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In the 1800's Burlington was a thriving shipping port, trading with Quebec to the North and the Eastern Seaboard to the South via the Champlain Canal which connects Lake Champlain to the Hudson River. Burlington's story is fascinating, and for both history buffs and the mildly interested alike, I recommend Vincent E. Feeney's "Burlington: A History of Vermont's Queen City."

Amanda Amend captures the mystery behind the everyday in luminous watercolor. Often described as atmospheric and ethereal, the subtle qualities of her work are balanced by a powerful, disciplined use of color, values, and compositional choices that reflect unique perspectives. The artist recently discovered her passion for watercolor, and she is largely self-taught. Her educational background is in music and linguistics rather than in studio arts, however those disciplines have given her the analytical and practice-oriented frameworks from which to master watercolor's difficult techniques. Further, the structures of language and music provide a conceptual basis for understanding visual composition, and these careers have taken her...