Anna Gefke, she/her/hers, from Maryland

June Session 1 Artist

I work with acrylic paints as well as other mark-making mediums. My work is inspired by nature, the effects of time, and how we use ancestry to define our sense of self.

During my time at The Sable Project I worked on a series "I Dreamed I Saw a Blood Moon".

I enjoy eating blue candy but am currently feeling visually pulled to the color red.

Elizabeth Rhoads

June Session 1 Artist

Eva Sturm-Gross (she/they)

June Session 1 Artist

I am a printmaker and craftsperson from Vermont. I think of my work is a form of creative exegesis based in the processes of traditional materials. Drawing from an inherited Jewish mythos as well as my intuition I explore relationships with G-d, gender, and the natural world. The integration of traditional craft into my artistic expressions allows me to convey older ideas in an original form.

evasturmgross@gmail.com she/they

Hannah Firestone (she, her) is originally from Cambridge MA, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She is a multidisciplinary artist, reveling in dancing, choreography, devising and directing dance-theater works, painting, writing, and knitting. She has collaborated extensively with musicians and composers and is particularly interested in building dance around live music and for bodies with little or no formal dance training. She aims to use art to remind people of what is precious about being alive, and of their own preciousness.

While at Sable, she participated in the Mountain Movement Intensive as well as a one-week residency. In this time, she created two original dance films, one of which was set in the White River. She also worked on a young adult novel about falling in love in Harvard Square, as well as several paintings of poppies inspired by Sable's exquisite poppy patch.

A fun fact about Hannah, and about Sable, is that she learned from Jeremy Cline that buckwheat greens are edible and delicious, and she's been telling everyone who will listen about it ever since.

June Session 1 Artist

My name is Kayleigh MacDonald (she/her), and I graduated this past summer with a degree in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. My work is informed by womanhood, holiness, and the various ways we define “image.” I'm especially interested in the light-sensitive properties of plants, and how these properties can be used to create photographic emulsions--it’s so exciting and important to me that material aids narrative and concept, and I really enjoy making site-specific work. Sable was the perfect place for new experiments, and I enjoyed making a variety of anthotypes and chlorophyll prints using organic matter from the garden and surrounding areas. I also spent a lot of my time by the river, allowing myself to play, making mud sculptures and paper experiments. After returning from my residency, I struggled with describing it to other people. What felt most accurate to me, was that it was as if my soul got to lay out in the sun to dry.

A fun fact is that before Sable, I had never tried beets before! I was so excited to eat them in a salad my first night, so fresh from the garden. Not only are they delicious, they also make an amazing emulsion base for anthotypes! I attempted a few during my stay!

June Session 1 Artist

Sarah Ruth Bates (she/her) is a writer from Massachusetts. She's working on a book of personal essays about arbitrariness and morality. At Sable, she drafted essays and baked bread.

June Session 1 Artist

Sophia Livecchi (she/they), New York

June Session 1 Artist

I am a multidisciplinary artist and muralist that finds canvases and opportunities to create everywhere I go. I am passionate about transforming already existing bare or neglected spaces into inspiring, socially inclusive places of gathering through design.

During my time at Sable, I worked on pushing my style outside of my comfort zone through creating the acrylic paintings depicted below.

A fun fact about me is I have an obsession with chess, and played at least two games everyday with different residents at Sable!

Instagram: @sophlive

Chloé Harmon (she/they) is a painter working and living in Richmond VA, on occupied Powhatan land. They are a visual artist that primarily works with acrylic paint & found materials.

Chloé is inspired by folktales, storytelling, and utilizing objects and iconography that is relative to their familial ties and exists within their childhood home- as a means to conceptualize aging and memory.

In their everyday life they work at a small café, and come home to their pet bunny named Cardamom in the evening. Also they love the color of Jadeite.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Elise Wojtowicz (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist working in Richmond, VA. Her work, rooted in experimental photography & textile craft, lives at the conceptual intersection of time, the natural world, and the feminine experience. She finds inspiration and intrigue while in collaboration with the natural processes and materials of our world- while at Sable, Elise experimented with plant-based photography methods of anthotype and chlorophyll printing, as well as mixed media cyanotypes. She also made many, many (many) digital images.

Fun fact: She considers herself a world champion four-leaf-clover-finder

Ellie MacBride, she/they, San Francisco

Playwright / Performer

Ellie's work, which often blends immersive theater with taboo themes such as suicide and polyamory, is meant to be a springboard for discussing difficult topics, while also providing a safe space for more vulnerable participants to find a sense of purpose and belonging. By taking a more traditional narrative into an immersive setting, Ellie hopes to give audience members the chance to really feel like they’re a part of the story before asking them to explore more complex themes. While at Sable, Ellie wrote a short play about cannibalism, which she then performed with other resident artists at Sable's "Food and Art Friday." In San Francisco, Ellie lives in a tiny studio with big windows and a siamese cat named Teddie who is sitting by her side as she types this.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Erin Gould (they/them) currently works and resides on the occupied Indigenous lands now called Albuquerque, New Mexico. They are a multimedia artist and educator working across sculpture, video, installation, printmaking, and performance to investigate relations between human bodies and more-than-human bodies/ corporeal presence and remembered absence/ capitalist ideologies and quotidian manifestations of white supremacy.

While at Sable, Erin read, wrote, danced, and played with the trees and the mosses and the lichen, all of which resulted in a more rested and joyful human, as well as a performance video installation in the Stump House and a series of photo collages.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Jane Ferry is currently living in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania drawing in their bedroom and outside of their bedroom. They are a multi-media artist with an emphasis in comic making and spontaneous collaboration with friends, strangers, pencil, and paper. Jane prioritizes presence through sensory exploration of environment; practicing free flowing appreciation of nature and people through studying the world via drawing.

While at Sable, Jane drew, talked, listened, and cooked with the other residents, trying to maintain presence, rest, and have fun.

Jane loved Sable's pizza wholeheartedly and reports having a spiritual experience upon taking first bite.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Jasmine Roth (she/they) is currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on the ancestral lands of the Shawnee, Lenape, Osage and Hodinöhšönih people. She is currently a John Wells Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University as an MFA Directing candidate.

Jasmine is a director and choreographer who uses the stage to investigate and witness power, agency, healing, and metamorphosis. Their work with both teen and professional ensembles centers the body as a holder of history and a maker of incantations.

At Sable, Jasmine worked on their first full length play as a solo playwright entitled Painting Lessons. The play is a grief-reckoning-garden-fantasy about losing a parent and finding yourself.

Jasmine also enjoys making her own nut milk and caring for her seven plants and one cat.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Jess Fijalkovich (she/her) resides in Akron, Ohio, unceded Erie land.

She is an independent archivist and experimental film and cameraless photographer. Her practice is informed by working with archives, boxes and shelves filled with the ghostly traces of her visual vocabulary.

During her time at Sable, the forest became a darkroom as Jess experimented with alternative photographic processes. She made anthotypes, images made using light-sensitive juices extracted from plants, and lumen prints, kaleidoscopic photograms made with black and white photo paper and the sun.

During the pandemic, Jess and her partner Chris co-founded bARTer, an art trading network for visual artists with all levels of experience that encourages the building of non-hierarchical art collections and communities. Sign up to trade here!

Instagram: @barter_barter_barter | @jess____eff

www.jessfijalkovich.com

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Name: Mika Taga

Pronouns: they/she

Medium: wood, plaster, metal, ink

What I worked on at Sable: While at Sable, I worked with charcoal, Sumi ink, sand, and wood. I didn’t have a product in mind when starting the week, and as the week progressed, I found myself focused on opening myself to the holistic experience of living in the woods in a community of creatives for a week. The richest parts of the experience involved time with the trees, time in the river, and time with a special group of makers. I experienced a sense of sinking into myself, and an opening to those around me that I hadn’t experienced before. New friendships formed, bridges and connections revealed themselves in regard to our respective art practices, and though I made some sketches and engaged with wood, the most revelatory part of the experience cannot be shown through a finished object, since it is a sense of wholeness within myself that I credit to the natural world and to the wonderful people I met. As a result of this time, I am thinking more deeply about my creative practice, and I now see that the people and community I surround myself with have a much larger impact on my creative process than I knew before.

Fun Fact: Trees and wood take my breath away. The forms of trunks and branches, the way light floats through leaves, the way it exists when alive, the latent life force it holds when it’s no longer living, the smell when carved, the way it does so much for us silently…it’s my greatest interest and love.

Some Images:

(I was thinking about light, shadow, tracing movement that cannot be perfectly captured, ideas of completion. Transformation of material, mark-making, connection, letting go of the need for resolution, presence and absence)

June Session 2 Artist

First two photos by Elise Wojtowicz

My name is Marcus Jade, pronouns(he/him)

From Indianapolis, Indiana

Artistic medium: music (Guitar)

Inspired by blues music, folk, modern contemporary music.

While at sable, I worked and focused on being more in-tuned with the environment to to be more improvised in guitar technique.

Also painting and slowing down for a moment.

A fun fact about me is that I’m learning how to make breads, sourdough, and fermenting. I’ve learned how to make kimchi. I was inspired by Sable to make stuff like that.

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Vic Fulton

June Session 2 Artist

Photos at Sable by Elise Wojtowicz

Audrey Gidman (she/they) is a queer poet living where the Penobscot River meets the sea on Wabanoki Land (Dawnland) in so-called Maine. She serves as assistant poetry editor for Gigantic Sequins and chapbook editor for Newfound.

Audrey’s work centers a tender yet insatiable desire to explore, turn over, and witness grief, trauma, somatic reckoning, family systems, land-scape and the body. At Sable, they are working on their first full-length book of poems, examining addition, CPTSD, trauma, memory and hones, frank, compassionate ways we can hold our most shame-inducing moments.

Fun fact: allergic to kiwis.

Insta: @audrexe Twitter: @audreygidman

July 2022 Artist

Photos by Jessica Lee

Emma Fenton-Miller (she/her) lives in Oakland, CA, unceded Ohlone land. She is a visual artist working in papercut, enamel, tatooo among other mediums.

Emma is inspired by a slow daily familial relationship with plants. At Sable she is working on a series of papercuts on belonging.

In everyday life Emma works as a gardener and bikes to the sunset whenever possible.

July 2022 Artist

Photos by Jessica Lee

Jake Kuhn (he/they) lives in Western Mass. on unceded Nipmuc & Pocumtuc land. Jake is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans performance, puppetry, writing, and papercutting.

At Sable, Jake is making an interactive papier-mâché installation and practicing poi.

Jake is inspired by the weird, the whimsical, and the wonderous.

July 2022 Artist

Photos by Jessica Lee

Blythe Feeney

Fall 2022 Artist

Jacob Ellis

Fall 2022 Artist

Livvy Feeney

Fall 2022 Artist

Olivia Ronan

Fall 2022 Artist

Ruthie Scarpino

Fall 2022 Artist

Elias Alexander shared Fiddle Disco with us at Food + Art Friday on August 5, 2022.

Elias Alexander is a producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who's work weaves together traditional music, electronic production, and songwriting around themes of belonging, connectedness, and liberation.

His new project "Ramblxr" combines Elias's instrumental playing (bagpipes, fiddle, guitar, percussion, whistles and synths) with his catchy, pop-influenced dance production.

"Ramblxr" reaches into traditional music to find something ancient, and uses it to build connection in our fractured world.

Elias grew up in Ashland Oregon, where he cultivated deep roots in Scottish traditional music, studying bagpipes, fiddle, whistle, and guitar from a young age.

In 2009 he relocated to the East Coast, where he made a name for himself as one of America's finest exponents of traditional Scottish music. He spent the later half of the 10s touring with numerous bands, including the Bywater Band, Soulsha, Seven Nations, MAC and Fàrsan, and playing some of the world’s top Celtic festivals, including Celtic Connections (Glasgow, Scotland) and Celtic Colours (Cape Breton, NS).

Elias also has worked with many of the greats of Celtic music, including Alasdair Fraser, Carlos Nuñez, and Gillebrìde MacMillan, and given lectures at Harvard and MIT.

When the pandemic changed everything, he turned his attention to songwriting and production. The results of two years of seclusion in home studios in LA and Portland, he is poised to release an electronic/traditional fusion project called Ramblxr, and a pop music EP coming sometime later in 2022. The first track of the Ramblxr project "Francis (Let it Grxw)" came out Friday May 13th 2022.

Tony joined us Food + Art Fridays on July 8th and August 19, 2022 to share a Sound Bath Meditation.

Tony Bednar is a sound meditation guide based in South Royalton. He plays gong, singing bowls, tuning forks and other instruments, and recently released an album titled Vermont Stereo Volume 1.