STUDIOS

In addition to study nooks and the library in the 1854 brick farmhouse at Taleamor Park, there are studio spaces in two barns and a brick studio building. Studios can be arranged according to need and preference in one of the outbuildings, and of course, there is always the great out of doors.

Since the summer of 2020, Clifford has been working to restore the “small” barn which we believe is contemporaneous with the house, circa 1850. The barn got a much-needed new roof at the end of 2019. When the pandemic shut down the world, Clifford “tore” into the barn, ripping out the west wall and part of the north wall of the lower floor, refloored two rooms, and then replaced the walls with light-filtering polycarbonate panels.

Next, Clifford started on the reconfiguration of the south face. He visually recreated the proportions of the south central doors that were originally higher and wider to accommodate a wagon stacked high with loose hay or perhaps even a stagecoach. In 2018 and 2019, he and Taleamor Park assistants refurbished windows original to the barn and the farmhouse. Many of the window panes are original, retaining the distortions of 19th-century blown glass processes. Most of the windows have now been incorporated into Clifford’s barn project.

One of the rooms in the small barn is already used as a light-filled sculpture gallery. We envision other rooms serving flexibly as studio, performance, projection, and presentation spaces.