Donors
Andrew Everett has lived in Shelburne since 2011 and during that time has been very involved in local organizations. In addition to his role as a board member at the Craft School, Andrew is the co-President of Shelburne Youth Lacrosse, he is also President on the board for Northern Vermont Youth Lacrosse League. He previously served as the President of the Boulder Hill Homeowners Association. He has also served on the Shelburne Planning Commission, and was recently named to the Bike & Pedestrian Paths Committee.
Andrew has a varied professional background, having spent time as a teacher, coach, and school administrator at Brunswick School in Greenwich, CT and Seattle Academy in Seattle, WA; an executive at a variety of technology startups in Seattle, including Starwave, Esurg, and Expedia; as well as briefly as a land planner. Most recently Andrew served as Director of Endeavour Middle School in Shelburne, and taught middle school at Vermont Day School.
Andrew is a graduate of Williams College and did Masters work at Wesleyan University. He currently serves as a Head Class Agent for his class at Williams.
Andrew and his wife, Elise, who is a gynecologic oncologist at UVM Medical Center, have two children who first introduced him to The Shelburne Craft School.
Carol Irish
Shelburne, VT
· Clay
Playing in clay is a way for me to practice life lessons like being centered, getting messy, and letting go. I love the process of creating and being surprised by the result, and I am eager to learn more about this flexible and multifarious medium.
I am a ceramics student. I am also a knitter and like DIY projects.
Jack Lazarowski
Bolton, VT
· Wood
Jack Lazarowski, designer, maker and an educator.
Jack has degrees in Industrial Design from Rhode Island School of Design and Teaching from Antioch Graduate School of Education.
Highlights of his professional career include anthropological classroom kits for the Boston Children’s Museum, an Artists in Schools Program for the Vermont Council on the Arts, Bicentennial Exhibits for Dartmouth College, a ceremonial mace for UVM, Commemorative Awards for the Smithsonian Museum and maple building blocks for the Frank Lloyd Wright Institute. He has crafted in a wide range of materials from wood and stone to metal and glass: kaleidoscopes, furniture, lighting and weather instruments. He is currently making patented symphony flutes in the rare earth metals Tantalum and Niobium.
For thirty years he and his wife Linda raised two children in Charlotte and so began a connection with the Shelburne Craft School. Both children took classes at the school and have since matured into creative adults. He and his family are all committed to the value of making beautiful things in this life.
I live in the Catskills and love to explore the mountains and travel around picking up skills and hobbies. I usually look stressed out but am actually having a really nice time.
Jonathan Harris
Shelburne, VT
Jonathan Harris studied computer science at Princeton University and interactive art at Fabrica.
His multimedia projects combine data visualization, documentary, performance, photography, storytelling, ritual, and other tools and technologies.
His work has been exhibited at Le Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the CAFA Museum of Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, where two of his projects (We Feel Fine and I Want You To Want Me) are in the permanent collection.
In 2009 the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader, and TIME Magazine named his project, Cowbird, one of the Fifty Best Websites of 2012. The recipient of five Webby Awards, his TED Talks have been viewed millions of times.
He lives in Shelburne, Vermont, where he helps to steward High Acres Farm—evolving the place where his family has lived for five generations.
He also created this website.
Judith Selin
Shelburne, VT
· Paint
Judith has been painting in watercolors for over a decade now. Throughout those years she has attended classes and workshops with many wonderful painters possessing a wide range of styles. She is equally drawn to urban and landscape scenes and never ventures far without her sketchbook. She is a Signature member of the Vermont Watercolor Society.
Katie Natale
Shelburne, VT
Katie Natale was raised in New Jersey and moved to Vermont from New York City 16 years ago. She has been a member of the Shelburne Craft School since she moved to Shelburne 6 years ago.
An inveterate dabbler in the arts, some of Katie’s more memorable experiences have been photography classes at the ICP in NYC, woodworking at Haystack Craft School (Maine), mixed media at Penland Craft School (North Carolina), and Animal Drawing from the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History (NYC).
Katie has taken painting classes at SCS, but spends most of her ‘craft school’ time in the pottery studio. After taking pottery classes in Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, for 6 years, she was thrilled to find such a supportive, welcoming clay community at SCS.
After studying Anthropology/Spanish at UMASS/Amherst, Katie spent 16 years working in magazine publishing in New York City, mostly focused on international sales and promotion for Europe, Latin America and Asia. Katie has a passion for language study and international travel and has lived abroad in Spain, Italy and Chile.
Katie enjoys spending time with kids and can often be found digging in the the raised beds and working with a ‘farm-to-school’ program at the Shelburne Community School. She also runs an Open Play program for preschoolers at the Shelburne Field House.
Katie lives in Shelburne with her husband, Lou Natale, and their two children. She thrives on thinking up new ways to bring creative opportunities to our community.