In the press

  • Harper's Magazine

    ON STONE

    Carving in the granite capital of the world

  • Vermont Folklife

    Traditional Arts Spotlight: The Long, Slow Burn of Stone Carving

  • The Rutland Herald

    May 6, 2024

    Heather Milne Ritchie, of Plainfield, sculptor and professional granite memorial carver, has worked on “American Bittern” for several years.

  • Montpelier Bridge

    August 22, 2023

    Barre Businesses Returning and Revitalized

    “My studio was heavily damaged in the flood,” said Heather Ritchie, a granite sculptor in Barre.

  • Vermont PBS

    January 18, 2021

    Heather spent 20 years carving a distinctive place for herself amongst the industry’s most talented artists.

  • Vermont Folklife Center

    November 20, 2020

    PODCAST: The Apprentices
    Heather Milne-Ritchie & Wolf Whitney

  • Yankee Magazine

    December 3, 2020

    Written in Stone | The Artisans of Hope Cemetery

  • The Barre Montpelier Times Argus

    September, 2020

    ’A Regal Couplet’: Ritchie and Cambio honor SPA’s 20th

  • The Barre Montpelier Times Argus

    February, 2020

    Art and stone: Rutland and Barre create a living legacy.

  • Sculpture Magazine

    May, 2018

    “Vulnerable yet strong, the heart seems to speak of the cost of love, open sharing, and no-holds-barred surrender.”

  • Burlington Free Press

    February, 2016

    Public Space: Barre Honors Granite Heritage With "Coffee Break"

  • Seven Days

    October, 2015

    SPA's annual "Rock Solid" exhibition is now in its 15th year, and the work is indeed rock solid — sometimes literally, always artistically.

  • Vermont Woman

    2014

    Carving Life into the World’s Hardest Stone

  • The Barre Montpelier Times Argus

    December, 2013

    Five local granite sculptors have been selected to develop designs for an artwork that will be part of the new state psychiatric hospital in Berlin.