OUR STORYTELLERS:
Marv Klassen-Landis is a poet, storyteller and theatre artist. A co-founder and performer with Children’s Voices Theatre, he also has taught creative writing at pre-school through college levels and has led many storytelling, writing, and theatre workshops and residencies from Vermont to Colorado. Marv has published poetry in a
variety of journals and is the author of a children’s book. He lives in Windsor, Vermont.
Rich Gombar has been painting for over 60 years and regularly shows his artwork in AVA’s Bank Street gallery. He has shown at AVA for many years as well as other galleries from New York City to Vermont. He has built and installed over 150 exhibitions at AVA, the Museum of the American Indian, the Hood Museum and especially the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Bilbao, Spain. I live in Hartford, VT where he writes and paints every day.
Patrick McDevitt grew up in New Hampshire when the Patriots and Red Sox were awful. It taught him how to be both optimistic and resilient. He met his wife, Kristine, in Washington DC, and they raised their 3 children in the Upper Valley, punctuated by a 3-year ex-pat assignment to Belgium. His father and grandfather were accomplishedstorytellers.
Sally Wright Bacon lives in Orford, NH, with her husband Bob. She has three children, two grandchildren, and her sidekick, Arlo. Sally is an accomplished jewelry designer and aspiring artist and writer. She recently retired from her shop OODLES in White River Junction where she curated an eclectic inventory of cool and unusual stuff. She shows
and sells her paintings in AVA’s Bank Street Gallery.
Kevin Gallagher spends his days inside other people's stories helping them re-author a different ending. When he's not saying "How does that make you feel?", he likes to combine his Irish wit and lore to create spaces for reflection and humor. Kevin's work has been featured on WGBH Stories from the Stage and he is also a two-time Moth
GrandSlam winner.
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