In Conversation: Sharon Chandler Correnty and Barbara Sullivan

SPEEDWELL projects

Join Sharon Chandler Correnty and Barbara Sullivan as they discuss their process, work, and inspirations.

Speedwell Projects

Sharon and Barbara will be giving a talk to a limited audience (due to COVID safety). The talk will be conversational and audience participation is welcomed.THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT. We are currently keeping a capacity limit of 20 people. Visitors must be masked at all times. Please do not visit the gallery if you are feeling ill. Thank you for your cooperation. About Sharon Chandler CorrentySharon Chandler Correnty is an art educator based in Massachusetts. Her passion for teaching since 1979 is based on her endless energy cultivating her knowledge of all art genres. She is continuously embracing every technique and every medium to provide a well rounded creative arts program.Over the past three years she has revisited her love of textiles. On an impulse she signed up for a Gathering of Stitches organized and hosted by Samantha Hoyt Lindgren and since then she has not stopped. The action of taking cloth and immersing it in a marigold plant bath and then the process of cutting and machine stitching and best of all putting a slow sashiko stitch as a way to connect and develop a mindful Practice has kept her centered during these turbulent times. Her husband carefully curated and planted a dye garden and her love of natural fibers has influenced her own wardrobe. It has been so gratifying to drape on her own body and be a witness to what she calls sizeless and gender fluid clothing. She allows the fabric to guide her and her philosophy is that beautiful cloth should be worn. Even if you think you cut wrong or you have made a mistake, it is the problem solving and the results that makes that garment more interesting.About Barbara SullivanBarbara Sullivan is a painter/sculptor and installation artist living in Maine. She works in the age–old medium of fresco, which she learned when she was the head cook at The Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. She teaches drawing foundations at The University of Maine Farmington. She also teaches fresco workshops; including, The Aspen Institute, The Farnsworth Museum, Haystack Mountain School, Pratt Institute, Bowdoin, Colby, and The University of Maine.ABOUT SPEEDWELL PROJECTSSPEEDWELL is an artist-run, nonprofit gallery that promotes the creative work of women who have demonstrated a lifelong commitment to their artistic practice; we support women of all races, ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, classes, and abilities through exhibitions, residencies, publications, and documentaries.

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