Burlington, VT – Lake Champlain Chocolates(LCC) has a new way to satisfy your sugar craving: make a visit to the upcoming exhibition, Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert, on display in the Pizzagalli Center for Arts and Education’s Murphy Gallery at the Shelburne Museum. Open from September 23, 2017 until February 18, 2018, this decadent, contemporary art exhibition explores America’s appetite for tantalizing and tasty confections and its impact on modern visual culture.
Through installations of international and local artists working within the subject matter and dessert-themed mixed media, Sweet Tooth provides a feast for the eyes. “Just like our chocolate and confections evoke feelings of inspiration, joy, and satisfaction,” says Allyson Myers, Director of Sales and Marketing at LCC, “We know the Sweet Tooth exhibition will leave people with a similar range of emotions.”
LCC is pleased to have its chocolate sculptor, Emily McCracken’s work on display as part of the exhibit. “Chocolate is a wonderful, finicky, and delicious medium in which to sculpt; the best part being that it is completely edible!” says McCracken. “It is such an honor to be part of this exhibition, I couldn’t ask for a better venue and theme to showcase my work.”
Shelburne Museum’s history is rooted in sugar. Electra Havemeyer Webb, founder of Shelburne Museum, was the daughter of America’s “Sugar King,” Henry Osborne Havemeyer. The family operated the country’s largest sugar refinery in Brooklyn, New York, and attained numerous other factories across the country, eventually securing the Sugar Trust in 1887.
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About Lake Champlain Chocolates
A pioneer in the American chocolate movement, Lake Champlain Chocolates is a family-owned company located in Burlington, Vermont. In 1983, Jim Lampman declared he would create upscale American chocolates that would “rival the Belgians.” More than 30 years later, the Lampman family has done just that, by introducing European flavors and tastes using local, Vermont ingredients and by taking a craftsman’s approach to chocolate: creativity, patience and mastery. This level of care and craft leads to chocolates that win high praise, year after year, from customers and industry experts alike. LCC uses fair trade chocolate and is committed to using non-GMO ingredients. Lake Champlain Chocolates are hand made by people who are passionate about their work; products include chocolate bars, including the best-selling Five Star Bars, truffles, caramels, gift assortments and gourmet hot chocolate and are available online, nationwide at specialty food and gift stores, such as Whole Foods Market, upscale hotels and inns, and at their three company-owned stores in Vermont.