CURRENT YEAR 2023
With Kraemer & Kin established in their new home at the Alburgh Golf Links, 2023 becomes a year of transition for GreenTARA. The future of exhibitions and community events continues, but may happen across multiple locations. Empty or full, the GreenTARA building is a magical place and host to special events, private parties, Moodra Yoga with Majken Tranby, and now Meditation on Tuesdays, 5pm.
CAFÉxchange - June 2023
CAFÉxchange is a newly formed nonprofit created as a people-to-people cultural exchange project by a team of The Caroline Fund, Burlington, VT; Vermont Institute of Community and International Involvement – VICII; Cuban American Friendship Society in Burlington, Vermont – CAFS; and Friends of GreenTARA Space, Inc., gallery and community venue in North Hero, Vermont. In their combined travels to Cuba, the team members were inspired to invite a small group of Cuban photographers to visit Vermont for this 2023 cultural exchange.
The four selected photographers have different voices as artists and collectively bring a broad representation of the skills and talent Cuba has to offer to our little corner of the world. For example, Alfredo Sarabia Fajardo is one of the leading young photographers in Cuba today. He has taught and exhibited internationally. His work brings a critical voice to the use of photography today. Tomás Inda Barrera, on the other hand, brings long-standing knowledge of the field from both his teaching and running a photography school to his large-scale commercial work. Inda’s images of the sea are monumental. Yadira Ismael Sotomayor, is a younger and amazingly talented voice. Yadira’s rural images are powerful portraits that will be especially appreciated in this agricultural region of ours. Additionally her technical skills are superior and the breadth of her voice is impressive. Nadhiesda Inda Gonzalez, is a world renown photographer that we have the privilege to include in this invitation because as it turns out she is Inda’s daughter. She brings a fourth dimension to the exhibition with her high-end studio compositions from her home in Argentina.
We look forward to the influence these four photographers can have on the work of local artists here in Vermont. We have set up a week-long program in which they will share their work in a conference setting, i.e., on a large screen, at Main Street Landing, Burlington, VT, with invited guests such as our former mayor, and Congressional delegates; and in two galleries – The Darkroom Gallery, Essex, VT and the other, less formal, with high school students in the Pickering Room, Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, VT. The events are planned for June 7 through June 15, 2023.
YEAR 2022
Women Builders and the Earthen Architectural Heritage of Central and West Africa Amélie Esséssé: November - film showing Nov 17, CCTV, 6pm
We the People Janet Van Fleet: August - September
Love Is Sally Linder: June - July
Form and Function: We are the Vessel Jeanne Claire Bisson, Diane Gayer, and SW Pottery: April - May
January: Color and Light Scott Brown and Kristian Brevik: January - March