Connecticut Cottages & Garden Magazine (September 2024)

Written By Vinson Valega

Phoenix Rising #8

This collage I made in 2024 was included in the September 2024 edition of Connecticut Cottages & Garden magazine, which just marked their 20th anniversary:

“We inform and inspire readers with original stories on architecture and interior design, gardens, art and antiques as well as insider takes on real estate, entertaining and lifestyle pursuits.”

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20th Anniversary Edition.

Area photographers focus on scenes from around Connecticut. Pages 112-117.

Phoenix Rising #8, featured on page 116.

16 × 12 in
Paper, string, watercolor, felt, magazines, oil pastels
2024

Please visit the Connecticut Cottages & Gardens site to learn more.

Thank you!

Vinson Valega

Vinson Valega is a Media Producer, Jazz Musician & Activist.

He is a full-time freelancer attracted to compelling ideas told through creative storytelling.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics in 1987, he moved to New York and immediately fell in love with the city. In the 1990s, Vinson studied jazz performance at the Mannes College of Music (now part of the New School) and began his freelance music career. Around that time, he began booking live jazz ensembles for corporate and private events through his newly minted music agency, Just Jazz.

In 2003, his activism took off when he began blogging and making original jazz recordings accompanied by his liner notes focused on social change. Then in 2009, he turned his music label, Consilience Productions, into a 501(C)(3) Non-Profit Organization that uses music to increase civic engagement.

As his music career was proceeding, he simultaneously began working as a Project Manager on large-scale public art commissions by his wife, artist Sharon Louden. Then in 2014 after graduating from a video journalism program at the Columbia University School of Journalism, he founded Mill City Profiles, a video production company dedicated to telling important personal stories using moving images. In 2016 he added to his portfolio of creative skills by becoming a Squarespace specialist, designing beautiful mobile-friendly websites for creatives, non-profits, and small businesses.

Vinson now lives in Jackson Heights, Queens with Sharon.

http://www.vinsonvalega.com
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