Students
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.
Sage Tucker-Ketcham
South Burlington, VT
· Paint
Sage Tucker-Ketcham’s career spans over two decades with a background in studio art, education and arts administration. Originally influenced by abstract expressionism, her early works are about self-expression and physically working out ideas on large canvases. Her current work focuses more on context and about controlled expression in creating complex intimate moments. She is currently working on a new series of paintings that aim to activate a sense of environmental presence, using similar subjects and themes but in a larger format.
Tucker-Ketcham is a 14th generation Vermonter. Sage grew up in Vermont, Toronto, London, and the Washington DC area. Her adult life has been spent in Northern Vermont, Cape Cod and Maine. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and is in several private collections. Sage is represented by, Woodstock Gallery, Edgewater Gallery and Portland Art Gallery. Her painting studio is in South Burlington, Vermont.
Human beings are not placed; they bring place into being.
Wylie Garcia is originally from Houston, Texas, but found her way home to Vermont in 2003.
She received her BA from The University of Chicago in Photography in 2002 and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2008.
She is an award winning artist, known for her textile installations and paintings. Her professional background reflects her interest in connecting historic preservation, craft, and art education.
Before becoming the Program Director at the Shelburne Craft School, Garcia was an art conservation technician, a visual art coordinator and afterschool instructor, a slow fashion designer, and gallery owner/director.
She is the recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, a St. Botolph Foundation Artist Fellowship, The Barbara Smail Award, and two Vermont Art Council Creation Grants.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, and offbeat art centers.
Sarah Camille Wilson
Burlington, VT
· Clay
Sarah Camille Wilson has a BFA from Maine College of Art and an MFA from Syracuse University. She lives in Burlington Vermont, where she teaches a variety of ceramics classes and maintains a studio practice. Sarah's work in clay has taken her to China, India and around the US, and she loves exploring new clays in new places.
Ryan Cocina
Shelburne, VT
· Wood
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.
Tess has attended the craft school since she was about seven years old and has taken just about every class offered to kids. She has also spent multiple weeks in summer camps. She thinks of the craft school as a home away from home.
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.
Nancy Milliken
Charlotte, VT
Nancy Winship Milliken is an environmental sculptor creating site-specific work in urban and rural landscapes. Her work explores the tension of man in the landscape, and his desire to belong and be a part of the landscape. Communing with the earth is where this art lies. Milliken's environmentally performative sculptures reveal the actions of wind, rain and sun as they transform shapes and alternative materials, adding an element of time. Recently, Milliken has traded studio for farm to collaborate with the people, animals and land of Bread and Butter Farm in Shelburne, Vermont to create work that reflects a passion and reverence for the environment
Sarah Ahrens has been reveling in the process of art making and teaching for over twenty years. She is predominately a painter whose process is driven by playful experimentation of materials and investigation of ideas of place. Sarah has a genuine passion for reaching all types of learners through the power and magic inherent in the Arts. She is intensely curious and energized by the collaborative potential of the creative process, and is often found seeking out opportunities for this type of dynamic connection. She has come to believe that her art making and art teaching inform and inspire one another and that fostering a love for the Arts in our young people is crucial for sustaining a vibrant and connected community. Sarah happily makes her home with her husband and two young children in Shelburne, Vermont.
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.
Dianne LaVallee
Charlotte, VT
· Paint
Dianne grew up in Winooski and now lives in Charlotte. I have always, & only, wanted to be an artist, and have been taking classes at Shelburne craft School for many, many years. Since I retired 10 yrs.’ ago, I paint every day. It's just a pure pleasure for me.