Cameron Davis
|
Cameron Davis - UVM Art Professor/Painter
|
Nancy Winship Milliken
|
Nancy Winship Milliken Studio is a place-based environmental art studio committed to building community through collaborative expressions of reverence for the land, humans, and animals. Started in 2006, Milliken creates sculpture, installations, prints and photographic enactments concerning the health of the land and surrounding communities, aiding in the desired change for the (socio)environmental course of our society.
Defining her sculpture as “contemporary pastoralism,” Milliken is inspired by our age-old relationship to nature as a way to consider ecological questions in the present. She creates environmental and site-specific sculptures in both urban and rural settings using natural materials like sheep’s wool or earth/clay from pasture fields surrounding the studio. The sculptures interact with the environment and are activated by ephemeral forces such as wind, rain, and sun, calling attention to the textures, odors, and movement of natural materials composed in formally simple structures. The work ultimately addresses complex issues involved in sustainable living. Much of the work is made in collaboration with farmers, artisans, poets and environmental studies interns from universities all over the nation. The studio culture creates the space and time for mentoring creative environmental leadership. |
|
Paula and Sam Guarnaccia
|
Sam Guarnaccia is a composer, performer, scholar, and founder/director of Sam Guarnaccia Music (SGM) www.samguarnaccia.com. He studied Classical Guitar privately and at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, received a Master of Fine Arts in Guitar performance from the California Institute of the Arts, created, and for ten years taught and directed the guitar program of the University of Denver’s renowned Lamont School of Music. He has also taught and instituted programs at Middlebury College and the University of Vermont, as Spanish scholar, performer, and composer. His cycle of nine peace songs has been incorporated into a children’s peace education curriculum. His work, A Celtic Mass for Peace, Songs for the Earth, a collaboration with Celtic Spirituality scholar, writer, and teacher, John Philip Newell, has been performed all over the United States, Iona and Edinburgh, Scotland, and was featured in a major Peace celebration on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on September 11, 2011, in New York, and in Vermont. His most recent composition the Emergent Universe Oratorio, whose original version was performed in the Great Breeding Barn, Shelburne, Vermont in 2013, had its world premiere in Cleveland in June, 2017, with full orchestra and new libretto, and in Philadelphia, July, 2018. It is scheduled for performance at the renowned Experimental Media Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, NY in March, 2022, with the Albany Pro Musica Chorus and Orchestra (albanypromusica.org/about/conductor/), Jose Daniel Flores-Caraballo conductor, followed by a definitive professional recording.
|
Glenn McClure
|
Glenn McClure - Musicologist-Paul Smiths
|