Lecture by Les Bartlett

"Give Me Your Hands,The Legacy of the Barre, Vermont Sculptors and Their Stone" A Photographic Homage by Leslie D. Bartlett Tuesday, November 1st - 7pm

"In spring of 2008, I was introduced to the Vermont Granite Museum curator, Patty Merriam. I had just concluded a 4 month museum installation at the Cape Ann Museum, in Gloucester, MA. (which drew over 2,500 attendance) and I journeyed North with a sampling from my printed works from the abandoned quarries of Cape Ann.

My favorable reception led to a tour of the granite industry in Barre, Hope Cemetery and the remaining master stone sculptors.

The living master stone sculptors of Barre, VT inherit the legacy of the immigrate sculptors from the 19th and 20th century. And they are now a mere handful. I set out to meet them, talk with them, and photograph their hands. There are two living traditions reflected through their approach to stone.

What began as a single focus on hands, has grown to encompass the sculptor's  significant sculptured works and the old quarries of Vermont. And regionally to encompass sculptors in the northeast. My work reflects their commitment to technology thousands of years old, and they live, seeing few willing to maintain the tradition." - Les Bartlett

Wine and cheese will be served. RAA Members Free ~ Non-members $5

Jeffrey Trubisz Solo Show of Fine Art Photography

The RAA is pleased to announce a solo show "On The Trail" by photography artist member JeffreyTrubisz. The show runs October 30 thru November 10 in the RAA Pearson Gallery. The public is invited to the opening reception on Sunday, October 30 from 2pm - 4pm.

"I could summarize my photography with three words: "On the Trail...." Over the last thirty-five years I've trekked, scrambled, and hiked hundreds of trails up mountains, through forests, into canyons and along beaches. What drives me is the desire to immerse myself in the natural world, not just to see it but to connect with its deeper spirit or essence. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "Nature" expresses the idea this way:

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life---no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground---my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space---all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball: I am nothing: I see all: the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me: I am part or parcel of God.

The camera enables me to record that immersion. In a way it serves as Emerson's "transparent eyeball". I hope that in observing my photographs you feel the essence of the place as if you were on the trail." - Jeffrey Trubisz

John Raimondi Lecture

The RAA is pleased to announce a lecture by Sculptor John Raimondi, Tuesday, October 25th 7pm in the RAA Hibbard Gallery.

John Raimondi is a contemporary American sculptor of international distinction and renown. He is celebrated and collected as a creator and builder of monumental works that are solid in form and fluid in movement.

Raimondi has completed more than 100 monumental sculptures for public, corporate and private collections worldwide. The work consists of a wide variety of styles that range from the strong angular lines and planes of his early Geometric Minimalism Series, to the graceful organic forms and inspirational themes in his Environmental and Figurative Abstraction Series, to the romantic abstraction of his Jazz Series. His current work, incorporating the myths and iconography of Native American Indians, uses the tension created by sweeping lines to evoke the courage and tragedy of a proud and noble people.

Wine and cheese will be served. RAA Members Free ~ Non-members $5

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