Randall Szott

Two items documenting my participation in a residency in Italy. I left behind an annotated copy of Scott Stroud’s John Dewey and the Artful Life in the residency library. Had the Vermont General Assembly issue a resolution honoring Michelangelo Pistoletto (founder of the Unidee residency program). A copy of the resolution was sent to Pistoletto (2024 and 2025).

Story in Vermont Business Magazine about my economic development philosophy and various initiatives in the town of Johnson, VT (2025).

International residency at Cittadellarte in Biella, Italy exploring themes of community, maintenance, and place-based, site and context-responsive ways of imaging alternate futures (2024).

Co-organized a three-part process, facilitated by the Vermont Council on Rural Development to identify community priorities and create task force groups to tackle those priorities for the Town of Johnson, VT (2024-2025).

Photo series (2024).

Joined Bad at Sports as a Writer In Residence (2022).

Conversation included in Defiantly Optimistic by Jen Delos Reyes (2022).

Correspondence included in Sal Randolph’s The Uses of Art (2022).

Some diagrams of mine were included in a publication produced by the art space Compound Yellow (2020).

Essay included in the book Reading Room produced by dispersed holdings. It was selected as one of the 20 Best Art Books of 2020 by the Brooklyn Rail (2020).

Wrote a reflection published in numerous venues on the meaning of Vermont’s state motto “Freedom and Unity” during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020).

Appeared on WCVR radio’s The Heat of the House hosted by Rep. Jay Hooper to discuss Vermont politics (2020).

I was part of a profile of state legislators doing progressive agricultural advocacy in Civil Eats (2020).

Profiled in this Valley News article (2020).

Interviewed for this piece on paid family leave in Vermont (2020).

Op-ed I wrote on a paid leave bill in Vermont (2020).