PUTNEY — Next Stage Arts Project presents a visual and verbal collaboration with acclaimed portrait artist Kate Gridley and two local schools on Wednesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m.
This event features a presentation by Kate Gridley about her exhibit of portraits of emerging adults: “Passing Through: Portraits of Emerging Adults.”
The installation of most of her 17 life-size oil portraits, with accompanying sound from the portrait subjects, has been traveling throughout New England and is on display at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center from November through mid-January 2015.
Gridley will discuss her work and present slides. Six high school students from Leland & Gray High School and the Compass School will offer a spoken-word performance reflecting their own emerging voices based on their work with author Elayne Clift.
Gridley is known for her insights into human character, the quality of light in her work, and her painting technique. She maintains a studio in Middlebury, where she has lived and painted full-time since 1991.
Awarded a Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship from Williams College in 1978, she pursued her studies in New York City before moving to Florence, Italy for a year-and-a-half of study of Renaissance painting techniques at the atelier of Ben Long, former student of Pietro Annigoni.