-After graduating from University of Vermont with a BFA in Art Barbara became a studio potter, selling work in galleries and at craft fairs. In 1978, she became the resident potter at the Craft School, managing the studio and teaching classes. Changing course in 1987, she opened a picture framing business in her home in Shelburne. The love of clay frequently brought her back to the Craft School as a volunteer, sharing knowledge and skills. She is now the instructor of the Independent Clay class. --

Bradie Hansen is a fiber crafter, artist, author and psychologist. She was raised in northern New Jersey and Southwest Florida, and came to Vermont in 1996 to go to graduate school at St. Michael’s College. Vermont became her home after that. Always having some knitting project going, in 2011/2012, she started crocheting, then spinning wool, and then weaving. She’s taught fiber art classes at the Shelburne Community School and is passionate about making fiber art accessible to all people. She is excited to work with students on all things wild and wooly and textured on handlooms, rigid heddle looms, circular looms and anything else that provides support to a warp. A student of Lausanne Allen’s, Bradie loves floor loom weaving, too, and will be around to help students with their projects. Bradie’s current work is both on her floor loom and on “found” looms, like those made out of driftwood and one made out of a wooden door pane. Bridging her loves of psychology and handcrafting, Bradie is compiling a series of tapestry weavings and other handwork pictures that will become a shawl depicting “golden moments” in her life, a project part of her Weaving a Life © journey. She is also the co-author of The Long Grief Journey which is about long-term and unresolved grief.

Charlotte is a local painter from Burlington, Vermont. She works with acrylic and loves finding inspiration from the things she sees around her. Her studio is located in the Soda Plant in Burlington.

As a Shelburne resident and lifelong learner, designer and crafter I can’t imagine a more perfect setting to connect people with a creative life. I am a passionate believer in the power of working with our hands, fostering exploration, and a community-focused teaching philosophy. I am thrilled to combine my experience in educational nonprofit leadership with my love and dedication to this community.

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Executive Director, Shelburne Craft School. I am delighted to help lead Shelburne Craft School and be part of the beauty and joy created by such an incredible community of artists. I have held widely varying Non Profit leadership positions throughout my career and serving, small, magical communities has been a heartbeat of my life's work. I hold a BA and an MA in history and an EdD in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies. Throughout my life I have enjoyed creative pursuits and delight in the notion of working and creating in this community. Thinking of building and executing a vision with the Shelburne Craft School community and board brings me great excitement. I live in Shelburne with my husband, Ben, who is an artist, our daughter, Rosie, who is six.

I'm a native Vermonter, now living in Chittenden County. I graduated from Montserrat College of Art with a Bachelor's Degree in Painting/Fine Arts, in 2003. In my formal artistic education, I focused primarily on classical painting, life drawing and art history. However, after a decade-long hiatus from painting, I've gravitated more toward landscape painting; finding interest in the methods of the American Tonalist painters, such as George Inness, and James McNeil Whistler.

Lausanne is a weaver, spinner and dyer who continues to juggle her passion for fiber arts alongside her love of playing & teaching music. She wove her first guitar strap on an inkle loom while still in college . She settled in the Champlain Valley in 1979 and soon was weaving shawls and scarves with her handspun, naturally dyed yarns on a small four harness Dorset loom-- made in Vermont of course! In the early'80's she joined the Twist O' Wool Guild in Middlebury and enrolled in weaving classes at the Shelburne Craft School then under the capable direction of Harriet Mitiguy. Harriet was famous for bringing well known weavers and designers to the school offering workshops in specialized techniques and Lausanne was fortunate to learn from many of these teachers. With a deep respect for the history of the craft, Lausanne loves her early 19th century barn frame loom as much as her modern 16 harness Macomber , and delights in weaving blankets, rugs, shawls and fabric for garments for family and friends. Marrying her love of music, dance and weaving, she taught Scandinavian band weaving at an adult summer music camp in NH, Nordic Fiddles and Feet for three years. Her enthusiasm for weaving has led her to form the portable weaving group Strands in 2013, with seven to a dozen people gathering monthly for an afternoon of weaving while sharing inspiration, skills and cameraderie. She looks forward to helping people interested in weaving learn the skills that will enable them to realize their design ideas in fiber and to make them tangible.

Mike first started woodworking at age ten with the help of a mentor. During high school, he worked as a wooden boat-building apprentice at Arey's Pond Boat Yard on Cape Cod. Being from Vermont, it was natural for him to attend the Vermont Woodworking School. He now holds a degree in Fine Woodworking and Furniture Design. Mike first starting sharing his woodworking skills in the summer of 2017 at Cape Cod Sea Camps and spent two summers as the Woodworking Department Head. It was there, on The Cape, that he found his love of passing on this craft. Returning to Vermont, he started as a kids woodworking teacher in the early winter of 2020 at SCS and has taught kids and adults classes since then. Mike is the renter monitor on Tuesday nights and is responsible for woodshop maintenance. His certifications include: American Red Cross Adult/Pediatric First Aid and CPR. When away from SCS, Mike can be found enjoying and gathering inspiration from the mountains of New England.

Misoo was born in the Bronx, NY, but moved back to her parent’s homeland of South Korea when she was a one-year old. A short 17 years later, she returned to the US with ambitions to use painting as her mode of emotional communication and story-telling. Misoo has exhibited in a number of galleries and museums across America and around the world. Misoo was selected as one of the Emerging Artist of New England in 2019 and Vermont Artist to Watch in 2020.

Rik joined the Shelburne Craft School community in 2004, studying with Loreta Lanquet and Hoyt Berringer. In 2006, he started teaching kids clay classes at Burlington City Arts and became a studio assistant at the Shelburne Craft School. He is now the Craft School’s ceramics studio manager, teaches kids clay on the wheel, adult classes and is the community outreach instructor. He manages the open-studio schedule, studio monitors, kiln fires, and oversees equipment maintenance and supply ordering.

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Ryan has been a resident woodworker at the Shelburne Craft School since 2011. Ryan received his BA from SUNY Geneseo and a Masters of Education from Johnson State College. Ryan studied furniture-making at the Vermont Woodworking school as an apprentice under Bob Fletcher. Ryan manages the wood shop, adult woodworking classes, youth woodworking classes, and open studio nights.