If our entire society is to be revitalized, it will depend on what we as individual Americans are willing to do on our own, in association with others, and how willing we are to extend ourselves beyond our own personal interests.                                                                                                                    John D. Rockefeller III

My studio is in a large, airy, building called the Granary in Brandon, Vermont. The rooms are spacious & ceilings high. Just right for the canvases, and sculpture I'm now working on and the adult and children's classes I teach.

Children’s painting class in my studio

As far as I know the building is about 100 years old. My sense of the history is a little sketchy, but at various points it was a General Mills flour mill, then morphed into a feed store, and subsequently became a factory for those scratchy, woolen long-johns made from fine, Vermont wool. In the last 30 years two successful furniture companies have begun there: New England Woodcraft and High Pond Woodworks.

The current owners, Stephanie and Brian Jerome purchased the building thinking that they might need room to expand storage for their company which is right next door. The Visual Learning Company produces terrific videos and references for

Common Yellowthroat by Brian Jerome of the Visual Learning Company

educational purposes. Brian is a talented photographer and film maker.
      

The videos and DVD's they create are excellent. When the market focus shifted to compact DVD's requiring less space than videos, they decided to take a risk and turn the building into studio space.

Sheer Genius!
Painters, sculptors, videographers, printmakers, jewelers and folk artists now tromp the hallways that were once shadowy with sawdust and cobwebs.

Warren Kimble is using his space in the granary to explore new directions in his art.

This terrific opportunity for artists has brought a new vitality to the building, and to our little town.

Coliene Moore is one of the artists in the building shown here in her studio.

But the Jerome brilliance extends even farther.
This holiday season they came up with a Win/Win/Win. Each year they devise a unique bonus for their employees, and this year they gave them a fistful of "Granary Green:" bright, green "bills" specifically to be used to purchase art from artists in the Granary.
The word is that their employees were delighted to be able to purchase original art from the local artists, and certainly those of us who have studios were happy to have sales that enable us to pay the rent!
Definitely a win/win/win for all.

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If our entire society is to be revitalized, it will depend on what we as individual Americans are willing to do on our own, in association with others, and how willing we are to extend ourselves beyond our own personal interests.                                                                                                                    John D. Rockefeller III

My studio is in a large, airy, building called the Granary in Brandon, Vermont. The rooms are spacious & ceilings high. Just right for the canvases, and sculpture I'm now working on and the adult and children's classes I teach.

Children’s painting class in my studio

As far as I know the building is about 100 years old. My sense of the history is a little sketchy, but at various points it was a General Mills flour mill, then morphed into a feed store, and subsequently became a factory for those scratchy, woolen long-johns made from fine, Vermont wool. In the last 30 years two successful furniture companies have begun there: New England Woodcraft and High Pond Woodworks.

The current owners, Stephanie and Brian Jerome purchased the building thinking that they might need room to expand storage for their company which is right next door. The Visual Learning Company produces terrific videos and references for

Common Yellowthroat by Brian Jerome of the Visual Learning Company

educational purposes. Brian is a talented photographer and film maker.
      

The videos and DVD's they create are excellent. When the market focus shifted to compact DVD's requiring less space than videos, they decided to take a risk and turn the building into studio space.

Sheer Genius!
Painters, sculptors, videographers, printmakers, jewelers and folk artists now tromp the hallways that were once shadowy with sawdust and cobwebs.

Warren Kimble is using his space in the granary to explore new directions in his art.

This terrific opportunity for artists has brought a new vitality to the building, and to our little town.

Coliene Moore is one of the artists in the building shown here in her studio.

But the Jerome brilliance extends even farther.
This holiday season they came up with a Win/Win/Win. Each year they devise a unique bonus for their employees, and this year they gave them a fistful of "Granary Green:" bright, green "bills" specifically to be used to purchase art from artists in the Granary.
The word is that their employees were delighted to be able to purchase original art from the local artists, and certainly those of us who have studios were happy to have sales that enable us to pay the rent!
Definitely a win/win/win for all.

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