Diana’s poetry debut, Wanting It, won the Rubery Book Award, and her anthology You Don’t Have to Be Everything: Poems for Girls Becoming Themselves, was released by Workman Publishing to critical acclaim and became a YA bestseller. Weston is a member of RAGE THORMBONES, Ensemble Pamplemousse, the Wet Ink Large Ensemble, and performs regularly as a soloist.

They have presented work internationally at venues including the Borealis Festival, the Ghent Jazz Festival, and the American Academy in Rome.The recordings that we made at their home are featured prominently throughout the soundtrack of Sonic Blanket. The invisible blanket of sound waves emitting from the tower of WVEW extends roughly 10 miles in every direction. Special acknowledgment and gratitude to Denise and Paul Pouliot, Tribal Leaders of the Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki People in New Hampshire, who graciously welcomed us into their home and shared with us their collection of traditional Abenaki instruments and traditions. Sonic Blanket was a community-based, multimedia art project addressing the themes of isolation, connection, history, and place. His artwork is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Fidelity Investment Collection, and more.

She is the recipient of a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council and was the longtime poetry critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. Brattleboro Community Radio) between December 18, 2021, and December 11, 2022, as well as on select Sundays at 2:30 p. The glow of lights inside all the houses felt at once comforting and melancholy, knowing that everyone inside those homes was feeling the same fear and isolation. The central component was a sound collage designed for radio by Brattleboro artists Jonathan Gitelson, Weston Olencki, and Diana Whitney. At its core, "Sonic Blanket" is public art that reflects the resilience and interconnectedness of the Brattleboro community during a time of isolation and trauma due to the pandemic.Seeking to create a way to offer comfort and protection to everyone in these homes, radio waves seemed to be an apt metaphor: both an invisible forcefield hovering above us, and a comforting blanket that we sleep below. She works across diverse mediums that include fiber, bookmaking, photography, placemaking art and painting.

Amber’s work has been shown widely and is included in private and public collections including the Bainbridge Island Art Museum Artist’s Book Collection.This “sonic blanket” (or listening area) was the literal and metaphorical framework for the collaboration. This project would not be possible without the openness and generosity of WVEW to provide us with a nightly broadcasting time slot. We also partnered with the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center and the Brattleboro Retreat Farm for a series of public listening parties where community members were invited to sit together beneath the radio waves during a live radio broadcast. She was the 2019 grant recipient of the Crosby-Gannet and Dunham-Mason funds in partnership with the Westminster West Library. Weston has released recordings with various labels, including HatHut, Sound American, and Carrier Records, and their release SOLO WORKS was featured on Bandcamp Daily’s Best Experimental Music of 2020.