Contents
Volume 43, Issue 6
FEATURES
30 Honoring Honar
By Cynthia Close
The ArtLords, an Afghan Artists Collective, Recreates Murals in Brattleboro
34 Silvermine: A History and Legacy Gets Its Due
By Kristin Nord
A Special Arts Colony Takes Center Stage
COLUMNS
7 Publisher’s Letter
8 FlashPoints
12 Gallery FlashPoints
14 Studio Visit
Peter Rudolph
By Carl Little
16 Studio Visit
Nora Valdez
By B. Amore
18 Profile
Katherine Quinn Provides
Creativity Mentorship through the Anthony Quinn Foundation
By Emily Randolph
21 Color
Radiant Rose
By Dian Parker
22 Exhibitions
Lois Dodd: Natural Order
By Cynthia Close
24 Film
Cate Blanchett in “Tár”:
Portrait of an Artist Possessed
By Loren King
25 Harmony
Chorus Angelicus:
A Sound for the Season
By Kristin Nord
26 Collaboration
Getting to the Core
By April Claggett
REVIEWS & PREVIEWS
SPOTLIGHT
47 Komatsu Hiroko: Second Decade at Joseloff Gallery at Hartford Art School,
University of Hartford by Terri C Smith
48 Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes at New Bedford
Whaling Museum by Christopher Volpe
50 Fired Up: Glass Today at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art by Susan Rand Brown
55 Designed & Hand-Blocked by the Folly Cove Designers at Cape Ann Museum
by Maureen Canney
CONNECTICUT
51 A Colored Garden: Works by David Hartt and Charles Ethan Porter at The Glass House
by Kristin Nord
52 Gladys Triana: A Path to Enlightenment 1971–2021 at University of Saint Joseph
and Fairfield University Art Museum by Terri C Smith
MAINE
52 Jeff Bye: Vanishing Points at Greenhut Galleries by Carl Little
53 In Memoriam: Brenda Bettinson (1929–2021) by Carl Little
53 Pulped Under Pressure at University of Southern Maine Art Galleries by Carl Little
MASSACHUSETTS
54 Robin Tost: Scrap Metal Quilts at Cahoon Museum of American Art by Jack Curtis
54 Sarah Meyers Brent: Out Growth at Art Complex Museum by B. Amore
56 Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran: Family Ball at Institute of Contemporary Art/
Boston by Susan Saccoccia
56 Ceramics in the Expanded Field at MASS MoCA by Bret Chenkin
57 Essential MIT at MIT Museum by Susan Boulanger
NEW HAMPSHIRE
58 Patricia Miranda, Punto in Aria: A Repairing Mend at 3S Artspace by Craig Stockwell
RHODE ISLAND
58 Mariana Ramos Ortiz: Contra viento y marea at Central Contemporary Arts
by Elizabeth Maynard
59 Penny Ashford: Colors from Around the World at Hammetts Hotel by Emily Randolph
VERMONT
59 Amendment XXIX Right to Privacy at Canal Street Gallery by Bret Chenkin
IN THIS ISSUE
28 Calendar
38 Destination: New Hampshire
42 Destination: New England
44 Art Guide
46 Guide to Schools and Workshops
61 Exhibition Listings
71 Classifieds
72 Art Seen
On the cover: Honoring Honar is a collaborative mural project between members of the ArtLords, Tape Art, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center and community partners. These temporary murals were on view August 13–28, 2022, throughout downtown Brattleboro, Vermont. Photo: Kelly Fletcher/BMAC. See page 30.