Now on Twitter!

The studio is now on twitter! @MillikenNancy!

First tweet image.... Landmark I, II, III, at Chesterwood May-October 2015 with Boston Sculptors Gallery, Stockbridge, MA

Studio Manager North

Charlie McElwee joined us this summer helping out with the residency at Shelburne Farms. He has continued to work with me in my outdoor "studio" in Vermont and manages anything coming his way. He will now be traveling with me for all of the installations lined up this summer as my new Studio Manager North! Fantastic!

New Exhibition for June- September

Windscape is sailing south for the summer to farm and sea country,Westport, MA. Deedee Shattuck Gallery will be harbor for seventeen sails all enclosed in a beautiful rock-walled field. There even may be sheep! Stay tunes for more information of Windscape-Westport and installation documentary.

Show of new work

New work will be shown in this wonderful gallery in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Studio Wall

On the studio wall now:

Daughter and Horse

Metal Spires

This metal sail prototype made this summer is informing new sculpture coming out of the studio for Chesterwood in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Three, four-sided, twenty foot tall sparkly spires are being created in the winter studio. Many thanks to William Tipper for his hard work on this at Shelburne Farms.

Shapes

Even though new forms and materials are brewing around the studio, the old shapes of sails keep entering my psyche.

Red Sails

walnut and red ink on archival paper

brown sails

Walnut ink and charcoal

sail forest

Charcoal

Studio Store

The studio store is open!. We had an open studio weekend at Eastworks and it was a wonderful blend of meeting new viewers and chatting with special guests. Please visit online to see what's new! Here's some new sculpture in the studio not represented in the online store.

Honey Box

New England honey in acrylic box in different stages of chrystalization. Measures 6x3x4"

How to Sail

A twenty foot tall sail is cut into lengths and grommeted onto cable and attached to this 6x4' steel rectangle

Egg Scoop

9 wooden eggs are covered with casing and held in an antique wooden scoop. Measures 15x6"

Wax and Nails

I accumulated beeswax from apiarists in New England whose hives had been hit with mites. This beeswax can not be used again for the purpose of making honey, but it is great as a sculptural medium. Steel floor nails and wire. Measures 7x7"

Cubed Rope

Sisal shipping rope is working its way through rusted steel cubes. Measures 3x3x1.5'

Open Studio Sale

Heartfelt thanks for community

Burlington City Arts’ Of Land and Local curated by DJ Hellerman is an ever expanding local cultural event that combines food, art exhibitions, film (to name a few happenings), into a statewide, several month long dialogue, celebrating the land we love. I am proud to have been a part of this conversation. Windscape was de-installed on Thursday. The weather had played with them hard and sculpted the wool into ways that I never could have, enhancing their expression in the environment. They danced and swayed, and I joined them.

I would like to express my gratitude for all of the people and institutions that have become a part of this collaborative installation. The studio has been blessed with community. My heartfelt gratitude to Shelburne Farms, Marshall Webb, Tre McCarney, DJ Hellerman, Ashley Jimenez, Mima Tipper, Charlie Tipper, William Tipper, Marley Tipper, Cami Davis and her University of Vermont Environmental Art class, Jacob Lumbra, Charlie McElwee, Mark Thermansen, Judson Browning, Stephen Kiernan, Ian Ray, and sponsors Seven Days, Leunigs Bistro, and Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.

The wonderful part of social media for installation artists is that now we have a way of seeing how the viewers see the work. I have seen beautiful images of Windscape from Val Kuster, Beth Humstone, Stephen Mease, Stephen Hoffsis, Joanne Hekkers, Kath Monstream, to name a few. My favorite is of an anonymous male couple kissing in front of a sail, impassioned.

Look for a catalog of Windscape coming out next month.

Blessings on the land, lake and sky,

Nancy

Here's an interview

WCAX in Vermont did a segment on Of Land and Local, for which I was interviewed.Take a look at any of these links.

Blood Moon