Chaffee Art Center Featured Artist, Mary Fran Lloyd — Vermont Abstract Artist

Chaffee Art Center Featured Artist, Mary Fran Lloyd — Vermont Abstract Artist

Mary Fran Lloyd grew up in Florence, Vermont, and has made art all her life, professionally since 1996.  A self-taught artist, she started out with oils, then moved to watercolor and now works in acrylics, collage and mixed media.  Primarily an abstract artist, Mary Fran is currently 

Chaffee Art Center Featured Artist Robert Black — Architecture, Collage and Photography

Chaffee Art Center Featured Artist Robert Black — Architecture, Collage and Photography

by Penelope Weiss Robert Black, collagist, photographer, and architect, grew up on the Mississippi River in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He has lived in Vermont since 2009 and has partnered in many shows since then with Vermont artist Fran Bull. Black was always interested in drawing, 

Chaffee Art Center featured Artist, Arlene O’Connor

Chaffee Art Center featured Artist, Arlene O’Connor

Arlene O’Connor, who was born and raised on a farm in Pennsylvania, became interested in making art at a very early age. She loved crayons, pencils, paper, and whatever she could sketch on. In high school, she was fortunate to have an excellent art teacher. 

Chaffee Featured Artist, Denise Letendre

Chaffee Featured Artist, Denise Letendre

Denise Letendre Sepia/Vintage-Style Photographs Denise Letendre is originally from suburban Connecticut and graduated from the University of Hartford with a BFA in painting/illustration. For the past 20-plus years, she has been living and working in Vermont. Although her background is in painting, Denise makes pictures