27 Tuesday May 2025
Posted in arts, Pawlet Happenings
The Hayfield Art Gallery’s newest show What Happens When You Defund the Arts? is the subject of an Op Ed this week in VTDigger. In it, artist Eve O. Schaub describes what motivated her and her husband to abandon their original show plans for the season, creating instead a powerful “Art Protest.” You can read the article here: https://vtdigger.org/2025/05/26/eve-o-schaub-why-we-turned-our-hayfield-into-an-art-protest/
23 Friday May 2025
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art, artist, creativity, evensteve, exhibition, hayfield art gallery, outdoor art, painting, pawlet vermont, protest art
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
11 Tuesday Jun 2024
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art, evensteve, exhibition, exhibitions, fine-art, gallery, hayfield art gallery, Largest 110 photograph exhibition, Lomography, no ones home
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.
“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.
30 Thursday Jun 2022
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an echo of affection, covered bridges, hayfield art gallery, outdoor art, worlds smallest covered bridge
EveNSteve is excited to announce the opening of their newest outdoor exhibition, An Echo of Affection, which takes as its subject the covered bridges of Vermont and the stories we tell about them.
The exhibit is at the Hayfield Art Gallery at 671 River Road in Pawlet, Vermont, which is open dawn till dusk, free and open to the public. Works may be viewed by driving by or by walking the mown trail through the field. A response to the isolation demands of the pandemic, the Hayfield Art Gallery is the creation of EveNSteve, the husband and wife team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub.
“We wanted to focus on covered bridges in these new artworks,” says artist Stephen Schaub, “because they are special places; they are an unusual hybrid of indoors and out. They have a particular feeling to them, almost like a sacred space. And they represent transition: the moving from one stage to another. Which is very fitting, I think, for this moment in time.”
The artworks feature monumental photographs, “in-camera colleges on film” as Schaub terms them, coupled with brightly colored, hand-painted text which floats in and around the imagery. The photographs are mounted on large placards in the field so as to hold up to the elements and be visible from a distance.
Also part of the exhibition, the Schaubs have installed what they call “the smallest covered bridge in the world,” which sits mid-exhibition and features information about the exhibit, as well as a shady spot to pause.
“We hope everyone will come out to see the exhibit whether just driving by, stopping for a walk, or bringing a picnic to enjoy the artwork and the landscape by the side of the beautiful Mettawee River,” says Eve Schaub.
It was in May of 2020 EveNSteve installed their first hayfield artwork entitled “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 in the field.
“What began as a temporary solution to reach viewers during quarantine has evolved,” Eve 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.
EveNSteve’s outdoor art gallery is free and open to the public, open dawn till dusk; it is located at 671 River Road in Pawlet Vermont. An Echo of Affection will be on display until Spring of 2023. For more information visit their website at www.evensteve.com or call 802-287-0287.
03 Friday Sep 2021
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The public is invited to a free Artist Walk and Talk on Saturday, Sept. 18 at 3PM at the Hayfield Art Gallery at 671 River Road in Pawlet. Early arrivers are welcome to picnic or stroll along the picturesque Mettawee River. Viewers of all ages are invited to come enjoy The Dollhouse Family and the Black Strawberry, currently on display.
The outdoor art gallery is the creation of EveNSteve, the husband and wife team of author Eve O. Schaub and artist Stephen Schaub, and was installed in the hayfield across the street from their home and art studio during 2020, 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.”
The artworks featured are monumental film photographs taken by Stephen, hand-painted with text written by Eve, and then attached to outdoor scaffolding to withstand the Vermont elements as best they can. They include one that reaches thirteen feet in height and another that is thirty-four feet long.
Since opening in 2020, the Hayfield Art Gallery has been the subject of news stories on NBC Boston News at Ten, New England Cable News, WTEN Albany ABC, WCAX Burlington CBS, and articles in Seven Days, the Rutland Herald, and the Times Argus.
The Dollhouse and the Black Strawberry, composed of six monumental works, is on display through spring of 2022.
“During the last year, our world, like that of so many people, had shrunk until it became more or less restricted to the size of our house.” Eve says. “We wanted to make a series of artworks that spoke to this unusual and fraught time, and my old childhood dollhouse reminded us that the process of play has much in common with the process of making art.”
Each work in the series features a different character from the Dollhouse Family and addresses a different theme: of looking outward, of looking inward, of transformation and revelation.\
The event will take place on Sept. 18 at 3 PM rain or shine. The Hayfield Art Gallery is free and open to the public. For more information please visit evensteve.com or call 802-287-0287.
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