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EveNSteve Holiday Open House and Artist Talk

20 Thursday Nov 2025

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Artists EveNSteve are excited to announce that they will be hosting an open studio and an artist talk in their Pawlet, Vermont studio on, Sunday Dec. 14 beginning at 2PM and running till 4 PM.

“There Are No Hints,” from Tales of the Bittersweet by EveNSteve

On display will be their two most recent bodies of work. The first, their newest portfolio, entitled Tales of the Bittersweet, represents a decisive new chapter of their artwork, characterized by intense color, experimental optics, secret messages, and an overt engagement with the uncanny.

Also on display will be The Nothing There Is, a body of which black and white imagery that uses cryptic symbology to investigate how meaning is constructed and deconstructed, inviting the viewer into a meditation on the human search for significance. Several of the works in this series are featured in the Sept/Oct issue of Art New England Magazine.

EveNSteve is the creative team of artist Stephen Schaub and author Eve O. Schaub. Their artworks combine imagery with handwritten text to create evocative landscapes that tell stories and speak to history. They also create award-winning experimental short films detailing their artworks and their art-making process.


EveNSteve’s studio is located at 671 River Road in Pawlet Vermont. To learn more, or to schedule a private studio visit, call 802-287-0287, visit EveNSteve.com or follow @evensteveartists on IG.

Outdoor Exhibition in Pawlet Asks What Happens When You Defund the Arts?

23 Friday May 2025

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EveNSteve announce the opening of the sixth year of the Hayfield Art Gallery in Pawlet, Vermont with What Happens When You Defund the Arts?

“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.”

The Schaubs cite drastic NEA cuts that have already affected Vermont institutions as varied as the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Flynn Theater and the Governor’s Institutes of Vermont.

“Creativity and the arts helped us through the time of the pandemic,” Stephen continues. “In fact, the outdoor Hayfield Art Gallery was born of our feeling of urgency to share art with our community in new, safe ways.”

“Art helped us then and it helps us now,” Eve explains. “Art helps us make sense of the world. We hope people will come from all over to engage in this deeply important question about support for creativity.”

EveNSteve, are the husband-and-wife team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub. They created the Hayfield Art Gallery in 2020 as a way to safely share art during the pandemic. Five monumental artworks compose the annual outdoor exhibition, including one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is over thirty feet long.

The Hayfield Art Gallery has been the subject of news stories on NBC Boston News 10, New England Cable News, WTEN Albany ABC, and WCAX Burlington CBS, as well as articles in Seven Days, the Rutland Herald, and the Times Argus.

Free and open to the public, the Hayfield Art Gallery may be viewed by driving by or by parking in the gallery lot and walking the mown trail through the field. Open dawn till dusk year-round, it is located at 671 River Road in Pawlet Vermont. What Happens When You Defund the Arts will be on display until Spring of 2026.

For more information visit their website at www.evensteve.com 

 

 

Pawlet Outdoor Art Exhibition Celebrates 5 Years with “No Ones Home”

11 Tuesday Jun 2024

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EveNSteve are pleased to announce the fifth anniversary of the Hayfield Art Gallery with the opening of No Ones Home, a vibrant new exhibition which has the distinction of being the largest exhibition of 110 photographs ever, worldwide.

The Hayfield Art Gallery is the creation of EveNSteve, the husband-and-wife team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub. It is outdoors, free, and open to the public and is located in Pawlet, Vermont. Five monumental outdoor artworks compose this year’s exhibition, including one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty feet long.

Eve and Stephen Schaub in the Hayfield Art Gallery

“Together, the works this year relate the story of a girl who is exploring a vibrant, pastoral landscape in a search for answers,” Eve Schaub describes. “We wanted to address this particular moment of uncertainty and ambivalence- and reference cultural methods for controlling chaos, through mythology and storytelling.” Schaub notes that the exhibit is appropriate for all ages.

“Like many kids of the seventies, the 110 was the first camera I ever had,” explains artist Stephen Schaub. “It’s a unique and somewhat strange format, and it’s a little-known fact that photographers can still access 110 film— and cameras— today. The negative is actually about a third the size of 35mm and creates a unique look which becomes even more interesting when you have it do something it was never intended to do: blow it up quite large.”

It was in May of 2020, that EveNSteve installed their first hayfield artwork, “My Heart is Very Big” on the land across the street from their home and art studio, as “a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community.” Over time the installation grew to encompass five monumental outdoor artworks. They have installed a new exhibition every year since.

“What began as a temporary solution to reach viewers during quarantine has evolved,” Stephen Schaub explains. “Now it is an exciting and creative way to reach new audiences. It brings our art out of the gallery and into everyday life.”

The Hayfield Art Gallery has been the subject of news stories on NBC Boston News 10, New England Cable News, WTEN Albany ABC, and WCAX Burlington CBS, as well as articles in Seven Days, the Rutland Herald, and the Times Argus.

Free and open to the public, the Hayfield Art Gallery may be viewed by driving by or by parking in the gallery lot and walking the mown trail through the field. Open dawn till dusk, it is located at 671 River Road in Pawlet Vermont. No Ones Home will be on display until Spring of 2025. For more information visit their website at www.evensteve.com or call 802-287-0287.

Pawlet Artists’ Work Acquired by State of Vermont

05 Monday Feb 2024

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EveNSteve are extremely pleased to announce that their artwork “My Dear Grace” has been acquired by the collection of the State of Vermont in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Calvin Coolidge’s swearing in as President of the United States.

Eve and Stephen Schaub and their two daughters present the four panel artwork “My Dear Grace” to Vermont State curator David Schutz under the statehouse portrait of Calvin Coolidge

“We’re delighted to have EveNSteve join the Vermont State collection,” says Vermont State Curator David Schutz. “Their artwork elicits deep meaning from the thoughtful juxtaposition of imagery and words, and asks us to consider the unknown and forgotten pieces of history in ways that are both playful and profound.”

EveNSteve is the creative partnership of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub, residents of Pawlet, Vermont.

“It is an enormous honor,” Eve Schaub says. “The Vermont State collection represents a wealth of artistic practice from throughout our state’s history. We could not be more proud for our work to be in such company.”

Entitled “My Dear Grace,” the four panel artwork features imagery from the Calvin Coolidge homestead at Plymouth Notch, Vermont and is hand-inscribed with excerpts from letters written by a young Calvin Coolidge to his sweetheart and future wife, Grace Goodhue. The original letters are part of the collection of the Vermont Historical Society. 

“This artwork is all about bringing history into the creative conversation and reminding us that history is never a singular narrative, but multi-dimensional,” explains Stephen Schaub. “In this artwork we see a very different side of the 30th president and Vermont’s famously ‘Silent Cal.’”

During their year and a half courtship Calvin Coolidge and his future wife wrote one another very often, sometimes as much as ten times a month, even though they lived across the street from one another. The letters reveal the strict social protocols of the time, as well as a different, more personal side of the future president. He teases Grace about her love for strawberry shortcake, he tells her he is lonesome for her and that he misses her “cross look.” And did you know that our 30th president was fond of little black bears?

The department of the Vermont State Curator plans for the works to be displayed in the State House at a future date. To see other examples of artwork and short films by EveNSteve visit evensteve.com.

Pawlet Artists EveNSteve Release Newest Short Film – A WEEK IN THE ICE HOUSE

19 Friday Jan 2024

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An intimate portrait of two artists working in a nineteenth-century converted icehouse in the waning light of December 2023. A meditation on light, sound, and color, “A Week in the Icehouse” invites the viewer to slow down and observe the unique artistic practice and partnership of EveNSteve while engaging with an energy of place. Taking place in and around the historic Corn Hill district in Truro, Cape Cod, this experimental film is an artwork about the practice and play of making art.

Popular Outdoor Art Exhibit to Close; New Exhibit Soon

16 Friday Apr 2021

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Monuments to Now, a popular outdoor art exhibit in a hayfield in Pawlet, Vermont will be closing on May 1. Conceived of in response to safety concerns of the pandemic, the exhibit features five monumental artworks which may be safely viewed by car, but viewers are also welcome to park in the adjacent gallery parking lot and walk the mown path connecting the artworks.

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The outdoor art gallery is the creation of EveNSteve, the husband and wife team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub. The first artwork “My Heart is Very Big” was installed in the hayfield across the street from their home and art studio last May, as “a gift to our friends, neighbors, and community.”

“Art helps us to make sense of the world,” Eve Schaub said. “We both felt strongly that during times of uncertainty we need art more than ever.”

Since then four more artworks have been added, including one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long. Photographs taken by Stephen are hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to outdoor scaffolding to withstand the Vermont elements as best they can.

“In fact, they’ve defied our expectations and held up remarkably well,” Stephen says. “There has been some fading and color shift, but we take that as all part of the life of the piece.”

What began as a temporary solution to reach viewers during quarantine and isolation has evolved for these artists into a creative way to reach new audiences, bringing their art out of the gallery and into everyday life.

“Folks would make a point to stop and thank us for creating this, or to tell us they drove from two hours away just to see it,” Eve said. “It’s extremely humbling and gratifying.”

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Because of the overwhelmingly positive response to the outdoor exhibit they have plans to continue it.

“We’re at work right now on the next exhibit for the outdoor gallery.” Stephen explains. “We plan to have it installed by June.” The theme of the new exhibit has yet to be announced.

The free outdoor art gallery has enjoyed attention as a positive news story during a year that has held more than its share of tragedy. The Hayfield Art Gallery has been the subject of news stories on NBC Boston News at Ten, New England Cable News, WTEN Albany ABC, and WCAX Burlington CBS, as well as articles in Seven Days, the Rutland Herald, and the Times Argus.

EveNSteve’s outdoor art gallery is free and open to the public; it is located at 671 River Road in Pawlet Vermont. For more information visit their website at http://www.evensteve.com.