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Waterbury Studios offers private studio rentals for your art practice or creative small business.

02/15/2026

FIONA SMALL: SEA TALK in the magical light at Waterbury Studios’ upstairs gallery space, The Hesterly Black. It has to be experienced in person. Open hours 12-6pm every day except Saturdays and Mondays and by appointment.

12/12/2025

FIONA SMALL: SEA TALK opens Friday, January 16th, 6-8pm with a special performance from Moira Smiley and Laurel Jenkins from 6:30-7pm downstairs at The Phoenix, to be followed upstairs by an artist talk/Q + A from Fiona Small. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, The Hesterly Black, 5 Stowe Street, Waterbury, Vt (.studios above The Phoenix

12/10/2025

We are thrilled to announce our next gallery show at The Hesterly Black, FIONA SMALL: SEA TALK, opening Friday, January 16th, 6-8pm, on exhibit through March 13th, 2026. Featuring Fiona Small’s photography, videography and performance art, the opening celebration will also feature a special performance downstairs at The Phoenix by Moira Smiley and Laurel Jenkins from 6:30-7pm followed by an art talk and Q + A with Fiona upstairs among her exhibit.

FIONA SMALL, a multidisciplinary artist born on San Juan Island, Washington, discovered her creative passion from an early age and began exhibiting her work at age 11. After studying musical theater at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, she delved deeper into the arts during her six-year residency in Colorado. Fiona was recognized with Naropa University’s Rising Artist Award upon graduating with a BA in Music and a Minor in Performance in 2020. Her work explores multi-sensory experiences, neurodiversity, environmentalism, grief, contemporary clowning, and whimsy through vibrant collage, performance art and multimedia pieces. After spending 2.5 years in Vermont and collaborating with renowned musicians including Moira Smiley, Seamus Egan, and Mikahely, Fiona is now back on the San Juan Islands.

LAUREL JENKINS is a dancer, choreographer, educator, and mother. Her choreography emerges from rigorous experimentation and interdisciplinary dialogues in the realms of contemporary dance, opera, music, and theater. LA Weekly writes that she creates “extraordinary movement/sound pieces in which the body becomes the most versatile of instruments, playing the music of an invisible dimension.”

Singer / Composer MOIRA SMILEY has toured the world and recorded with Indie-pop favorites, Tuneyards, performing with them on all the late-night TV shows (Kimmel, Colbert, Conan O’Brien, UK’s Jools Holland, etc.) and recently to re-open David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center in NYC with Chris Thile, Hilary Hahn and Brad Mehldau. She began her singing career in Baroque and Medieval music, collaborating with Paul Hillier, Fretless Consort of Viols, Dufay Collective and Sinfonye, BBC Singers and New World Symphony.

11/12/2025

SEEING EYE: SELECTED WORKS BY LARRY BISSONNETTE, 1988-2003, guest curated by William Ellis, got a fantastic feature in Seven Days, beautifully written as always by . Thank you

08/26/2025

We are thrilled to announce our next show at The Hesterly Black, SEEING EYE: Select Works by Larry Bissonnette, guest curated by William Ellis, Director and Professor of Fine Arts at St. Michael’s College.

On exhibit and available for purchase SEPTEMBER 19th-DECEMBER 31st, above The Phoenix.

OPENING RECEPTION/PARTY: Friday, September 19th, 6-8pm

07/24/2025

We’re thrilled to announce a two week exhibit featuring Waterbury Studios’ own J Creations’ art students!!

Opening reception Aug 1st 6-9pm

J Creations Studio Showcase: From Scribbles to Stories
On exhibit Friday, August 1 - Aug 15th, 2025

04/17/2025

THIS FRIDAY

Opening reception for
MARY ADMASIAN: PAST IS PRESENT: WORKS ON PAPER 1983-2013

You are invited to a special show we’re honored to host in our Hesterly Black gallery upstairs above the Phoenix, 6-8pm, drinks and an artist-chosen playlist of 80s and 90s music will accompany the art.

We will also have the doors downstairs open so you can experience the amazing Sienna Martz curated group show IMMORTAL THREADS.

We’re thrilled to present this body of work on paper from Mary Admasian’s early years. These pieces from the 80s were some of Mary’s breakthrough moments as an emerging artist and have mostly gone unseen until now. We are including more recent works as well to show the through-line of these stunning biomorphic figures into her better known work in wood and found objects. Come be inspired.

Curated by Joseph Pensak

01/02/2025

We are thrilled to announce our next solo show at The Hesterly Black, opening Friday, January 24th, 6-8pm.
Drinks and snacks will be on hand, so come party with us. FREE TO THE PUBLIC.

ANNA A. BLACK: BE RADICAL?
January 24th-April 11th, 2025
7 Stowe Street, Waterbury, Vt (above The Phoenix)

Anna A. Black’s paintings invite the viewer into a world where color, shape, texture and line are personal and emotional. You are meant to dive into her paintings with your imagination fully turned on, feeling your way though. This is Anna A. Black’s debut show and is particularly special because the gallery is named after her grandmother, Hesterly Fearing Black.

12/29/2024

Thank you and for the lovely write up about our studios above the Phoenix! Waterbury Studios has a magical little gallery called The Hesterly Black at the center of the spaces that changes over four times a year. There are few more inspiring places to work in the state. It feels incredibly private and quiet and the natural light is amazing. We have the rare occurrence of a studio opening up, available starting January 15th, $460/mo includes all utilities, 2GB business grade WiFi and 24/7 keyed access with a common room surrounded by inspiring art, a drop sink for painters, shared fridge and cabinets with coffee and tea station. Right in the dead center of Waterbury Village with Blackback Pub literally across the alley and the best food and beer in the state all around you.

If you are considering this please don’t dilly dally, we are giving tours this week until the space is filled.

10/24/2024

Friday, November 1st, 6-8pm come hear from Erika Lawlor Schmidt about her process behind the works in KEEPING TIME. An “upstairs/downstairs” event, we’ll have live jazz standards played on the 1929 Steinway by Randal Pierce the first hour, followed by a Q+A with Erika and the artists of collage/uncollage, the show downstairs at the Phoenix. Sponsored by M&T Bank.

09/06/2024

Willow says: “RUFF you’re invited to the Hesterly Black’s next opening with ERIKA LAWLOR SCHMIDT, tonight 5-8pm. Come party with us! RUFF”

09/05/2024

E L SCHMIDT: KEEPING TIME is installed and ready to party with you! This Friday (tomorrow night) is our next opening at The Hesterly Black, the gallery at the center of the Waterbury Studios creative community, located at 7 Stowe Street above The Phoenix. Erika’s work flows from her 25 years of experience traveling the world, leading art spaces and creating intuitive dance collaboratives. You will fall in love with her work.

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7 Stowe Street
Waterbury, VT
05676

Website

http://www.waterburystudios.com/

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