State of Craft
By Arlene Distler

As I sit with Jamie Franklin, director of the Bennington Museum, in the room that serves to showcase the museum’s wonderful collection of Norton pottery from the 1700’s, I’m steeped in craft history and lore. It is the perfect setting to talk about the upcoming State of Craft exhibit. According to Franklin, the museum’s important collections of eighteenth and nineteenth century American furniture, ceramics, silver, textiles, and a nationally renowned early American glass collection, have much to do with why this fairly modest museum was chosen to be the primary showcase for a statewide celebration of the studio craft movement in Vermont.
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The Story of Our Lives:
Art Collectors Greg Parks and Robert Doyle
by Joyce Marcel
Because art collections are so personal, each tells at least one story about its collectors.
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Studio as Research Lab
A Barn-like Studio Filled with Sustainable Design Ideas
by Anita Rafael
Nothing good can come from finding out your beautiful old post and beam barn has been chewed up by swarms of carpenter ants. Or can it?
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Spring Inspiration:
The Earth as Canvas
by Clara Rose Thornton
Using the landscape as one's canvas is a fine art, an art melding the human soul and its desire for beauty with the rhythms of nature.
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