Member Artists
Are you an artist and a City Market Member? We'd love to feature your art on our Member Artist Wall! We feature art from a Member Artist for two month periods at both our Downtown store on the wall near Register 10 and in our South End store on the walls on either side of our cafe. If you are interested in displaying your art, please fill out and return our Member Artist Application.
Inspired by baskets and how they are made, I created a new body of original art work, “Basketry Arts. “Basketry Arts” will provide art collectors a fresh look at new original paintings and drawings that celebrate Basketry. In this show I used watercolors, acrylics and a mix of mediums to achieve a natural feel for each work. The aesthetics of my work is not so much focused on beautiful art, but the color expression to help communicate the concepts. I enjoy painting from self-expression and using my first impression of the subject as a vehicle to explore the concept, then visually translating that on to the surface type that makes the most sense.
Sarah is a pastry chef by training but enjoys all forms of art as a way to relax and express her creativity. She has been painting for approximately 14 years and enjoys working on large scale, abstract pieces. Her first influences were Pollock and Rothko. Originally from Western New York state, Sarah now calls Burlington home with her husband and their Great Pyrenees puppy.
This March, City Market is using the Member Art Wall to celebrate its Rally for Change program – a simple way for customers to round up their purchases to the next whole dollar to collect donations for local non-profits! Throughout the month of March, check out the Art Wall to learn some amazing statistics about what your donations have accomplished and find out more about a few of the non-profit organizations that have benefitted from these donations. Learn more about this program 
Rachel Lindsay is a Burlington based cartoonist and City Market cashier. Her comic strip Rachel Lives Here Now is a weekly feature in the Seven Days comic section, and has received coverage in "Stuck in Vermont" and on VPR. She is currently an artist in residence at New City Galerie where she is working on her graphic novel, Rx. This show is a mix of old and new work that spans a range of themes and styles.
“My name is Meagan Pittman, I am 17 years old, and I am studying Design and Illustration at Burlington High School and Colchester High School while being dually enrolled at CCV. My art Ranges from drawing with pencil to painting with both oil and acrylic paint. My style ranges from Abstract to Realism, I capture details the way I see them. I create art because I can control the outcome of what I create and learn more about myself while doing so. I appreciate the beauty of the smaller things in life and I try to capture that in my work. Everyone finds peace in something and I find that peace in putting paintbrush to canvas or pencil to paper.”
Jack Griffin’s apartment walls, covered with decades of mostly retro styles, spill over into City Market’s Art Wall this month.
"Alexander Lee spent four years and three months traveling and teaching in China. He is currently a student teacher of social studies at Mount Mansfield Union High School. He went to Middlebury College and Vermont Law School, but lived in New Hampshire for nine years after graduating from law school and before setting out for the Middle Kingdom. 
October is Co-op Month and City Market is using the Member Art Wall to celebrate its past as we get ready to begin a new future! Throughout the month of October, check out the Art Wall to see pictures of City Market in all of its varying stages from 1973 to 2015 and view some of our plans for our new store in the South End. If we don’t remember where we’ve been, how will we know where we’re going?
“Plants and animals have been my longstanding favorite subjects. I take pleasure in trying to get my drawings “just right” through close observation and careful line work. The process of creating my drawings are less so a means of expression, but rather an avocation for producing something aesthetically appealing.
“I tend to favor and infuse cheerful colors throughout my cartoons. I prefer my characters to have a light and airy feel to them, almost as if they can be peeled off of the page, like pieces from a Colorforms set. Many might appear to be dancing around, unaffected by the laws of gravity. I like the dichotomy between a bewildered, muddled mind and a mischievous, haughty look. This adds a separate element to the picture and makes it seem multi-dimensional. It also lends itself to various forms of interpretation rather than that which is most obvious visually to one’s eye.