10 Jun 2015 Windy Mowing Artist Residents
I'm happy to announce the 5 Fellows who have been selected for a 2015 Windy Mowing Residency. Each Fellow will spend 2 weeks in Halifax, Vermont creating work in their...
05 Mar 200 YEAR OLD TIME CAPSULE AND HOT WATER TANK
I was an ecstatic eleven year-old boy who had found my Spanish Main. On my knees I started clawing into a sloping embankment packed with a century-old dump. I dug...
06 Feb A Thousand Buildings Burned
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]A thousand buildings burned in February of 1904 when a great fire devastated the heart of Baltimore's financial district. Pictorially this historic conflagration...
09 Feb Forester Blue and Friendly Broom Head
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I just spied a full white moon rising below my tall house. I turned the lights off so I could better appreciate its...
03 Feb Immense AoA Gratitude
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I remade my proposal sketch for Marriage : American Split four times in preparation for last Fridays final oral presentation for...
26 Jan Harvey Milk Recruited Me
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last Friday, after running some errands in Northampton, Massachusetts, I discovered that I was an hour away from the showing of Milk at...
23 Jan A Halifax Prima Donna and Theodore Dreiser’s Lover
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Yesterday afternoon, I scheduled a portrait session with Dorothy Christie, who reluctantly agreed to sit for me. She kept insisting that there were...
20 Jan Andrew Wyeth’s Passing and N.C. Wyeth’s Demijohn
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I was profoundly impacted when I learned of Andrew Wyeth’s passing at the end of last week. He was a major influence...
16 Jan A Portrait of a Fifth-Generation Logging Brother
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Aarin and Sean Dupuis are brothers from a family of fifth-generation loggers. For several months, they will be cutting trees below my house....
14 Jan Hind Paws Spinning & The Shih Tzus of Rubber Lips
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="grid" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]I remade (for the second time this week) a drawing for the Art of Action, Schools: Inside Roof Trusses. A figure is prominently...