ARTIST'S STATEMENT
all photos © Jim Lestrange

"Visual art to me is not just about making things. It is a language. Children adopt this language as a natural course before they tackle the written word.
If we don't keep using that language after a prolific childhood of art-making, then we lose an avenue of expression that forces us to slow down and look more closely and carefully at everything, that puts us in touch  

with details we never noticed before while at the same time allowing us to be in touch with our own feelings and imagination. Most of all, it enables us to communicate across boundaries of country, age, centuries and culture."

--Lise Winne

CURATORIAL WORK

FULTON STREET GALLERY:

DATES: February & March 2008
SHOW:
"A GATHERING OF PEERS" INVITATIONAL
(curated with Audrie Sturman)
FEATURED ARTISTS: Regis Brodie, Leslie Ferst and their friends: Sharon Blakemore Kingsbury, Katie Casey, Nancy Henry, Cheryl Horning, 
Randi Kish, Phyllis Kulmatiski, Mary Elizabeth Platt, Rebekah Rice, 
Galen Odell-Smedley, Brenton Smith, Michael Terra, Lars Turin, Judy Valente, Susan Washco, Lise Winne, Audrie Sturman

DATES: September & October 2007
SHOW:
"OUR COMMUNITY" INVITATIONAL
FEATURED ARTISTS: Adriano Manocchia, David Arsenault
Jim Flosdorf
, Phil Spaziani, Laurie Beitch, John Conners,
James Howard Kunstler

DATES: February & March 2007
SHOW:
WOODWORKERS INVITATIONAL
FEATURED ARTISTS: Paul Petrie, George Guadiane

DATES: September & October 2006
SHOW:
FIBER ARTS INVITATIONAL
FEATURED ARTISTS: Lori Lupe Pelish, Judith Plotner

Lydia Johnston
, Michele Merges Martens, Hilary Buckland,
Lynne Holstein
, Leslie Fuller,  Carol Puntel

GALLERY DISPLAY

VALLEY ARTISANS MARKET
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DISPLAY CHAIR: 1998 - 2004
DISPLAY COMMITTEE:
1988 - present

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