In spring of 2020, face masks were one of the few tools we had against covid-19, and you couldn’t buy one. Anywhere. When hospitals started calling for homemade fabric masks amid a world shortage of personal protective equipment, people with sewing skills in Vermont and around the world began to respond. This three-part mini-series explores the pandemic experience through the voices of some of Vermont’s mask makers. In Episode 3 - Masks and Identity we learn how mask makers began expressing themselves creatively through the masks they made, and how they helped others affirm their identities in the middle of a global crisis.

In spring of 2020, face masks were one of the few tools we had against covid-19, and you couldn’t buy one. Anywhere. When hospitals started calling for homemade fabric masks amid a world shortage of personal protective equipment, people with sewing skills in Vermont and around the world began to respond. This three-part mini-series explores the pandemic experience through the voices of some of Vermont’s mask makers. In Episode 2 - Community and Collaboration we hear from mask makers who worked together to share resources and solutions when elastic or fabric were hard to find and offered mutual support amid the isolation of the early pandemic.

In spring of 2020, face masks were one of the few tools we had against covid-19, and you couldn’t buy one. Anywhere. When hospitals started calling for homemade fabric masks amid a world shortage of personal protective equipment, people with sewing skills in Vermont and around the world began to respond. This three-part mini-series explores the pandemic experience through the voices of some of Vermont’s mask makers. Episode 1 - Sewing in a Crisis, looks at mask making as an outlet for anxiety and considers the complexities of mask makers earning money, or not, in exchange for their labor.

Over a year since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic we take a moment to look back on a year of the Listening in Place project, focusing on submissions to our Sound Archive. The project began with a small collection of audio recordings submitted via a portal on our website in response to an invitation to sit down and interview someone in your household, or remotely, during our first weeks of lockdown. In this episode we hear a selection of the first interviews shared through Listening in Place.

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. This month we bring you excerpts from the audio diary of Pete Sutherland, who has been using the Voice Memo app on his smartphone to record his thoughts and reflections since early March.

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. This month we meet members of the 2020-2021 cohort of the VFC’s Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and learn how they’re continuing to work and create under pandemic conditions.

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This month we visit Camp Killooleet in Hancock, VT, closed this summer for the first time in 93 years.

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This month we visit Project Independence, an elderly day care facility in Middlebury, VT.

Our Listening in Place initiative is a participatory interviewing and sound recording project offering a way to connect and document the experiences of Vermonters during the COVID-19 emergency. We’ll be sharing audio recordings generated by the project in our podcast feed. This special episode of VT Untapped features three stories shared in a Virtual Story Circle hosted by VFC staff on April 5, 2020.