FORREST HOLZAPFEL

Forrest Holzapfel is a photographer and local historian who resides in and makes work about his hometown of Marlboro, Vermont.  A 1997 graduate of the Bard College Photography Program, Forrest has spent the last fifteen years photographing, collecting stories, and interviewing his fellow townspeople in the tradition of small town photography that reaches back to the early 1900’s.  A recipient of numerous grants and awards from the Vermont Humanities Council, Vermont Arts Council, and the Vermont Folklife Center, Forrest created a traveling exhibition “A Deep Look at a Small Town: Marlboro, Vermont” that began at the Vermont Folklife Center in Middlebury in May 2010, and has since been to 3 other locations around the state.  The creation of a vivid sense of place is central to his vast body of work about this single town. 

 

(b. 1974, Newfane, Vermont)

 

Solo exhibitions       

                  2013    Amy Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Space, Burlington, VT

                               Catherine Dianich Gallery, Brattleboro, VT   

                               Images support theater work "Not What   

                               Happened” by Ain Gordon

                  2012    MassMoca, North Adams, MA   

                               Images support theater work "Not What 

                               Happened” by Ain Gordon

                   2011    Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, VT

                   2010    Vermont Folklife Center, Middlebury, VT

                                Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

                                Fairfield Municipal Building, Fairfield, VT

                   2000    Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, Brattleboro, VT

                                Drury Gallery, Marlboro College, Marlboro, VT

                   1999    Slater Mill Historic Site, Pawtucket, RI

 

Group exhibitions    

                   2001    N. E.  Artists Trust – Congress 6, Woodstock, VT

                   2000    Art on the Mountain, Wilmington, VT

                   1997    Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY

 

Grants & Awards    

                  2011   MAP Fund, a collaboration with Ain Gordon

                  2003   Achievement Award, Vermont Historical Society

                  2000   Vermont Folklife Center

                  1999   Vermont Arts Council & Vermont Humanities Council

                              Photographer’s Fellowship Fund Grant

 

Lectures        

                 2002 - 2012  “The Town Photographer in Vermont”

                                          lecture in 40 Vermont towns as part of the 

                                          Vermont Humanities Council Speaker’s Bureau

 

Bibliography         

                 2010       Holzapfel, Forrest.  A Deep Look At A Small Town: 

                                 Marlboro, Vermont.  Marlboro, VT: Six Miles Square 

                                 Press, 2010.   

 

                 2003       “Around the Nation”.  Humanities, vol. 24, no.  4,

                                  July/Aug. 2003, p. 54.    

                

                2002         Fahlman, Betsy. “IA in Art”.  Society for Industrial                                      

                                  Archeology Newsletter, vol. 31, no. 1, Winter 2002, 

                                  p. 11-12.

 

                                 “Vermont’s Songcatcher”. Visit’n, vol. 8, November 

                                   2002, p.45.

 

                  2000        Luciana, James. Black & White Photography

                                   —Manifest Visions: An International Collection.  

                                  Gloucester, MA: Rockport Publishers, 2000.

 

Collections        

                   Samuel Dorsky Museum, College Art Gallery, SUNY New Paltz, NY

                   Marlboro Historical Society, Marlboro, VT    

                   Hudson River Maritime Museum, Kingston, NY

                   Ulster County Historical Society, Marbleton, NY

 

                   Numerous Private Collections

 

            

Education:          

 

                   1997    Bard College, B.A. in Photography