Welcome to the studio community! This is an uninstructed time for teens to take over the studio, with teaching artists present to offer suggestions and support. Explore abundant art materials with time and space to develop your ideas, with the option to participate in upcoming exhibitions. Get to know a medium for the first time, or do more with something you already love. Try paint, fiber, drawing, screen printing…and new in the 2025-2026 school year: clay!

INTEREST IN TEEN OPEN STUDIO THURSDAYS? EMAIL ERIN KAUFMAN HERE. 

Rhonda Ratray received her BFA from Alfred University School of Art and Design and her MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. Finding inspiration in printmaking, painting, sculpture, and design, she has taught art for more than a decade and exhibited her work in many universities and galleries. She has been the Artist in Residence/Community Engagement Organizer at the Left Bank in North Bennington since 2017 and curates The Left Bank Maurice Kahn Gallery. www.ratray.com.

Mo Molinelli is SVAC’s Education Coordinator. She is in her element guiding young people toward creative self discovery. Mo adores her two teenage daughters, two cats and two dogs at her farm in Winhall. She writes, records and performs original music with her partner Bay Campbell as the entity Luminous Crush.