“For me, the journey is the final product,” explains Bennington-based artist Bill Guild. “All I can do is wait and receive what is being revealed. And say thank you.” Bill Guild's photograph, Old Burying Ground, appeared on the cover of January 2007's Art Map Burlington.
The Maltex Building in Burlington's South End has four floors of exhibition space managed by Burlington City Arts. Ben Finer's December 2006 venue profile explores the history of the building and the exhibition space.
December 2006's First Friday Art Walk fell on December 1st, World AIDS Day and Day With(out) Art. Art Map Burlington's cover for December 2006 featured Barbara Kruger's 1992 Day With(out) Art Broadside.
When Amanda Wright first came across Beth Robinson’s dolls in the artist’s online gallery, they seemed the stuff of nightmares - pale faces and large, iridescent eyes in sunken eyelids, crow’s heads and animal ears mixed with hair and teeth and fabrics. This review of a show of Robinson's work at CCV's Hallway Gallery appeared in November 2006's Art Map Burlington.
Graffiti can be a more general term for urban expression, for a personalization of otherwise depersonalized space. Wesley Williams' sneakers depicted at The Daily Planet exhibit in October 2006 showed the public personalization of private property.
Trailer Near Flynn Avenue by Peter Fried graced the cover of Art Map Burlington in November 2006. Fried hails from Scotland and has a deep appreciation for nineteenth-century English and French landscape painters. You may be asking yourself how someone interested in the painting of romantic Seine-et-Marne came to paint a graffiti-marked tractor trailer. It’s not that great of a leap.
Art on the Cover, October 2006: Coop Casanova I by Moretown artist Caroline Kelly Saganich comes courtesy of Lazy Pear Gallery in Montpelier where a solo show of the artist’s work, "Farm Fresh Paintings," was on view in October and November 2006.
In October 2006, Winnie Looby and Leslie Baker presented a show of their work entitled "Birth, Immortality and Remembrance" at the Rose Street Artists' Co-operative and Gallery.
The Old North End is one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the state, a mix of resettled refugees, working class people, gay men and lesbians, and families. The artists who live and work there do so mostly out of their homes.
Public Art (or Lack Thereof) in the Old North End
The city of Burlington’s offering of public art is minimal, and the Old North End, home to several artists and very much in need of development in community identity, has nearly nothing. With the revitalization project in full swing or even nearing completion, now would seem to be an ideal time for an increase in public art in the neighborhood.
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