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Artists and Makers
Artistry: Plein-Air Artist Nancy Friese
Nancy Friese’s landscapes are more than snapshots of inspiring locations. She uses the term “composite” to describe her technique: a blending of her feelings, interpretations, and memories of a place. A self-described
True Originals: Connecticut Furniture Makers
A tree that falls in the forest may not make a sound—but let that same tree fall on a city street, and it’s likely to make a major statement. Particularly if it falls into the hands of Ted and Zeb
Tyler & Sash Offers Custom Window Treatments with a Designer Twist
Shaun Tyler Burgess isn’t necessarily what you’d expect from the owner of a custom window treatment shop, especially in a small suburban Boston
Vermont Textile Artist Karen Henderson
Karen Henderson’s artwork isn’t what it seems at first glance. From a distance, the canvases look as if they were layered with brushstrokes in muted, natural shades to create delicate landscapes: a fog-shrouded field or a forested
Screen Stars: Tillett Textiles
In Sheffield, Massachusetts, a small town in the Berkshires, Tillett Textiles maintains a screen library. Part of a rambling manufacturing building, the space measures some 8,000 square feet and holds innumerable screens.
Ceramicist Paula Shalan
When Paula Shalan was working on her master’s degree at the Art Institute of Chicago, she found herself preferring to spend time not in the museum of art, but in the museum of natural history. She filled her notebooks with sketches of
Textile Artist Rosemary Hallgarten
Rosemary Hallgarten always wanted to earn her living making beautiful things. “I knew that as long as I could keep…
Artist Rick Shaefer
Bent over a waist-high, eight-foot-square table in his airy, light-filled studio, Fairfield-based artist Rick Shaefer seems lost in thought as…
Wayne Towle: The Wizard of Woodwork Refinishing and Restoration
Wayne Towle isn’t what you’d call a jack-of-all-trades, but within the niche where he’s carved out a thirty-year career, the
Glass Artist Robin Mix
Robin Mix suffers for his art. After giving me a tour of his studio, which occupies half of his nineteenth-century…
Artist Deborah Dancy
With Miles Davis’s moody, improvisational Stairway to the Gallows blasting away in the background, Deborah Dancy layers thick gobs of…
York Street Studio
Linda Zelenko describes her late husband, Stephen Piscuskas, as a Renaissance man. “He built beautiful furniture, was an amazing designer, and his paintings are incredible,” she says. “There was nothing he was afraid
MapQuesting the Mind: Artist Heidi Whitman
How do you paint what’s going on inside your skull? Heidi Whitman comes from a long line of artists who make such invisible things visible. In fourteenth-century Florence, the
Furniture Maker Tod Von Mertens
I’ve looked at a lot of artist-made furniture in my day, at museum shows, galleries, and individual studios, but I’d…
Pattern Play: Artist Anoka Faruqee
In Anoka Faruqee’s childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, pattern was an ever-present influence. “Our hallway was covered in leopard print and there were
