Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice

Susan Whelihan

As a self-described “Army brat,” Susan Whelihan grew up all over the country, but one place felt like home: her great-grandmother’s house in South Strafford, Vt., which she visited every year. Those visits are the reason that, after a successful graphic-design career in New York City and a period making art in Nantucket, Whelihan finally settled in Vermont’s Upper Valley. Her broken-plate mosaics reflect her migration, some depicting images of island life, others the covered bridges of the Green Mountain State. Her work is in a show called “Pieced Together” at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H., September 20 through November 30. Pictured: “Covered Bridge.”