Burlington Vermont’s South End is the place to be if you are an artist or if you want to immerse yourself in art because art is everywhere — indoors, outdoors, on the streets, on building exteriors, in repurposed dairy facilities, reclaimed warehouses, and yes, in dozens of galleries. You could spend days there and still not see everything. But you could break up your art consumption with samplings of local craft beer in the many tasting rooms and even stop in at a wine bar where your wine and cheese pairing is presented by a James Beard Award winner (see side box for places mentioned). It is in this thriving arts community that I visited Mary Lacy in her warehouse studio. Lacy is a muralist, and her work can be seen a few blocks down from her studio on two monumental silos adjacent to a building that now houses a design/marketing enterprise. Another work is downtown on the brick facade … [Read more...] about PUBLIC SPACE INTO MUSEUMS: LACY’S MURALS CHANGE BURLINGTON’S LANDSCAPE