In our world today, everything is quick, and we build things to be thrown away, which harms our environment and … More
Category: Makers
From Batcave to Beacon: Powerhouse Arts Reimagines a Brooklyn Power Plant Heralded by First Public Exhibition: The Ark
Along the Gowanus Canal, a century-old power station has found new purpose as one of Brooklyn’s most ambitious creative institutions. … More
Saved by the Stars: How Yerkes Future Foundation Rescued an Observatory, Its Olmsted Landscape, and Reimagined a Community Treasure
At first glance, it seems impossible that a place as grand as Yerkes (rhymes with turkeys) Observatory came close to … More
The Renaissance of the West: How North America’s Only Permanent Leonardo da Vinci Museum Is Transforming an Overlooked Colorado City
The new Leonardo da Vinci Museum of North America, opened June 12, has everything you’d expect of an institution dedicated … More
Plimoth Patuxet: an Open Air Museum Preserving America’s Heritage
It’s 1627, and John Alden is building a hearth in his one-room home at the still-young village of Plymouth in … More
The Roycroft Campus: Stepping Into the Soul of the American Arts & Crafts Movement
In the charming village of East Aurora, New York, just 20 miles southeast of Buffalo, lies a cultural treasure that … More
A North Carolina Town Shaped by Clay: Seagrove, the Pottery Capital of America, is a vibrant artistic hub.
Seagrove, North Carolina, may be tiny, but its pottery scene is anything but small. Within a 20-mile radius, about 100 … More
A Quilt Museum and a Quilt Festival at Winterset, Iowa
It’s called Airing of the Quilts. That sounds like part of a vigorous spring house cleaning. It’s not. Quilts are … More
Castles of Creativity: Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle in Bucks County, PA
Bucks County, just northeast of Philadelphia, has long attracted creative people, from Pennsylvania Impressionist painters in the early 20th century … More
From Prison to Creative Hub: Virginia’s Workhouse Arts Center
What could be done with a closed, multi-building prison in the southern part of suburban Fairfax County, 25 miles from … More
