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Claire Van Vliet

Since 1955, Claire Van Vliet, who is widely recognized as a master printmaker, has owned and operated the Janus Press in the tiny Northeast Kingdom town of Newark. She has published the works of writers such as Galway Kinnell, Seamus Heaney and Denise Levertov and illustrated them with original prints and pulp paintings. Van Vliet’s work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., London’s Victoria and Albert Museum and the Smithsonian Institution, to name a few. Over the next couple months, you’ll find it closer to home in two separate shows: “Stone on Stone,” at River Arts Center in Morrisville through August 15, and “Paper Works,” at Montpelier’s Governor’s Gallery through the end of September. Pictured: “Ghost Mesa.”