We invite you to support the Henry Sheldon Museum by purchasing Picnic Basket Raffle tickets. The drawing will be on October 11, 2023.
Our 6th annual Picnic Basket Raffle fundraiser features five hand-painted designs and one traditional rug hooking by local artists.
Scroll down to see the basket tops and read about this year’s stellar artists.
When you purchase tickets, you’ll be able to select which basket(s) you’d like to win!
Raffle ticket prices:
$10 for 1 ticket $20 for 3 tickets $40 for 7 tickets
Purchase your Picnic Basket Raffle tickets online now with the button below, or at the Sheldon Museum. Ticket sales end on October 10, Drawing on October 11.
Purchase raffle tickets
Call the Sheldon with questions at 802-388-2117. Good luck!
We value your friendship and encouragement. All raffle proceeds support the Museum’s community programs.
See the Magic, Nancie Dunn
Nancie Dunn (Middlebury,VT) is the creative owner of Sweet Cecily, a popular gift shop in Middlebury. Before settling in Vermont, Nancie attended the Philadelphia College of Art and the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her art is inspired by the natural world and the people around her. As the owner of Nancie Dunn Cards, she has created a colorful, whimsical line of greeting cards using Japanese marker pens. .
Daisies, Irene Lederer LaCroix
Irene Lederer LaCroix (Jericho,VT) has been working with clay and painting in oils for over 35 years. Her clay work under the name Rend’l Pottery includes pottery sculptures and tiles. She has recently returned to paintings that are abstract still life and landscapes.
Festive Flowers, Courtney Allenson
Courtney Allenson (New Haven, VT) is a block print artist who loves being outdoors with her family, exploring all mediums of art and crafts, and centers most of her creations around her favorite creatures: trout. Courtney has worked as the Engagement Director at The Residence at Otter Creek for over a decade and loves connecting other people with their hobbies and interests.
Ferns, Janet Fredericks
Janet Fredericks (Lincoln,VT) works in a variety of mediums including painting, fabric arts, drawing and print-making. Much of her artwork focuses on the natural world around her including the “marks left on the land by humans and other natural forces”. She has shown her work extensively in Vermont as well as nationally and internationally.
Fox and Grapes, Suzanne Douglas
Suzanne Douglas (Middlebury, VT),has been interested in crafts all of her life, and became a professional craftsperson, a weaver and creator of quilts and traditional hooked rugs. She worked for several years at the Clover Rug Company with Amy Oxford. She has sold her work throughout the Northeast.
This picnic basket top is a traditional rug hooking.
Pollinator Patch, Jill Madden
Jill Madden (Weybridge,VT) is a painter inspired by the Vermont landscape. She has focused on plein air painting immersed in the wilderness environment. Her painting explorations depict the forests and rivers along the spine of the central Green Mountains. In 2021 she had an exhibit at the Sheldon Museum.
