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    “GRACE artists can hold their own among Madison Avenue’s best. Illustrating originality and inventiveness in their subject interpretations and in their handling of form, line and color, works produced by GRACE artists quite often exhibit extraordinary aesthetic quality and appeal, and they may be judged entirely on their own merits.”

    Barbara R. Luck, Curator, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Virginia
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     Displaying GRACE: The Exhibition Program

    The GRACE exhibition/sales program features special exhibits at local non-traditional community sites and the Gallery at GRACE’s Old Firehouse.  Paintings and drawings hang in the halls of nearly every site where art workshops take place - nursing homes, community centers, senior day centers, and mental health agencies.  For more than a decade, the annual Bread and Puppet Circus in Glover, Vermont featured a GRACE exhibit in the Pine Forest which attracted thousands of visitors each year.

    The exhibition program also includes traditional venues such as: commercial galleries museums, and art centers. GRACE has organized several national touring exhibitions, including Images of Experience (1982-83), cited in Art in America as an outstanding national exhibition; Ten Years of GRACE (1988-1991), traveled nationally as part of the touring program of New England Foundation for the Arts; a one woman show, The World of Gayleen Aiken (1987) traveled to Lincoln Center, NYC; Six Artists of GRACE (2002) traveled throughout Ireland. 

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    National and international exhibitions have brought widespread attention to the work of many GRACE artists, whose work is now sought by collectors and museum curators in the United States and Europe. GRACE artists’ works are included in the permanent collections of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center  in Williamsburg, Virginia the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, the American Folk Art Museum in New York, and the Museum for the Collection de la Art Brut in Lausanne Switzerland.  GRACE has organized several national touring exhibitions, including Images of Experience (1982-83), cited in Art in America as an outstanding national exhibition. 10 Years of GRACE (1988-1991), traveled nationally as part of the touring program of New England Foundation for the Arts, a one woman show, Rooms and Rooms, the Enchanted World of Gayleen Aiken, (1992-94), traveled to several national venues, Signals and Messages (2000-2001) traveled throughout Vermont, and Six Artists of GRACE (2002) traveled throughout Ireland. 

    The exhibits provide an opportunity for support and feedback for the artists and strengthen the partnership between GRACE and the many communities it serves.  In addition, exhibitions provide validation for the artists and exposure for their art as well as additional income through the exhibition sales program.

    In 1998, GRACE established a permanent art collection consisting of artwork from its program which is of significant artistic merit and has cultural, historical and educational importance.

                        

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