The Barn

The Barn is a recording studio on the property of Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, located in the Green Mountains near Burlington, Vermont.

The door of the outhouse on the south side of the barn serves as the cover of Phish's Farmhouse album.

Reconstructed between 1996 and 1998 from an existing structure, the Alan Irish Barn, The Barn has been used by Phish to record several albums and has hosted all of Anastasio's projects since 1998. In addition, several other artists have recorded or performed at The Barn, including Béla Fleck, John Patitucci, DJ Logic, Toots & the Maytals, Tony Levin, Umphrey's McGee, The Slip, John Medeski, Jerry Douglas, Patty LaBelle, Leo Kottke, Jim Carrey, Addison Groove Project, and Touchpants.

The Barn now serves as the home to the Seven Below Arts Initiative, a non-profit organization formed to advance arts education in Vermont. Following Anastasio's sold-out benefit shows at Webster Hall in New York City, The Barn was modified from a commercial recording facility into an artistic studio, providing housing and studio space to artists participating in the Seven Below residency program. Seven Below has been working with Burlington City Arts to facilitate arts education activities to under-served populations since 2007.

The Barn (Los Angeles)

Coordinates: 34°03′30″N 118°25′19″W / 34.058461°N 118.421811°W / 34.058461; -118.421811

The Barn is a house built by A. Quincy Jones in 1950. Originally designed to be his personal home and office. In 2008 Jones' wife put the home on sale, it sold for US$2,000,000 to the Annenberg Foundation. The Annenberg Foundation uses the building as office space and for private events.

Renovation

The Annenberg Foundation hired Frederick Fisher to renovate the building after they acquired it in November 2009.Fisher kept the building nearly original, only updating the ventilation and light fixtures.

References

The Barn (comic strip)

The Barn is a comic created by Canadian cartoonist Ralph Hagen and syndicated by Creators Syndicate in October, 2008. While the strip has a number of characters, the humor of the strip is based on the daily adventures, mishaps, and/or dialogue between a curious sheep named Rory and a sarcastic bull named Stan. Storylines mimic the everyday experiences of their human captors. The setting is a farm yard next door to a veterinary clinic, where Stan and Rory usually spend time with the owner and vet, Brenda.

After 25 years working in the Chevron oilfields of Alberta, Hagen took an early retirement in 2004 and decided to work as a cartoonist full-time. While developing potential strips for syndication he worked as a freelance artist selling to clients, newspapers, and magazines such as Readers Digest, Saturday Evening Post and Woman's World. Hagen turned in multiple strips to syndicates hoping for a contract with no success. Hagen then come up with two concepts: one Hagen drew rough drafts of a strip that involved farm animals, with a bull and sheep as the main characters; the other Hagen created was about animals in a vet clinic. The creators then suggested to combine the two ideas. Hagen turned in 20 rough drafts to Creators Syndicate and within weeks got a contract. After 6 months of preparation and revision, the strip was released in October, 2008.

Avi (author)

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937), better known by the pen name Avi, is an American author of young adult and children's literature. He is a winner of the Newbery Medal and twice one of the runners-up (Newbery Honor).

Biography

Avi and his twin sister Emily Leider, also a writer, were born in New York City to Joseph Wortis, a psychiatrist, and Helen Wortis, a social worker. When he was young his sister gave him the nickname "Avi." Two of Avi's grandfathers were writers, and one grandmother was a playwright. In interviews, he recalled his mother reading to him and his sister every night, and going to the public library on Fridays. He is also the first cousin of the Academy Award-winning actor Alan Arkin.

Avi's parents transferred him adgere from Stuyvesant High School to Elisabeth Irwin High School, a smaller private school. There he studied with a tutor, Ella Ratner, whom he credits for his writing success. He struggled in school due to suffering from dysgraphia, a writing disorder.