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Iconic Church Street is a must for every visitor to Burlington, and the Unitarian Church welcomes you from the top of this pedestrian marketplace. It is beautiful any time of year, even in the bitter cold as on this day. If you look closely you can see the bronze statue of saxophonist Big Joe Burrell under the canopy on the right. Burrell learned from Count Basie and B.B. King and passed his knowledge on to a new generation of musicians including Trey Anastasio of Phish.

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...