Eloise Avery is an artist, curator, and the founder of Avery Arts in South Egremont, Massachusetts. A 2024 graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied painting and printmaking, she grew up attending Green Meadow Waldorf School — an education that opened her to multiple mediums and instilled a deep reverence for the natural world that remains central to everything she does.

Eloise's paintings arise from memory, sense impression, and felt experience — moments of communion with nature, with the self, or with others. Her work lives in the space between memory and dream, drawn to the tension between longing and fear, distance and closeness, and the intertwined forces of destruction and creation. Most recently, she completed a residency at Free Columbia in upstate New York, investigating spiritual events and beings in painting — working with mythological and Christian motifs to create a dialogue between personal imagination and historical magnitude. Spirituality, nature, and the human condition remain the pillars of her practice.

It is out of this practice — and a conviction that art belongs in daily life — that Avery Arts was born. As a curator, Eloise brings the same eye she brings to her own work: an attentiveness to what is alive, surprising, and true. The gallery is her attempt to build a space where artists at every stage of their career can be seen, and where the people who encounter their work might find themselves unexpectedly stopped in their tracks.

Carol Avery brings to Avery Arts a lifetime of experience at the intersection of culture, community, and creative life. She studied at the American University in Paris and went on to live in France for twelve years, immersing herself in the European arts world in a variety of roles as an arts & communications bi-cultural administrator. 

Returning to New York in 1990, Carol earned her MBA in Nonprofit Management from NYU, where she created and managed an art gallery at Sterns Business School. After graduating she went on to work for a management consulting firm in their non profit sector, the Port Authority of NYC and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. 

In the years that followed, Carol shifted her focus to family, farming, outdoor education, and the work of raising two children. She continued to work in communications, development and event planning, always with an eye toward community. 

It was Carol who first saw the possibility of a gallery in the Berkshires — and who encouraged her daughter Eloise to build it. Now settled in South Egremont, she brings her decades of experience in the arts, nonprofit management, and community building to Avery Arts, where her belief, that beauty is a public good, continues.