Meet the Artists

Andrew Dudka

www.andrewdudka.com

Andrew Dudka is a Burlington, Vermont-based artist who carefully maintains a creative practice to visually explore thoughts and feelings and encourage others to do the same. Something like an artistic sandbox for fun.

His toys take the shape of screen printing and painting on paper, fabric and wood, vinyl and acrylic, and playtime consists of an open-ended exploration of hand-drawn forms and negative space. In finished pieces, he employs a consistent visual language of basic shapes, vibrant colors and weaving lines to communicate his interpretation, while simultaneously distilling the core forms in ways that prompt viewers to make their own.

He was the artist-in-residence at Generator Makerspace in Burlington, VT for summer 2025, and his pieces have been displayed at numerous artistic and commercial venues in Vermont.

Charlie Adams

www.pondwatertattoo.com

Charlie Adams is a multidisciplinary Abenaki artist indigenous to the Northeast, currently creating art in Wantastegok, Vermont and Salmon Falls, Massachusetts. He utilizes sculptural installation, painting, and printmaking techniques to convey traditional stories, interweaving animism, and wabanaki cosmology.

While being a predominantly self-taught artist his practice is informed by a long lineage of indigenous artists in his family, as well as nearly a decade living on Pesamkuk (Mount Desert Island, Maine), a period that profoundly shaped his creative development.

In his public art practice, Adams creates site-responsive works grounded in listening, community engagement, and relationship to land. Adams believes public art has the power to heal the land. His murals and installations aim to uplift original teachings, honor what is already present, and to be an extension of the landscape itself.

Dakin Fuller

www.fineforager.com/portfolio/textiles

Dakin Fuller (born Kara Torres) is a nonbinary Burlington, Vermont-based artist who works in a wild assortment of media, including, but never limited to, sticks, taillights, scrap cloth, acrylic on canvas, ink, polymer clay, and watercolor. As an environmentally-thoughtful and resourceful person, Dakin scavenges materials from second-hand shops, friends & family members’ junk drawers, forests and greenbelts. They use these materials to craft clothing, collages, flags, jewelry, and anything else they feel impelled to make.

Dakin held a 6-month residency at New City Gallery from 2016-2017 and won first place in the Arts Alive Festival of Fine Arts in 2018. They have had solo shows at Cavendish Gallery and the Gallery at Main Street Landing, in addition to many wonderful and supportive local restaurants, bars, coffee shops and computer stores. They have received commissions from Rice High School, SEABA, and individuals. Dakin grew up barefoot in the woods of Duxbury, VT, and spent their childhood climbing white pines and beech trees.

Dakin's art, though multifarious, leans heavily towards a 1930’s cartoon-graffiti, cosmos-constructing style; whatever medium or style Dakin is using, radical honestly and reflection on gender, society, and death emerge as central themes.

Elise Whittemore

www.elisewhittemore.com

I look at a square and see a room, a boundary, a building block. I think about how quilters use a square to build a pattern. Then seeing something of their life in those patterns, naming them in ways that articulated their ideas of home and identity.

As a printmaker, I use a square plate and a few simple shapes that easily repeat. In the repetition, patterns and shapes arise that accumulate together and become objects and figures that push and crouch within these boundaries. These forms have enabled me to think critically about the world I create, the spaces I claim, and the boundaries I navigate.

Eliza West

elizawestvt.com

Eliza West (she/her) is a printmaker, illustrator, and textile worker with a background in design history, and a history of making her friends laugh. Her work celebrates everything from the mundane majesty of clothespins to the messy absurdity of the human experience. She lives, makes art, and teaches sewing classes in Montpelier.

Erin Bundock

www.erinbundockfreelancearts.com

Erin Bundock is a mixed media artist and writer whose practice includes printmaking, painting, and fiber arts.

Set in worlds both real and imagined, she creates portraits inspired by folklore and myth. Through her work, Bundock explores what magic we may take for granted- the magic of loving, of sacrifice, or simply breathing. Tender, open-hearted, and bold, her work focuses on moments of action, inviting viewers into the broader story within each piece.

Bundock’s family ties to scenic design and biological studies cultivated her interest in art making and health from an early age. In 2020, she graduated from the University of Vermont with a Bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. Following graduation, she continued her undergraduate thesis work during an artist residency at The Vaults in Burlington. Her first solo show A Stitch Between debuted in September of 2021.

Since then, she has shown across New England, New York City, and Prague. She sits on the board of The Young Writers Project, a non-profit dedicated to publishing and supporting young writers and artists. She also works with The South End Arts and Business Association, an art non-profit that supports artists in her home city. She currently lives and works in Burlington, Vermont with her partner Jeremy and their dog Robin.

Harper Nichols

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Hello hello, I’m Harper Nichols (they/he), a multi-disciplinary artist based in Burlington, Vermont. I am passionate about capturing experiences of queer joy, trans resilience, the magical mundane, and childhood wonder as avenues of playful resistance. I enjoy a broad creative practice across many mediums, but my favorites are linocut and silkscreen printmaking. Making art has always been a lifeline for me and there is nothing I believe in more than the power of collective creativity and creation.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, I am a proud midwest dyke through and through and grew up on the Indigo Girls, local sweet corn, and family game nights. I am a lover of cats, bandanas, dandelions, backpacking, and sending snail mail. After completing a bachelor’s degree at Middlebury College, I moved to Burlington and now work as the Director of the Feminist Resource center at Middlebury, in addition to practicing my art.

Susan Smereka

www.susansmereka.com

Whether using the etching press with ink and collage, sewing with prints and bookmaking, building objects or creating installations, I aim to explore beauty and the reconciliation of opposites: angst and resolution, confusion and beauty, the unknown and calm. For me, beauty is a process of discovery—finding and creating it where I did not see or feel it before.

A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, I was born and raised outside Toronto, Ontario, and have lived in Vermont for more than 35 years. It is perhaps inevitable that duality—as both tension and concept—has long been central to my life and practice. In the studio, this often appears in the relationship between messiness and order: chaos as intuition, uncertainty as harmony, coincidence as connection.

I resist the idea of adhering to a singular medium. Instead, I work in a deceptively disordered way across painting, printmaking, sewing, collage, video, installation, and book arts. This tentacled approach began early in my education. As a painting and drawing major at Concordia University in Montreal, I made “drawings” with wood in the woodshop and built installations for painting class.

Through making art, I continually encounter disorganization and coherence—again and again, and with delight. It is a process that has sustained and engaged me for more than forty-five years.

Talvi Ekis

@ekisartsvt

I am a multimedia artist living and working in central Vermont, with a focus on queer representation. I am inspired by the diversity and beauty of the human experience and honor the full spectrum of emotions. I believe that joy is found by embracing the ups and downs of reality. I work in ceramics, printmaking and fiber arts, and welcome opportunities to work in new mediums. With this collaborative quilting project, I am excited to expand my fiber art experience, and strengthen bonds within my community.