UCS Presents: Shine Your Light: Celebrate the Inner Spark in Us All – Through Art

 A Client Art Show Celebrating Creativity, Identity & Hope

Calling All UCS Clients!
Unleash your creativity and share your inner spark at our upcoming agency-wide Client Art Show this December 2025! Join us for a reception on Thursday, December 11, from 4-7pm.

Celebrate the Inner Spark in Us All – Through Art
What makes you shine? This uplifting art show invites clients of all ages — children, teens, and adults — to express what brings them hope, strength, compassion, and identity.

Your art can explore:

• How you shine… or help others shine!
• Acts of kindness or courage
• Your hopes and dreams
• What makes you unique

Where & When:
Exhibit Location: Arkell Pavilion, Southern Vermont Art Center (SVAC), Manchester, VT
Show Dates: December 9–11, 2025
Public Reception: Thursday, December 11, 4–7 PM

Following the show, artwork may be showcased at UCS locations throughout 2026.

How to Participate:

• Canvases are available from Brittany Harrington, Lindsey Marcelino, or Roxy Iskowitz. Sizes available: 4x4in., 8x8in. and 10x10in.
• Artists may source their own canvases, but we request they stay within the sizes listed and are able to be hung on a wall.
• Use any medium: painting, drawing, collage, etc.
• Head Start Classrooms: Submit group pieces to be displayed in gallery windows!

Submission Deadline:
Monday, November 10, 2025

• Submit completed artwork to Heidi French (100 Ledge Hill Drive #207)
• Be sure to include the Client Submission Form along with your artwork.

Questions or Special Requests?
Want to use something other than the provided canvas?
Contact Heidi French at hfrench@ucsvt.org

Let your creativity shine and inspire others!
We can’t wait to see what you create.

More information on the event coming soon!

• Client Art Gallery: Displayed at the Arkell Pavilion, Southern Vermont Art Center (SVAC) in Manchester, VT
• Dates: December 9–11, 2025
• Public Reception: Thursday, December 11, 4–7pm