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Artists and Makers
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.
The Finer Things
A luxury linens company in Massachusetts takes its family heritage into the twenty-first century with a sleek facility overhaul and a consumer-focused vision.
When Worlds Collide
When Brian Reid was in his early thirties, he called in sick to work a lot. “At first it’d be occasionally,” he says. “But after a while, sometimes I’d call in sick on Wednesday
