Multimedia artist Corrine Yonce of Burlington has been named recipient of the 2025 Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award by Burlington City Arts. The award includes a $5,000 cash prize and $1,000 class credit at BCA Studios.
Yonce’s artwork addresses themes of home, memory, human-services advocacy and identity. Her unravels traditional ideas of home through the use of painting, assemblage and sound to reveal issues of housing justice and housing insecurity in Vermont.
“I am deeply humbled to receive the Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award, a recognition that allows me the privilege to experiment and push the boundaries of my practice by deconstructing and intertwining the materials and memories of home,” Yonce said.
The Gabriel Award was established in 2021 by the family of Diane Gabriel (1947-2017), one of Vermont’s most celebrated artists and educators. It is given on an annual basis to emerging Vermont-based artists.