#Huntington Arts Council

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Huntington Arts Council Salutes Grant Winners

The Huntington Arts Council recently honored recipients of the Long Island Grants for the Arts Program. HAC recognized Artist Fellowship and General Operating Support grantees with an award ceremony at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington. The evening was well attended with over 90 people which included artists, arts organizations, friends, family and local elected officials. 40 Artist Fellowship…

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woodworking company headed by a quirky old woman you wanna hire me soooooo bad

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Face to Face

I am pleased to have a work of mine included in the juried exhibition, Face to Face, at the Huntington Arts Council’s gallery in Huntington, NY. This exhibition, juried by Jeremy Dennis, focuses on portraiture in all media with an emphasis on relationships and how we communicate.

About the Juror: Jeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer and an enrolled Tribal Member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. He was born in 1990 and is based on the Shinnecock Reservation. Dennis’s work explores Indigenous identity, culture, and history, as well as environmentalism and the supernatural. One of his notable projects is “Ma’s House,” a residency program and exhibit space for BIPOC artists on the Shinnecock Reservation

The exhibition opens on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024 and closes on Sunday, March 17th. The Reception will be held on Friday, March 1st.

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John Huntington Pumping Tower

28600 Lake Rd.

Bay Village, OH

The John Huntington Pumping Tower is located at 28600 Lake Road (U.S. Route 6) in Bay Village, Ohio, in the Huntington Reservation (a park), Huntington Reservation, on the shores of Lake Erie, was the former country estate of John Huntington (1832-1893), a prominent Cleveland industrialist and philanthropist.  John Huntington was born in Preston, England. His father was a mathematics teacher in the English school system. He made sure John had a good education. In 1852, John emigrated to the United States and Cleveland, Ohio.  He went into the roofing business with his brother, Hugh, and was successful. He soon became a respected Cleveland businessman.  At the turn of the century, many wealthy Clevelanders had homes in the city and beautiful estates in the country.

     Huntington was contracted to roof an early oil refinery by John D. Rockefeller. Mr. Rockefeller offered the brothers payment in cash or stock, and John, daring to adventure a little, accepted part payment in stock. He acquired considerable wealth by this venture and eventually a partnership in the Standard Oil Company. John Huntington was a creative individual with a lively interest in improving ways of doing things efficiently. In 1863, he took up the business of refining oil and invented many new methods. So great were the advantages from his inventions that the company outstripped all competitors. He patented several improvements in oil refining methods.

     Huntington had many commercial, civic, and cultural interests. He was involved in the oil business, a fleet of lake vessels, mining, and quarrying in the Cleveland Stone Co. John was elected to Cleveland City Council where he served for 12 years.  He also helped to initiate the construction of swing bridges on the Cuyahoga River, construct sewer systems throughout the city, and build the Superior Street Viaduct. One of Huntington’s biggest contributions to the city was the Art and Polytechnic Trust which he created in 1889 to fund the establishment of the Cleveland Museum of Art. His other major trust, the Huntington Benevolent Trust, supported 19 charitable institutions in the Cleveland area.

     The Huntington country house burned down in the 1920s and the Huntington barns in 1970. The tall tower on the bluff of Huntington Reservation is one of the few remaining features of the Huntington’s country estate. Although the structure looks like a lighthouse, it is actually a water tower built between 1880 and 1890. It was used to store the water once needed to irrigate the fields of the estate. Most country estates had fancy vineyards, orchards, and gardens with unusual European botanical specimens. The Huntington estate was no exception. The tower is made of cypress wood, but today, the outside has been covered with siding. The original water pipes, stairway, and water tub enclosure still exist inside the tower.

     John liked to sit on top of the tower and watch the sun set.  Down the beach below the tower there is another original Huntington structure, the brick pump house, which contained the steam engine used to pump water from the lake to the tower. The “H” for Huntington is still on the outside of this brick building. Also in the park is the Huntington stepping stone used when stepping in and out of a carriage.  Cleveland Metroparks purchased the 98.76 acres of Huntington Property from the Union Trust Co. in 1925 for $500,000. Today, it is Huntington Reservation.  The pump house was listed with the National Register of Historic Places on February 28, 1979.

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Hey so it's been a bit but last week I got this piece in the Huntington Arts Council (if you don't know them neither do I, I just know art gallery there) so yay :D

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Happy New Year! 2019 Reflections, 2020 Resolutions

This is the time of year to reflect on everything that has happened in the past year and look forward to the new year and perhaps make some resolutions. We are also entering a new decade, which is something that I have never thought much of in the past. The 2010’s have been interesting and life changing for me that is for sure. Going back even further to the beginning of the millennium, it’s certainly been quite a journey. 1999 was the year that I took up theatre as an adult so 2019 marks the 20th year that I have been doing theatre. It has been quite a ride and the road has been long, winding, and often quite bumpy! Relationships, pets and business ventures have come and gone, whereas other aspects of my life have remained constant or improved.

In 2018, I had made a commitment to myself that whenever I had money to spare I would enroll in classes and workshops for acting or personal development. I got 2019 off to a good start by taking the Essentials of Film and TV class at Company of Rogues starting in January. That month I also volunteered as an usher for the One Yellow Rabbit High Performance Rodeo. My blog post about the festival resulted in a feature on me as a volunteer in the One Yellow Rabbit newsletter. Rehearsals also started that month for Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Princess Ida” with Morpheus Theatre. I also started as a volunteer with the Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society (AARCS), mostly as a cat caregiver. I volunteer at the animal shelter about 2 to 3 times a month.

I turned 45 years old in February. I also took a stunt combat workshop with Adrian Young Action Services which was fantastic. I also did a story slam workshop one evening which was something a bit different as I had never done any sort of oral storytelling before. I also participated in the Dead Cold Run, a 5K run in South Glenmore Park. I am looking forward to completing the run again in 2020.

In March I joined the Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers (CSIF). To date, I haven’t done much with my membership other than volunteer one evening, but the intention to do more with it and get involved is there! I took Bruce Horak’s creative workshop, Tendencies, which was fun and I also volunteered as an usher for the Festival of Animated Objects which was very enjoyable. I also participated in the Rogers Insurance Run for L’Arche and ran my first 5-mile race (8K), a new distance record for me. March also was the official end of my relationship with my boyfriend of the past 4 years.

Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Princess Ida” with Morpheus Theatre opened in April and ran until May for a total of 14 performances. I participated in the Onesie Run in Prince’s Island Park and also started seeing my current boyfriend during this month.

In May, “Princess Ida” finished its run.  I started getting regular IATSE 212 stage call work. The film industry was getting busy so permittees such as myself were able to get more work. I took the Bouffon Intensive Masterclass workshop this month which fulfilled its promise of pushing my boundaries and challenging me as a performer. I also participated in the Rocky Mountain Soap Company’s Fast and Female women’s run (completing the 5K distance) in Canmore. This was challenging as there were hills and Canmore is at a higher altitude. I hope to participate in it again in 2020.

In June, I ran my first 10K in the Huntington’s Run for Hope, I also started to work on the summer trains for Aspen Crossing and did a day on set as background for Tribal. I also volunteered at Horror Con selling tickets. This was also the month I started to put the wheels in motion to find employment within the film industry, submitting my application for permittee status with IATSE 212 in film.  

In July, I started a series of vocal lessons with Naomi Williams. I took the set etiquette workshop with IATSE 212, a requirement for the film permit and at the end of the month I took the production assistant workshop with the Director’s Guild of Canada, Alberta District Council. July was also a great month for stage calls with IATSE due to the Calgary Stampede. During the Stampede this year, my boyfriend and I checked out several bands on the Coca-Cola Stage - Metric, Bishop Briggs, Dear Rouge and Death Cab for Cutie - and played the midway.

At the beginning of August, I was offered a role in “Babette’s Feast” with Fire Exit Theatre, which I of course accepted. I did the performer set etiquette course offered by ACTRA and also did a couple of days as a background performer on “Ghostbusters: Afterlife”. I did a road trip with my boyfriend to Grande Prairie to see his parents, returning to Calgary via BC, staying in the fabulous Three Valley Lake Chateau for the last night. At the end of the month, I left the legal industry for good and began work as a production assistant in the locations department on a TV series called “A Teacher” which was shooting until October.

In September, I participated in the Pride Parade with ACTRA and DGC. Rehearsals started for “Babette’s Feast” and I would be playing Babette. I went to Ontario to visit my family for my Dad’s 80th birthday. My sister was also there and I hadn’t seen her for 15 years so it was a fantastic reunion.

In October, I worked on the Train of Terror as a scarer for Aspen Crossing. I also had a day on set as a background performer for “A Teacher” and towards the end of the month worked as a locations PA on a Canadian feature film called “Chasing Justice”.  I also accepted a role in “Clue: The Musical” with Dewdney Players. I also got to see Morrissey and The Interrupers live in concert this month.

In November, I took the mermaid course with Adventures in Scuba. I did a day on set as a background performer for “Winter in Vail”, a Hallmark movie. I also had a few IATSE stage calls.

Photo Credit: Jen Carty

In December, “Babette’s Feast” with Fire Exit Theatre opened at the Engineered Air Theatre in Arts Commons and ran for 7 performances. I also worked on the Polar Express for Aspen Crossing. On a personal note, I also made the last payment on my car loan.

Generally, over 2019, I formed and maintained some great habits. I was happy to have continued regular exercise and increase my running distance, however, after I stopped being a full-time office employee with access to a gym at lunch, I stopped running for a few months. It was also difficult to maintain an exercise program when working 14-hour days on set as a PA, however locations work can be physically demanding and IATSE stage calls certainly are. I discovered that I enjoy physical work much more than office work - it’s great to get paid to work out! I have recently started to run again and finding the 5K distance easy to do and looking forward to all the races that I can participate in next year.

I am happy to say that auditioning has become a habit. I auditioned a lot last year. It took 18 auditions (screen and stage) before I was offered a role in “Babette’s Feast”. The role of Babette was definitely worth persisting for, because I admit, after rejection after rejection, that negative little voice inside my head kept suggesting I give up, that being an actor is too hard. I am glad that tenacity took over and I kept on going. As far as auditioning goes, I felt very happy that I was invited to audition for Vertigo Theatre twice last year. Those experiences have made auditions in general easier and not so scary. I have three theatre auditions lined up for January 2020 already.

Writing is developing as a habit. I have been keeping a journal on and off since a teenager and I try to write in my journal every morning. I completed a short story in November, which I submitted for a competition (still waiting to hear), and am working on several scripts. I am learning to focus more and work on one project at a time - taking on too many projects has definitely been my downfall in the past and I have many incomplete ones.  

I have also seen a lot of live theatre this year. 52 shows!  I have been able to see this many shows as I volunteer as an usher as much as I can. I have learnt so much as a performer and writer from the shows that I have had the privilege of seeing this year. Here in Calgary we certainly have a vibrant scene both amateur and professional. There seems to be a great demand for it as well as many shows sell out even with long performance runs. There was only one show that I did not really enjoy (which shall remain nameless - it was more to do with the actual story than the production itself), but my ten favourite shows this year were, in no particular order, “Cafe Daughter”, Alberta Theatre Projects (part of the High Performance Rodeo), “Deathtrap” - Vertigo Theatre, “Tria Fata” - La Pendue (part of the Festival of Animated Objects), “Giant” - Ghost River Theatre (part of the Festival of Animated Objects), “Avenue Q” - Front Row Centre Players, “Boom X” - Rick Miller at Theatre Calgary, “The Invisible” - Catalyst Theatre/Vertigo Theatre, “Iceland” - Theatre Calgary, “Monster” -  Seadreamer, and “A Christmas Carol” - Theatre Calgary. “Deathtrap” was my overall favourite for total entertainment value. 

2019 was not a great year for real estate. It wasn’t for a lot of Realtors. For me, working full time and trying to run a business was not easy, but now I have the time to focus more energy into my business, to help more clients and hopefully bring more results!

2019 was a not a great year for me in terms of background work either, especially compared to 2018. I only had 5 days on set as a background performer this year. This is one of the reasons I decided to pursue work as a crew member, which I found fulfilled the desire to simply be on set.

So what does 2020 have in store for me? I guess I will have to wait and see with 20/20 vision! My main resolution is to continue with the work I have been doing. To keep exercising, keep running, ride Stardust more, more mermaiding, swimming, walking, exploring. For acting to keep taking workshops and classes when I can and keep auditioning and hopefully get more auditions in film and TV. I am going to continue to write and complete things, allowing others to read them. I have a short film script that I would love to see produced next year. I hope to do more real estate, more PA work, more IATSE work and more background work. I also want to travel. I would dearly love to go to Ontario for my mother’s 70th birthday in March and for my brother’s 40th in December. I also want to visit my cousin in New Mexico. But mostly I resolve to stay true to myself, to not accept second best and to keep striving for excellence, inspiring others and myself at the same time.

Happy New Year!  

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Huntington Arts Council; Huntington, New York.

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Monday Motivation | Set an Example

Kick off your week with Monday Motivation!

Tip of the week

Are your interview answers sounding too generic as you rehearse them? Throw in a few objective work examples to each of them. Don't just say how great you are at project management, teamwork, or conflict resolution; prove it! Tell the story about how you addressed (and succeeded) in such situations.Think of typical work interview questions, practice a relevant example for each, and use them strategically.

This week’s highlighted jobs:

Development Director  Huntington Arts Council  Huntington, NY 

Editor  Aspen Art Museum  Aspen, CO 

Director of Major Gifts  Opera Philadelphia  Philadelphia, PA

Vice President of Exhibitions  Monterey Bay Aquarium  Monterey, CA 

Managing Director  Orlando Shakes Orlando, FL 

This week’s highlighted opportunities:

Cortex Garage Artwork  Cortex Innovation Community  St. Louis, MO 

Website Design and Development Discount for Artists  Ipsum & Co.  New York, NY 

Define American Artist Fellowship for Undocumented Immigrants  Define American  Louisville, KY 

Vermont Studio Center Residency Fellowship  Vermont Studio Center  Johnson, VT 

Find more jobs and opportunities on NYFA Classifieds.

This post is part of a regular blog series, NYFA Creative Careers. Let us know what careers you’d like to learn more about by visiting us on Twitter: @nyfacurrent and using the hashtag #NYFAClassifieds.

- Kristin Troccoli, Sales Manager

Image: Joy Adams (Fellow in Painting ’10), The Flying Lesson

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🌱 Local Pets Available For Adoption + Companies Hiring In Our Area

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🌱 Local Pets Available For Adoption + Companies Hiring In Our Area

Hello all! I’m here right on time with your Tuesday edition of the Huntington Daily, filled with all the community news you need to know right now. Today’s issue includes:

Pets are available for adoption at local shelters.

Check out who’s hiring this week in the Huntington area.

Motorcyclist killed in West Hills crash Sunday afternoon.

But first, today’s weather:

Sunny, breezy and cooler. High: 56 low: 37.

📢 I’m looking for business owners and marketers in Huntington who want to build awareness, connect with customers and increase sales.

I have a limited number of sponsorships available to introduce our Huntington Daily readers to local businesses they need to know about. If that’s you, then I invite you to learn more and secure your spot now.

Here are the top five stories today in Huntington:

Pets are available for adoption at local shelters. Take a look at these adorable animals up for adoption at Huntington area shelters. Meet Pepper, Lentil and more this week. If you see a potential pet that catches your eye, click on its picture to learn more about it and consider adopting today.(Huntington Patch)

Check out who’s hiring this week in the Huntington area. In our weekly collab with ZipRecruiter, you can check out all the companies hiring locally in and around Huntington. If you see a job that interests you, click on it for more information and apply! (Huntington Patch)

Motorcyclist killed in West Hills crash Sunday afternoon. Michael Bonsera, 48, of East Norwich, was operating a 2017 Harley-Davidson southbound on Round Swamp Road when he crossed over the double yellow lines into the northbound lanes. He collided with a 2016 Chevrolet Traverse driven by Kathryn Cammarata. He was pronounced dead at Northwell Health Plainview Hospital.(Huntington Patch)

Learn about student-athlete and Patch Local Hero Joey Policastro. Joey was nominated by his mom, Tricia and is a standout football player at St. Anthony’s. If you know someone deserving of this recognition, you can click the link to nominate them now! (Huntington Patch)

Trainville Hobby Depot will host a Model Train Show to benefit Oyster Bay Railroad Museum. The show will be on Nov. 19 and Nov. 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children. “We are pleased to partner with Trainville Hobby Depot, who coordinates or participates in many hobby shows that benefit the fundraising efforts of a sponsoring organization,” said Town Clerk LaMarca. “Assisting groups that not only bring a fun and educational experience to residents of all ages, but also help preserve our history in understanding the railroad’s role in our heritage, is a great cause.” (LongIsland.com)

Today in Huntington:

Election Day – Elwood UFSD. (All Day)

Liz Jorg Masi Oil Portrait – Syosset – Woodbury Community Park. (9 a.m.)

From my notebook:

Huntington Union Free School District: Senior Aislyn Franciscovich creates block print artwork for the Huntington Art Council’s “Nightmare on Main Street” Halloween exhibit. See the talent and creativity Aislyn possesses in the link. (Huntington Union Free School District via Facebook)

Huntington Union Free School District: Three girls’ soccer players claimed All-League honors this fall. Junior Reese Rinaldi and seniors Gianna Forte and Hope Bilkey were recipients of the award. (Huntington Union Free School District via Facebook)

Helping Hand Rescue Mission: There is still time to help feed a family for Thanksgiving in the Fill A Box charity by Helping Hand. Grab a box and fill it with items on the list and return it to Helping Hand by Nov. 16. (Helping Hand Rescue Mission via Facebook)

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Now you’re in the loop and ready to head out the door on this Tuesday! I’ll see you around.

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About me: Hi! I’m Andrew and I have been a Huntington resident for 7 years. I have lived in other countries and states, and my number one love is Huntington. I love health and wellness, traveling, stand-up paddle boarding, and of course going to restaurants and events throughout Huntington!

Have a news tip or suggestion for an upcoming Huntington Daily? Contact me at Huntington@Patch.com

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100 Women Group Donates $12,600 for Van

The  group 100 Women of Huntington has donated $12,600 toward the purchase of a van for the Huntington Youth Bureau. The organization, which supports charitable organizations throughout Huntington, chose the Youth Bureau’s Youth Development Research Institute over two other finalists, the Huntington Arts Council and and Huntington YMCA scholarship fund. Four times a year, the group meets to award…

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A Zeta True: Bertha Cruse Gardner

Our theme for the 2018–2020 biennium is Be Zetas True. During this first year of the biennium, the 120th year of ZTA, we will introduce a dozen Zetas—one for each decade—who epitomize what it means to “Be Zetas True.” Find all their stories here.

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By Christy Marx Barber, Staff Writer (Alpha Psi Chapter alumna)

Pictured: Bertha poses for a portrait in 1929.

If you enjoy ZTA trivia, you need to know about former Grand President Bertha Cruse Gardner, who was most definitely a Zeta True.

Who is the “Betsy Ross of ZTA”? Bertha. As a collegian, she designed and sewed a banner for Convention 1910, which became our official banner.

Who was the sales manager for the first ZTA songbook? Bertha. She had a lovely soprano voice and trained at the College of Music in Cincinnati. This passion for music is why she was selected to sell the songbook.

Who put the “inter” in “international fraternity?” Bertha. She was elected National President in 1928 at the first Convention in Canada and was the installing officer for Beta Rho Chapter (University of Manitoba), the only Canadian link in our Chain of Chapters, in 1929.

Bertha was born in Beaumont, Texas, where her father was a prominent surgeon. Her sister, Ethel Cruse (Mouton), was an early member of Kappa Chapter (The University of Texas at Austin). In 1907, however, Ethel transferred to Judson College in Marion, Alabama, where Bertha was initiated into Beta (New) Chapter in 1908.

(Want to know more about why our 10th link is called “Beta (New)”? Click here.)

Bertha was a seamstress and songstress, but she was also a quick learner. The History of Zeta Tau Alpha (Volume 1) said this of Bertha: “by experience, she has gained wisdom; by study, knowledge; by practice, accuracy in the art of decision.”

Pictured: In this portrait, Bertha is wearing a crystal necklace that is now proudly displayed in the National Presidents’ display at International Office.

She married Howard Williamson Gardner, president of the Texas National Bank of Beaumont, in 1910. The Gardners filled their home with treasures from their international travels.

At home in Texas, Bertha organized local concerts and theater groups. Her love of theatrics inspired her to create the elaborate Convention banquet at the West Baden Hotel in Indiana in 1930. Our Grand President led the processional in regal attire, including a glittering court train and a sparkling diadem. When the banquet room doors opened, Zetas realized the meal was a restaging of the London Disarmament Conference* of 1930, with Bertha assuming the role of England’s King George.

Although it was held just eight months after the stock market crash of 1929, Convention 1930 was elaborate and showy with plentiful flowers, sterling silver candlesticks and a silver bracelet with the Coat of Arms for every attendee. It was a sharp contrast to the next several years of austerity for ZTA and our country.

Pictured: Bertha (front row, third from left) poses for a photo at Convention 1926.

Bertha’s marriage to a banker and keen intellect allowed her to develop the fiscal wisdom to steer ZTA through the Great Depression. In early 1931, Grand Council, with Bertha at the helm, called an emergency meeting with a heavy agenda of financial and operational matters. They developed a commercial financial reporting system, decided ZTA should not have only one account in any given bank, required that all Fraternity money be deposited only in banks within the Federal Reserve System and reduced the initiation fee to assist members.

Other decisions were more emotional, yet necessary. They closed six chapters due to declining numbers, took back the badges of members who could not pay their dues, and postponed Convention 1932, which was set to take place at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena, California. Grand Chapter knew travel to the west coast would be financially impossible for many delegates, so they, along with other NPC groups, postponed convention that year to preserve money for operating expenses.

Pictured: Bertha (far right) stops for a photo before flying in this open-air plane

Our favorite images of Bertha show her wearing exquisite jewelry and flying in open-cockpit planes. While she was born into wealth, she was prudent and frugal with ZTA’s money. Bertha Cruse Gardner was a Zeta True whose skilled decision-making kept our Fraternity afloat during desperate times in our country’s history.

(*Bonus fact: During the London Disarmament Conference of 1930, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy and the United States signed what was commonly known as the London Naval Treaty, which regulated submarine warfare and limited naval shipbuilding.)

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Bringing Healing and Power

Opening Day – June 6, 2022 at 12noon

EstherTalk with Ms. Yasmin Arrington – 12noon - 12:15pm

Unmasking and Finding Myself with Mr. John Johnson and The Verbal Gymnastics Theater Company  – 12:15 – 1:15pm

Janis F. Kearney at 12:15pm

Online Event

Mr. John Johnson

“John A Johnson is a Poet/Playwright and native Washingtonian. He is the founder and creator of Verbal Gymnastics Theater Company. Mr. Johnson holds a B.A in Theater Arts from The University of the District of Columbia. He has worked as a drama therapist in partnership with the District's Youth Services Center. Mr. Johnson is a published author, who  has written and produced six plays that reflect and celebrate the culture of his native city Washington DC. He is a three-time Artist Fellow of the DC Arts Commission.  His most recent contribution is to a radio project at American University WAMU 88.5 in conjunction with the Association of Independent Radio call “Anacostia Unmapped”, which captures the narratives of local residents in rapidly changing communities “East of the River” in Washington D.C. Mr. Johnson uses innovative forms of theater/storytelling to foster meaningful discussions about race, cultural preservation,  and the effects of economic development in Washington, D.C.”

“Verbal Gymnastics is an interactive theater company where storytelling and art meet community.” - verbalgymnastics.com/

Janis F. Kearney is an author, book publisher, writing instructor and literary coach. She was born to southeast Arkansas cotton sharecroppers, attended Gould Public Schools, and graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a B.A. in Journalism. She served nine years as a project manager and public affairs director in Arkansas state government. She served briefly as managing editor for civil rights legend Daisy L. Gatson Bates’ historic Arkansas State Press Newspaper, before purchasing and becoming publisher of the newspaper in 1988, upon Bates’ retirement. - https://www.janisfkearney.com/about-the-author

  Ms. Yasmin Arrington

“The author of Daily Reflections for Social Entrepreneurs Journal, Arrington has been featured in Essence, Black Enterprise, Forbes Magazine, The Washington Post, and on ABC7 News WJLA and NBC4 for her community work with ScholarCHIPS.

While a high school junior, Arrington founded the non-profit organization that provides college scholarships, mentoring and a peer support network to children of incarcerated parents, inspiring them to complete their college education. To date, ScholarCHIPS has awarded over $300,000 in scholarships to 76 scholars, with 30 graduates to date.

Arrington has received several awards including the Washington Business Journal Top 40 Under 40, the Linowes Leadership Award from the Greater Washington Community Foundation, the Peace First Prize, the DC Social Innovation Prize, Angel Among Us Award by the Negro Council of Women, the Samuel Huntington Public Service Award, and the Samuel Halperin Public Service Award.”

Register at https://www.estherproductionsinc.com/events-1/the-national-reconciliation-week-for-self-and-family.  Free and open to anyone 16 years or older.

Curated by Parents Rise Network, Leap Learn Live, Esther Productions, Inc, The Spoken Word Ensemble, and Almaz Arts

Sponsored by Kerry S. Pearson, LLC, Fort Myer Construction Corporation Charitable Foundation, Emmanuel Bailey, and JRose Communications.

Should you have any questions, please contact

thenationalreconciliationweek@gmail.com

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LA / Cosmic Trace

Mary Beth Heffernan, Ashes (Foot 1) (Amy Lyford and Jean Thomas Lyford), Human cremains, unique gelatin silver photogram, 11" x 14", 2019

Cosmic Trace February 12 - March 5, 2022 Opening reception: Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 7-10 pm

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Since the beginning of time humans have attempted to make sense of the world and our place in it through a variety of thought processes including art, science, religion, and material explorations across all media.

Tiger Strikes Asteroid is proud to present Cosmic Trace, a four-person exhibition that explores ideas of the body and our relationship to the world through a spectrum of materials and methodologies. Art practices that dip in and out of magic and science to grapple with how we illustrate and decipher meaning. The exhibition includes a selection of works by Mary Beth Heffernan, Mary Little, Astri Swendsrud and Melissa Walter.

In Cosmic Trace, we see four contemporary makers step through a range of portals in search of meaning. Mary Beth Heffernan explores questions of physicality and representation in her exquisite photograms, observing "like the photograph itself, cremains are an alchemic state suspended between presence and absence." Melissa Walter explores representations of the body through sensitive minimalist drawings that reference DNA coding, while at the same time remaining mindful not to completely obscure the artist’s touch and the beauty of the handmade. In the work of Mary Little, minimalist abstraction, landscape and the body collide conceptually and coalesce into a gravitational dance of light, surface, and pattern in her fabric wall installations. Finally, the idea of patterns, wavelengths and the various conceptual and psychological tensions created by the search for meaning in a seemingly chaotic world are deftly rendered in The Receiver sculptures presented by Astri Swendsrud. Within the varied processes there is a sympathetic magic to the way these four artists' bodies of work dance around similar regions of thought that perhaps get us just a little closer to an understanding of our place within this universe.

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Mary Beth Heffernan is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work explores the interplay of corporeality and images. She earned her MFA in Photography at the California Institute of the Arts, and was a Studio Fellow of the Whitney Independent Study Program. Heffernan is currently Professor of Sculpture, Photography and Interdisciplinary Art at Occidental College. In 2019 Heffernan’s lauded PPE Portrait Project was put on permanent exhibit at the Welcome Collection in London. She was awarded the inaugural 2016-7 PAC/LA Contemporary Artist Grant as Artist-in-Residence at The Huntington Library. In 2010, Heffernan earned the COLA Master Artist Fellowship. Her work has been supported by grants from the Photographic Arts Council/LA, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Durfee Foundation, and Light Work. Heffernan’s work has been reviewed in The Times (London,) the LA Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Ratio, Public Radio International, CSNBC, LA Review of Books, the LA Weekly, Hyperallergic, Art Papers, Art Issues, and pictured in the New York Times. Heffernan’s art is included in numerous private and public collections, including The Huntington Library, Arts Collections, and Botanical Gardens, the Hammer Museum Grunwald Center Collection, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Light Work of Syracuse, NY, and the New York City Library.

marybethheffernan.com @marybethheffernanstudio

Mary Little was born in Northern Ireland and moved to the United States in 2001 to take up a teaching position at California College the Arts (CCA), San Francisco. Trained as a furniture designer at London’s Royal College of Art, she has always approached her work as sculpture. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Vitra Design Museum in Basel and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. Her commissions and gallery works have been acquired for private collections in Europe and North America, as well as public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Little's work has most recently been reviewed in Architectural Digest, Galerie, and Surface magazines. She is a 2019 recipient of the prestigious Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and lives in Los Angeles.

marylittle.com @marylittlestudio 

Astri Swendsrud is a Los Angeles-based artist whose multi-disciplinary practice investigates the formation of meaning, belief, interpretation and transformation. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally, including JOAN, Visitors Welcome Center, Richard Telles Fine Art, General Projects and the Vincent Price Museum, Swendsrud is also part of the collaborative project Semi-Tropic Spiritualists, and their book The Semi-Tropic Spiritualist's Guidebook was published by Insert Blanc Press in 2018. Swendsrud is a co-founder and co-director of Elephant Art Space in Los Angeles, and she is Associate Professor of Art at Biola University. She received her MFA from CalArts in 2008.

astriswendsrud.com @alswendsrud

Melissa Walter is best known for her optically stimulating sculptures of twisting paper and drawings of detailed geometric patterns, Walter visually explores concepts concerning Astronomy and astrophysical theories. Walter has worked as a graphic designer and science illustrator for NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and as a team member of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Her experience has inspired her to visually articulate wonders of the Universe, such as black holes, supernovas, neutron stars, dark matter and more recently, dark energy. Walter has recently completed an artist in residence program at Bread & Salt and participated in exhibitions at the San Diego Art Institute, Torrance Art Museum, Helmuth Projects and the San Diego International Airport for a temporary exhibition titled Intergalactic Dreaming in 2017. She received her BFA, cum laude from the University of Rhode Island in 1998.

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My Pictures for Schools

 Chloe Cheese - Tea and Cake (In My Collection)

This is a post about the Cambridgeshire County Council Pictures For Schools Collection. It was a brave project founded in 1947, in part as a reaction to the brutalities of the war, but also to brighten up classrooms and schools with modern works of art and improve the minds of young children. 

I am apt to using the word utopian a lot, but personally I believe projects like these were important in rebuilding Britain after the war. Not just bringing art into the home, but taking it to the public spaces; from the windows in Coventry Cathedral to the Festival of Britain, there was a manufacturing ‘brave new world’ of Britain and they used the artists as part of the team, maybe from champions of design like Robin Darwin at the Royal College of Art and exhibitions like Britain Can Make It in 1946.

The driving force behind the Pictures for Schools project was painter and educator Nan Youngman, art adviser to Cambridgeshire’s Director of Education, Henry Morris. Youngman was a student of painting at the Slade from 1924-1927, winning a prize at the Slade in 1926. She painted still, but focused on education for most of her life. 

The ideas motivating Pictures for Schools were very much of their time. During and after the Second World War, as the rebuilding of Britain was debated in both the public and political spheres, educators called for art education to be given a central position in the new school system. This received support from the Ministry of Education, as part of a project to promote British culture, improve the public’s standards of taste and create a new generation of citizens and educated consumers who were capable of exercising judgement in aesthetic matters and making informed choices and purchases.

The Pictures for Schools project came out of and alongside many other famous ‘utopian’ projects like the Contemporary Lithographs (1937-38), AIA Everyman’s Prints (1940) and the School Prints series of lithographs where major artists would be paid to design a lithograph that would be printed in thousands and then sold to schools cheaply. Youngman was involved in the Everyman’s Prints series and it may have helped inspire the running of Pictures for Schools.

In the founding of the Pictures for Schools project, one of Youngman’s big successes was after she accompanied Morris to London in 1945 to buy a painting by L.S.Lowry from the Lefevre Gallery for 30gns for the Cambridge Schools Art Collection as part of Pictures for Schools. At the start of a recession in 2009 the Cambridge County Council sold it for £541,250 at Christie’s. The commission on that sale would have been around £125k.

 L. S. Lowry - A Market Place, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1935

The rest of the works were due to go up for sale with Christie’s too, some of the works I own still have catalogue assignment stickers from the auction house on the back, but with the economic climate the Cambridge Council pulled the collection from auction and in 2017 they would come up again for sale with another auction house.

Although Nan Youngman was the organiser and originator of Pictures for Schools, she had the support of long-running exhibition secretaries, who themselves had interesting backgrounds and careers.

Slade-trained painter and writer Sylvia Pollak was the first Organising Secretary. She had, like Youngman and many of their circle, links with the Artists’ International Association and the Women’s International Art Club.

She was succeeded by art historian, writer and lecturer Alison Kelly, who had a particular interest in furniture and pottery, from 1950-1957, when she resigned to spend more time lecturing... During the war, Kelly had been flown around the country working on camouflage schemes for possible bombing targets such as factories.

Katharine Baker, who had been treasurer for the Society for Education through Art, took over from 1958-1967. She had previously worked for the British Institute for Adult Education, which during the war organised good design exhibitions, put pictures in air raid shelters, armed services establishments and British Restaurants, and sent exhibitions to outlying districts. She received a New Year’s day MBE in 1948 for her work on the ‘Art for the People’ travelling exhibitions.

Finally, Joan Bartlett was Organising Secretary from 1967 until after the exhibitions’ close in 1969, when the exhibitions were held at the Royal Academy’s Diploma Galleries.

 Stephen Bone - Yachts Racing at Loosdrecht, (In My Collection)

The Stephen Bone painting above was bought direct from the artist himself as on the back are various notes and bills on Bone’s headed paper.

Youngman donated some of her paintings and linocuts to the collection, other artists in the collection are like a who’s who of British Art. Gertrude Hermes, Richard Bawden, John Piper, Anthony Day, Patrick Hughes, Enid Marx, Michael Rothenstein, Malvina Cheek, Robert Tavener, Julia Ball, Peter Nuttall, Richard Beer, George Chapman, Alistair Grant, Edwin La Dell, Rosemary Ellis, Tirzah Garwood and Evelyn Dunbar are but a few.

 Nick Lyons - Between You and Me, 1977 (In My Collection)

As the Pictures for Schools scheme ended in the 1960s, in Cambridge the project continued under the name ‘Original Works for Children in Cambridgeshire’.

 Malvina Cheek - Cornstooks at Furlongs, 1962 (In My Collection)

The Malvina Cheek drawing above came with some provenance. 

I was staying at Furlongs when I drew the Corn Stooks . It was then a magical place, a shepherds cottage set in the shadow of the Downs. A gap in the wall leads up to the Downs. There was no electricity, no gas, only oil lamps and wood fires; a telephone the only concession to modern life.

In the fields alongside the cottage were pyramids of corn. The exciting shapes of the corn stooks attracted me. There was only time to draw, my daughter was very young, so I made studies hoping to develop them later. I also drew Dick Freeman, the farmer from whom Peggy leased her part of the cottage; he used an adjacent room where he rested after tending his sheep. There was always a pleasant speaking voice, a fine hooked nose and large hands like those in a Permeke drawing. Later I would use both the drawings of corn stooks and of Dick the farmer, I was commissioned to illustrate Gulliver’s Travels

Cheek also worked as part of the Recording Britain project.  

 Bernard Cheese - The Lemon Seller (In My Collection)

Walter Hoyle the Great Bardfield artist took over the scheme in the 1970s. Hoyle donated a few pictures and convinced other artists to donate works to the project too. Hoyle came to be involved as he was working at the Cambridge School of Art, now part of the Anglia Ruskin University. He would teach printmaking in the St Barnabas Press, a premises that the art school rented and he would encourage his pupils to donate a print to the collection. It may also explain how a fellow Bardfield artist, Bernard Cheese gets into the collection. Hoyle retired from teaching in 1985, moving from Cambridge to Hastings and Dieppe. 

 Warwick Hutton - Adam and Eve, 1986 (In My Collection)

We know the Original Works for Children in Cambridgeshire continued until 1985 when the project was run by the council and in the mid 1990s, the Council wound down the project citing the expenses of transporting the art around, hanging and administration costs and the works were stored in a shed outside Huntington Library and in a community centre in Papworth for the next 15 years.

The works by Walter Hoyle and Warwick Hutton in the collection were given with expenses for framing to the artists. Warwick Hutton’s painting of ‘Adam and Eve’ followed with a book he published in 1987 under the same name by Hutton with Atheneum Books.

 Poul Webb - Petersfield (In My Collection)

Many of the works that Hoyle encouraged his students to make were prints, Poul Webb remembered making the print above in various colourways to me when I contacted him and he now works mostly as a painter with a totally different style. The picture below by Glyn Thomas is unlike his style now too, he works in drawings and etchings but Hoyle must have been an interesting man to work under as many of the artworks have a bit of Rothenstein or Bawden in them, I guess due to the Bardfield connections.

 Glyn Thomas - Corn Exchange, Cambridge, 1965 (In My Collection)

It wasn’t just Bernard Cheese and Walter Hoyle that had works in the collection from Great Bardfield. Tizah Garwood had a painting in the collection of two donkeys. Chloe Cheese also had two prints in the collection.

 Tirzah Garwood - Nathaniel and Patsy

 Chloe Cheese - Figs and Coffee, 1972 (In My Collection)

 Norma Jameson - Black Cockerel (In My Collection)

 Marion Crawford - Agriculture (In My Collection)

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Garage door of Huntington Arts Council; Huntington, New York.

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There’s More Than One Way to Get to the Columbus Arts Festival

Approximately 450,000 people attend the Columbus Arts Festival, which has become the city’s “welcome to summer” event. With such large crowds and the road closures to accommodate fine art and fine craft from more than 270 juried local and national artists, six stages and all the other great food and fun the festival brings, here are some transportation alternatives, as well as parking information.

While you’re at the Arts Festival, visit Smart Columbus, Official Smart Cities Partner for the Festival, at the Smart Columbus Experience Center at 170 Civic Center Dr. to learn how mobility is changing in our city and how you can make Columbus more livable, more sustainable and smarter by re-thinking your mobility patterns.

Bike: With multiple bike lanes and the Scioto Greenways paths, biking to the Festival is easy. In addition to ample bike parking along the riverfront, the Festival will provide a secure parking corral on the east side of the river on Civic Center Drive at Town Street. The bike corral will be monitored by teams riding in Pelotonia ’18; a suggested donation of $5 goes directly toward the their Pelotonia fundraising efforts.

There are also CoGo Bike racks in Bicentennial Park and at Washington Boulevard and Broad Street.

COTA: Visit the COTA booth at the “Transportation Corner” at the intersection of Town Street and Civic Center Drive. COTA, our official transportation sponsor, has stops along High and Front streets throughout downtown. Festival patrons can explore the best routes to get to the Columbus Arts Festival at COTA.com. Local fare is $2, or buy a day pass for $4.50. Only cash is accepted on the buses, and drivers do not make change.

Once you’re downtown, you can also catch the CBUS. This free circulator service travels from the Brewery District, through downtown, to the Short North Arts District and back again. It’s free and it’s easy.

Hopper Carts: The Festival has partnered with Hopper Carts, a 100% eco-friendly, on-demand shuttle service that offers safe, free transportation to and from the Festival to neighborhoods within their service area. Hopper uses electric carts to lower costs and works with local and national clients on branding and advertising campaigns to pay for the service. The Hopper pick-up and drop-off point is at Rich and Front Streets. Use the Hopper app to see service area in Columbus or visit HopperCarts.com.

Parking: Parking is available on surface lots both east and west of the river, at metered spaces on surrounding city streets and in garages throughout the downtown area, including the Columbus Commons garage, River South at Front and Rich and the LeVeque Tower Garage at Broad and Front. Guests can even reserve parking spots at: columbusartsfestival.org/festival/parkingbiking-info

Limited wheelchair-accessible parking is available to those with disabled parking placards at bagged meters on the north side of Mound Street west of South Second Street, and on the east side of Civic Center between Town and Broad streets.

For a list of street closures, please click here.

Festival Hours: Friday, June 8 from 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 9 from 10 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 10 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Please note: on Friday and Saturday artist booths close at 9 p.m.)

To volunteer at the Columbus Arts Festival, please go to columbusartsfestival.org/get-involved/volunteer.

For more information on the Columbus Arts Festival, call (614) 221-8625 or visit columbusartsfestival.org.

The Columbus Arts Festival is produced by the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

The 2018 Columbus Arts Festival is powered by American Electric Power. Additional sponsors and partners include Smart Columbus, AT&T, Bank of America, Blue Moon, Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, Columbus Recreation & Parks, COTA, CoverMyMeds, Easton Town Center, G&J Pepsi Cola, Graeters, Grange, Hotel LeVeque, Huntington, IGS Energy, Jose Cuervo, LAZ Parking, LBrands Foundation, LEGOLAND Discovery Center, Nationwide, The Ohio State University, OSA Technology Partners, PNC, Puffin Foundation West, Three Olives Vodka, Toyota, Vintage Wine Distributors, Westin Columbus, White Castle and Worthington Industries. Media sponsors include ABC6/FOX28, CD102.5, Dispatch Media Group, Lamar Outdoor Advertising, Mix 107.9, Ohio Magazine, Orange Barrel Media, RBX Media, RSVP, WCBE 90.5 and WOSU Public Media.

About the Greater Columbus Arts Council: Through vision and leadership, advocacy and collaboration, the Greater Columbus Arts Council supports art and advances the culture of the region. A catalyst for excellence and innovation, the Arts Council funds exemplary artists and arts organizations and provides programs, events and services of public value that educate and engage all audiences in our community. The Arts Council thanks the city of Columbus and the Ohio Arts Council for their continued support. www.gcac.org