Helen Schmidt

Helen Schmidt, has been at The River Gallery School for the last twelve years, and is currently teaching printmaking, assemblage, teen portfolio, children and adult studio classes. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College, Lacoste School for the Arts, The Museum School, and Vermont College at Norwich University, where she received her MFA. She has taught and shown her work locally for the last 16 years. Her teaching experience includes Hilltop Montessori School, The Putney School, Great River Arts, and Small Barn Arts. She has exhibited work at Windham Art Gallery, Gallery in the woods, T.W. Wood Gallery, The Michael S. Currier Center, The Sarah Lawrence Art Gallery, and Putney and Westminster West annual artists exhibitions. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Westminster West.

“The student’s needs and desires dictate
the direction they will follow. A structure
is provided, then we go where we need to
in order to satisfy each person’s artistic
growth.”