Ann Landenberger
A community of art and enterprise
When I first walked into the Cotton Mill for the inaugural Open Studio and Holiday Sale 19 years ago, I was grateful for the art of the place.
My then-spouse, an architect, had walked me though years of appreciating architectural form and function, materials, and craftsmanship - the likes of which we rarely see these days.
At home with the artists of the Putney Craft Tour
How artists live with their art when their art is their life
At first blush, Putney and her neighboring towns look sleepy and sweet - quintessential Vermont, replete with the charming rusticity barns and farms afford. But Putney is also home to the oldest continuing craft studio tour in North America. For 39 years, myriad artists and crafters have opened doors...
Radiant at 25
Rock River Arts Open Studio Tour marks a quarter-century milestone
The arts thrive along the winding, craggy Rock River in southern Vermont. Witness the Rock River Artists Open Studio Tour: What started as a humble cooperative among Williamsville, South Newfane, and Newfane artists now heralds its quarter-century mark. In 1993, photographer Christine Triebert, then new to South Newfane from...
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Nonna’s burst of life
Autumn comes and boasts that elegant slate blue to hang a backdrop for the changing leaves. And each time it comes, I'm shaken by the harbingers of winter, touched by mortality. The windows close; socks and shoes go on, a fire is built, and it's time. Time to go inward again. Each year that I do this folding in, I'm aware that I have a little less time to do what I need to do before winter. I don't feel...