Theme: Energy and Stillness

This year’s Juried Member Show is open to SVAC members and new artists. Artists who are at least 18 years of age and working in a variety of mediums were welcomed to apply.

Janie Cohen, former director of the Fleming Museum at UVM, will jury the 2025 Juried Member Exhibition. Cohen directed the Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont, Burlington, from 2002 to 2022. She served in curatorial positions for fourteen years prior to that, organizing exhibitions and projects in Europe and the U.S. As a Picasso scholar, she has curated exhibitions and published on the artist in the U.S., Germany, Netherlands, and Spain.

Cohen also has a visual art practice making hand-sewn works from unusual historical and contemporary cloth that she has collected. Cohen has worked in this medium since college, carrying out her artistic practice privately during her museum career. Since 2016 her work has been exhibited in eleven exhibitions in New England, including three solo exhibitions. Her work is in private collections throughout the country.

The exhibition’s theme for 2025 is Energy and Stillness. Juror Janie Cohen descsribes the theme as, “Cycles of energy and stillness are internal environments that are with us always. They accompany us through the seasons, through the years, through any given day in one’s life. We do not always acknowledge them; we may not even be aware of them. They interact with our external environments in ways that are sometimes in alignment, sometimes not. Artmaking is affected by both energy and stillness, enriched by both states, reflecting them and sometimes even taking them as subject matter.

Whether you experience these states as objective or subjective, cognitive or embodied, dreamlike or crystalline, or in other ways, we invite you to be aware of them as you create, and to recognize their presence in your work.”

Participating Artists:
Karen Allen, Peter Anderson, Barbara Ackerman, Ann Barrett, Art Brod, J. E. Daly, Todd DePerno, Susan Dibble, Julie Dunigan, Michael Ellenbogen, Kathleen Fleming, Janet Fredericks, Dona Mara Friedman, Patty Hudak, Leigh Marie Hodgin, Lily Hinrichsen, Annie Ireland, Tom Johnson, Cristine Kossow, Robert H. Lafond, Matthew Lerman, Deborah Liljegren, Lily Lyons, Linda Lynton, Scott Niemi, Robert O’Connor, Karen Ojala, Anna Noelle Rockwell, Stanton Sears, Lynn Shanks, Mark Sickler, Margaret Sparrow, Carolyn Shattuck, Amy Swartele, George Van Hook, Katrin Waite, Susan White, Ella Workman

Photograph courtesy Kathleen Fleming
Mixed Media on Panel