GMALL Presents: Artwork by Women Artists
Mar 21 2023 - Mar 21 2023 • Time: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Theater & Arts
A Powerful Legacy: Artwork by Women Artists in the Collection of Southern Vermont Arts Center
Tuesday, March 21 from 5:30 – 7:00pm at The Manchester Community Library
Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning (GMALL) welcomes Anne Corso, Executive Director at Southern Vermont Arts Center, to talk about artwork by women artists in the collection of SVAC. Ask a Vermonter to name a famous painter from the state and one will likely hear the names Norman Rockwell, Luigi Lucioni or Wolf Kahn. But few Vermonters know the names of the many women artists who made their art in the Green Mountain State. Painter Marion Huse directed Springfield Art School in Massachusetts from the 1920s through 1940s and supervised the western Vermont chapter of the Works Progress Administration. Photographer Clara Sipprell was known for her portraiture of famous figures such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Pearl S. Buck, and Robert Frost; and her work was the first by a woman artist to be acquired for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Elfriede Abbe was a Cornell University-trained architect whose sculptures, woodcut prints, and book illustrations are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art. Join us for an artistic journey through the eyes of these women artists, and many more, whose work is included in the collection of SVAC. Registration for the talk is $22 per person in advance. For more information or to register, please call 802-867-0111 or visit our website at greenmtnacademy.org.
