Tamarack Foundation | June 7, 2018
Mary & Phillip Peelish of Fayette County, West Virginia Phillip Peelish, Tamarack Artisan Advisory Board member, and co-owner of Wild Mountain Soap Company says business is booming. We asked Phillip and Mary to share their thoughts with us on how other artists working in West Virginia may learn from her successes. Tell us a little bit about Wild Mountain…
Tamarack Foundation | May 15, 2018
foundation | May 2018 Leonardo Vazquez of The National Consortium of Creative Placemaking Leonardo Vazquez is a national award-winning planner who is a leader in two emerging fields in urban planning: creative placemaking and cultural competency. He has two decades of experience in community development, community engagement, small group facilitation, local economic development, leadership development and strategic communications. He has…
foundation | March 9, 2017
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellows Rosalie Haizlett and Hannah Lenhart are traveling the state for their creative project Teapots and Time Capsules. They will be sharing a series of posts with us about their adventures. Follow their journey on our blog and on Instagram – search the hashtag #teatimewv. This post is the second in the series…
foundation | March 2, 2017
For the foundation’s ongoing “Creative Perspectives” series, we invite guests to speak to ideas impacting West Virginia’s creative communities. Here, former WV Community Development Hub executive director Kent Spellman revisits the speech he gave to attendees to kick off the “What’s Next for West Virginia Artists?” conversation at our recent Arts Business Think Tank. The historic downtowns in many West…
foundation | February 24, 2017
Tamarack Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellows Rosalie Haizlett and Hannah Lenhart are traveling the state for their creative project Teapots and Time Capsules. They will be sharing a series of posts with us about their adventures. Follow their journey on our blog and on Instagram – search the hashtag #teatimewv. It’s difficult to put into words how beautiful…
alissa | April 23, 2016
Historic buildings are a tangible amalgamation of time. Every piece of wood carved, every stone cut to its exact dimensions, represents human labor trapped in a physical structure. I remember the first time I walked through the abandoned Staats building, the future home of the Tamarack Foundation for the Arts. The gaping hole in the roof, busted windows, and destroyed…
