Of Land & Local is an annual multidisciplinary, statewide exhibition designed to initiate a dialog about issues surrounding art and the environment that relates to the Vermont landscape.

Challenging our cultural disinterest and disrespect for aging, Milton Rosa-Ortiz drew from his Latin American heritage to establish a reverence for the aging human that is in opposition to our pervasive fetishization of youth culture in America.

Using ‘photogenic drawing,’ a camera-less photography technique pioneered by 19th century photographer and inventor, Henry Fox-Talbot, Thomas Brennan explored issues of mortality and metaphorical implication through his careful documentation of objects from nature, now in the collections of museums across the United States and Europe.