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Weston has released recordings with various labels, including HatHut, Sound American, and Carrier Records, and their release SOLO WORKS was featured on Bandcamp Daily’s Best Experimental Music of 2020. The glow of lights inside all the houses felt at once comforting and melancholy, knowing that everyone inside those homes was feeling the same fear and isolation.
Weston is a member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist. The invisible blanket of sound waves emitting from the tower of WVEW extends roughly 10 miles in every direction. The central component was a sound collage designed for radio by Brattleboro artists Jonathan Gitelson, Weston Olencki, and Diana Whitney. Thank you to the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for hosting multiple broadcasting parties on their grounds. Seeking to create a way to offer comfort and protection to everyone in these homes, radio waves seemed to be an apt metaphor: both an invisible forcefield hovering above us, and a comforting blanket that we sleep below.We also partnered with the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Brattleboro Retreat Farm for a series of public listening parties where community members were invited to sit together beneath the radio waves during a live radio broadcast. At its core, "Sonic Blanket" is public art that reflects the resilience and interconnectedness of the Brattleboro community during a time of isolation and trauma due to the pandemic. Zara Bode, William Forchion, Olive Gitelson, Cassandra Holloway, Robin Morgan, Daniel Quipp, Paula Smoot Sistare, Brandie Starr, Amanda Witman, and Diana Whitney. Diana’s poetry debut, Wanting It, won the Rubery Book Award, and her anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, was released by Workman Publishing to critical acclaim and became a YA bestseller.
They have presented work internationally at venues including the Borealis Festival, the Ghent Jazz Festival, and the American Academy in Rome. Thank you to the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for hosting a daytime broadcasting party in their galleries.She works across diverse mediums that include fiber, bookmaking, photography, placemaking art and painting. He works in a variety of mediums including photography, book arts, video, installation, and public art and has exhibited internationally at institutions that include: MASS MoCA, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum.
She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and was the longtime poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Special acknowledgment and gratitude to Denise and Paul Pouliot, Tribal Leaders of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People in New Hampshire, who graciously welcomed us into their home and shared with us their collection of traditional Abenaki instruments and traditions. During the summer of 2022, we partnered with local non-profit organizations Artful Streets, the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, and Putney-based artist Amber Paris to develop a series of interactive art-making events and public installations for each of Brattleboro’s Gallery Walks (monthly, May-December). Sonic Blanket was a community-based, multimedia art project addressing the themes of isolation, connection, history, and place. His artwork is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Fidelity Investment Collection, and more.She was the 2019 grant recipient of the Crosby-Gannet and Dunham-Mason funds in partnership with the Westminster West Library. Brattleboro Community Radio) between December 18, 2021, and December 11, 2022, as well as on select Sundays at 2:30 p. Deepest gratitude for inclusion and collaboration on Artful Streets and Brattleboro First Friday public programming.
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