The School of Architecture + Art kicked off the semester with an All-School Charette reimagining Burlington's Flynn Center with 4 different projects. Below are the 4 projects and the winning teams.
Project 1: The Public Edge: First Impressions and the Magic Within
The Flynn Center is more than just a auditorium and a schedule of events. Its mission is to create a locus for the arts. For many people the crafting of art and theater is as interesting as the final performance. Students re-thought the intersection of the Flynn Campus and its most public exposure through the facades along Main Street.
Best in Theme Award: Team Louis Kahn/Yo-Yo Ma
- Jennifer Bauser
- A.J. Bavaro
- Douglas Nelson
- Caleb Burlington
- Will Connolly
- Tom Hajosch
Most Visionary Award: Team Le Corbusier/Josephine Baker
- Timothy Bain
- Elazar Rausseo
- Todd Boucher
- Kate O’Brien
- Courtney Bador
- Chris Berkeley-Hitt
- Mike Lee
People’s Choice Award: Team Mies V. Der Rohe/Lotte Lenya
- Sarah Bedard
- Molly Smith
- Anthony Menard
- Ken Martin
- Matt Jurgens
- Tim Morrison
Project 2: The Gallery: Revealing the Art in the Art
The Gallery is at the front of the house and provides a venue where work by Vermont’s many visual artists may be exhibited. The Flynn would like to expand the nature of how this space is used and the opportunities it provides for interacting with art and artists. Students increased the occupancy and utility of this space from a quiet gallery to active salon: a café-like, pre-show and post-show gathering space where theatergoers can meet performers after a show, or talk with the artists whose work is on exhibit. They considered how the intensity and the energy of an artist’s process can be revealed in this space.
Best in Theme Award/Most Visionary Award: Team Jeanne Gang/Mark Morris
- Taylor Davidson
- Kaitlin Esche
- Kaylan Aufdermaur
- Alyssa Shramek
- Justen Frechette
- John O’Connor
- Matt Jurgens
People’s Choice Award: Team Zaha Hadid/ Pina Bausch
- Loren Carrier
- Andy Dubenetsky
- Ben Gedney
- Mike Cavanaugh
- Blake Drouillard
- Tim Morrison
- Wyatt Rysewyk
Project 3: The Lower Lounge: Arrival, Departure, Passage, Pause
Lobbies and other semi-public areas of a theater are either empty and quiet or full and bustling. Students re-imagined the spirit and space, flow and function of the Flynn’s lower lounge.
Best in Theme Award: Team Tadao Ando/Steve Reich
- Nate Williams
- Colleen Kilbreath
- Pedro Rodriguez
- Samuel Waite
- Dominic Patton
- Matt Jurgens
- Chris Berkeley-Hitt
Most Visionary Award/People’s Choice Award: Team David Salmella/Anais Mitchell
- Kyle Niehaus
- Dave Mullany
- Karla Brent
- Joe Marceau
- Jeramie Little
- Sean Wagoner
Interior Design Award: Hasan Fahty/ Matisyahu
- Katie Quebec
- Brandon Place
- Katie Anderson
- Mitchell Milliren
- AJ Oleson
- Nicole Martin
- Will Connolly
Project 4: The Dance Studio: Space and Motion
The FlynnArts program has been so successful that additional dance studios are needed. Students proposed either redeveloping an existing structure or proposing new structure on Church Street, with a clear and positive street presence, which accommodates two dance studios and appropriate support spaces including an office and restrooms with showers. They considered the space of movement and what it means to accommodate the energy and space of dance.
Best in Theme Award: Team Françoise-Hélène Jourda/Zero 7
- Sheridan Steiner
- Dan Wheeler
- Rachel Opare-Sem
- Shannon Sickler
- Nicole Martin
- Sean Wagoner
Most Visionary Award: Team Toshiko Mori/Evelyn Glennie
- Katrina Wabrek
- Ben Polizotti
- Miranda Otto
- Tyler Smith
- Jason Leonard
- Erin Doody
People’s Choice Award: Team Monica Ponce De Leon/ Prince
- Keith Stipe
- John Queen
- Jessica Welsh
- Alexis Yasus
- Tom Hajosch
- Christina McMahon
Burlington City Arts presents Seat’s Taken, a group exhibition designed to continue the community-wide dialogue initiated by ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center’s recent exhibition, RACE: Are We So Different?. Seat’s Taken aims to move the discussion beyond race to examine the larger issue of why human beings wrong one another, as race is just one variable in a complex equation. The exhibition examines human interaction, questions the way we choose to navigate the world, and challenges our reactions to the unfamiliar, uncomfortable, and different. Artists include our own Angelo Arnold.
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