EXHIBITIONS
2010

• “100 under 100” juried show / Bead & Fiber, Boston, MA
• “little critters” group show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA – curator

2009

• “100 under 100” juried show / Bead & Fiber, Boston, MA
• “Canvas Project II” Art House Co-op, Atlanta Airport, Atlanta, GA more info at: arthousecoop.com/users/vvansant
• “Alter Ego” group show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA

2008

• "Interpreting East Somerville" group show / Somerville City Hall, Somerville, MA
• “Turn on a Dime” group show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA

2007

• “Imagining Somerville: Discovering a City through Art” juried show
  The Somerville Museum, Somerville, MA
• “The Green Line” juried show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA
• “Arlington @ 200” group show / Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA

2006

• “Sacred Sense” juried show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA
• “One Person’s Trash: Art of the Recycled” group show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA
• Somerville Open Studios, Somerville Museum participants’ exhibition
• “erotik neurotik” juried show/ elise mankes studio, Marblehead, MA
• “RISE UP! - Art, Sounds and Shrines” / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA

2005

• “Collections or (how the things I collect end up in my art)” juried show
  elise mankes studio, Marblehead, MA
• Windows Art Project - 10th Year Celebration
  ”Pay it forward” Digital prints, Citizens Bank, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
• “Tufts 2nd Annual Summer Show” juried show / Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA
• “Art or Espionage? – Photography in the Age of Homeland Security” juried show
  NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA

2004

• “The Poster Show” City Hall, Somerville, MA
• Windows Art Project - play, ”Solitaire” outdoor installation, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
  “dice zoo” mixed media, Shermans, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
• “Somerville Struts” dance photography exhibit at SCAT, Somerville, MA
• “1-10” group show / NAVE Gallery, Somerville, MA

2003

• Windows Art Project - Spaces/Places, "Altered Space” outdoor installation, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
• “Code Orange - This is the face of democracy” group show / Zeitgeist, Cambridge, MA
• “Under the Influence” group show / Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
• “Inspired by Love” juried show / Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA

2002

• “BIG” group show / Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA
• Windows Art Project - Food for Thought, "Life-ka-bobs” outdoor installation, Davis Sq., Somerville, MA
• “Mask” Group Show - “blue room”- installation / Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

2001

• “Winter Wonderland - The Frosty World of Snow Domes”, group show / Gibbs Gallery,
  Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
• “Earth, Wind and Fire” juried show / Lynn Arts, Lynn, MA (juror's award)
• Spice of Life Festival, ”Neoga” outdoor installation, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
• Windows Art Project - Sign of the Times, "People fear…” outdoor installation, Davis Sq., Somerville, MA

2000

• “Winter Wonderland - The Frosty World of Snow Domes”, group show / Gibbs Gallery,
  Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
• Blue Cloud Gallery - work shown in retail gallery, Somerville, MA
• “Four on the Floor”, Group show at Spice of Life Festival, Union Sq., Somerville, MA
• “off the wall”, Brickbottom Gallery / Co-curator of group show with nothing on the walls
• Windows Art Project - Fish for Art, ”Go Fish!” outdoor installation, Davis Sq., Somerville, MA
• “Fatalistic” / installation in Amelia’s Kitchen, Somerville, MA
• Courtyard Garden / Special installation in Brickbottom lobby, Somerville, MA

1999

• “Artifact: Past, Present, Future”, juried show / Gibbs Gallery, Arlington Center for the Arts, Arlington, MA
• “Peace Revisited” / installation in Amelia’s Kitchen, Somerville, MA
• “Creating Eden - A Portrait of an American City through its Gardens”
  photographer for the Brickbottom Courtyard garden, installation in USTrust Bank

1998
Windows Art Project, ”Pennies from Heaven” Installation, Somerset Savings Bank, Somerville, MA

1997
“Twelve Inches Square” juried show / Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA

1996
“The things you remember, the things you keep.” solo show / Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

1994
“Storyboards” solo show / S.C.A.T., Somerville, MA

1990
Group Show / New Hampshire Artists’ Guild, Laconia, NH

1988

• Community Producer for BNN, Boston Cable Access Television,
  “Scenes from the Bedrock Cafe”
• Member Of Harborgroup
  Performance Art group, involved in production of “Rescue: The Choreography of Ladders”
• Artibles Inc. - work shown in studio gallery, Boston, MA
• Inside - work shown in furniture showroom, Boston, MA
• “Assemblages a trois” group show / Gallery Henri IV, Cambridge, MA

1987
“Narrative Fantasy” group show / Cambridge Art Association

1986-87
“It Seems Like Tomorrow” group show / Gallery Henri IV, Cambridge, MA

1986
“Absence of Colour” group show / Gallery Henri IV, Cambridge, MA

1985
Fall Salon, Cambridge Art Association

1984

• Co-Chairperson for “Representations” juried show / Cambridge Art Association
• “And Then My Mind Went…” group show / The Basement Gallery, Boston MA
• “Commentary” juried show / Cambridge Art Association

1983

• Group Show, Boston Visual Artist’s Union, Boston, MA
• Solo Show, Belknap Mill, Laconia, NH
• Member of B.V.A.U.

1982

• Solo Show, Black Forest Cafe, Cambridge, MA
• Solo Show, Belknap Mill, Laconia, NH

1981
Solo Show, Canal Street Loafers, Laconia, NH

1980
Group Show, Belknap Mill, Laconia, NH

ANNUAL EVENTS
1998-02 • “The Painted Egg” / Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA (April)
1994-01 • People’s Art Show / Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA (June)
1993-02, 04-07• Brickbottom Open Studios, Somerville, MA (November)
1998-05 • Paper Prayers / Brickbottom Artists Building, Somerville, MA (December)
2004-08 • December Salon / Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA (December)

AWARDS
2001 • “Earth, Wind and Fire” - Jurors’ Award
1999 • Somerville Arts Council Fellowship Grant
1999 • “Creating Eden - A Portrait of an American City through its Gardens” - Garden Photographer

COLLECTIONS
1998 • “Little Bits of Heaven” - Hale and Dorr, Boston, MA

AFFILIATIONS
Brickbottom Artists Association - member 1993-2007
ARTSomerville - board member, Treasurer (2005-09)
SSPSomerville - board member (current)

EDUCATION
B.F.A. Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., College of Visual and Performing Arts
MAJOR: Experimental Studios - Metalsmithing