From the start, there has been incredible support from the Rutland community. Mark Foley Properties has sponsored the physical space for the residencies and housing, first at 77 Grove St., and now in the historic Ripley Opera House on Merchants Row in downtown Rutland. The residency has partnered with The MINT, a state-of -the-art communal workshop and makers-space. This gives the artists who inhabit the beehive of studios at the Opera House access to tools and machinery to expand their work.
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The 77ART Residency was born out of an unusual alliance between Rutland businessman and property owner Mark Foley Jr. and retired Castleton University art professor and artist William Ramage. The residency is only the latest way in which Foley — with Ramage's help — is turning empty commercial spaces into places to create and exhibit contemporary art, at virtually no cost to the artists themselves.
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77 Art Center, now located at the Opera House on Merchants Row, will welcome 42 national and international artists to Rutland over the course of three month-long sessions — 14 each in June, August and October — a 600% expansion from its pilot year in 2018.
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