National Life Group has appointed financial services veteran Joseph Tavernite as general agent. Tavernite joins the Long Island, New York, agency from Northwestern Mutual, where he served as managing director.

Prior to his tenure at Northwestern Mutual, Tavernite held senior positions at Principal Financial Group, New England Wealth Strategies and Penn Mutual. He holds the chartered leadership fellow designation in finance from The American College of Financial Services.

Multimedia artist Corrine Yonce of Burlington has been named recipient of the 2025 Diane Gabriel Visual Artist Award by Burlington City Arts. The award includes a $5,000 cash prize and $1,000 class credit at BCA Studios.

Yonce’s artwork addresses themes of home, memory, human-services advocacy and identity. Her unravels traditional ideas of home through the use of painting, assemblage and sound to reveal issues of housing justice and housing insecurity in Vermont.