May 2011

Featured Artist: Kevin Ruelle

Kevin paints impressionist landscapes from New England, the Southwest and Mexico. His experience in commercial art includes: technical illustrations, book covers, book illustrations, packaging art, architectural renderings, illustrated maps, cartooning, and decorative art. Kevin works in watercolor, oils, charcoal, airbrush, mixed media, and participates in exhibitions in Vermont. Although Kevin has over 25 years of experience as a commercial artist, he is also a fine artist working in the media mentioned above. His studio is located at the St. Paul Street entrance of the Kilburn and Gates Building.

Featured Business: New England Floor Covering

For more than 25 years New England Floor Covering has provided customers with extensive flooring selections that include high performance, good design, sensitivity to the environment, and color options, on time and within budget. Based in Burlington, Vermont we offer high quality custom installation services. They encourage their customers to choose flooring from an ever-growing selection of green flooring products that are environmentally friendly. New England Floor Covering is one of Vermont’s largest commercial flooring companies because of their carpet manufacturing knowledge, expertise and experience in the field of color and construction support services.

April 2011

Featured Artist: Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson is a self taught artist who has been living in Vermont for 15 years. While she has dabbled in a variety of mediums, it was the discovery of polymer clay that allowed her to combine her interests in design, sewing, sculpting, and painting and gave her a concrete foundation of expression in the form of Strange Dolls. Since 2003 she has been creating macabre and grotesque characters in clay for collectors across the globe. She is currently represented in Berlin/NYC/London by Strychnin Gallery. Robinson’s dolls have been featured in the magazines: Art Doll Quarterly, SPIN, “Stuff” in the US, “Maxim UK” and “Maxim Hong Kong,” “Rue Morgue” in Canada, “RIP” in Russia, and “Nordic Vision” in Norway.

Featured Business: Coffee Enterprises

The Coffee Enterprises team of coffee consultants has the professional expertise to enhance the quality of your coffee products and services, and to improve the overall strength of your coffee business. Coffee Enterprises has some of the most technically advanced sensory and analytical coffee equipment in the world, which gives Coffee Enterprises a unique ability to delve into all aspects of coffee—from business best-practices to flavor profiles. With their specialized expertise, the coffee consultants and coffee professionals at Coffee Enterprises and its companies help you get the most out of your coffee, and your coffee business.

March 2011

Featured Artist: Aaron Stein

This piece was completed for the Art Hop last fall. The plates start as rust at floor lever and rise up to bright bare metal. The design is analogues to the environmental abatement work Alderson complete restoring contaminated, or rusted, spaces into safe useable places for another life, shiny plates. The air/water ‘bubbles’ also rising to the top and are a design element highlighting the importance of these elements in not only their work, but to support life in general.”

Pictured: “Alderson’s Door”

Featured Business: Hanson & Doremus Investment Management

Hanson Manages equity and fixed income portfolios for individuals and family groups, businesses, endowments and foundations. It also consults with individuals and institutions on financial issues on an hourly basis.

February 2011

Featured Artist: Shawna Cross

Shawna Cross makes abstract work that allows felt moments to become physical realities as she combines the psychology of color with the creation of form and rhythm to evoke the id and explore the chaotic circumplex of emotion.

Pictured, “and it was glorious” 54″ x 35″ oil on canvas, 2011.

Featured Business: H. Keith Wagner Partnership

The process of uniting program, context, form and materials provides the basis for H. Keith Wagner Partnership‘s approach, crafting modern sculptural landscapes expressing the essential inherent beauty of natural materials.

January 2011

Featured Artist: John Brickels

John’s robots and machines acclaim the industrial heritage of his childhood, rust-belt home, Akron Ohio.

Featured Business: Play Dog Play

Burlington couple, Masha and Ryan, set about creating a safe and healthy environment for theirs and other dogs to socialize. Their dogs Kismet and Roscoe have been life long clients in other daycares and were closely involved in designing Play Dog Play facility.