Indian Hill ImageWorks Studio | EveNSteve Artists Vermont

The Studio and Gallery of EveNSteve

Indian Hill ImageWorks is the working studio and gallery of EveNSteve, located in the Mettawee Valley of Pawlet, Vermont, beside the Hayfield Art Gallery and surrounded by the landscape that has become central to their work.

From the studio windows, the installations of the Hayfield Art Gallery can be seen across the landscape, linking the indoor studio and the outdoor gallery as two parts of the same creative environment. Together, these spaces form the physical center of the EveNSteve practice, where ideas move between studio, landscape, and exhibition.

The building itself carries a long history. Constructed from several barns dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the structure reflects the agricultural traditions of the region. In 2001 the space was transformed into a contemporary gallery through a collaboration between Eve and Steve and an architect, adapting historic timber structures into a climate-controlled facility designed for the exhibition and production of artwork.

Originally known as Indian Hill Gallery when it opened in 2001, the space functioned as a traditional photography gallery for several years. In 2008 the focus shifted toward Steve’s studio for image-based works, and the space became Indian Hill ImageWorks. Since 2019 it has served as the studio of EveNSteve while continuing to function as a place for exhibitions, teaching, and creative gatherings.

The building occupies three levels, each serving a different role in the life of the studio.

The upper catwalk overlooks the main gallery floor and also serves as an exhibition space where artworks are displayed. From this vantage point high in the rafters, visitors experience a stunning view of the entire barn interior. The perspective reveals the installations below while also allowing the beauty of the historic timber structure to be fully appreciated. Standing within these centuries-old beams is a reminder that places built with care and patience endure—an idea that continues to influence our belief in the value of making things slowly.

The main floor functions as the central gallery space where large works can be installed and where exhibitions, talks, and gatherings take place.

The lower level houses the working studio where photographs are printed, film is processed, and motion-picture projects are edited and developed. It is the technical center of the practice where much of the production work behind the exhibitions takes place.

Over the years Indian Hill ImageWorks has hosted workshops, artist talks, and small gatherings centered on photography, mixed media, and the creative process. The space serves both as a studio and as a place for conversation about art and making.

Working inside a structure whose timbers date back more than two centuries has quietly influenced the philosophy of our work. The building reminds us that making things slowly—whether barns, textiles, photographs, or stories—has always been part of human life.

Indian Hill ImageWorks continues that tradition of making, linking past and present through a space devoted to craft, experimentation, and the patient development of ideas.

Indian Hill Imageworks

The Architecture of Memory

The barn that houses Indian Hill ImageWorks was originally constructed from multiple agricultural structures dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their timbers carry the marks of generations who built and worked within them long before the space became a gallery.

Today those same beams frame contemporary artworks and creative experiments. The building’s layered history gives the studio a sense of continuity—linking present-day artistic practice to the long tradition of craft and labor that shaped rural Vermont.

A Modern Laboratory

While the structure itself is historic, the studio functions as a contemporary creative laboratory. Photography, film, and mixed-media works are conceived, printed, assembled, and prepared for exhibition within the space.

It is here that ideas take physical form before appearing in galleries, museums, or in the landscape itself.

The Independent Mission

Indian Hill ImageWorks is a destination for the independent mind. By maintaining our own gallery, we ensure that every one-of-a-kind artwork—from the salt-washed memories of our Cape Cod works to the historic narratives of Vermont, Scotland, and beyond—is experienced exactly as intended.

Together with the Hayfield Art Gallery and our surrounding studio landscape, Indian Hill ImageWorks forms part of a place-based practice devoted to the slow and thoughtful making of art.