About this deal
During the summer of 2022, we partnered with local non-profit organizations Artful Streets, the Downtown Brattleboro Alliance, and Putney-based artist Amber Paris to develop a series of interactive art-making events and public installations for each of Brattleboro’s Gallery Walks (monthly, May-December).
Weston is a member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist. Seeking to create a way to offer comfort and protection to everyone in these homes, radio waves seemed to be an apt metaphor: both an invisible forcefield hovering above us, and a comforting blanket that we sleep below.Brattleboro Community Radio) between December 18, 2021, and December 11, 2022, as well as on select Sundays at 2:30 p. The glow of lights inside all the houses felt at once comforting and melancholy, knowing that everyone inside those homes was feeling the same fear and isolation.
Thank you to the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center for hosting a daytime broadcasting party in their galleries.She was the 2019 grant recipient of the Crosby-Gannet and Dunham-Mason funds in partnership with the Westminster West Library.
The invisible blanket of sound waves emitting from the tower of WVEW extends roughly 10 miles in every direction.The central component was a sound collage designed for radio by Brattleboro artists Jonathan Gitelson, Weston Olencki, and Diana Whitney. He works in a variety of mediums including photography, book arts, video, installation, and public art and has exhibited internationally at institutions that include: MASS MoCA, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Milwaukee Art Museum. This “sonic blanket” (or listening area) was the literal and metaphorical framework for the collaboration.
Additional public artworks included full-page color posters printed in two of the local newspapers, a series of outdoor signs hung in tucked-away places and beside hiking trails throughout the broadcast area which read “You are beneath the cover of the Sonic Blanket,” and a 3’ x 25’ banner that was installed above Main Street for one week in early September, 2022.The recordings that we made at their home are featured prominently throughout the soundtrack of Sonic Blanket.