Linda Filley: In These Shoes
March 2 – April 4, 2024

Linda Filley has been making her paper creations for over 15 years. They grew out of display work she was doing for a store in the Hudson Valley. Like the signature Paper Dresses she created for the store’s front window, the Shoes are a transformation of everyday materials. Cardboard, brown paper, wallpaper, old maps, and sheet music, sometimes new and sometimes vintage. Her work speaks to many themes: recycling, history, and nature with an eye to fashion and whimsy. A self-taught artist who was born in Glasgow, Scotland and grew up in Montreal, Canada, Linda currently lives in the Hudson Valley.

Deborah Hanson Greene: Pastoral Landscapes and Still Lifes
April 6 – May 1, 2024

The Norfolk Library’s featured artist for the month of April is Berkshire native Deborah Hanson Greene, with a new exhibition, “Pastoral Landscapes and Still Lifes,” presenting more than 20 watercolors of rural farm scenes, large florals, and other still lifes.

A graduate of Vassar College, Greene left the East Coast to work in the Midwest, and later the Baltimore-Washington region. She returned to the Berkshires in 2007, and, after working as Norman Rockwell Museum’s Director of Institutional Giving for 12 years, left to pursue painting and other interests. 

Greene has exhibited at the New Marlboro Art Association Gallery, Berkshire Food CoOp, Marketplace Cafe, The Sheffield Collection (a former design shop), Real Gustavian (a former design shop), Gallery on Main (a former pop-up gallery at Barnbrook Realty/Great Barrington), Pulse Dance Studios, Great Barrington’s Mason Library, and the Stockbridge Library. 

Previously, she exhibited at The Torpedo Factory (Alexandria, VA), Maryland Art League (Annapolis, MD), Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and in various galleries and coffeehouses in Annapolis and Baltimore.

Drawn to the pastoral landscapes, changing seasons, and northern skies that once inspired her as a child, Greene loves her Berkshire life, which she shares with her partner David and three cats in a 150-year-old farmhouse. 

Please join us for a reception for the artist on Sunday, April 7, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., graciously hosted by the Library Associates. Thank you for your support!