
Artist Gwendolyn Evans leans over an art table to adjust a sculpted creature-in-progress made of cardboard, foil and duct tape while co-teacher Melinda White Bronson works nearby.

VSA Vermont Can Do Arts instructor, Neth Nosek, kneels to model the beat for two members of a Can Do Arts drumming class, one of whom sits engrossed with a large African style shaker drum on his lap while the other looks on.

Two boys in VSA Vermont’s high school writing program at Spaulding High School in Barre, look up from their pencils and papers, smiling at poet Charles Barasch who is out of range of the camera.

VSA Vermont instructor, Ara Cardew, sits smiling with a bag of clay to the left of a group of veterans who have paused over their clay building at a Can Do Arts class at the White River Junction Veterans Affairs Medical Center.