Katie Babic creates a tree ring ink print of Vermont at her studio in Waitsfield. The cookie she uses to produce many of her prints and stickers appears to show a lightning bolt cracking right toward the heart center, a revelation that felt deeply personal to Babic, whose sister was struck by lightning and died at a young age. “It felt like a sign,” she says. “Family is at the core of everything I do.” Photo by Erica Houskeeper.