"Traces of the Sublime: Four Scenes" by installation artist Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa. Lipke's artwork has been profoundly influenced by the environment's capacity for the austere, the sublime and the beautiful. Respected art writer, John Grande writes in his book Intertwining, Black Rose Books, 1998 "Kathryn Lipke's art is part of an ongoing search for meaning that involves interactions with nature in sites and places where no lines have as yet been drawn between human culture and the culture of nature… …Transforming materials into such simple yet eloquent expressions of our own tentative and finite place on this earth such as vessels, dwellings, and environments, Lipke reminds us that water, earth, air, in effect all the primary resources we depend upon for life, are endangered as is our spiritual sense of well-being."

This exhibit made possible with partial funding from the Vermont Arts Endowment Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation.

"Women to Watch: Four Photographers" featuring the work of Bethany Bond, Luciana Frigerio, Tarrah Krajnak & Wilka Roig, and Lynne Weinstein all of whose work stood out as exceptional examples of Vermont photography. Curated by photographer John Miller, this exhibition shows how the camera not only captures a moment but a personality, an era, a photographer and a composition - all in one snap, one gesture, one image.

This exhibit is sponsored by Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Vermont and the Vermont Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Sponsorship for this exhibit at the Chaffee Art Center provided by Patricia Cuddy and Michael O'Malley, Ann Clark, and Laurie Wright, LMW Design.