Shanta Lee Gander
Shanta Lee Gander is a multidisciplinary artist working in the mediums of writing and photography with a range of published work and books including GHETTOCLAUSTROPHOBIA: Dreamin of Mama While Trying to Speak in Woke Tongues (Diode Editions, 2020) and author of a forthcoming collection, Black Metamorphoses, that is being published through Etruscan Press.
Her work over the years in Vermont has included a range of collaborations with the Vermont Arts Council and her work within the humanities as a member of the Vermont Humanities Council.
Across her art practice and various career paths, Shanta Lee has had a deep passion for seeing the in-between from the people, places, and things that are out loud to what we don’t always notice within a landscape or our daily human experiences. Shanta Lee is bringing this love and passion for the deep dive as a writer and artist to the studios of Vermont Public Radio.
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Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees lives in Hinesburg. She’s 77, and has lived a life at the crossroads of the identities, cultures and worldviews — she has Native, African and European ancestors.TwoTrees works across mediums, including multi-sensory installations with sound, smell and visuals. -
This story is about a tree and what happens when it no longer exists. But also, so much more.
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VPR’s Shanta Lee Gander sat down with leaders from three Vermont museums to discuss how, as institutions, they navigate their legacies. What is their responsibility to their communities, and potential viewers?
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As we think about longevity in creating art, who becomes responsible for preservation? Is it the artist, or those who dwell within the artist’s community?
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John Cleaveland is a landscape artist who paints in, and regularly visits, the Enosburg Falls area. His work is hanging in the Quincy Hotel there.
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Independent producer, artist and writer Shanta Lee Gander has this reflection on the photography exhibition "Performative Acts: Dona Ann McAdams," currently on view at the Bennington Museum.
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What comes to mind when you hear the words: palm oil, rum, honey, yellow flowers? The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center has an exhibition with that title by Kenny Rivero. Kenny Rivero is a New York artist who works across mediums. And it was the title that drew me, in addition to other key things about this work that Kenny describes.
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I couldn’t write about this particular spring without thinking of it within the context of mythic proportions. In Greek mythology, we know the season as a moment of renewal and regrowth, because Persephone is able to travel back to visit her mother. Within other traditions, spring connects with Ostara, what we call Easter.
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Over the course of six months in 2020, the idea of home went from one of refuge to what was required of all of us in order to navigate COVID-19.
