"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.
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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. |
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!
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"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. "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. "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! "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.