Patrick Marold The Windmill Project is composed of 1,000 light-generating windmills. This vast installation maps the behavior of wind and visualizes its invisible potential. From August 12 through November 16, gusts of wind will create spectacular displays of bright pulsing waves of light along Vermont’s Interstate 89. Hosted by South Burlington’s Technology Park.

Patrick Marold is a Colorado-based artist who attended Rhode Island School of Design.

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H. Keith Wagner, Alex Carver & Christopher North Microhouse explores issues of radical self-sufficiency, low impact mortgage-free lifestyles, and challenges our culture’s emphasis upon trophy housing. An efficient, easily expandable 12’x12’ modular-design, this home was constructed for $4000 in materials. The completed home will be on display in City Hall Park throughout the exhibition.

H. Keith Wagner is a landscape architect and metal artist; Alex Carver and Chris North are home builders. All are living and working in Vermont.

Ethan Bond-Watts Solaneme, at 12 feet wide and eight feet high, will dominate the front gallery. With a vortex of 50 hand-blown glass elements, Bond-Watts’s wind-powered kinetic sculpture explores the spectacle of the natural forces of sun and wind and their remarkable potential as a source of energy.

Ethan Bond-Watts is Burlington-based glassblower and 2009 graduate of UVM’s environmental studies program. He has studied in Seattle and Venice and recently completed a major sculpture commission for UVM’s Davis Student Center.

John Anderson Mirror Cube Landscape: photo-collages, architectural models, and maps, document Anderson’s proposal to place a 10 foot square mirrored cube in the geographic center of each Vermont town. Reflecting their immediate environment, they serve as a reminder of the potential effects of energy policy on the natural and built topography.

John Anderson is an architect and artist living in Ferrisburgh, Vermont and teaches at Norwich University.

Theo Jansen Strandbeests are immense wind-powered kinetic sculptures created from simple manufactured materials - PVC electrical conduit, cable ties, and adhesive tape - and are deceptively lifelike in appearance and motion. Designed to move and even survive on their own, “feeding on wind and fleeing from water,” Jansen refers to them as a new form of life.

Theo Jansen is a visual artist living in Holland, and studied science at the University of Delft.

H. Keith Wagner Lineage: over 20 feet long, this sculpture creates a physical timeline of the history of Vermont’s changing landscape. An iron I-beam filled with rock, asphalt, soil, and living grass, documents the evolving uses and transformations that our natural environment has been subjected to over the 400 years of European settlement.

H. Keith Wagner is a landscape architect and metal artist living in Vermont and has received awards for landscape design from the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, and the Vermont Planning Association.

Rebecca Schwarz Inner View playfully explores our habits of consumption. This work fuses solar technology and organic forms, which respond directly to fluctuating intensity of solar energy. Solar cells, hand woven wire and color shifting L.E.D.s are combined to reference pervasive repeated patterns in nature.

Rebecca Schwarz received her BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from Goddard College.

R. Elliott Katz Valvoline Portraits: dozens of plaster-cast motor oil containers housing sculpture relief portraits evoke the emotional and politically charged landscape of petroleum production. Katz probes the subtle interconnections between a developed world and its dependence on limited energy resources.

R.Elliott Katz is a Vermont sculptor, attended Colby College Maine, is manager of the Seven Below Artist In Residence Initiative, and recently exhibited at Mass MoCA in Massachusetts.

Tom Hansell Sun Buggy is an all-terrain solar-powered video display, which presents films about electricity production and the lives of workers in the Appalachian coalfields of the artist’s native North Carolina.

Tom Hansell is a filmmaker and MFA student at Goddard College in Vermont. His documentary Coal Bucket Outlaw was broadcast on PBS stations nation-wide and is in the MOMA’s documentary fortnight series.

Nancy Dwyer & Caroline Byrne SU01.13600R combines recycled Styrofoam packing materials with quilting and upholstering techniques to re-imagine the interior landscape of the future. Vermont artists Dwyer and Byrne envision a petroleum-parched world where humble packing materials have become precious and are lovingly re-crafted as furniture.

Nancy Dwyer teaches sculpture at the University of Vermont and Caroline Byrne is a textile artist in Winooski, Vermont.

Megan Bisbee-Durlam A Landscape of Enough is a whimsical re-creation of Vermont’s environment in miniature, using found and recycled materials: paper, toothpicks, and play-dough. Bisbee-Durlam’s vibrant and obsessively detailed work explores concepts of our culture of consumption: “true abundance,” and when “too much becomes enough” in Vermont’s evolving landscape.

Megan Bisbee-Durlam grew up in Vermont. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Alfred University in 2005, and currently lives in Japan.

Jean-Pierre Roy Landmarks: these four large-scale paintings conjure images of a world devastated by an unspecified natural disaster. Roy is a former film industry matte artist. His apocalyptic dystopias reinterpret the classical meaning of “the sublime” as a terrifying spectacle in the face of God’s wrath with a post-Hollywood sensibility.

Jean-Pierre Roy lives in New York City and teaches at Parsons.

Christopher Mir Second Sight combines three dream-like paintings of worlds populated with mythic figures, within idealized landscapes. Mir creates unsettling juxtapositions between the primal and the futuristic, suggesting an end of civilization and resurgent natural world populated by wanderers and outcasts struggling for survival.

Christopher Mir attended Marlboro College in Vermont and currently lives and works in Hamden, Connecticut.

Arthur Chukhman Amenity Infrastructure envisions the effect of alternative energy generation on the urban landscape, instead of limiting it to rural locations. This project proposes a windwall composed of numerous small turbines for Burlington’s Waterfront Park. Chukhman, Kelly DesRoches, and Wayne Nelson consider the aesthetics of integration with this recreational area, and the conservation possibilities of existing city infrastructure.

Arthur Chukhman and Kelly DesRoches are architects at SAS Architects in Burlington, Vermont, and Wayne Nelson is a mechanical engineer in Winooski, Vermont.

Guy Roberts Anaerobic Digester is a 60-foot long and six-foot wide tool for converting cow manure from small dairy farms into electricity. Producing enough surplus power for dozens of homes, it controls odors and produces high-quality fertilizer while trapping harmful naturally occurring greenhouse gases. Inventor Guy Roberts hopes to see a manure digester on every manure-producing farm in Vermont and beyond.


Guy Roberts, Ph.D., is Chief Science Officer of South Burlington-based Avatar Systems and operates a functioning demonstration Anaerobic Digester in Shelburne, Vermont.

Cameron Davis Dear World Project: on October 24th, with the bells of UVM’s Ira Allen Chapel, and the Firehouse’s bell towers chiming in unison 350 times, a host will march from the UVM campus to City Hall Park, handing out artwork with information about 350.org’s efforts to advocate for a fair global climate treaty.

Cameron Davis teaches at the University of Vermont in both the Art and Environmental programs.
 

Jed Crystal The Personal Energy Porter illustrates one possible futuristic turn; when electricity becomes the paramount attention of our daily lives. This device is worn on the body, much like a yoke, and integrates the functions of physically carrying and protecting our personal energy stores, and the aesthetics of an active, 20-something individual of the not-too-distant future.

Jed Crystal is a Burlington-based industrial designer, a UVM graduate with a Master of Industrial Design degree from Pratt Institute, and is principle of Hepper™ which makes modern pet furniture.

Andrea Polli Queensbridge Wind Power presents an artist’s vision of a future when meeting energy production needs can actually enhance the beauty of a city. In this computer-generated video, Polli investigates how clean, renewable wind power might be integrated into the landmark architecture of the Queensboro Bridge, and the role of alternative energy in an urban setting. (video)

Andrea Polli is a digital media artist living in New Mexico. Her work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society. She teaches at the University of a New Mexico.

Ted Montgomery Hale Hibiscus Project is a net zero energy dwelling inspired by yellow hibiscus, and an environmentally conscious housing design for tropical and sub-tropical climates. Operating solely on the renewable resources provided by the sun, wind and rain, and it requires no off-site power, fuel, or water sources.

Ted Montgomery is an architect, and founder of the Ten Stones intentional living community in Charlotte, Vermont.

Weskey Bascom and Brian Whitney Aiken Solarium: this design for a future solarium at the University of Vermont focuses on water and “ecoventions”-sculptures to showcase different eco-friendly components of the building. Exposing the roots of the plants on the green roof of the structure, Bascom and Whitney blur the line distinguishing where nature ends and the indoor space begins.

Wesley Bascom and Brian Whitney are students at the University of Vermont.

Alex S. Maclean Over, The American Landscape at the Tipping Point is visually breathtaking and sobering. MacLean’s aerial photography captures the evolution of the American landscape and the complex relationship between its natural and constructed environments. These images visualize our culture’s excessive use of resources and energy, including large-scale luxury housing developments, massive cooling lagoons of nuclear power plants and gasoline refineries in Texas.

Alex Maclean is a pilot and photographer, who has authored seven books of aerial photography. He has exhibited in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. MacLean lives in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Gary R. Hall Winooski River #7: Hall’s contemporary monochrome landscape photography examines our notions of pastoral beauty, capturing a preternatural image of the Vermont landscape. Combining classical composition with digital darkroom techniques, these strikingly luminescent ink-jet prints create an idealized nature verging on the uncanny.

Gary R. Hall is an architectural and fine art photographer based in South Burlington, Vermont.