In the 1990 's , the town passed an ordinance stipulating that second-floor space in commercial buildings would be made available , cheap , to artists , and many moved in -- some local , some New York City transplants , including a former Balanchine set designer-turned-painter -LRB- Alain Vaes -RRB- ; a virtuoso printmaker and art historian -LRB- Carol Wax -RRB- ; and a sculptor whose work brings Herman Melville together with Hildegard of Bingen , and Emily Dickinson with Marcel Duchamp -LRB- Carla Rae Johnson -RRB- .