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"Making History, Creating Place"
Preservation and Creative Placemaking at the Historic Big Barn


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Above: Watch a slide show of Zena Howard, FAIA-Architect and Senior Project Manager who led the design and construction of the Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, DC, with 40 Vermont artists and architects at an all-day workshop on the Clemmons Family Farm to begin the design process for the Big Barn's transformation into a visual and performing arts and culture venue. 
The Clemmons Family Farm is one of the largest African-American owned historic farms in the state of Vermont and one of the 0.4% of farms in the nation that are African-American owned. We are working to transition the entire 148-acre farm, with its six historic buildings, into an African-American Heritage and Multicultural Center.

Historic preservation and creative placemaking work on the Big Barn are funded in part by ArtPlace America and the Vermont Agency for Commerce and Community Development/Division of Historic Preservation.  
Click here to learn more about Zena Howard
​and the Big Barn
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Watch our weekly video updates below on the process of preserving the beautiful 1700's "Big Barn" on the Clemmons Family Farm and re-purposing it as a community venue for African-American and African diaspora visual and performing arts while retaining some of the spaces for agricultural use! ​
"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #1 (June 7, 2018).
Find out what's been happening this week in "Making History, Creating Place" at the Clemmons Family Farm. This is the first episode of a weekly series.

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"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #4 (June 28, 2018).
Find out what's been happening this week in "Making History, Creating Place" at the Clemmons Family Farm.This week's episode features the art, beats and insights of Poet and Spoken Word Artist Rajnii Eddins on the preservation and creative placemaking work underway at the Big Barn.  
"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #7 (July 20, 2018).
In this episode: Eliot channels his ancestors, Zena shares her thoughts and Lydia hams it up. Suddenly it's crystal clear why we keep saying that "history is really a continuum through which we learn from our past, shape our present, and invest in our future."  
​​"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #2 (June 14, 2018).
In this week's episode, we learn a bit more about the beautiful wooden water tank in the historic Big Barn. 


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"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #5 (July 6, 2018).
Environmental artist Nancy Winship Milliken joins us in this week's illuminating episode of "Making History, Creating Place" at the Clemmons Family Farm. .

"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #8 (July 28, 2018).
In this episode: Vermont aerialists Patti Burnheim and Pamela Donohoo join Lydia and Eliot to brainstorm the uses of creative spaces near the rafters of the Big Barn, and potential collaboration with an African Diaspora community in Vermont.. 
"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #3 (June 21, 2018).
Find out what's happening this week in the Big Barn preservation and creative placemaking work!


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​"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #6 (July 13, 2018)
This week's episode features Visual Artists Sarah Mayer and Julio Desmont with a discussion about the future spaces for visual arts studios, workshops, exhibits and other multicultural art community gathering spaces.


"Making History, Creating Place": Episode #8 PREQUEL (July 28, 2018).
In this prequel to Episode 8, Lydia shares a little history about the prehistoric whale found in the town of Charlotte Vermont.
Below:    Enjoy a slide show of the preservation work underway at the beautiful Big Barn along with some relaxing mindfulness music!
The creative placemaking work at the Big Barn as a venue for African-American and African Diaspora visual and performing arts and educational programs for the community and for K-12 learning is under the stewardship of Clemmons Family Farm, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization, and made possible through public donations and grants. Your donations to this work are tax deductible.
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Contact us at: contact@clemmonsfamilyfarm.org
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  • What We Do
    • Job Openings
  • About
    • Our Team
    • About Us >
      • Our Vision
    • Who We Are >
      • Jack and Lydia's Living Legacy
      • How Jack and Lydia Found and Bought the Farm
      • Holding On to Our Legacies
    • When Are We Open?
    • Press Coverage >
      • Other News >
        • 2019 Visitors Survey: Sneak Preview
        • 2018 Updates
        • 2017 Updates
        • 2016 Updates
    • What Our Community is Saying >
      • 2018 Visitor Survey Findings!
      • Feedback from other Vermont communities
    • Subscribe!
  • Our Programs
    • The Legendary Ingramettes
    • Juneteenth 2022!
    • Storytelling Room >
      • 2021 Kwanzaa Storytelling Program
      • The Power of Image
      • Alone Together With Words That Heal
      • Juneteenth in the Air Program (2020)
      • 2018 To Sing of Common Things
      • Family Storytelling >
        • Farm Storytelling Channel
        • Our Storytelling >
          • Heritage, Farm & Family Stories >
            • Louisiana and Arkansas: 1800s - 1920s
            • From the South to the Mid-West: 1930s to 1950s
            • Finding and Buying the Farm
          • Vermont2Africa and Back Stories
    • K-12 Ethnic Studies >
      • WTAMW Project Director
    • Creating Healthy Communities >
      • Beneath Our Skin
      • Cancelling Miss Rona
      • A Sense of Place >
        • A Sense of Place at NEFA-CCX
    • Art >
      • Farm2Art Program >
        • Summer 2016 Farm2Art Program
      • Culinary Heritage & Arts Program
    • Farm
    • Forest
    • Heritage
  • Artists' Registry
    • Are You Looking for an Artist?
    • Why, Hello there, Artists!
  • Historic Buildings
    • Venue Rentals
    • Stay with Us!
    • Six Historic Buildings
    • The Barn House >
      • The Barn House Legacy
      • The Barn House Library
      • Stay with Us!
    • The Big Barn >
      • "Making History, Creating Place" Videos!
      • The Historic Water Cistern
    • The Main House >
      • About the Black Locust Trees
    • The Shop >
      • Shop Storytelling Videos
  • Please Donate!
    • Subscribe!