Elizabeth Nelson [email protected] 2602 Andersonville Road West Glover VT 05875 802 525 3041 www.elizabeth-nelson.com www.elizabethnelsonstudio.com
Individual Shows Barre Opera House Barre VT 2018 Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT Seasonal Expressions (three person show) 2018 T.W. Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT 2018 Highland Center for the Arts, Greensboro VT 2017-2018 River Arts, Morrisville VT 2017 Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center Arts, Lebanon NH 2017 Spotlight Gallery, Montpelier VT 2016 Catamount Arts Center, Rankin Gallery, St. Johnsbury VT 2016 Craftsbury Community Care Center, Craftsbury VT 2012, 2016 University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington 2016 Innovation Center of Vermont, Burlington VT 2012, 2013, 2015 Burlington International Airport, Burlington VT 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 The Bees Knees, Morrrisville VT 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015 Trustee’s Room, Sterling College Craftsbury VT 2014 Parker Pie Gallery, West Glover VT 2012, 2014 Parson’s Corner, Barton VT 2014 National Life Building, Montpelier VT 2014 Vermont Metro Gallery, Burlington VT 2014 Maltex Building, Burlington VT 2012-2013-2014 Catamounts Arts Center, St. Johnsbury VT 2013 Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild & Gallery, St. Johnsbury VT 2013 Downs Racklin and Martin, Burlington VT 2012 The Miller’s Thumb, Greensboro VT 2000 – 2003, 2011, 2012 Furchgott + Sourdiffe Gallery, (featured artist) Shelburne VT 2011 White Water Gallery, East Hardwick VT 2011 Art in the Vermont Supreme Court, Montpelier VT 2000, 2010 The Lodge at Woodloch, Hawley PA 2010 Claire’s, Hardwick VT 2010, 2012 Governor’s Corridor, Montpelier VT 2010 Towle Hill Gallery, Corinth VT 2010 Maple Ridge Gallery, Newark VT 2010 The Art House, Craftsbury Common VT 2009 Cobella Design, Portland OR 2008 Sean & Nora’s, Barre VT 2008 Grannis Gallery, Burlington VT 2007 Staver Locomotive, Portland OR 2007 Roche + Bubois, Portland OR 2006 Lakeview Gallery, Greensboro VT 2006 Vermont Law School, South Royalton VT 2004 Catamount Arts Gallery, St. Johnsbury VT 1998, 2002 Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury VT 2001 Office of Mental Health, Waterbury VT 1999 Office of the Agency of Human Services, Waterbury VT 1999 Chaffee Center for the Arts, Rutland VT 1997, 1999 Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT 1996 The Center Gallery, Newport VT 1996 Quimby Gallery, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville VT 1995 AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH 1993 Beside Myself Gallery, Arlington VT 1990 Passapartout Gallery, Winooski, VT 1989
Residencies SíM Artist Residency, Reykjavik, Iceland May 2017 Of Land and Local, Elmore State Park, Shelburne Farms, Elmore and Shelburne VT 2015 Of Land and Local Exhibit at Shelburne Farms 2015 Vermont Studio Center Johnson VT 2000
Selected Juried and Invitational Shows Arts Connect at Catamount Arts, St, Johnsbury VT 2017-2018 Of Land and Local/VT Metro Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT 2017 SIM Resident Artists, May 2017, Reykjavik Iceland 2017 Land and Light and Water and Air, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2000 through 2017 Travelling Artists, Bryan Gallery 2017 The Miller’s Thumb Greensboro VT 2000- 2006 2008---2017 New Vistas, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016 After The Harvest, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016 Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich NH 2008 through 2017 1-2-3 Math and Art SPA Barre VT 2016 Encountering Yellow, SPA, Barre VT 2016 Farm to Table, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2016 River Works II, River Arts, Morrisville VT Generations, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2015 Romancing the Garden, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2015 SPA, Barre VT Amore, 2015 Catamount Arts, Second Tuesday Group Show 2014 Gems, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2014 Claire’s, Selections from 2nd Tuesday Art Group, Hardwick VT 2013 Gruppe Gallery, Jericho, VT 2013, 2015 Trees, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2011 Second Tuesday, Castleton College, Castleton VT 2011 KCA, Greensboro VT 2009 Champlain’s Lake Rediscovered, Shelburne VT, New York NY, Manchester VT 2009 N.A.W.A., New York NY 2009 Maple Ridge Gallery Newark VT 2009 2nd Tuesday, AVA Gallery, Lebanon NH 2009 Kiesendahl + Calhoun, Pleasantville NY 2009 Art of Vermont: The State Collection: Bryant Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville, Bennington Museum, Brattleboro VT, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland VT, Goodrich Library, Newport VT, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT 2009 -2011 Art in the Vermont Supreme Court Retrospective, Montpelier, VT 2008 Altered Reality, Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT 2007 Finish This, Cooler Gallery, White River Junction, VT 2007 Whitewater Gallery, East Hardwick VT 2007, 2014 Pepper Gallery, Boston MA 2007
1990-2007 Behind Closed Doors, Bryan Memorial Gallery, Jeffersonville VT ArtHop, Burlington VT Chaffee Center for the Arts, Rutland VT Vermont Selections, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT and St. Michael’s College, Colchester VT Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury VT 2000-2007 Catamount Arts, St.Johnsbury VT Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Irasburg VT ARA Show, T.W.Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT Over and Under, T.W.Wood Gallery, Montpelier VT Office of the Auditor of Accounts, Montpelier VT Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT Basin Harbor Invitational Show, Basin Harbor VT Annual National Exhibition of the Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown NY Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton VT Generations A.I.R.Gallery, NY, NY Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI Artists of the Garden, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe VT Reflections, Basin Harbor Club, Vergennes VT Scissors, Paper, Stone: Toward the Cutting Edge, Lexington KY Susquehanna Art Society 11th Biennial Exhibit, Sellingsgrove PA Vermont Women Artists Gallery North Star, Grafton VT Mowing The Mountains, Burlington VT Vermont Memory Maps: Brattleboro Museum and Johnson State College Vermont Council on the Arts, Office of the Govenor Passpartout Galley, Winooski VT Vermont Artists, Helen Day Arts Center, Stowe VT
Public Art Royalton Department of Public Safety Permanent installation: Four Paintings of the Central Vermont Landscape, Royalton VT 2006 Derby State Police Barracks: Permanent Installation; Four Paintings of Northern Vermont, Derby VT 2003 Finalist: Caledonia Courthouse, St. Johnsbury VT 2000 Finalist: Permanent Installation, Emory Hebard Building, Newport VT 1998
Awards 2017 Honorable Mention, Arts Connect, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury VT 2017 Second Prize The Color of Light Edgewater Gallery Middlebury VT 2012 Third Prize, Land and Light, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 2011 Third Prize, Trees, Bryan Gallery, Jeffersonville VT 1998, 1992,1991: Cavanaugh/Kowalisky Prize, Chaffee Art Center, Rutland VT 1995 Award, Art in the Round Barn, Waitsfield VT 1993 Jury Prize, Stratton Arts Festival, Stratton VT
Collections Burke Mountain Hotel and Conference Center, West Burke VT 2015 Jay Peak Resort and Conference Center, Jay VT 2012 Peggy and Max King, Pittsburgh PA The Waskowmium Collection, Burlington VT Scott Hoyt, New York, NY University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Tanglewood MA The Federal Reserve in Boston Ellen Braithwaite and Stephen Schaffran, Richmond CA The Carver’s Guild, West Groton MA The New England Grassroots Environmental Fund, Montpelier VT The Clarina Howard Nichols Center Morrisville VT
Represented by: New Hampshire: Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, Center Sandwich NH Vermont: Burlington City Arts, Burlington VT Vermont: Miller’s Thumb Gallery, Greensboro VT
Education Rhode Island School of Design, 1963 B.S. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1967 M.A.T.
Biography After graduating from Rhode Island School of Design and receiving a master’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she moved to northern Vermont where she has lived and worked ever since as a teacher, dairy farmer, museum curator and painter.
She has exhibited throughout Vermont and New England as well as in juried shows in Wisconsin, New York, Kentucky and Pennsylvania. Her work was featured prominently in the “Art of Vermont” exhibit which toured state-wide, and in two “Of Land and Local” exhibits in Burlington VT, and is in many private collections.