Amy Fortier Amy Fortier (2024)Amy Fortier is a self-taught artist who has been living in Lebanon, NH for the last 24 years. Creating art brings her both peace and energy and allows her to find balance in a world where “busyness” is rewarded more than rest. Bringing more color and pattern into the world is something she can’t help but do. She considers providing opportunities for others to participate in that creation as well a privilege.She is inspired by color, henna tattoos, Moroccan tile work, mandalas, mosaics and patterns of all kinds. She specialize in detailed mandala images, “fauxzaics” (fake mosaics) and line art for coloring. She also offers workshops for people of all levels of experience. Although she's been doodling, crafting, and dabbling in art since she could first hold a crayon, she didn’t start to show her work publicly until she painted, of all things, a 4 foot tall fiberglass pig as part of Hanover, NH’s 250th Anniversary celebration in 2011. She parlayed the momentum, recognition, and praise from that piece into confidence to try and show her other pieces. The rest, as they say, is history. More information about Amy can be found at AmyFortier.com. Visit Amy at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP between June-October, 2024. Open Studio Hours (visit Amy at the Horse Shed)
Ellen Smith Ahern Ellen Smith Ahern (2024)Ellen Smith Ahern is a dance artist and community organizer/MSW living with her family on Abenaki lands in N’Dakinna/New Hampshire. As a 2023 Creative Community Fellow with National Art Strategies, her dances explore the intersection of movement, storytelling and nature, creating performance projects that aim to include a wider array of people than might otherwise feel welcomed into traditional dance spaces.Ellen is grateful to teachers and mentors, including Peter Schmitz, Amy Chavasse, Jenn Ponder, Penny Campbell and Andrea Olsen. She has performed and taught throughout the US and internationally, collaborating with Jane Comfort & Company, Lida Winfield, Kate Elias, Rachel Bernsen, Rebecca Pappas, Hannah Dennison, Pauline Jennings, Polly Motley, El Circo Contemporaneo, Amy Chavasse, David Appel and Tiffany Rhynard’s Big APE. With generous support from many institutions and community members, she shares her work through film, installation and live performance in a diverse array of venues, including the National Gallery of Art, Dance on Camera Festival/Film at Lincoln Center, Rainier Arts Center, Bates Dance Festival, AVA Gallery, Ucross, Dixon Place, Artistree Community Arts Center, FlynnSpace, Ionion Center of Kefalonia and Rococo Theatre in Prague. Please visit ellensmithahern.com. Visit Ellen at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP between June-October, 2024. Open Studio Hours (visit Ellen at the Forest Center)
Christine Tyler Hill Christine Tyler Hill (2024)Christine Tyler Hill is an artist, creator, and organizer telling stories that connect people to places and movements for social change. Christine uses illustration, design, and short-form video to explore what interests her most: the natural world and conservation; community building and alternative economies and social structures; local political systems and civic engagement; bicycling and alternative transportation; outdoor adventure and recreation; and, gosh… so much more.The name of her creative business, Tender Warrior Co., is a reminder that we can be many different things at once. Christine is based in Burlington, Vermont. For more information, visit TenderWarriorCo.com. Visit Christine at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP in August 2024. |
Last updated: October 15, 2024