Member Artists
Are you an artist and a City Market Member? We'd love to feature your art on one of our Member Artist Walls! 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 and submit to Membership@citymarket.coop.
For Megan, art is activism. Her primary passion is animal welfare, and she believes that the core misperception underlying maltreatment of animals (especially in factory farming, animal testing, and the use of live animals in medical training) is a lack of awareness of their sentience, individuality, and emotional lives. Megan strives to capture those qualities in her animal portraiture—to convey the intelligence, personality and emotion of each animal. The families that commission these portraits do so to honor the beautiful individuality of the animals they came to loved.
Hailing from the small town of Derby in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont comes artist Chime ZerØ. Art has always been a passion of Chime ZerØ. Ever since he was old enough to hold a pencil, Chime ZerØ was drawing and painting. He refined his artistic skills throughout his schooling; always doodling in his notebooks. It was in college, where he studied Art History, that Chime ZerØ was influenced and birthed his style.
"Reminding Spring", my new show, is a mixture of nature-inspired original acrylic and watercolor paintings. I graduated from Massachusetts College of Art in 1988, with a Bachelors of Fine Arts Degree.
Edward was a commercial photographer in Boston, MA; Providence, RI; and Woodstock, VT from 1963 -1973. He worked for Cushing Studio, Lenscraft Studio, The Boston Globe, and The Providence Journal. Being from art school, Edward was hired to make feature photos for the front page of the newspapers, specifically, not to be hard news. The photographs in his display represent painting with a digital camera from the modern era. Since the 1960’s he's been a dairy farmer, house builder, vineyard owner, and refrigeration engineer.
My art is derived from pieces of the natural world, and from figments of my own imagination. I allow these flow into our physical world though pencil, ink, prints, carvings, and things that I find in our Northern Forests. I have been mentored by family members, teachers, friends and the wilderness in the art of creativity and curiosity since I can remember and I thank them all for the ability that they have helped me develop. My inspirations are my grandad, my high school art teachers, James Guarino, and Zoë Myers. I hope you enjoy.
This installation features artwork made at UVM Medical Center by patients, families, caregivers and volunteers. Art from the Heart is a volunteer program of Burlington City Arts and UVM Medical Center designed to help patients, families, caregivers and staff transform their care and feel better through art. Volunteers visit the hospital every day of the year to nurture exploration, imagination and expression through the arts. This program is run through Burlington City Arts and coordinated by Rebecca Schwarz.
I am a self-taught artist and started when I was young. I was brought up in Jeffersonville VT, went to 1yr at Johnson State College, and then enlisted in the Army. I worked in Recruiting Support where I learned how to silkscreen, mount and retouch photos. They sent me to Kodak to learn to retouch negatives. I earned a BA in Psychology at Johnson when I returned to VT. My artwork has ranged from drawing and painting different subject matter, carving wood then painting it, painting mushrooms, and making three dimensional art. Creating images from leaves/flowers and painting photos are my latest art endeavors.
Michelle Sayles is a Burlington-based artist, teacher, and community organizer, whose work aims to shine a light on environmental and social injustice. She has created works of graphic journalism, large-scale comic art, community murals, political cartoons, and posters to inspire critical awareness of the world we live in. Sayles was selected as a finalist in the 2015 Segunda Llamada International Poster Competition and continues to work in solidarity with local and global movements for human rights.
October is Co-op Month and City Market is using the Member Art Wall to celebrate this year’s Co-op Month theme in a big way – Co-operatives Build! Since we’re growing in the South End, we gave you a chance at our 14th Annual Food Fest and online to share what you’re most excited about with our new South End store. Our co-op is building and growing in a big way – thanks for sharing in the excitement!