BRATTLEBORO — River Gallery School has been selected to design and create the 2016 ornaments for Vermont in the 2016 “America Celebrates: Ornaments from Across the USA” display.
The event is presented by the National Park Foundation and the National Park Service.
Each state and territory has been invited to produce 12 ornaments to be hung on its state's tree as part of the America Celebrates Display on the Ellipse in President's Park national park in Washington, D.C. The official lighting of the tree will be on Dec. 1.
According to a news release, artists on River Gallery's faculty - Jason Alden, Helen Schmidt, Lydia Thomson, Jen Weichers, and Nancy Detra - were joined by Board of Trustee members Carolyn diNicola, Carol Ross, and Margaret Shipman to paint the six-inch globes with colorful designs, some representing Vermont scenes and motifs, some abstract designs.