Gratitude for Rain

Rainstorms inspire beauty, changing light, oxygenated freshness, and a change in temperature. Inspiration from Lake Champlain is ever present, but last winter’s woodblock exhibition of Hiroshige’s prints at the Southern Vermont Arts Center inspired this white on white weaving - called Gratitude for Rain. While I normally knot the ends of a rug, this one allows the warp to continue unbound as if the flow was still there.

And, in reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KImmerer, I am inspired to include part of the Thanksgiving Address. This section offers gratitude to the Waters. From https://danceforallpeople.com/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address/haudenosaunee-thanksgiving-address-3/ : It is offered as a daily sunrise prayer, and is an ancient message of peace and appreciation of Mother Earth and her inhabitants. The Thanksgiving Address teaches mutual respect, conservation, love, generosity, and the responsibility to understand that what is done to one part of the Web of Life, we do to ourselves.

We give thanks to all the waters of the world for quenching our thirst and providing us with strength. Water is life. We know its power in many forms — waterfalls and rain, mists and streams, rivers and oceans. With one mind, we send our greetings and our thanks to the spirit of Water.

NOW OUR MINDS ARE ONE

We the People

We the People

Janet Van Fleet’s large figures hanging on the wall are half- to three-quarter human scale. They are made with found and re-purposed materials, including wood, metal, wire, rubber, buttons, and glass. Their presence as People remind us that we are made of many things and ideas, yet united in our collective future and desire for freedom.

Janet Van Fleet:

They are looking at you, and you are looking at them. I like to think that they may be saying something to you, and you might be replying, or making a statement of your own. This is a bit like our mixing it up with the other people around us, our co-citizens. Often it seems impossible to understand where they’re coming from, and they sometimes have no clue what we think and why we think it. Connecting with art often requires a similar effort to open ourselves and relate. I wish you a good conversation!

Elusive beauty

Elusive beauty shines even when we aren’t aware of it. Beauty, like a wave in the lake, is hard to hold, to grasp, and yet like the wave is no more than the water itself. We are held in tension by the dualities of existence, yet they too dissipate like water in our hands. As with Beauty, so too with Love — a wave of being that flows across boundaries and through our actions.

Join us Saturday, July 16th 4:30 - 5:30 for a panel discussion with artist Sally Linder, minister/poet Chico Martin, and redeveloper Melinda Moulton.

Love Is - a panel discussion

Join us at GreenTARA Gallery in North Hero for an artist talk /panel discussion with Sally Linder, Chico Martin, and Melinda Moulton. We are extraordinarily blessed to have such talented and inspired members in our Vermont communities. They will be talking from their perspectives as visual artist; local minister & musician/poet; and environmental/socially conscious redeveloper. Linder's exhibition "LOVE IS" will be background to the discussion - please join us in thinking deeper about our actions in this world. Talk to be in Main Gallery, please wear a mask if you need to. Kraemer & Kin microbrewery will be open.

GreenTARA Space

Sat., July 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m. 3275 US Route 2, North Hero

MOTHER’S DAY EVENT : Talk by Jane Taylor

Please Join us for a MOTHER’S DAY EVENT : Talk by Jane Taylor and Book Launch for Spirit Traffic: A Mother’s Journey of Self-Discovery and Letting Go.

Sunday May 8, 2022; 3pm GreenTARA Space, lower level. Kraemer & Kin service in Main Gallery.

Bio :

When C. Jane Taylor was a little girl, her mother owned the motorcycle shop, Honda of Ann Arbor. Motorcycles colored her childhood until she and her family moved to Northern Michigan and later to Vermont. At the age of 16, she went to Bard College at Simon’s Rock where she earned a BA in Literature and Music History.

She’s been a cook for a baroque orchestra, a sculptor’s assistant, a resume writer, and a yoga teacher. She started (and stopped) her own welding shop. She has repaired farm equipment under the blazing sun on the Fourth of July and decorated cakes resembling the Palace of Versailles on Bastille Day.

She is a writer, a biker, a mom, a wife, a warrior, and sometimes a bit of a chicken, but when she got the invitation from AARP to join their organization, she ripped the letter up and bought a motorcycle. And after a forty-year hiatus, she started riding again when her son graduated from college.

To celebrate his achievement and fill her impending empty nest, Jane, her husband, and son took a 10,000-mile motorcycle trek across the United States; this adventure is the subject of her new book, “Spirit Traffic: A Mother’s Journey of Self-discovery and Letting Go.”

She lives, writes, and rides in Hinesburg, Vermont with her husband John, a yoga teacher. 

SUNDAY MUSIC SUNDAY - May 15, 2022 3pm

SUNDAY MUSIC SUNDAY returns at GreenTARA Space with Music by Mary McGinniss - The Selkie Trio.

The wonderful Selkie Trio has a long history of playing music in the Burlington area. We are so delighted to have them joining us in North Hero for a Sunday of music. They weave together a blend of spacious strings, harmony, and deep rhythms from the well of rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, and Celtic song. The Trio is Mary McGinniss, Juliet McVicker, and Steve Wienert.

Join us : Sunday, May 15, 2022 3 - 5pm; in Main Gallery with drink and food offerings by Kraemer & Kin Microbrewery. Seating inside and out… Don’t forget additional parking is at the Town Library.

2021 - a year in review

Dear Friends and Neighbors,
It feels like a long year with many ups & downs -- for some illnesses, for others new family -- but altogether it seems we have the strength to face a new year, i.e., the coming Chinese "Year of the Tiger." This is one about courage, a sense of justice, exorcising evils, and maybe a little arrogance! I can't wait.

The images below highlight 2021 at GreenTARA, but in one sentence, the Gallery showcased some impressive Vermont artists over the year and continues to be home to Kraemer & Kin, our local micro-brewery and community hub.

Other tidbits: the North Hero Town Library now has a collection of Stave Puzzles. We donated about 24 of these hand-cut, non-linear, wooden jigsaw gems made in Norwich, VT for you to borrow. If you don't know about them, check out the website! www.stavepuzzles.com

First show of 2022 will be Scott Brown from Grand Isle with his primary colored constructions. Each piece is designed, cut, painted, then pieced back together to create interlocking geometries. And Kristian Brevick with his illuminated world of fishes and whales from Burlington:

I create illuminated sculptural lanterns representing the breadth of biodiversity in the living world. When lit, these lanterns reveal skeletons, colors, and patterns of the creatures they represent - they cast a warm glow, drawing the viewer in. These works encourage the consideration of these beings, their role in ecosystems, and their wellbeing in the world. www.kristianbrevik.com

Don't forget on Great Ice 2022 -- Feb. 18, 19, and 20. There will be events from snowshoeing and skating, to skiing and dogsledding... more is being planned as we go.

Happy winter to you all, Diane

POP-UP Romulus Craft Pottery

We have a special Pop Up exhibit of Jeanne Bisson’s tea bowls. The matched bowls and saucers are exquisite examples of her work as part of Romulus Craft team. She and her partner Ikuzi Teraki make porcelain sing. Romulus Craft is about relationships, relationships between two distinct individuals from two different cultures, between nature and time, between control and spontaneous reaction. www.romuluscraftstudio.com

These tea bowls are a sensation of lightness to the eye and weight in the hand. They are meant to slow us down in this vast changing moment of time. The bowl sets are for sale and can be seen by visiting the Video Temple, downstairs from the Main Gallery.

Please contact me for more information: greentaraspace@gmail.com