The Artisan Studio’s help in cutting and editing the personal documentary, finding musicians to compose original scores, providing a place for interviews, giving guidance on entering festival and developing a distribution plan, and other support helped in countless ways. The feature-length film premiered at Brucemore in March 2025 and the 11-minute short film version already has been accepted to several film festivals, winning two awards to date. Plans for the distribution of the full-length film have yet to be announced. His father’s face is featured on the poster for the film.
Glazier sees the Artisan Studio as continuing the legacy of the Douglases and the Halls, residents of Brucemore, who supported Grant Wood and other Midwest artists.
Jennifer Beall, Brucemore’s events and communications coordinator, said From Iowa and Back is an example of the ways in which projects from Artisan Studio can go beyond the walls of Brucemore.
Singer-Songwriter Marcy Each
Marcy Each went to Nashville to record her first album. But her most recent album is being recorded and produced closer to home at Brucemore, with Estella working as one of its producers. Several of her original songs from the new album were performed for an audience sitting under the stars on Brucemore’s Artisan Studio lawn, backed by the Brucemore band . The full album will be released in summer 2025 and will be available on most streaming platforms.
“Working with Brucemore’s Artisan Studio has helped me grow both as an artist and a songwriter,” Each said. “Because this opportunity allowed me to have more time in the studio with gifted musicians, I was able to be creative and take risks both in the types of songs I was writing and the way I interpreted and sang them. Compared with my previous work, this project took me out of my sweet and simple comfort zone of acoustic guitars and soothing vocals and challenged me to explore pain and grit in both my writing and singing voice.”
