Shawna Cross Contemporary Fine Artist

 

BOROUGH'S NEW FACE

01/31/2011

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NEWS, news. Borough's new website isn't 100% complete, but it's tidy enough for you to check out. Meet our resident noise-makers, check out our neighbors and explore our archives. 
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Our entire building has been going through a change of dynamics lately: Borough has new faces and new energy, and 180 has a new flock of inspired artists and businesses as well. All of the commotion has caused everyone to come together in a new and exhilarating way, and everyone knows that unity around a common interest creates an amazing force. We're in the midst of scraping together a skeleton for a building-wide exhibition that will not only highlight the South End's phenomenal impact and influence on our area's artistic scene, but also expose the cultural smorgasbord of raw dedication, motivation, inspiration and joy that is the make up of the emerging art scene. Once we have a foundation laid down I'm going to be on the look out for an intern at Borough, so stay tuned!
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SEVEN DAYS INTERVIEW / BOROUGH GALLERY PROFILE

12/09/2010

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SEVEN DAYS, Vermont's leading independent art & culture newspaper is, in my and many other's opinion, "the shit". The articles are great, the staff is amazing, and if you want to know what's up and happening in your area, head their way. So, imagine my utter delight when Pamela Polston, the paper's co-owner/founder (the fact that the paper is founded by two women makes 7D even more inspiring) emailed me last month to say she wanted to send a writer and photographer over to Borough to do a gallery profile. My face could have lit a hundred dark caves. My work has been reviewed in the paper twice before; once in a group show at the Maltex Building, and again as part of Entropic Restructed, Borough's spring 2010 show. A full interview, however, conducted at a time when we haven't even been promoting an upcoming show, is way more flattering. 
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Click here for the article. Photo courtesy Matt Thorsen.
The whole process was so fun, like I said, the 7D crew is great. Lauren Ober was fantastic, witty and both interested and interesting, and it was nothing but laughs and hilarious outbursts to work with photographer Matt Thorsen again (I worked with Matt and his equally hilarious and amazing wife, Diane, during a show at Red Square this past February). Honestly, just thinking about the whole process makes me laugh out loud, usually at inappropriate moments, and it really solidified my love for this small city and the community it contains. Everyone somehow knows each other through some fabulous event, everyone has such great energy, everyone is so involved and excited by what they're doing...it's beautiful. We (my studio mates and myself) loved sharing our story and having the opportunity to spread the word about Borough to 7D's 77,000+ weekly readers. Wrapping the night up with Steve, Borough's resident writer, with an always-delicious local dinner, pouring creative ideas out over muddled strawberry martinis and excitedly gushing about how far Borough has come and how much further we want it to go, made the whole day perfect in my memory. Read the article HERE, and I hope you enjoy it, too. GUSH!
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ART HOP!

11/16/2010

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ART HOP! It was great. As Always. Such a delayed post, but better late than never. It was the first show our new studio mate Haley participated in, and I pulled my friends Ian Burcroff and Phil Hardy over from New York to participate as well. Our show was called Riddles and Lies: Charged by Desire check it out. Art's Alive came by on Saturday to do short film interviews with each of us, asking for a description of how "Art Supports Me" and why the hell we're artists, anyway. What a question. Click the photo below for images of the all-night marathon installation Phil, his brother Rowan and I enlisted ourselves in the night before the Hop (the best part of any show, if you ask me...always the most exhilarating, fun and caffeine-crazed time), the opening itself, and interviews. Enjoy!
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UPCOMING SHOWS: ART HOP in burlington's south end, vt

08/17/2010

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UPCOMING SHOWS, upcoming shows!!! September is almost here, which means it's officially time for Vermont's largest art event spectacular, the:
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S O U T H   E N D   A R T   H O P

brought to you by the South End Arts & Business Association

they're awesome. 

The   A R T   H O P   kicks off on the first Friday of  S E P T E M B E R (the 1 0 t h), 5 pm - 9 pm  and includes: Two days of open studios, over 600 hundred artists on display at over 100 venues, pluuuuus a fashion show, all within our very own South End neighborhood. Here's a video to pique your interest:


THIS YEAR  I'll be showing at   B O R O U G H ,  of course!
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studio mate Kate says photos are OKAY!




and I'll also be showing at  S . P . A . C . E .   G A L L E R Y  (in the Soda Plant) as a part of their exhibit "REPRESENT". 



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S.P.A.C.E. Gallery, Burlington, VT
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Studio mate Steve, marveling at the gigantic soda plant ornaments



H O P   O N   B Y  !

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