MONTPELIER – Brattleboro artist and state legislator, Mollie S. Burke, has a solo exhibit “Realism and Magical Realism,” at the Vermont State House Cafeteria Gallery.
Burke’s paintings and drawings bring the viewer into a world filled with environments that present a sense of place and home, surrounded by nature. Burke’s imagery includes flowers, vines, water and trees.
On view through April 24, an artist’s reception will be held on Tuesday, April 21, from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Food and drink will be served.
Burke holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Goddard College. She has been active in the Brattleboro community as an artist and teacher of both art and figure skating for many years. She is the founder and director of Art in the Neighborhood, an organization that provides tuition-free art classes to children in low-income housing communities. She teaches in several Vermont schools with the Vermont Arts Council artist-in-residence program.
She is a Brattleboro Town Meeting representative and a member of the Brattleboro Coalition for Active Transportation. She was elected to the House in 2008 and has served since then on the Transportation Committee. She is chair of the House Sexual Harassment Prevention Panel and active in the Climate Solutions Caucus and the Women’s Caucus. She and her husband have three grown children and five grandchildren.
The exhibit is free and open to the public.
