FEATURING TALENTED LOCAL ARTISTS
Artistry…Naturally
If the world is your classroom, then moments of learning and education can blithely appear anywhere. For fabric artist Joy Setton, circumnavigation of the globe after her father sold his French company and took the family on a two-year cruise was the foundation for lifelong learning.
Back on land, Joy studied journalism and film at NYU and embarked on a career as a filmmaker. Several PBS documentaries, notably some of the programs featuring great folk music performers (Peter, Paul and Mary, Harry Belafonte, Pete Seeger) found […]
Theatre for Good Presents “Almost, Maine” featuring Tony-nominated Broadway star
As Connecticut starts to come alive again, Almost, Maine one of the most popular plays in America comes to the charming town of Washington, CT July 17 and 18 as part of Caroline Kinsolving’s Theater for Good series which donates all it’s proceeds to charity. The playwright himself, Tony-nominated Broadway actor John Cariani, will be starring in the play with Kinsolving and making himself available to the public for a Q&A and book signing.
Litchfield County native, actress Caroline Kinsolving, started Theatre for Good (TFG) almost […]
The Call of the Wild
There is the realization in exploring the vivid, breathtaking photography of Thomas Blagden, that he is much more than a simple recorder of nature’s most profound and elegant moments. He is part of them. As Jack London declared in his landmark 1903 novel The Call of the Wild “he was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he.”
Tom Blagden’s life – his exceptional career as an artist with a camera – has taken him to […]
Critically Acclaimed Local Author Phoebe North Adds Strange Creatures to Celebrated Young Adult Collection
Writing from their home in the Hudson Valley, author Phoebe North, graduate of the University of Florida’s MFA program in poetry, gears up for the release of their brand-new young adult fiction novel Strange Creatures in June. North’s latest outing focuses on the characters of Annie, her older brother Jamie and later Vidya – Jamie’s first girlfriend. Annie and Jamie were inseparable for most of their childhood. When life became too much for them, they created their […]