Minėmå Gallery

12/27/2025

Dear Johnson Community and Beyond,

Due to a confluence of circumstances beyond our control, it is with deep sadness and heartfelt regret that we announce the permanent closure of the Studio Store and Minëmå Gallery, effective January 1, 2026.

The Studio Store has been a Johnson institution for more than 40 years, and it has been a true honor to continue its legacy and serve this community for the past 11. While we wish we could have prevented this closing, the universe has had other plans.

Our final day open to the public will be December 30 (10:00–4:00 pm). Rather than marking the day quietly and solemnly, we hope to gather for a “Celebration of Life” for the Studio Store and Gallery. All are warmly invited. Michael and I would love the chance to say thank you in person to our neighbors, friends, and loyal patrons. Cider & Cookies will be served.

We are deeply grateful for your support over the years and in the months to come, and we look forward to seeing you around town.

With gratitude,
Michael, Kyle, Olive & Pepper

07/25/2025

We’d like to wish our showing minėmå artist, Andrea Pearlman a very Happy Birthday! 🎉
Checkout her exhibition feature in this week’s News and Citizen and come to the gallery to see it for yourself. 🌟

Minėmå Gallery is presenting a focused exhibition of two recent oil paintings by Vermont-based artist Andrea Pearlman from July 24-Sept. 27.

07/04/2025

Minema is thrilled to have Johnson artist, back on our walls! Her work will be on view through September 2025.
Andrea Pearlman is originally from Hartford, CT, but has lived in Vermont since the mid-70’s. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 1974, she and her husband George, headed to Vermont for the quality of life and to be close to their mentors, James Gahagan and Pat deGogorza, artists living in Woodbury. Under the tutorship of James Gahagan, a student of Hans Hofmann, she explored the inherent dynamic push and pull of nature, and the means to express this experience in painting.

05/06/2025

VALERIE WILCOX

EMBRACING ALL THE GOOD PARTS

On view through June 2025
Architecture and design are important structural influences in Wilcox’s work, while the movement and life force of the body provides an organic counterpoint. The work often references the body moving amongst our built environment as we constantly maneuver around these structures, both physically and psychologically we’re constantly adapting and modifying to a new framework, system or barrier.

01/25/2025

Have you seen our January exhibition yet? It's a stunner! 😍

Minėmå Gallery in Johnson presents “Chromotopia,” a solo, single-work exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Joy Ray. On view throughout January, Ray’s work explores textiles as tools of divination and inquiry,

01/11/2025

JOY RAY
CHROMOTOPIA
On view through January 2025
Text from “Chromophobia” by David Batchelor, ”With Mescaline” by Henri Michaux, “Ornament and Crime” by Adolf Loos, and the “Decorative Art of Today” by Le Corbusier.

01/03/2025

Happy New Year! We are excited to share our newest exhibition, Chromophopia, by Vermont Studio Center resident, Joy Ray, with the community!
Ray’s interdisciplinary practice explores textiles as instruments of divination, adopting techniques like quilting and weaving to conduct inquiries into the spectral, speculative, and unreliable. Central to Ray’s research into the unknowable are methods of abstraction, concealment, illumination, and reconstitution that extract visual language from source materials like archival texts and oral histories.
Chromophobia II, 2023, paint, twine, sand, gravel & fiberfill on fabric, 85x42x4 in. is on view through January 2025.

11/16/2024

Katherine Clarke Langlands
ROMANCE
Acrylic, driftwood 2023
On view through November 2024
THE BEAVER DOES NOT USE DEAD TREES
The driftwood used in my DRIFT works is often sourced from Block Island, an island 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. A rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, has few trees — most of which were likely introduced by humans. To make it to the island’s beaches, the wood drifts from surrounding richly forested areas like Northern Vermont, where I spend most of the year.

11/05/2024

When the building manager tells you “no political signs,” you get creative.
VOTE! 💙

10/22/2024

We’re excited to announce some exciting changes at the gallery! In an effort to create a sustainable model for us AND still exhibit fabulous, contemporary art by VT women-identifying artists, the gallery is now: one wall, for one artist, for one month. 💫
To kick off this new iteration of minėmå, we welcome back and her dynamic “DRIFTS.”
ROMANCE, 2023. Acrylic, driftwood, now on view through November 2024.
THE BEAVER DOES NOT USE DEAD TREES

The driftwood used in my DRIFT works is often sourced from Block Island, an island 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island. A rock in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Block Island, has few trees — most of which were likely introduced by humans. To make it to the island’s beaches, the wood drifts from surrounding richly forested areas like Northern Vermont, where I spend most of the year.

In Vermont, the dialogue between humans and our animal counterparts is at times territorial. To prevent native beaver populations from gnawing on our prized maple trees, some neighborhoods install metal fixtures near their base. It turns out the beavers have no use for dead trees.

Each of these pieces was once a tree, but now they’re dead wood. After drying and treating the wood, I bring them to my studio in Vermont to revitalize them. In my view, the wood isn’t wood — it’s a structure, and one that can accept paint. The question is how to paint that structure so that it becomes more tree than wood, making it vital again. The alchemical powers of color play a large role in that transformation.

Their next transformation occurs in the exhibition space, where they poke and prod at a number of conventions related to painting and its traditions.

Humans are silly, they use dead wood.

09/03/2024

LAST week to see this beautiful show, ARTIFACTS, by Vermont artist, Athena Petra Tasiopoulos.
I’m interested in our mental and emotional blueprints. The push and pull of interconnectedness. The delicate nature of equilibrium. ~APT
Minėmå is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10-4pm.

08/03/2024

“Repetitive patterns and primitive marks carved and scraped into the surface of the wax speak to the imperfections of the human hand and the vulnerability of materiality. “ ~Athena Petra Tasiopoulos
ARTIFACTS
A collection of recent encaustic collage works
June 18th-September 7th, 2024