Winter Spotlight Six 2024

  ^{Based in North Bridgton, ME}

Posey aka Pamela, is a Maine environmental artist. Her multi-disciplinary, large-scale installations are built from salvaged materials, including commercial nets and ropes (“ghost gear”). Interactive, playful and thought-provoking, Posey's immersive spaces may be crawled through and occupied, engaging the public directly. Her work targets climate issues including rising sea levels, sinking lighthouses  and endangered eelgrass meadows.

^{Based in Montpelier, VT}

Shidaa Project Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization that conducts workshops in schools and communities throughout Vermont and New England. They use West African cultural activities (drum & dance, fabric printing, tie & dye, cooking, drum making, and beading) to promote cultural & social diversity, and to educate school children of all ages. The outreach programs they conduct in community spaces have become an effective way of promoting diversity, celebrating community, and fostering inclusivity.

  ^{Based in Hamden, CT}

Isabella Mendes is a singer-songwriter, pianist, composer and educator whose work is rooted in Brazilian jazz and bossa nova. She is also the founder and leader of The Bossa Nova Project - a group of rotating musicians that she performs with regularly throughout CT – as well as the founder of IMMusic, a private music studio where she teaches private voice and piano lessons to children and adults as well as develops workshops that she has brought to schools and other community organizations.