Board of Directors

 

Jane Dunlap

Toni Hippeli

Janet Hopkins Sutton

Michael Miro

Delinda VanneBrightyn

 

 

 

Advisory Board

 

Diane Harris

Don Larson

Heather Miro

Jerome Nickerson

Robert Parker

Julie Rose

Michael Walker

 

 

 Friends of TIGA

 

Susan Clark

Jane & Roy Dunlap

Betsy & Richard Ehrenberg

Ira Lujan

Scott Messick

Charlotte Miller

Charlie Miner

Patrick Morrisey

 

Founding Members

 

Delinda VanneBrightyn

Michael Miro

Carol Savid

Delinda VanneBrightyn

 

Board of Directors, President

Founding Member

 

 

Sculptor, Delinda VanneBrightyn, works in kiln-formed glass and bronze to create contemporary figurative and abstract works which
speak of life, growth and revelation. “I aspire to create works which speak of grace and clarity, inspiring deep reflection into the root and beauty of the human spirit,” states VanneBrightyn.

Beginning at age fourteen with a career in dance, theatre, and television, VanneBrightyn has performed with such extraordinary talents as Gene Kelly, Bob Hope, Willie Nelson, BJ Thomas, and Ginger Rogers to name a few. An accident in 1993 abruptly ended her ability to dance and perform.

Re-emerging into the world of visual arts, VanneBrightyn today works in the rigorous processes necessary to render her visions in kiln-formed glass and bronze. VanneBrightyn is clearly influenced by her past career in dance, as the work has been called ‘graceful’, ‘moving’, ‘powerful’ and ‘deeply rooted with meaning and intention’.

 

“The change to sculpture was pretty natural for me,” says VanneBrightyn. “Although dance is a performance art, it is a wholly visual experience. Dance embodies a series of lines in space, each exploring their intricate relationship to the other and creating a fleeting vision sculpted by the human body. To me, sculpture is a similar expression of lines in space and their ensuing relationship, only fixed in time. I like that sculpture is still, yet kinetic, moving us inside ourselves and, unlike the elusive nature of dance, stands solidified and timeless.”

Besides her art, VanneBrightyn is very active in the community of Taos. Currently, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Taos Center for the Arts, Taos Search and Rescue, and Glass Alliance – New Mexico. VanneBrightyn produced an acclaimed art event for six years for a major Los Angeles non-profit, has chaired the TCA Quick Draw event for the last 7 years, and founded and directed the Taos Art Glass Invitational beginning in 2008. Sundance Performing Arts Center of Taos, founded and owned by VanneBrightyn, is dedicated to serving the community by providing a beautiful and economical space in the heart of Taos to further the performing arts.

VanneBrightyn is represented by The Edge Gallery (Santa Fe), Hulse-Warman Gallery (Taos) and Hawthorne Gallery (Springfield, MO). In the last two years, her art was selected into juried exhibitions at Lew Allen Contemporary (Santa Fe), The Amarrilo Museum of Art's Glass Biennial (Amarillo, TX), Winterowd Gallery (Santa Fe), Henningsen Fine Art (Taos), Artifex (Taos), and Salon Margraff (Santa Fe). The Smithsonian Museum (Washington, DC) has purchased her work and VanneBrightyn is in private collections throughout the United States.

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About

Our Board of Directors

 

Delinda VanneBrightyn

Michael Miro

Toni Hippili

 

 

About

Our Educational Directors

 

William C. Davis & JoNan Davis