Tyler Morrison is a NH-based ceramicist and educator. His focus is on functional work, emphasizing simplicity, sustainability, and self-reliance.

Derek Bell is a VT-based painter. He received his BFA in Painting in 2008 from Rhode Island School of Design and spent three of his years there as a Teaching Assistant. As a painter, Derek prefers landscape, portraiture and animals, as well as an occasional still life. Since graduating from RISD, Derek works primarily in oils, watercolor, gouache and more recently egg tempera. The artist grew up on a horse farm in Vermont, and from an early age learned to paint and draw in a way he describes as “an almost monastic training in art.”

Join us in an artist discussion, demo, and exhibition tour of "Teetering Between" currently on view at Catamount Arts (St. Johnsbury, VT) curated by AVA's exhibition manager Sam Eckart. The exhibition features works by Melody Boone, Harrison Halaska, Linda Bryan. 

Emmett Donlon is is a NH-based painter. Donlon creates evocative portraits, depictions of historical scenes and references to contemporary culture in oil paint and installation sculpture. His work mostly explores the intersections between personal and shared histories, gathering references from pop culture, historical archives, and personal collections.