Artists and organizations I admire:

Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire -- www.aannh.org
   

Great community-builders! In 2000, the AANH & its Mt. Washington Valley Arts Partners brought poets Cleopatra Mathis, Cynthia Huntington and Gary Lenhart to Conway for a series of free workshops and readings.

     
Upper Saco Valley Land Trust  -- www.usvlt.org/
   

Dedicated to keeping land undeveloped – I volunteer partly by monitoring an easement, which means walking the land each spring to see that everything is in order.
     

Maine Women Writer’s Collection -- www.une.edu/mwwc/
   

University of New England, Westbrook Campus-Books by Maine women old and new. They have May Sarton’s library, plus a strong collection of contemporary artists books.

     
Eaton Village Preservation Society -- www.evps.org
   

Many folks in town volunteered to save the Eaton Village Store when it was about to be sold as apartments. The EVPS has for sale as part of their fund raising efforts a reprint of The Eaton Records by Keith and Nella Henney, first published in 1972 and long out of print. A passion for history well written.

     

WREN - Women’s Rural Entrepeneurial Network -- www.wrencommunity.org

   

Local works. Supporting women in the north country any way they can. Great shop in Bethlehem that sells my stuff.

     

Jay Rancourt -- www.flickr.com/photos/jrancourt
   

Kayak camping partner, painter, maker of all things, librarian marvelose. 

     
Gay Freeborn -- www.gayfreeborn.com/
   

Awesome animal portrait painter!
     
Kelty Luber -- www.steepstreet.com/, www.satchel-studio.com/
   

This website was designed by Kelty! Besides creating websites and unique bags and cards, she can create amazing books of collaged text and images for special occasions.

     

Rebecca Goodale -- www.califiabooks.com/finepress/g/rebecca-goodale.html
   

Book Artist extraordinaire- the first person I ever met who couldn’t make a blank book, but had to run home and create content.

     
Blair Folts -- www.blairfolts.com
   

Artist, and founder of Green Mtn. Conservation Group.

     

Dana Cunningham -- www.danacunningham.com/
   

Composer and pianist. She has improvised music to go with my poems for years, and has several cds available.

     
USM-- http://usm.maine.edu/summer/special/bookart/
   

This is the summer bookarts program put on by Rebecca Goodale for the University of Maine in the great Stone House at the coast in Freeport, Maine.

     
Candace Calendars-- www.candacescalendars.com
   

Candace makes great calendars from her paintings, as well as cards, prints etc. Also known as Snow Brook Creations, right here in downtown Snowville.
     

The National Museum of Women in the Arts -- www.nmwa.org/
   

The Museum Shop has carried both Treehouse Poems and Sloping Pastures at different times. They have a lot of women’s artist books in their library, too http://www.usm.edu