On our cover: A Michelle Ratté curtain

This issue’s cover is a detail from the fall-themed painted curtain by Michele Ratté (micheleratte.com; mmratte@comcast.net), one of five artists who agreed to participate in Main Street Arts’ ambitious painted curtains project. (See “Curtains up,” page 38). The result of Ratté’s art has been described by Vermont Public Radio commentator Anne Lawrence Guyon as “a stunning alchemy of past and present, organic evolution and human manipulation, fragility and mass.”

Ratté’s work can be seen in “Unravelled: Contemporary New England Fiber Art,” from Sept. 20 through Dec. 6 in the Remick Gallery at The Museums of Old York in York, Maine, and from March 14 to May 3, 2015, at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Brattleboro.