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Cemetery project preserves piece of Wilton history

Shown above is an art shot of one of the headstones in the Brill Cemetery in Wilton by artist miChelle M. Vara.

By Paul Post, The Saratogian

POSTED: 01/08/15, 2:01 PM EST | UPDATED: 3 DAYS AGO

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This image shows the gate of the Brill Cemetery in Wilton. with a white backdrop.WILTON >> The town of Wilton and local artisans recently joined forces to restore a small cemetery and an important aspect of Wilton history.

The Brill Cemetery is located behind a Saratoga Bridges facility at 690 Route 9, just north of Waller Road.

Last year, Saratoga Bridges acquired a small piece of cemetery property to build a pavilion for its clients.

The cemetery, which dates to the mid-1800s, only has two headstones marking the graves of Hanna and James Brill. To maintain the site’s boundary, town Historian Jeannine Woutersz suggested that the cemetery should be enclosed by restoring an old iron fence.

However, much of what remained of the fence was badly deteriorated.

With support from the town, Woutersz contacted miChelle Vara at the Ballard Road Art Studio about handling the project.

Vara and her partner, Chad Wilson, collected the metal pieces and attempted to find pictures or documentation about what the gate would have looked like in its original condition.

That produced no results, but Vara found clues unearthed from the site, including evidence of small rosettes in the original pattern. But they, too, were extremely deteriorated.

However, she is a metal collector and had rosettes from a bed frame made in the early 19th century. So with a few tricks of her trade, welding and reworking the metals, she restored the fence gate and posts, using some original material and pieces she fashioned based on the original pattern.

Enclosing the entire cemetery would have been too big a project. But the restored gate was installed last week, serving as an historical marker and a reminder about the small cemetery’s presence.

“To have the town save that is monumental and important,” Vara said. “It’s great to see somebody local that really cares.”

The town funded part of the project. However, Vara and Wilson donated considerable time and talent.

Woutersz said the Brill family came to the Wilton area in 1813. They built a brick homestead, planted orchards and prospered on surrounding farmland.

The Brill property was sold to Charles A. Waller in 1900 and was used as a dairy farm until 1945, when it was sold to Don Pepper and became part of the former Pepper’s Turkey Farm.

The old brick house still stands.

“It could tell some wonderful tales,” Woutersz said. “Let’s hope it survives another 100 years.”

The Metaphor of the heart

making tiles a way to free the mind and pass the time in the Cleveland Clinic OH

Tonight - "Blue Blood" for "Saratoga 150th Now and Then" @ Saratoga Arts

in Saratoga Springs - August 3rd at the Saratoga Arts, 6 to 8pm
For further information and sculpture pictures please visit the web site.
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Thank you!

Cohoes Artist Showcase

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Memorial Day

   As Memorial Day approaches, let us not forget the sacrifices our veterans made to preserve our freedoms.

Go to for the rest-

 http://mvarametalandpaint.com/site/2013/05/23/memorial-day/

Go Fly A Kite- A Tribute to the New Jersey Shore

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Recycled Art Show

Please join us in Schuylerville NY to view the Hudson Crossing Recycled Art- Salon Show

April 1^st to May 31^st 2013 at Espressohuis- 31 Ferry Street, Schuylerville NY.

If your out cruz'in for the day there's also General Knox and the Train of Artillery sculpture on Rt 4 headed towards Gansevoort NY to stop and see. 

I enjoyed the re-acquaintance with Pastor Jason Proctor of the Espressohuis, as I installed 2 small sculpture pieces. The space overlooking the water has good coffee with deep and smooth flavor for us coffee hounds, but also lends its self-atmosphere for art to engage and expose good conversation, in a free environment outside the gallery or museum atmosphere. 

A big Thank you goes to John and Phyllis Borel, (Hudson Crossing Park Art Committee) and Pastor Jason Proctor.

Please visit-

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the book Final Poems

The words of Rabindranth Tagore from the book Final Poems.
Makes me feel, cutting straight to my emotion.

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Project ART- aT the tImE uNIoN cENTeR, ALBANY ny

METAL SCULPTURE bEAR Just finished for the opening reception.

hOPE YOU CAN JOIN US - miChelle M. Vara

Project Art

Albany Center Gallery is excited to partner with The Times Union for our satellite exhibit to take place at the Times Union Center during The Great Northeast Home Show.

The Opening Reception is February 8, 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm

Saturday 9^th -10am to 7pm

Sunday the 10^th – 10am to 5pm.

Small entrance fee charged.

Hope to See ya there!

Charles F. Lucas Confectionery & Wine bar hosting 'Anti-Super Bowl Art Party'

Friday, February 1, 2013

By Andrew Beam
abeam@troyrecord.com
Twitter.com/beam_record

TROY — If you are upset none of the New York football teams are in Super Bowl 47, or you don’t care for either of the teams, or you simply couldn’t care less about football at all, then the Charles F. Lucas Confectionery & Wine Bar on Second Street has an alternative.

The “Anti-Super Bowl Party” will be held at the wine bar where people can enjoy not only wine, cheese and beer but also a half-time art show.

According to a press release, the party will feature metal sculptures made out of found materials and created by metal sculptor Michelle M. Vara, of the Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery in Wilton.

On display will be Laissez-fair #344, aptly-nicknamed “Couch Potato,” as it is a piece made out of parts from a tiny television.

Co-owners Vic Christopher and his wife Heather La Vine had both worked in the sports industry — they were with the Tri-City Valley Cats until they were fired because of their relationship — but he said he now realizes sports aren’t all that important.

“I worked in professional sports for a decade. It took me that long to realize that a game has no direct impact on my life,” Christopher said in the release. “Wine and Cheese get me more excited than watching some guy throw a ball around the grass.”

But the real purpose of the party, at least for La Vine, is to get away from the television screen and interact with human beings.

It also helps the bar doesn’t have a television in sight.

“We spend too much time looking at a screen and not enough time looking at each other,” La Vine said in the release. “At the Confectionery we encourage conversation between friends old and new.”

The event will run from noon till 9 p.m. on Sunday.

Andrew Beam may also be reached at 270-1294.

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URL: http://www.troyrecord.com/articles/2013/02/01/news/doc510c62c498366496191741.prt

Forget the Super Bowl Game Sunday-

Don’t know/don’t care which teams are playing in the Super Bowl this year?

 Forget the Game Sunday- Lucas Confectionery 12 Second Street, Troy NY 12180

Come join us this Sunday, Feb.3^rd, Kick- off is at noon for the

“Don’t Know- Don’t Care- NoN Super Bowl Event”

Half time Artist miChelle M. Vara (www.michellevara.com) of Ballard Road Art Studio Gallery located Wilton NY, will be showing metal sculpture at Lucas Confectionery 12 Second Street, Troy NY 12180. 

*Enjoy Lucas's Non- team tackle championship-caliber wines, cheeses, and meats, carefully chosen from our playbook.

Sneak Peek - Elms College Borgia Gallery to Feature miChelle M. Vara’s “inVoices” Art Exhibit

New Works and Jewelry

The exhibit is open 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. daily from October 28 through November 16.

(Chicopee, Massachusetts)—The Borgia Gallery at Elms College will feature the work of miChelle m. Vara, titled inVoices, from October 28 through November 16, 2012. The artist’s reception will be held 12-2 p.m., November 16 in the gallery, located on the second floor of Mary Dooley College Center on the Elms College campus.

Golden Retriever Wall Sculpture

Metal dog sculpture painted in copper fashion, with green translucent mountains in the background, was installed yesterday. Goldie the dog looks awesome in person and seems to lose a lot in the picture transition.   

Thank you Matt and Wanda.

Art- MoHu- Troy- Opening- Artist Talk- October 9th

Greetings, All

I hope this finds you all well!

Please join me

 October 9th

3:30pm-

Artist talk is at the Dinosaur Barbeque with lunch, Troy NY  -Pre Registration Required Fee-Currently Full. 

6pm- 

We will be having a short Opening for my solo art display at the Schacht Fine Arts Center of Sage College on one Division Street Troy NY,

 Prompt 7:30pm- 

Curtain for the showing of War of the Worlds with a small fee of $10.00pp to support the Theater Company. 

The Art display is open daily and has extended hours on curtain nights of the theater.

The month is full of exciting new works and gatherings for fun and exchange, I look forward to seeing  you soon.