Sculpturefest 2009 Woodstock, Vermont's Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit

If you're interested in participating in Sculpturefest 2009, please use the "2009 Info" link. Our featured artists for 2009 will be Anne Dean and Joseph Fichter. This year's theme (as always, to be widely interpreted by the artists):
Wind ~ Solar

As of June 25, participants for 2009 are Adam Blue, Margaret Sheehan, Paulette Werger, Anne Dean, Ian Magavero, Li Shen, Charlet Davenport, Robert Black, Ken Woodhead, Ethan Ame,s Mary Mead, Herb Ferris, Andy Moerlien, Fitzhugh Karol, Greg Bailey, Sande French-Stockwell

Upcoming events:

BENEFIT FIESTA for Barro sin Plomo (Clay without Lead project in Mexico)
September 12 three thirty to six
MUSIC DANCING FOOD AND CERAMICS FROM MEXICO....

Featured artists in 2008: Ethan Ames & Li Shen
Sculpturefest 2008 opened on Saturday August 30, 4-7pm.
Exhibit continues through foliage season, open daily, dawn to dusk.

2008 Events : All are free and open to th public
Sunday October 5	3pm:	Sculptors Li Shen and Herb Ferris present Walk and Talk, a look at their work

Sunday October 12	noon:	Carrie Fradkin will lead a group mosaic project for those who wish to participate
	4pm:	Sculptor Greg Bailey: Lecture
	at dark:	Pyroteknica (fire dancers) Performance (you'll find a few photos of Pyroteknica performing at last year's Halloween festivities at the Main Street Museum in White River Junction.

Sculpturefest is an annual outdoor sculpture exhibit in Woodstock, Vermont. Our "theme" this year is Outside In - Inside Out - What Makes You Sing - What Makes You Shout? As usual, artists are encouraged to interpret this freely.

Participating artists: (Click on names to see photos.)
Ethan Ames Katy Amon Greg Bailey Ria Blaas Peter Blodgett Charlet Davenport Anne Dean Herb Ferris Carrie Fradkin Sande French-Stockwell Leslie Fry Dimitri Gerakaris Christine Hawkins Antoinette Jacobson Barbara Kaufman Daniel Ladd robert Markey	JAY MEAD Ian Mogavero Flo McGarrell Mary Mead Andy Moerlein Dianne Pappas Tracy Penfield Joan Rothstein Valorie Sheehan Li Shen George Sherwood R.G. Solbert Naomi Teppich Phil Thorne Paulette Werger kevin Wiberg Kenneth Woodhead

Li Shen at work on *Plume*, on the Sculpturefest grounds, August, 2008.

Earlier this summer Sculpture Fest hosted a benefit show and sale of work by regional clay artists, Clay Artists in the Barn, for Barro sin Plomo. The event opened on July 5th. In addition to a variety of work by established artists the exhibit included the ceramics of a select group of students of Jenny Swanson, director of the Ceramics Student Workshop Program at Dartmouth College.

Baker-Berry Library at Dartmouth College is presently exhibiting Barro Sin Plomo - Clay Without Lead, in the Berry Main Street display cases through the summer. The exhibit features information about the Barro Sin Plomo program and works by many of the Mexican artisans involved in the project. The exhibit is free and open to the public during library hours.

Director Charlet Davenport has worked as an artist in Vermont since 1963. Currently her work in ceramic sculpture is influenced by many years of acting as Director of Sculpture Fest. Initially her ourdoor art installations were created on fibre glass mesh and installed in public spaces (St. Gaudens Historic National Park, The Rotunda at Dartmouth College Hopkins Center, the Vermont Carving Studio and Sculpture Center, the bank of the Hoosic River on Williams College Campus, Slater Mill, Pawtucket, RI, the TW Wood Art Center and a variety of other public and semi-public spaces.)

Peter Davenport, Co-Director of Sculpture Fest, is the one-man landscape force. Along with his duties as curator of the exhibition he aids artists in installing work, clearing sites, creating the signage, keeping everything clear for visitors as well as caring for the grounds throughout the exhibition time.

Both Davenports agree that land belongs to all of us and welcome the guests who come to Sculpture Fest each year.

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