Meg Mott, Ph.D. is professor emerita of Marlboro College and Emerson College and describes herself...
Ross Momaney (rmm-art.com) is a visual artist and arts educator. By blending these roles, he...
Michelle Bos-Lun and Richard Nelson are state representatives who sit across the table from each...
Carolyn North (carolynnorthbooks.com) is a writer of books that address "the interface between matter and...
Chet Godfrey has lived in the area for four years. He is a single parent to 14-year-old twins, Stephen and Garret. “Everything is much better now, but I had some health problems,” says Godfrey. “For quite a while, I didn't even have a car.” “I thought maybe having a Big Brother would be good for my kids because I couldn't get out much,” he says. Godfrey acknowledges that he was hesitant at first. “I felt like I was trying to...
There's an African saying, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.” Here in Vermont, we have an equally daunting task - achieving 90 percent renewable energy by 2050. The African metaphor would imply that we can do so one house, one business, and one institution at a time, and this sentiment was in full swing at the recent Renewable Energy Vermont (REV) conference in Burlington. In addition to the single bites of solar hot water, air-source...
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts, 183 Main St., presents “Willa Cox: Abstract Narratives,” opening Saturday, June 25, at noon, with an artist reception from 5 to 7 p.m. An artist talk is scheduled for Saturday, July 16, at 5 p.m. The exhibition continues through July 31. Monotype, marbling, and watercolor on paper are some of the various techniques and materials which characterize New York-based artist Willa Cox's richly surfaced paintings. For “Abstract Narratives,” the artist has cut sections from previous compositions to...
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