Everyone who works with Deborah Kehoe speaks about her warm and genuine personality as highly as they do the creative and effective graphic design work from her firm, Kehoe + Kehoe Design Associates. Deborah has been in business for 22 years, and for over a decade she has worked seamlessly with her Senior Designer, Lynn Lantz.

Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival is fortunate to have had Deborah Kehoe design its new logo and its distinctive marketing campaign for 2012. Festival Artistic Director Kevin Lawrence expressed his gratitude: "The work of Deb Kehoe has been a tremendous gift to our festival." How did this fruitful relationship develop? Board Member Gary Chassman of Verve Editions brought the the Festival to Deborah's attention; he and Deborah collaborated on The Art of Lake Champlain; Inspiring Landscapes with poems by Daniel Lusk. When asked about the recommendation, Gary said, "I felt that she was very responsive to ideas--her own and other people's. I also knew that she would do whatever was necessary to complete the work in an outstanding manner." "I am proud to be associated with Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival," Deborah Kehoe tells us. "When I first began working with GMCMF, I didn't realize the level of artistry I would find there. I am truly overwhelmed by the beauty of the music at each concert I attend."

Deborah's knowledge of landscape artists in Vermont was invaluable to Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival during its search for an appropriate cover image for its first recording release which includes works by American composers Joan Tower, Arthur Foote and Amy Beach. Deborah immediately suggested Burlington painter  Katharine Montstream whose watercolors are particularly associated with the Lake Champlain region. The artist was receptive to the idea, and now not only will her watercolor grace the cover of the Bridge Records release in June, but it will be the central image on the 2012 season brochure, posters and in the promotional campaign. And a lucky Green Mountain patron has the opportunity to win the original painting by entering a raffle--tickets will be available for purchase at the box office on concert nights.

Kehoe + Kehoe Design Associates has a roster of established clients as diverse as April Cornell and North Country Federal Credit Union. Her knack for capturing the essence of each organization in her work is impressive. Gary Chassman actually hones in on the idea that to do be effective, "graphic designers have to respond to the work absent the subject--the graphic designer should be invisible in the final product--but her talent evident."

Deborah Kehoe is very present in her work training emerging graphic designers as a teacher at Champlain College. She exclaims, "I love teaching as much as I love designing. I feel fortunate that I've discovered something that I enjoy doing and sharing as my life's work." As her student, Jen Sciarrotta has benefited from Deborah Kehoe's passion. Jen has also worked on Green Mountain materials as part of her internship at Kehoe + Kehoe Design. Jen tells us, "Deb is very inspiring as a person and as a graphic artist: she has such a positive world view and her own work is so elegant and has such breadth. She encourages young designers to speak with their own voices--it's very empowering. Some days I look back and see how much I have learned from her without realizing along the way that I was being taught."

Enthusiasm for teaching and learning is another connection for Deborah to the Festival. Her daughter, thirteen-year old Livia is a budding violinist who has been treated to some private lessons with Artistic Director Kevin Lawrence. Seeing Livia thrive on each such encounter, her mom hopes that when she's a bit older she'll have a whole month of such experiences at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.