Lost Grandmothers

This year, I lost both my grandmothers. They were formidable women with vintage names and steadiness like currency. They couldn’t have been more different from each other. Lucienne was a lesbian from the Gaspé who spent the Fifties in Paris, the Sixties in...

Twelve Days of Christmas for Yoko Ono

Many months ago, I was sitting with Kirsten McCrea at Second Cup and the conversation came around to Yoko Ono. No other public figure teeters between adoration and unfounded opprobrium. At some point in the conversation, I said that I would make Christmas Gifts for...

Cultural Grandmothers

This year, I lost both my grandmothers, and like most times when you lose something, the thing lost becomes the most important thing to you. I have been thinking a lot about grandmotherness. Grandmothers are almost exclusively a human anomaly. Only elephants, pilot...

Winooski Pop-Up Gallery District

The Winooski Pop-up Gallery District transformed downtown Winooski, Vermont into a vibrant hub of contemporary art for six weeks in the summers of 2011 and 2012. Holiday Art Markets took place in November and December of 2011 and 2012. The events included art...

Montreal Contemporary Art

Maison Kasini presents Montreal Contemporary Art during the South End Art Hop September 9th & 10th,2011 in Burlington, Vermont The South End Art Hop is Vermont’s largest visual art event. In its 19th year, the two-day event occurs on the weekend following...