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ZON EASTES champions the collaborative power of the effective nonprofit. He has led nonprofit organizations as Executive Director (Brattleboro Music Center, Bainbridge Island Arts and Humanities Council) and has consulted with numerous nonprofits about increasing organizational capacity, planning strategically, and enhancing board responsibility and involvement. He has served on community boards such as the Windham Regional Planning Commission, Building a Better Brattleboro, and the Brattleboro Arts Initiative. He was instrumental in establishment of the Alliance for the Arts, a rolling collective of southeastern Vermont arts organizations looking at shared issues, and the Bainbridge Island Tourism Alliance, a four-organization collective unifying and streamlining efforts for island tourism promotion. He has conducted symphony orchestras on both coasts, and was Music Director of the Windham Orchestra for over twenty years. He lives in Guilford, Vermont. |
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JARED FLYNN grew up southern Vermont and has always felt at home with the natural landscape. Flynn’s outdoor lifestyle inspired his interest in horticulture, which paved the way to a career in walling in the mid-1990s. Like most wallers, Flynn started by teaching himself and learning from others by working alongside them. He started his own business in 2000 doing residential work primarily in southeastern Vermont. After taking a workshop with Dan Snow in 2003, Flynn became interested in the craftsman certificate scheme from the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain (DSWA) and earned his Intermediate Certificate in 2005. Flynn attained his DSWA Advanced Certification in 2009 and is working toward the level of Master Craftsman. While continuing to run his walling business, he has also instructed stone wall students in workshop and classroom settings, including courses at the Windham County Career Center. Flynn’s interest in education and the development of professional standards has opened conversations about statutes with the Windham Regional Planning Commission, Vermont state legislators, the Vermont Scenic Byways Council, and local communities. He is also committed to historic preservation of the stone walls and walling traditions of his native state.To that end, he creates workshops focused on rebuilding historic walls and is working toward developing an inventory of Vermont’s historic roadside walls. Flynn lives in Dummerston, Vermont. |
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DAN SNOW is an art maker specializing is dry stone constructions. He has been building with stone since 1972 when he worked on the restoration of a 13th century castle in Tuscany, Italy. His career as a professional dry stone waller began soon after, in his native Windham County, Vermont, with retaining wall and field fence reconstructions. In 1986 he apprenticed with “master dry stane dyker” Dave Goulder. Snow became a Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain Mastercraftsman in 2000. Dan’s dry stone constructions include stock-proof fences, pillars, stiles, staircases and arch bridges. Utilitarian works have expanded into garden follies, grottos, grandstands and pyramids. Snow applies his dry stone walling skills to sculpture of a purely abstract nature, and environmental art pieces, as well. In 2001 Snow authored “In the Company of Stone”, published by Artisan, with photographs of his work by Peter Mauss. “Stone Rising,” a film by Camilla Rockwell, released in 2005, captures the spirit of Snow's constructions and chronicles the process of their creation. Dan Snow has instructed many workshops in dry stone walling and lectured on the craft across the USA, Canada and Great Britain. As a DSWA Examiner he has organized many test venues and examined dozens of test applicants in the certification scheme. In 2003 and 2007 he taught environmental art workshops in Finland for the University of Art and Design, Helsinki. He lives in Dummerston, Vermont. |
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MICHAEL WEITZNER has been a full-time dry stone waller/mason and a professional member of the Dry Stone Walling Association of Great Britain since 1993. In 2003 the DSWA-GB awarded him a Master Craftsman certificate (no. 159), their highest level of certification. Michael has a strong interest in historic preservation and has become involved in historic bridge preservation. He has provided technical condition assessments for the State of Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) and other entities. Michael has also teamed with area engineering firms as a subconsultant on other structural studies around Vermont and New Hampshire. Michael was born in Switzerland in 1962 and has lived in Spain, England, Scotland and the USA. Michael's involvement with dry stone began at an early age when he was introduced to it by his Swiss grandfather. Michael arrived in Scotland in 1981; he became a full-time professional dry stone waller in 1993 when he was hired by Master Craftsman Neil Rippingale (now the Training and Certification Coordinator for the Dry Stone Conservancy of Kentucky (DSC) to assist with the construction of a dry stone house in the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago off the West Coast of Scotland. Michael’s work has been featured in New Old House magazine, Vermont Life magazine, ‘Good Fences’ by Bill Hubbell and on HGTV’s Rebecca’s Garden. Michael lives in Brattleboro, Vermont. |
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