Vermont Clothes Dryer, c.1980

Dot Kibbee was one of the GRACE program participants. This scene is done in oil on canvas with some bits of decorative trim as an inner frame. One of the characteristics of her style is repeats of patterns as decora¬tive borders. She was quoted as saying, “I don’t really know what I’m doing but I know it is good when my heart starts beating fast and my face gets all hot and red.”

Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, she spent most of her life in Hardwick. She was the community nurse, and beginning in the mid-1980s, she was a “regular” at the GRACE workshops. Kibbee’s work became quite popu¬lar and well known beyond the community of GRACE artists and Hardwick. Some of her work was exhibited internationally.