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 

Chaffee Featured Artist, Dale Bills

Chaffee Featured Artist, Dale Bills

Dale Bills—Painter, Watercolorist by Penelope Weiss Dale Bills’ specialty is painting moody Vermont forests of richly colored birch trees, created primarily by using spontaneous splashes and splatters of watercolor paint in a free-spirited, impressionistic style. Her career as a professional artist began when she moved 

Chaffee Featured Artist, Damian Trusnovec

Chaffee Featured Artist, Damian Trusnovec

Photographer, Chaffee Art Center by Penelope Weiss Damian Trusnovec says she loves to photograph people just being themselves. “As a Long Islander, I love the ocean and the bay. My favorite photographic memory is pulling up to the beach to find 20 nuns playing Spikeball