International applicants are eligible to receive travel stipends through the "UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme." Emerging artists (25-35 years of age) who apply from outside the United States and Europe are eligible. In 2009, preference will be given to the top applicants from Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.
Sculpture Resident, 2002 & 2004
The Studio Center and VSC Alumnus Narumi Tsuneo ('02 and '04) are featured in Aomori No Jyutaku design magazine. Tsuneo attended the Kuwazawa Design Laboratory. Mr. Tsuneo has been to VSC twice and to The Carving Studio in West Rutland, VT. His exhibitions include Iwate Insternational Stone Sculpture Symposium, Aomori Citizen Museum, INAX Gallery, and Kurasiki City. Among his public collections are Kurashiki Natural History Museum, Carving Studio of Vermont, Johnson College - Vermont, and numerous civic commissions in Japan. He lives in the Aomori region of Japan.
Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2009
Mary Hambleton's solo exhibitions include Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, in NYC (where she is represented), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NYC, and Knoedler Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions are numerous: The National Academy of Design, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Painting Center, Robert Gilson Fine Arts, Robert Steele Gallery, and Max Protech. Articles and reviews of Hambleton’s paintings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Chicago Tribune.