Vintage Inspired Antiques & Collectibles

Vintage Inspired classes have become a huge success and we’re proud to be regularly updating our offerings. Please check this page frequently as new classes are announced often.

Looking to add some color to your life? Learn how to paint a simple still life with experienced watercolor artists, Nini Crane and Deb Runge. Beginners are welcome; All materials provided.

Cost: $25/Class (1.5 hrs)

When: Wednesday, May 16th, 6:30pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

“Make Your Own Journals” instructed by Susan Luce. This fun and easy class is a lesson on using old ephemera to make amazing journals for writing and sharing. We’ll provide all supplies and images or bring your own.

Cost: $20/Class (1.5 hrs)

When: Sunday, May 20th, 4pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

Looking to kick off your summer with some extra spending money? Consider vending at the first of our upcoming Vintage Inspired Open Air Markets! Conveniently located in the South End Arts and Business District, our Open Markets bring the visibility and traffic needed to ensure your success. Our first market will be held Sunday, May 20th from 10am to 3pm. A 10′ x 10′ space is only $25 (bring your own tables), so don’t miss out on this golden opportunity! For more info, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net

The weather is warming up, and so are activities and events here at Vintage Inspired! New items are arriving daily along with popular new classes, new vending opportunities, and much more. Stop by and see what all the buzz is about!

Located only minutes away from Saratoga Springs, the Hudson River, and numerous important historical sites, the Washington County Antique Fair is a perfect Spring treat for collectors and dealers alike. Stop by and see Vintage Inspired’s owner and expert picker, Mary Aloi – or tell a friend in the area. This event only happens twice a year, so don’t miss out! For more info on the Washington County Antique Fair, please click here…

Attracting thousands of visitors each year, the Brimfield Antique Show is a New England Tradition. Featuring numerous venues throughout the town of Brimfield, this show promises a wide range of outstanding items and unusual curiosities. Look for Vintage Inspired among the high quality dealers at Hertan’s. For more info on the Brimfield Antique Show, please click here…

Vintage Inspired is thrilled to announce we’re once again offering appraisals by renowned local antiques authority, Kyle Scanlon. Please join us Sunday, April 22nd between noon and 4pm and find out what your vintage treasure is worth. To make the event even more exciting, film crews will be present filming for a new local “Antique-oriented” television show. More details below…

Kyle Scanlon is the co-owner of K.C. Scanlon: Estate Sales and Services. He is the third generation of his family to be actively involved in the antique and estate business. His grandparents, Nathan and Margaret Merrill, founded the Vermont Antique dealers Association. From an early age, Kyle worked with his mother in her antique shop and on the show circuit.

After college, Kyle began working as a fine arts appraiser and the gallery manager at Duane Merrill & Company, Auctioneers and Appraisers. During his 10-plus years there the company set several world records at auction, and Kyle’s appraisal customers included prominent New England institutions like the Shelburne Museum.

In 2005 Kyle was offered the executive editor position at Elk Publishing, where he would oversee the editorial content of three magazines. In 2009 Kyle, and his wife, Amie founded K.C. Scanlon: Estate Sales and Services on a part-time basis. Buisiness quickly grew, and in March of 2011 they made it their full-time occupation. Last year they conducted over 25 tag and estate sales across Vermont.

“Make Your Own Journals” instructed by Susan Luce. This fun and easy class is a lesson on using old ephemera to make amazing journals for writing and sharing. We’ll provide all supplies and images or bring your own.

Cost: $15/Class (1.5 to 2 hrs)

When: Wednesday, April 25th, 4pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

When? Saturday, March 31 8am to 2pm

Where? Woodbury, VT (Interstate 89 to Montpelier, Route 2 to Route 14)

More info? For more information, please email mary[at]vintageinspired[dot]net.

In this engaging and informative lecture, Vintage Inspired Marketplace vendor Tom Jiamachello discusses the extraordinary work of Vermont potter David Gil and his celebrated studio, Bennington Potters.

Prior to changing the name to Bennington Potters around 1960, David Gil’s company was known as Cooperative Design. There, he and other Alfred University trained graduates fashioned all sorts of interesting Mid-Century items. Having trained at Alfred University, Gil came to Bennington in 1948. His designs are included in many Mid-Century exhibits and catalogues.

His early designs have not yet been completely documented, so rarities are still out there to be found. There is a large group of people who are interested in David Gil’s designs. (For more information, please click here.)

David Gil was featured in the publication Vermont Life in its Winter 1961 issue. In an eight page spread with one full color image and 13 black and white images, there is a full history of the founding of the pottery along with great visual references of the ware being made at that time. One can see the iconic designs of Yusuke Aida, especially the double trigger mug and coffeepot along with other fascinating items. A great reference!

Bennington Potters is among the few American studio potteries that turned into production potteries in the midcentury. It evolved into a co-operative of different art potters. After 1960, they made their bread and butter by making gorgeous modern styled dinnerware that was distributed throughout the US and sold in fine department stores. In their 1964 catalogue, Gil described their creations as “Art Objects in the Practical Realm” – Museum Honored, Hand-Crafted, Modestly Priced”

Tom will present many hard-to-find designs he’s collected in the last ten years. Come see the whimsy and brilliance of the late David Gil (1923? -2002)

Cost: Free!

When: Wed Apr 18th 6:30pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email mary[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

“Sara Katz”
April through May, 2012

Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace on Flynn Avenue in Burlington is pleased to announce an exhibition in April and May of work from Vermont artist Sara Katz, who creates abstract and industrial landscapes in oil. The exhibition opens with a reception on First Friday, April 6th from 5-8pm, and runs through May.

Vermont painter Sara Katz’ landscapes are often inspired by a sense of the landscape passing by as the viewer travels, resulting in images of roads, bridges and the streaking scenes on the edges of highways. As she says in her artist statement, “these subjects let me paint in a style that I enjoy the most–loose and active. I try to achieve a paint quality that suggests a fleeting memory, and use bold colors to turn the desolate or banal into a pleasantly nostalgic moment.” The paintings in this exhibition will feature primarily small works of abstract and industrial landscapes.

Sara received a degree in Fine Art from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. She is currently the Assistant Director at Burlington City Arts. Her work has been exhibited all over the Burlington area, including The BCA Center, The Maltex Building, The Burlington International Airport and more. Sara will be a featured artist at the Edgewater Gallery in Middlebury, Vermont in July of 2012. Sara grew up in Cabot, Vermont on a vegetable farm/greenhouse and nursery. “Growing things is closely connected to the simplest skills in making art: it requires observation, a connection to color and texture, and a willingness to experiment with materials until the desired results are achieved,” says Katz. More information about the artist can be found at www.saraskatz.com

Vintage Inspired is pleased to announce we’re offering “Make Your Own Greeting Cards” instructed by Susan Luce. This fun and easy class is a lesson on using old ephemera to make an assortment of greeting cards to give and share. We’ll provide all supplies and images or bring your own.

Cost: $15/Class (1.5 to 2 hrs)

When: Sunday, April 1st, 4pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

Vintage Inspired is pleased to announce we’re offering “Make Your Own Journals” instructed by Susan Luce. This fun and easy class is a lesson on using old ephemera to make amazing journals for writing and sharing. We’ll provide all supplies and images or bring your own.

Cost: $15/Class (1.5 to 2 hrs)

When: Sunday, April 15th, 4pm

Registration: To sign up for this class, please email info[at]vintageinspired[dot]net for more info.

“Jordan Douglas and Axel Stohlberg”
March 2-31, 2012

Vintage Inspired Lifestyle Marketplace on Flynn Avenue in Burlington is pleased to announce an exhibition in March of work from Vermont artists Jordan Douglas, who creates re-imagined archive photos and Axel Stohlberg who creates assemblage art from found objects. The exhibition opens with a reception on First Friday, March 2nd from 5-8pm, and runs through March, and also features vintage brooches and Art Deco-style crystal jewelry from Linda Douglas.

Jordan Douglas Vermont photographer Jordan Douglas’ work, entitled (Re)memberings, re-imagines historical archive photos, hand tinted in sepia. In reprinting these portraits, it is hopeful that the subjects who have long ago passed may be awakened and remembered; that the dance that they accepted with the future may take another turn; and that the flickering fragilities of these antique documents may speak to our present day humanity. Jordan Douglas teaches black-and-white darkroom photography at Saint Michaels and Champlain Colleges, as well as Burlington City Arts. Jordan uses both low tech and high optics cameras in creating his images—which encompass a broad spectrum of subject matter and styles. Recent exhibitions have included 2 shows at Burlington’s Gallery 215 College—one that examined found debris with large scale silver gelatin lith prints (December, 2008) and another of triptychs of unintended connections from contiguous strips of negatives (April, 2009). An example of Jordan’s lith photography was published in Tim Rudman’s compendium, The World of Lith Printing (Aurum Press, 2006). Jordan lives in Jericho, Vermont.

Axel Stohlberg Axel Stohlberg’s assemblage art, Little Stories is art made from found objects, “put together into little stories – sometimes with a little humor or politics or just thinking out loud,” says Stohlberg in a recent artist statement. Stohlberg from Middlesex, VT, a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design, works in a variety of media – paintings, charcoal drawings, sculptures and assemblages. Recent showings of his work as included The South End Art Hop, group exhibitions from BCA’s Art Sales and Leasing program at the Maltex Building on Pine Street in Burlington and at The T.W. Wood Gallery at The Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier.