Southern Vermont Art Center

 A major building on the SVAC campus is a big 1915 Colonial Revival home that has been converted into gallery spaces.  

The entry hall (seen here from the second floor) features a colorful glass chandelier that continuously and subtly changes colors.

One gallery exhibits organic works by Anna Noelle Rockwell, called Entanglements.  Rockwell says her sources of inspiration include, but are not limited to: Gardening. Trees.  Roots. Flowers (in all stages of development and decay). Therapy. Recovery.  Neuroscience. The cosmos. Cooking. Rookie homesteading.  Sharing resources. Open wounds. Scars. The past. Horses (and their warm muzzles).  Classical dressage. Barns. Other artists. Death. The moon at about three quarters waning or waxing (it's easier to imagine the sun then). Aging.  Darkness. Fear. Nothingness. Hope. Vistas with crashing oceans. Still waters at the bottom of the sea.

The gallery that kept me longest was Robbii Wessen's, called Foundlings: Objects of Some Unknown History or Purpose.  Wessen takes found objects and combines them into works that, to me, resemble old clocks.  I kept thinking of the Astrological Clock on the side of Prague's Old Town Hall.

The restaurant, Curate, is behind the building, with lots of outdoor seating overlooking the mountains.

There might have been another dozen galleries, but I must turn the page . . .