Jon Gregg

Staff

Jon Gregg

Founder / President

Jon received a BFA ( '67 ) and an Masters of Architecure with honors ( '71 ) from the University of Pennsylvania , where he studied with Louis Kahn. From 1971 - 1983 he practiced architecture and ran a Design /Build firm in Johnson. After the loss of his sister and brother, Jon along with Louise von Weise and Fred Osborne founded the Vermont Studio Center in 1984.
A painter, Jon has shown at 55 Mercer Gallery. New York, NY. in 1994, ’96, ’98, ‘00, '02, '04, '06 and these shows have been reviewed in Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Abstract Art On Line.
He has won awards from the Vermont Arts Council, and the Preservation Trust of Vermont. A practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1971, in 2006 he biked across the country to celebrate his 60th birthday.

GREGORY AMENOFF

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2008

Gregory Amenoff (b. 1948) is a painter who lives in New York and New Mexico. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and Tiffany Foundation. His work is in the permanent collections of more than thirty museums, including the Whitney Museum of America Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He served as President of the National Academy of Design from 2001-2005. He serves on the Board of Directors of the CUE Art Foundation and as the Foundation Curator Governor. Amenoff has taught at Columbia for the last fifteen years, where he holds the Eve and Herman Gelman Chair of Visual Arts.

LEONARDO DREW

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist

(b. 1969), BFA Cooper Union in 1985. Drew has shown in institutions such as the Hirschhorn, the Smithsonian, the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Art Institute of Chicago, Miami Art Museum, and St. Louis Art Museum. He has also collaborated with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has participated in artist residencies at ArtPace, San Antonio, The Studio Museum of Harlem, and the Vermont Studio Center, in the spring of 1990. He divides his time between New York and Texas.