Vermont Arts Council

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Read More about: Storytelling and Image-Making: An Interview with Photographer Dylan Hausthor

Storytelling and Image-Making: An Interview with Photographer Dylan Hausthor

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Vermont artist Dylan Hausthor’s photography features everything from the raw intensity of farm animals giving birth to the fleeting tranquility of a deer captured on a trail camera. Regardless of content, Dylan’s […]

Read More about: Vermont Made Episode 11: Cultivating Vermont Trans Voices with Out in the Open

Vermont Made Episode 11: Cultivating Vermont Trans Voices with Out in the Open

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HB Lozito and Grace Johnston-Fennell of Out in the Open collaborate with Rae Garringer of Country Queers to launch the 2023 Trans Audio Retreat, an opportunity for rural trans and nonbinary creatives in Vermont to foster community and let their voices be heard.

Read More about: Vermont Made Episode 10: A Twenty-year Legacy in Vermont Hip Hop with Boomslang
Sed One of Boomslang kneels in the foreground with late partner Johnny Morris standing in the background.

Vermont Made Episode 10: A Twenty-year Legacy in Vermont Hip Hop with Boomslang

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Sed One of Montpelier-based hip hop duo Boomslang discusses two albums, the recently released Boomslang III and the upcoming Boomslang Forever, and leaving a creative legacy after the passing of his other half, JL or Johnny Morris.

Read More about: Vermont Made Episode 9: Children’s Lit for a Changing Vermont with Ann Dávila Cardinal
Author Ann Davila Cardinal holding up her book, The Storyteller's Death.

Vermont Made Episode 9: Children’s Lit for a Changing Vermont with Ann Dávila Cardinal

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Novelist Ann Dávila Cardinal discusses her upcoming horror novel for Middle Grade readers, Dry Bones, and reads an excerpt from her upcoming magical realist novel for adults, The Storyteller’s Death, available Oct. 4, 2022.

Read More about: Vermont Made Episode 8: The Joys and Pains of Rural Filming with WalrusDice Productions
The face of Kade Pintado playing Casey appears on a camera screen with a purply set in the background.

Vermont Made Episode 8: The Joys and Pains of Rural Filming with WalrusDice Productions

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Two of the minds behind independent film company WalrusDice Productions discuss their new feature-length fantasy adventure, The Butterfly Queen, filmed entirely around Ryegate, VT and releasing in fall 2022.