As an expansion of our partnership and a commitment to support the visual arts, Millbrook Library and Millbrook Arts Group have established Millbrook Arts Project, a community art space in the newly renovated library gallery. MAG has been collaborating with the library through the support of the Winter Concert Series and special artistic programming for children for almost as long. MAG will provide curatorial oversight, artist stipends, and exhibition design/production of the curated exhibitions in 2025. The mission of the Millbrook Arts Project, a community art space, is to provide exhibition opportunities to visual artists and to enrich the experience of visual art to Millbrook and the surrounding communities. 

Gallery Manager - Jen McCreery, Millbrook Library

Gallery Curator - Sharon Bates, Millbrook Arts Group

Selection Committee: Sharon Bates, Jen McCreery, Emi Night, Wayne Lempka, Erik Daniel White 

CURRENT EXHIBITION: ANN LEDY: CIRCLE + SQUARE, AN EXHIBITION IN 2 + 3 DIMENSIONS

Ann Ledy is a mixed media artist whose materials include graphite, water-based paint on Vellum and paper; wood and aluminum painted sculpture, and wall reliefs. The artist’s work is based on memories and conceptual interpretations of particular places. Urban landscapes and architectural interiors often inspire her subjects. Ledy frequently uses her own photographic documents as a reference. These sources aid in locating a point in time. She considers time to be an element that both folds in on itself and extends beyond itself, not unlike memory.

The circle and the square are primary shapes that inform much of Ledy’s visual vocabulary. She frequently anchors these shapes within a grid that serves as a means to define a shallow space.Thus, allowing these forms to float between one and two dimensions creating an illusion.

Ledy typically works in multiples, whether variations on a theme, or within the development of a new idea. Light and shadow are key elements in her sculptural works, and like her drawings are a magnification of an isolated form and or shape. The world that Ledy has traveled and documented, continues to inspire and influence her work.