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Artists and Makers
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
The Love of His Life: Malcolm Wright
Artist Malcolm Wright At the end of a meandering dirt road in the backwoods of southern Vermont, in a white-walled,…
Art for Architecture: Kent Bloomer
Tucked inside a brick factory complex in New Haven, Kent Bloomer’s studio exhibits the mix of casual disarray and studious…
Personal Attention: Artist Ann Mallory
Ann Mallory can’t imagine a life without clay. There’s a photo of her, age eight, sitting under her family’s lemon tree making adobe-mud
A Higher Calling: Artist Alex MacLean
Stunning. Breathtaking. Mesmerizing. These are just a few of the words that have been used by art critics and…
Repeat Performance: Textile Designer Ellisha Alexina
The eye moves up the curtain in search of where its pattern repeats. Finding repeats becomes a kind of game. Where to find the next line of flowers, leaves, or inky down-strokes? It becomes a visual game that
Paul Kelly: The Sky’s the Limit
When Paul Kelly travels abroad, he takes a sketchbook instead of a camera. Flip through the pad and you’ll find…
Elizabeth Gourlay: Transcendent Moments
Elizabeth Gourlay explores the dynamic interplay between color and form in abstract paintings that have extraordinary power. The bold geometry, such as the
Dunes and Duchess: Turn , Turn, Turn
If ever a couple seemed wired to run a business together, it’s this one. Entrepreneurs to the core, Michael Partenio…
No Boundaries
As Sarah Amos shows off some of the finished and in-progress colorful abstract prints that fill her barn-like northern Vermont studio, she reflects on how to describe what she does.
