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At the corner of Main and art
A historic downtown Brattleboro address bets its future on the creative economy
By Kevin O’Connor
BRATTLEBORO, Vt.
Why would an artist, settled comfortably on a still life of a dirt road, want to invest all of one’s savings and sweat into creating an urbane downtown gallery?
Vermonter Petria Mitchell had a reason.
“I believe in introducing my work to people who want to own it,” she said.
Her partner and fellow painter, Jim Giddings, had reservations.
“Even though we’re familiar with selling, it becomes a much more difficult enterprise,” he said.
But, that didn’t stop the two from dedicating several years of planning and six figures of retirement savings into a showy exhibit space.
When they opened Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts at 183 Main St. in 2014, renowned painter Wolf Kahn wrote in the guest book: “You have brought Paris to Brattleboro.”
Agreeing, the Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce just named the couple its Entrepreneurs of the