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    GRACE's Old Firehouse Gallery & Studio- Hardwick, Vermont

    The Late Founder & Artistic Director’s Statement
    Don Sunseri Writes About 25 Years of GRACE

    GRACE Board of Directors   

    Displaying GRACE: the Exhibition Program

                              

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    Writings About GRACE

    Tom Meskell’s A New View of GRACE
    Tom came from his native Ireland to study the GRACE program and method for three months in 1988.


    Lucy Lippard’s States of GRACE (excerpt)
    From GRACE’s 25th Anniversary Publication


    The Tao of GRACE

    The GRACE Training Process




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    GRACE began in 1975 at the St. Johnsbury Convalescent Center located in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Don Sunseri, a newly transplanted artist working at the Center provided art materials, encouragement, and a supportive environment, letting residents explore on their own. As a result, they produced a stream of beautiful, often biographical art works. The art was later organized into slide lectures and publications. Since that time hundreds of exhibits have traveled to galleries, museums, and art centers, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
          

            Today, GRACE has blossomed into a small, non-profit organization which now has a staff of five and runs more than 500 workshops annually. GRACE brings weekly artmaking workshops to the places where people live and work: nursing homes, mental health centers, senior meal sites, adult day centers, and artists' homes. GRACE has been recognized and supported as an important and original community arts program by the Vermont Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Community Foundation and many private foundations. Smithsonian (1992) CNN Across America (1993), Vermont Life (1995), Vermont ETV (1996), Boston Globe (1998), Raw Vision (2002), and Folk Art (2007) have traveled to Vermont to highlight the GRACE program and the work of individual GRACE artists. 
    In September of 2000 GRACE acquired the Old Firehouse in downtown Hardwick, the first permanent facility for the organization. The Old Firehouse, built in 1885, is listed on the National Register of Historic Sites. The Old Firehouse provides a bright interior space for GRACE's Firehouse Gallery, community workshops, offices, and art collections.
                         
    PO Box 960, 13 Mill St Hardwick, VT 05843 Ph: 802-472-6857 Fax: 802-472-9578 grace@vtlink.net