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This January, Helen painted the prototype Ice Fishing Shanty for a project she and some artist friends want to promote in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The idea is to encourage ice fishing as a winter sport and have more tourists during the winter season, adding to the skiers and snowmobilers. We want to put local artists in touch with Ice Fishing Shanty owners, so they can have designs of their choosing on the shanties. Then we can have festivals on the ice promoting the artists and ice fishing. In the summer the shanties can be displayed in backyards, galleries and education and art centers throughout the Northeast Kingdom. The prototype was created by Helen for The Friends of The Nulhegan, based at the new Nulhegan Center in Brunswick, VT.
Helen was one of six artists who received an artist's grant from Vermont Womens Business Center in Montpelier, VT. The six month grant was used to develop promotional materials for her business. A celebration was held at the State building in Newport, VT on June 12th 2006. She and the other five artists displayed their works and the materials created through the grant.
Helen is one of the artists participating in the Palettes of Vermont project through the Vermont Arts Council. Her palette is on display at Vermont Mountain Arts Gallery, Seymour Lane, Newport, VT. It will also be at the Tamarack Gallery, East Craftsbury, Vt during their summer hours, weekends through July and August. She has also painted a Wildflower palette to represent one of the 9 gardens for Tranquil Gardens project in North Troy, where botanical gardens are being created. The Wildflower palette will be attached in a daisy design, as one of 9 petals to a wrought iron stalk to be displayed around Vermont with other palettes throughout this year, as part of the Palettes of Vermont project.
During July 2006, Helen's work was at the Wooden Horse Arts Guild Show at 47 Main Street, North Troy, Vermont and Seymour Lane Gallery for Vermont Mountain Arts TourFest in Newport, Vermont. Her work is also on display at the Tamarack Gallery in East Craftsbury during July and August 2006