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Upcoming Workshops
October 25, 2024
Shelburne Craft School • 64 Harbor Road • Shelburne, VT, 05482
Using fabric, found materials, thread, and photos printed on silk, students will make an object to honor a family member or ancestor. Janet will walk students through the process of transferring images onto silk which can become another element of this remembrance piece.
On Exhibit
INTERWOVEN
October 25, 2024
Public Art Gallery • 180 Market Street, South Burlington, VT 05403
Vermont-based artists redefining fiber art through experimental & meditate processes.
REVIEWS
“Natural Rhythms”Art Review: “Daily Beauty, Quiet Observations,” new work by Janet Fredericks
“Staying Float”“The Boat Show,” a thematic group exhibit in multiple media. Main Floor Gallery, Studio Place Arts, Barre. Through April 12.
Vermont Artists Join Japanese in an International Eco-Conscious Exhibit
Et l’eau répondit… Méditations au fil des ruisseaux
LeDroit, Ottawa-Gatineau, May 6-7, 2006, A4.
Natural Language:Drawing and Paintings by Janet FredericksAug/Sept. 2005
VIDEOS
Promised Land, Anthills, Cities and Other Angles of Repose, a visual narrative in three parts (2012)
In this experimental video the artist links images of ants, anthills, mountains, cities, hill towns and angles of repose (the notion that things piled up will come to rest at a self-supporting angle). Influences of travel and daily observation of her immediate environment, including large anthills of the Alleghany Mound Ants near her home in Vermont, reveal themselves in these deeply familiar forms.
Tracks and Traces (2013)
In this experimental video the artist again links images from drawings, animal track, human and other; this time with the question of
origins of written language. This video seems to have disappeared from YouTube. Please try again later.
TEACHING
Printmaking is a versital image-making process that can be very experimental. Janet can guide you in various techniques including woodcut, drypoint etching, and experimental approaches with or without a press. You will have access to many materials including a small etching press. Available for individual tutorials or small group instruction.
Ever wonder what to do with all those old photo albums? This workshop will use your family photos, stories and memorabilia to create a handmade book or object honoring your loved ones and those you never knew. You will learn simple techniques for creating a fold-out book or object in a creative and supportive atmosphere. As a gift or as a family keepsake, it is guaranteed to be treasured.
No art experience necessary.
There is no better way of knowing and remembering a place than by drawing. Our affection for the earth-toned architecture, the winding cobbled streets, the smell of incense in mysterious interiors of churches, the taste of culinary delights, the overflowing textures and colors of the street markets, a late afternoon latte at a sidewalk cafe, these are just a few of the reasons to carry a sketchbook while traveling. Tuscany invites us to slow down, be present to its beauty, and to remember her in the quiet act of observation, drawing with our simple tools of paper, pencil, pen, and watercolors as we breathe in its historic charm.
You will learn how to make quick and slow sketches using pencil, pen, and watercolor focusing on what speaks to you. Through demonstrations and one-on-one instruction you will learn the basics of rendering architecture, details, doorways, colors, people, vistas, and more. Your unique imagination is key to a memorable travel journal to share with family and friends. Come with an open mind and a sense of adventure. All abilities are welcome.
In this workshop you will learn approaches to drawing people and places using simple materials and techniques including watercolor, collage and bookmaking to create your own travel journal. We will construct a fold-out book to collect our creations. Bring photos and memorabilia from a previous trip or images from magazines of your dream vacation. All other materials provided.
To see more travel journal sketches, visit Travel Journal page.
Each workshop explores a brief history of the use of collage in the arts, demonstrations of techniques, basic design, lots of inspiring materials to use, showing of samples, and ample time for each participant to create their own pieces at their own pace. This workshop can be brought to your home with a group of friends for a special occasion. Inquire about having a collage party in your own home!
Creativity has proven to be a wonderfully enriching experience for people of all professions who are ready to give their imagination fee play. Einstein said, “Creativity is intelligence having fun.” You will be guided through meditation, journal work, book-making, drawing and collage to explore and express your creative voice in a safe and nurturing environment. No art experience necessary.
Learn how to be a keen observer. Then learn to use basic drawing implements to interpret your natural environment. Learn how to attend to what speaks to you in the natural world through meditation and practice.
“If you want to draw a pine tree, go to the pine tree,” the haiku poet, Basho, says. In this workshop you will realize the benefits of drawing: slowing down, unplugging and being present in a beautiful and supportive atmosphere…and learning skills to take home.
Inquire about tutorials or workshops. Gift cards are available for instruction.
This 3 to 5 day retreat is a time to go within in a quiet, un-plugged and safe atmosphere. Participants will develop an understanding and appreciation for the relationship between the conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche. Through creative projects we will gain insight to and discover links between imagination and dream life.
This workshop is held once or twice a year in Vermont. Inquire about scheduling a dream retreat at another
location.
“You are such gentle, spacious teachers. I love my book that I made when we worked together during our dream retreat last Oct. I would never have thought I could make the book, engage in the process and then enjoy the outcome so much. But you guided me gently through it, with no negative judgments along the way, just support and constructive guidance. I have come to appreciate different teaching styles so much. I think compassion is a great teaching asset don’t you? You two have that in spades.”– Marie Rice, NYC, graduate of Bank Street College of Education
Gift cards are available for instruction.
Using journal writing, guided imagery and art-making, Janet and her husband, Tom Verner, will guide participants through the creative and spiritual possibilities of the written word and imagery.
Inquire about workshops.
“You are such gentle, spacious teachers. I love my book that I made when we worked together during our dream retreat last Oct. I would never have thought I could make the book, engage in the process and then enjoy the outcome so much. But you guided me gently through it, with no negative judgments along the way, just support and constructive guidance. I have come to appreciate different teaching styles so much. I think compassion is a great teaching asset don’t you? You two have that in spades.”– Marie Rice, NYC, graduate of Bank Street College of Education
Gift cards are available for instruction.
- Omega Institute, “The Art of Magic and the Magic of Art”, Kingston, NY
- Burlington College, “Visions of the Night”, Burlington, VT
- Printmaking, mask making and book making, Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference, Nobleboro, ME
- New England Unitarian Universalist Ministers’ Retreat
- Drawing and painting, Vermont State Craft Center, Frog Hollow, Middlebury, VT
- Painting and Making a Travel Journal, Middlebury Studio School, Middlebury, VT
- Stories and Meanderings: Stitching Our Journeys, Shelburne Craft School, Shelburne, VT
- Ancestor/Family Project Workshops, Lincoln Studio, Lincoln, VT
Gift cards are available for instruction.
Using fabric, found materials, thread, and photos printed on silk, students will make an object to honor a family member or ancestor. Janet will walk students through the process of transferring images onto silk which can become another element of this remembrance piece.
Discovered will be creative techniques of honoring those who have come before us and handcrafted ways to remember the deep roots that connect us to who we are. Basic embroidery skills will also be covered. No sewing or stitching experience is necessary.
Janet Fredericks has taught a wide variety of workshops from her beautiful studio in Lincoln — cyanotypes, printmaking, making travel journals and creating books and fabric collages to honor ancestors. She has shown her work in Canada, Japan, and throughout the US.
“I approach teaching as an introduction to seeing our world anew. We learn best in an atmosphere of calmness and expansiveness so, we start by quieting the mind and centering our focus. From this calm and centered place, students become more receptive to what speaks to them and the skills necessary for the task require less effort.”
The great haiku poet Matsuo Basho said, “Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo stalk from a bamboo stalk.” It is through reverent observation that we know the world. Let’s start there.
Janet often teaches workshops with her husband, Jungian psychologist and magician, Tom Verner. Contact us for further information to set up a workshop for your organization or small group.
ABOUT JANET
A Vermont artist for over 30 years, Janet Fredericks has her studio in Lincoln, Vermont where her artwork is taking on a bio-regional quality, incorporating the visual language of her natural environment .
Her drawings and paintings are intended to give the sense of entering into the landscape rather than a surface perspective. This follows her lifelong interest in the seen and unseen worlds; spirit and matter.
She is a Vermont Council on the Arts and New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship recipient. The artist exhibits internationally and is in many corporate and private collections.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Feral Stitching: Four Artists Collaborating, The Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2022 Feral Stitching, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2021 Water,Plants, and Insects Exhibition and Workshops, Long Island Children’s Museum, Garden City, NY
2020 Water, Sacred Water, Green Tara Gallery, North Hero, VT
2018 Selected Works: An Overview, An exhibit of drawings and paintings of 20 years working in and by water, 77 Gallery, Rutland, VT
2018 Land Marks…The Land We Mark, Marks Us, Jackson Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2017 The Anthill Drawings, AVA Gallery, Lebanon, NH
2017 Land Marks, West Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT
2013 Vermont Arts Council, Montpelier, VT
2013 Central Vermont Medical Center, Berlin, VT
2012 “Minute Particulars,” Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2010 “It’s All About Water,” Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, Middlebury, Vermont
2009 “Souvenirs,” West Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT
2009 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont
2008 Conservation Center, Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
2008 River Scrolls: Mapping the New Haven, Art space 106, Burlington, VT
2007 Daily Beauty…Quiet Observances, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2007 Speaking with Water, Andover Chapel, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2006 Et l’eau repondit…and water answered. TW Wood Gallery & Art Center, Montpelier, VT
2006 Et l’eau repondit…and water answered. Gallery Montcalm, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
2006 “Language of Water,“ Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
2005 “Water, Water…,“ Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont
2005 “Natural Language,“ Walkover Gallery, Bristol, Vermont
2004 “Fiield Notes: Life in the garden“, Furchgott and Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, Vt
2004 “Drawing from Nature”, The Christine Price Gallery, Castleton State College, Castleton, VT
2003 Church & Maple Gallery, Burlington, VT
2002 “Being in Water/ Water Chronicles,” a collaboration with Maine artist, Dona Seegers, Hay Gallery, Portland, ME
2002 Shaw Cramer Gallery, Vineyard Haven, MA
2002 Davis Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2002 “Drawing from Nature: A New language”, TW Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
2001 Davis Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2001 “Open Studios“ in conjunction with Vermont Craft council
2000 Doll-Anstadt Gallery, Burlington, VT
2000 “Paintings and Monotypes,“ Grayson Gallery, Woodstock, VT
2000 Davis Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
1999 The Leighton Gallery, Blue Hill, ME
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 “70+”, 77 Gallery, Rutland, VT
2018 “Horizons”, Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center the Performing Arts, Burlington, VT
2015 “Words Unspoken”, co-curator, Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2014 “Third Landscape”, SEBA Gallery, Burlington, VT
2014 “Still Life Revisited”, Beaux-Arts des Ameriques, Montreal, QC, Canada
2013 “Here”, exhibiting 17 travel journals, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2013 “Views of the City”, Beaux-Arts des Ameriques, Montreal, QC, Canada
2012 “Mutual Gaze, Call and Response,” Winooski Pop-up Gallery District, VT
2010 “On the Planet,” Nagoya, Japan
2010 Sharjah 4th International Biennial of Calligraphy, United Arab Emirates
2007 Burlington City Arts Print Studio Exhibition Members Only, Burlington, VT
2007 Live Earth, West Branch Gallery, Stowe, VT
2005 “Summer 05,“ Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery, Shelburne, VT
2004 “Natural Grace: images for a sustainable future,“ Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center, Burlington, Vt
2004 “Contemporary Drawing 2003, a national juried show,” T.W. Wood Gallery & Art Center, Montpelier, VT
2003 “WATER,” Being in Water/Water Chronicles . drawings and prints, Tamarack Gallery, Contemporary fine Art, Craftsbury, VT
2003 Flynndog Gallery, Burlington, VT
2001 “Arts & Environment: Making the Green,” Featured Artist, New England Artists Trust Congress 6, Woodstock, VT
2001 “Month of the Monoprint”, An Invitational Exhibit of Vermont Printmakers, Union Station, Burlington, VT
2000 To Each Her Own: Ten Contemporary Artist, Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College
2000 “Generations II, A Survey of Woman Artists at the Millennium,” A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2000 “Steamroller Prints”, Print /Studio 250, Burlington, VT
2000 “To Each her Own: Ten Contemporary Artists”, Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
1999 “ISA Residents Exhibition”, International School of Art Galleria,” Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy
1999 “Abolir Les Frontiers (Breaking Borders),” Firehouse Center for the Arts, Burlington, VT; Council on the Arts for Clinton County, NY; Maison des Artes et de la Culture du Haut-Richelieu, St-Jean-sur Richelieu, QUE
1999 “Print Project 12 + 4,” Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts, Burlington, VT
1999 “The Dot Show, A Celebration of Women,” The American Gallery, NY, NY
1999 “Ucross Foundation Alumni Exhibit,” University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
1996 “Dark Spirit of the Boat,” The New Art Center, Newton, MA
1997 “Landscape/Mindscape,” Francis Colburn Gallery, University of Vermont
1991 “Interart Ex,“ Moscow, USSR
1992 “Modern Madonna,“ Edith Lambert Gallery, Sante Fe, NM
1989 “Vermont Selections,“ Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
COLLECTIONS
Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Shearson Lehman Hutton Art Collection, New York and Washington, DC
IBM Corporation, Essex Junction, VT
Becton Dickenson and Co., Paramus, NJ
State House, State of Vermont, Montpelier, VT
Barry University, Miami, FL
Florida National Bank, Jacksonville, FL
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
Goodwin Proctor & Hall, Boston, MA and Washington, DC
AWARDS
2010 Sharjah 4th International Biennial of Calligraphy, United Arab Emirates award for video Et l’eau repondit…And Water Answered, portraying a collaboration with Canadian poet, Guy Jean.
2009 The Middlebury College Friends of the Art Museum Award for Distinction in the Visual Arts
1996 New England Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper
1991 The Kidder Peabody Fellowship, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton, VT
1989 Vermont Council on the Arts/Bertek Fellowship
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
1987 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities “Percent for Art” Commission – Bridgewater Facility
BOOKS
2012 Mango Baskets and Rickshaw Blessings, A Compendium of Travel Journals by Janet Fredericks
WORKING RESIDENCIES
2011, 2007 Vermont Artist Week, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2006 Venice Printmaking Center, Venice, Italy
2017, 2015, 2009, 2004, 1999, 1995, 1994 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweetbriar, VA
2002, 2004 Axe neo 7, Arts Center, Hull, Quebec, Canada, A collaboration with Canadian poet, Guy Jean, “Et L’Eau Repondit”
1999 The International School, Umbria, Italy
1994 Ucross Foundation, Ucross, Wyoming
TEACHING
2019 Collage Workshop to medical students, professionals, and doctors, Maine Medical Arts & Humanities
2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 Visions of the Night, Dreams and Art, Burlington College
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2008, 2007 Art Workshop, Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference, Maine
2006-2007 The Magic of Art and The Art of Magic, Family Week, Omega nstitute, Rhinebeck, NY
2013 Invited guest speaker to Environmental Studies class, Univ. of VT, on art and environment, 2014.
2014 Invited guest speaker on Travel Journals at Lincoln Library, Lincoln, VT and Elderly Services, Middlebury, VT.
Past painting and drawing instructor, Burlington College, Burlington, VT
Past painting and drawing instructor, Community College, Vermont
TALKS
2019 Art and the River, Golden, Well Sanctuary, sponsored by the New Haven Conservation Commission
2019 Art and the River, Starksboro Public Library, sponsored by the Lewis Creek Conservation Commission
