Catamount Arts is pleased to announce an Open Studio hosted by 560 Railroad Community Artist Rebecca Jacoby, on November 19th, from 4-6pm.

With support from the Vermont Community Foundation’s Northeast Kingdom Fund, Jacoby has hosted a series of community arts events this fall during her residency at 560 Railroad Street, St. Johnsbury’s new work/live studio space for visiting artists. Jacoby will open her studio at 560 Railroad on November 19th to share her own mixed media work as well as photos and samples of work created with community members in her Abstract Art Processes class and for this year’s First Night North public art project.

To create the First Night North public art project, Jacoby worked with members of St. Johnsbury School’s Community Arts Club as part of the CatCH afterschool program. Work created with St. Johnsbury School Arts Club students will be displayed on Main Street during First Night North festivities.

Rebecca Jacoby is a visual artist working in mixed media on paper and canvas. Her work is based on the natural world of woods, rocks, stones, and plant life and the crumbling buildings and sidewalks of the city. Through abstract processes and the use of color, texture, and collage elements she incorporates into each piece, Jacoby creates colorful, tactile worlds that evoke movement and geographic dreamscapes and celebrate process and materials. Jacoby received an MFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in Philadelphia.

The 560 Railroad Community Artist program was created by Catamount Arts in partnership with the Vermont Studio Center. The program brings visual and literary artists to the new live/work studio space at 560 Railroad Street, in St. Johnsbury, renovated by the Northern Forest Center. Artists spend 4-6 weeks in residency at 560 Railroad, working on their own creative practices while leading a variety of community engagement activities including classes and workshops, discussions and artist talks, open studios, public art projects, performances, and more.

For the full roster of 560 Railroad Community Artists and to learn more about their community engagement programs, visit www.catamountarts.org.