EveNSteve are delighted to announce the opening of the 2025 Hayfield Art Gallery. This exhibit is free and open to the public dawn to dusk on River Road in Pawlet Vermont. Eve's Op Ed describing the decision to abandon their original plans and instead mount an "art protest" as the show this year is currently featured in VTDigger, Vermont's online newspaper. You can read the post here: https://vtdigger.org/2025/05/26/eve-o-schaub-why-we-turned-our-hayfield-into-an-art-protest/
From the Press Release:
“This is not the exhibition we were planning,” explains Eve Schaub of the show which she and her creative partner Stephen Schaub are calling an “art protest.”
The show’s centerpiece is a thirty-two-foot artwork with spray-painted letters reading “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DEFUND THE ARTS?”
“As the news of 2025 kept rolling in, we felt an urgency to address the rapidly shifting landscape in the world of the arts,” Schaub explains. “We wanted to create a space to pose important questions and contemplate what is happening.”
“Last year each taxpayer paid less than one dollar to support the NEA,” Stephen Schaub adds. “It is one of the largest arts funders in the U.S., yet it is also one of the smallest federal agencies. It does a tremendous amount of good with very little, yet the current administration is proposing to eliminate it entirely.”
Hayfield Art Gallery Featured in VTDigger
5/27/2025 10:49:03 AM
EveNSteve are delighted to announce the opening of the 2025 Hayfield Art Gallery. This exhibit is free and open to the public dawn to dusk on River Road in Pawlet Vermont. Eve's Op Ed describing the decision to abandon their original plans and instead mount an "art protest" as the show this year is currently featured in VTDigger, Vermont's online newspaper. You can read the post here: https://vtdigger.org/2025/05/26/eve-o-schaub-why-we-turned-our-hayfield-into-an-art-protest/
From the Press Release:
“This is not the exhibition we were planning,” explains Eve Schaub of the show which she and her creative partner Stephen Schaub are calling an “art protest.”
The show’s centerpiece is a thirty-two-foot artwork with spray-painted letters reading “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DEFUND THE ARTS?”
“As the news of 2025 kept rolling in, we felt an urgency to address the rapidly shifting landscape in the world of the arts,” Schaub explains. “We wanted to create a space to pose important questions and contemplate what is happening.”
“Last year each taxpayer paid less than one dollar to support the NEA,” Stephen Schaub adds. “It is one of the largest arts funders in the U.S., yet it is also one of the smallest federal agencies. It does a tremendous amount of good with very little, yet the current administration is proposing to eliminate it entirely.”
