KAREN SCHEFFLER

"I have been a member of AIR for six years; a featured artist for all but one those years. This year I would like to turn the focus on stained glass, of course, but with a twist. I have found that one of the Gallery's strengths and indeed a part of its mission is the encouragement of artists to work in their medium, giving us a place to share with a wider community what we do (usually) in our home studios. I don't think I ever would have made so many panels, windows, and commissions had it not been for this beauty of a Gallery in Enosburg. My sharing for the show this year will be pictures of those commissions, as well as some older work. I share them with much thankfulness!"

EUGENE GARRON

"Fine art images of places I've visited are what I do. Images taken with various cameras record things I want to enhance to what I can call my own and still reflect an inherent beauty. Tinting and application of the images may be done in Photoshop or with artist mediums. Archival mounting of the finished image is also part of the process. Things within the image can be added or removed and colored to the statement I'm trying to make. What really makes it fun is the way I can return to a place I really enjoyed and reconnect with that slice of time."

MICHAEL FITZGERALD

Mike has been woodturning three years now, since he fully retired from a nine-to-five life, but already his work shows high quality. He has been experimenting with various woods, including spalted maple shown here. Other favorite woods include black cherry, black walnut, butternut, and sugar maple. Bowls from these various Vermont woods are currently on display in the AIR gallery. Mike has been taking advanced classes in woodturning from former woodturning veteran, Nick Rosato, and expects to have a new line of bowls on display soon.