It’s been an absolute delight to work with Daniel, Alex, Shannon and the rest of the Frog Hollow family to present this body of ceramic, fiber and pigment work—most of which was developed over this last 2023-24 flood year. Yesterday, I spent the day onsite with a table of fiber tools, samples and little looms. Thanks to everyone who came to the demo and reception (and also got to enjoy Festival of Fools—Burlington’s annual international busking festival!)
Frog Hollow is both a gallery site and the non-profit State Craft Center for the promotion of find handcraft in Vermont. I’m really over the moon to be invited to show there. If you want to do a deep dive into the history of Frog Hollow and its origins within the Vermont Studio Craft movement, try this gem of a film from 1982 or the 2016-2017 seasons of Made Here that focus on the Artisans of Frog Hollow. I made sure to attend my Frog Hollow opening in a vintage Maggie Neale top from when Maggie was a young weaver in Chelsea, supporting herself and raising her sons. She’s been one of the elder craftspeople in Vermont who has consistently supportive of me through my parenting artist life and it was a job to choose a garment to wear from Maggie’s career retrospective at J. Langdon the evening before my opening.
Unveiling Transformation will be up at Frog Hollow until August 29th. Here’s the link some show images from the Frog Hollow Gallery website.