Celebrating the Fleming as a Gateway to the Arts THE ARTS | This fall, the Fleming Museum marks joining UVM’s new School of the Arts with the first-ever group exhibition featuring the work of faculty members from the school’s studio art program. Bridging the artist’s studio and the museum space, PRAXIS: Recent Work by Studio Art Faculty at UVM provides a unique opportunity for members of the university and local and regional communities to discover and explore the creative work of UVM’s current teaching artists. The exhibition brings together an array of artworks, in different media, created by 15 established and emerging artists. Each artist’s work has a distinct presence in the exhibition while, at the
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same time, generating meaningful relationships with other works shown in the galleries. The works in this exhibition invite exploration of praxis as an approach to art making and more. “Praxis” is a term for a reflective process of thinking and making through which artists can nurture transformative change in their work, in the world and the self, and in their students’ lives. The exhibition opens thinking about how the acts of making art and teaching can shape each other and what it means, right now, to be a teaching artist at UVM. Across the Marble Court from PRAXIS, a new exhibition explores how art objects can illuminate the many ways in which place matters to the human experience. Art can give visual form and material expression to human connection to place. So too, art can reveal different ways that humans have and continue to imbue places with meaning. CODY SILFIES
