Waiting for Great Ice 2022 to happen, and not wanting to focus on the changing ice & snow conditions in City Bay, a couple of us detoured south during those 40-degree days. We went to Manchester for an art outing at the Southern Vermont Art Center. The exhibition Hiroshige and the Changing Japanese Landscape on mokuhanga is both contemporary (curated under the guidance of Patty Hudak, a member of the Mokuhanga Sisters print collective) and classical (focusing on the work of 19th c. Japanese artist Hiroshige) works on paper. It was a treat to experience what woodblock printing can do—from the expansiveness of color to the extreme detail—and a breath of fresh air. www.svac.org
