Our Community Art Project Needs You
Here at the library, we are excited to have a wonderful opportunity to bring our community together to create a lasting and meaningful piece of public art, which will be titled Who We Are. Together, we will create a glass and ceramic mosaic mural reflective of our values. The colors we choose for our tiles will tell a story about citizenship, belonging, history, culture, and society. This collaborative piece will become public art on display at the library.
Community members are invited to ponder ideas about what we value using the following prompts and corresponding color tiles:
• CITIZENSHIP (purple)—voting, staying informed, participating in my community, obeying laws, commitment to equity and justice, volunteering, responsibility to the wider world.
• BELONGING (green)—to my community, country, world I seek out groups with common interests, including those with different views, I foster inclusivity, I normalize vulnerability.
• HISTORY (blue)—social structures, political organization, interactions between humans and the environment, cultural developments,economic systems, connections of events across time and cultures.
• CULTURE (orange)—art, music, dance, poetry, food, clothing, religion, economic systems, forms of government.
• SOCIETY (red)—structure, cooperation, and a framework for survival, prosperity, and meaning: relationships, rules, and systems that allow people to coexist, function, and fulfill needs beyond individual capabilities, creating a shared way of life.
This project will be led by artist Terry Zigmund. Terry has been making art since she was a young child and has been working with glass since 1991 when she took her first stained glass class. The dualities of the medium and the enormous array of colors and textures immediately intrigued her. In 1998 she moved to Burlington, VT where she opened Burlington Community Glass Studio. In 2004 she left her day job to devote herself fully to her art. She continues to create a diverse body of custom work for customers throughout North America and sells her stained glass in galleries in the Northeast and beyond.
Terry’s vision for this project includes 112 individual glass tiles, each one made by a member of the community. We hope you will attend one of the workshops listed below to be a part of this collaborative art!
These workshops are drop-in unless noted below:
Tuesday, April 14th, 9:30 am*
Saturday, April 18th, 10:30am
Wednesday, April 29th, 2:15pm**
Saturday, May 2nd, 1pm
Tuesday, June 2nd, 6pm
Thursday, June 11th, 6pm
*This session reserved for Storytime families.
**Reserved for after school youth participants.
Who We Are is made possible by a grant the library was awarded through Vermont Humanities’ Project Grants process. This grant is administered by the Vermont Arts Council using funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Vermont 250th Anniversary Commission to commemorate our nation’s 250th anniversary. For more information on the grant, please visit the Vermont Humanities website.