Artist Opening at GreenTARA Gallery
Barbara Zucker, Sculptor: "Time Signatures"
Kathleen Goddu, Shibori Textile Artist: "Artistic Endeavors"
Friday, JUNE 9, 2017 Time: 6-8pm
After 17 years of inhaling the roasting coffee at Speeder & Earl's on Pine Street, I get to have my own coffee and tea bar! This is still a work in progress but we do have coffee and tea. The fancy machine is coming from Montreal soon... but details still need to be worked on. Meanwhile stop on by if you like.
Current Show is Photography by Sarah Holbrook and Sculpture by Emil Socher. Check the Exhibits link for more details. Sarah's amazing photographs of Arctic Ice are full of light, color, and cold. The scale is hard to grasp, but the beauty of the icescape is inescapable. They are for sale.
GreenTARA Space is the old church reclaimed as a place for art, food, and work. The focus on art within our environment takes on many forms… it is often tactile, sculptural, and even functional as you will see over the coming months. The intent of GreenTARA is to hold a space open for engaged, enlightened activity. We believe that the inspired vision of artists can strengthen our connection to the greater Universe.
We also offer workshops that build a bond between art and the environment and the rental of co-work space.
Look for month-long art Exhibits, Opening events with local foods and drink, Walks and Talks, music on Sunday mornings, and other as yet to be discovered happenings.
Please join us Friday, May 12th for our first Art Opening and Building Celebration. As we get started our hours of operation will be Fri, Sat, Sun 10-4pm or by appointment.
Light is elusive and intangible, and yet so real. It flows in to waken the day, and flows out to bring the night. We are creatures that thrive in this diurnal ephemeral phenomenon. We bask in the sun that comes in March, the one that melts away the snow and starts the sap flowing, the one that brings strong rays of light reminding us to watch for signs of buds that too soon become the shady bowers of leafy branches.
We catch the warmth of light in so many ways. Most directly with our bodies, but also with Earth as the soil warms up and the ground thaws, or the lake as it gives up ice to melt into fresh water. The moisture stored over winter becomes mud too, and of course nutrients, for the next growing season—the one we’ve forgotten about over the dark months.
Bring on the sun, but capture it too with open windows, bicycles, sailboats, solar panels, wind generators…. and of course our fields and gardens.
Illustration by former UVM student.
Why GreenTARA? How is this the name for an art gallery? A coffee/tea place? Or even rental studios?
It comes from a desire to hold the Space open for creative energy and heartfelt action, to allow the unfolding of a sense of community, and to work toward a healthier future. We are collectively the Universe.
We define the world based on what we know and see and feel, but it is so much bigger than this. If we were to put all our individual lives together and weave them into a whole, the entire Universe of time and space would warp out before us, in all directions… Blue Sky, Sea of Ice, Land of Being.
Green Tara, a Tibetan boddhisatva, represents the embodiment of enlightened action. And so for me this reclaiming of a historic general store, a former Catholic church, and a place in the center of the village is a creative act. It is a faith in the beauty of heart and spirit, work and action, food and health; it is the creation of an environment in which they can come together. It is GreenTARA.
Green Tara // Green Terra // Terra Firma // Firmament // Earth Goddess // Gaia // Goddess of Enlightenment