are self-selected original artworks that include imaginative still-life, landscapes, interior spaces and portraits. The broad range of work provides a glimpse into what CVU students create throughout the year.
Student Participants:
Julia Cummings, Leo Koenig, Ethan Richardson, H Deacon Bowen, Olivia Searson, Lio Miller, Olivia Stewart, Eva Fewell, Myrrh Pitkin, Lydia Donahue, Kingston Cherry, Kai Gregory, Jack Daly