Spring '09 Drawing Winners

Posted on 09/08/2009 by Tara Thacker, VSC

Congratulations to the following alumni who were winners of VSC's Spring Appeal drawing

1st prize
Drawing Prize: 2-week VSC residency
Winner: Lucas Farrell (VSC 07-6), poet, Middlebury, VT

2nd prize
Drawing Prize: Marjorie Portnow print
Winner: Jan Shapin (VSC 93-3; 95-4; 97-4, 98-3b, 00-4a), writer, Newport, RI

3rd prize
Drawing Prize: A batch of Chef Mark's chocolate brownies
Winner: Felix Bronner (VSC S89, S90, 93-1a), painter, West Hartford, CT

Special thanks to the 318 alumni who made the spring appeal a success by contributing $13,282.00 to VSC's fellowships fund!

NEWS

NARUMI TSUNEO

Sculpture Resident, 2002 & 2004

The Studio Center and VSC Alumnus Narumi Tsuneo ('02 and '04) are featured in Aomori No Jyutaku design magazine. Tsuneo attended the Kuwazawa Design Laboratory. Mr. Tsuneo has been to VSC twice and to The Carving Studio in West Rutland, VT. His exhibitions include Iwate Insternational Stone Sculpture Symposium, Aomori Citizen Museum, INAX Gallery, and Kurasiki City. Among his public collections are Kurashiki Natural History Museum, Carving Studio of Vermont, Johnson College - Vermont, and numerous civic commissions in Japan. He lives in the Aomori region of Japan.

MARY HAMBLETON

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2009

Mary Hambleton's solo exhibitions include Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, in NYC (where she is represented), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NYC, and Knoedler Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions are numerous: The National Academy of Design, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Painting Center, Robert Gilson Fine Arts, Robert Steele Gallery, and Max Protech. Articles and reviews of Hambleton’s paintings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Chicago Tribune.