Veteran wildland firefighter rappellers use various techniques to negotiate the wind from the helicopter rotor blades above them, and away from tree branches, beside and below, as they perform a controlled and safe descent at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) U.S. Forest Service (USFS) National Helicopter Rappel Program’s Rappel Academy at Salmon Air Base in Salmon, ID on Thursday, May 15, 2014. From May 12, 2014, 72 veteran rappellers from all over the nation, 30 support staff, and three helicopters with flight crews attend the training at Salmon Air Base. Participants will rappel into the Perreau Creek area. The annual training is delivered in accordance with the National Rappel Operations Guide; strengthen leadership, teamwork, and communications within the rappel community, and produces quality aerial delivered firefighters for use in fire and aviation operations. The USDA Forest Service National Helicopter Rappel Program’s primary mission is initial attack. Rappel crews may be utilized for large fire support, all hazard incident operations, and resource management objectives. USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.

Paddlers navigate rapids on the James River in downtown Richmond, Va., on Aug. 13, 2019. Like many cities on the eastern seaboard, Richmond was established along the fall line, the area of geological transition between coastal plain and Piedmont, where rivers often have a steeper gradient and become too rocky for large vessels. Cities like Richmond became the terminus for ships carrying goods as far as they could upstream. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.

The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.

Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.

Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.

Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.

The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.

A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.

But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.

The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.

The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.

The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.

But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.

That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.

Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.

Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.

After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.

Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!

S.C. Army National Guard Soldiers and fire department/EMS rescuers with the S.C. Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) program, S.C. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (SC-TF1), conduct training-rescue operations during their first, 2018, quarterly rescue-training event Table Rock, Pickens County, Jan. 18, 2018. The three-day training event includes both day and night operations, with focus on land and water-based rescue, along with incorporating a variety of additional challenges for crews and rescuers, such as extraction of survivors from mountain-wooded areas and other “constricted” scenarios. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine)

The Eastern Connecticut State University Baseball Team defeated Salisbury University, 3-2, in game two of the 2022 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship Series, capturing the program’s fifth NCAA National Championship. (Photo by Jimmy Naprstek/Kodiak Creative)

Fungi grow in the forest at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art near Millersburg, Pa., on Oct. 28, 2016. Fungi play a major role in regenerating the forest by digesting fallen trees and plant matter, effectively recycling the nutrients back into the soil. (Photo by Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Ph.: Orarossa - Ascoli Piceno, Italy

Make: NIKON

Model: D810

Data Time: 09/02/2016 - 16:50

Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec

Exposure Program: S

F-Stop: f/5

ISO Speed Ratings: 200

Focal Length: 85 mm

Flash: OFF

Rich Hines talks about the conservation work that has been done on his 33 acres of forestland in Brookston, Indiana during a visit with representatives from USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service Feb. 13, 2023. Hines used the forest for maple syrup production as well as recreation. Hines worked with NRCS through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to implement brush management, trail improvements and a forest management plan. He also utilized the Conservation Stewardship Program’s forest songbird habitat maintenance, forest stand improvement and tree planting enhancements. (NRCS photo by Brandon O’Connor)

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: Bo Vallin

New York City Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: Robin Erler

New York City Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Opening Reception:

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4pm - 8PM

Friday, December 8, 10am - 7pm

Saturday, December 9, 10am - 7pm

Sunday, December 10, 10am- 7pm

Location: 224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 | Directions

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The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

Nearly seventy artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this annual exhibition. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. Free cups made by the exhibiting artists will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis during the festive Opening Reception on Thursday, December 7, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. The Show and Sale continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 8, 9, and 10, from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm.

Gallery 224, the Ceramics Program’s dedicated exhibition space, will showcase works from artists participating in the Holiday Show and Sale.

The Ceramics Program Show and Sale runs concurrently with the Allston-Brighton Winter Market next door at the Harvard Ed Portal. Artists’ studios nearby at 119 Braintree Street will also be open on Saturday and Sunday for Allston Open Studios.

A touchstone for the arts within Barry’s Corner, Allston, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas. Courses, workshops, master classes and special events are offered in the program's 15,000-square-foot studio at 224 Western Ave., near the Harvard Stadium in Allston.

Artists exhibiting this year include:

Alice Abrams

Natalie Andrew

Bruce Armitage

Pam Baker

Paul Bessette

Jenny Blicharz

Satomi Bol

Rosanna Bonnet

Darrah Bowden

Ann Boyajian

Summer (Min) Chen

Margaret Clark

Sarah de Besche

Angela DeVecchi

Holladay Dickerman

Richard Farrell

Darcie Flanigan

Stuart Gair

Justin Goedde

Pamela Gorgone

Tina Gram

Christine Gratto

Maurisse Gray

Louise Gutheil

Susan R. Hallstein

Marcia Halperin

Rachael Hamilton

Vicki L. Heller

Marek Jacisin

Madeline Johnson

Melinda Jordan

Judy Kanigel

Adria Katz

Mary Kenny

Gretchen Keyworth

Taeeun Kim

Joyce Lamensdorf

Laurie Leuchtenburg

Judy Levin

Gretchen Mamis

Joanna Mark

Cyndi Mason

Zachary Mickelson

Maeve Mueller

Steve Murphy

Julie Nussbaum

Stephanie Osser

Vicki Paret

Jennifer Howe Peace

Maxine Peck

Florence Pénault

Seth Rainville

Crystal Ribich

Carol Rissman

Judy Rosenstein

Mia Saporito

Lucy Scanlon

Gunnel Schmidt

Nancy Shotola

Kathi Tighe

Bernard Toale

Kyla Toomey

Emma Vesey

Lansing Wagner

Miriam Weil

Hiroko Williamson

Pao-Fei Yang Kuo

Trish Youens

Katherine Younger

Joseph Zina

The Studio is wheelchair accessible.

For more information or directions please call 617.495.8680 or visit www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: Bo Vallin

New York City: Laundry - Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Opening Reception:

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4pm - 8PM

Friday, December 8, 10am - 7pm

Saturday, December 9, 10am - 7pm

Sunday, December 10, 10am- 7pm

Location: 224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 | Directions

Share our Facebook event

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

Nearly seventy artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this annual exhibition. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. Free cups made by the exhibiting artists will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis during the festive Opening Reception on Thursday, December 7, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. The Show and Sale continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 8, 9, and 10, from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm.

Gallery 224, the Ceramics Program’s dedicated exhibition space, will showcase works from artists participating in the Holiday Show and Sale.

The Ceramics Program Show and Sale runs concurrently with the Allston-Brighton Winter Market next door at the Harvard Ed Portal. Artists’ studios nearby at 119 Braintree Street will also be open on Saturday and Sunday for Allston Open Studios.

A touchstone for the arts within Barry’s Corner, Allston, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas. Courses, workshops, master classes and special events are offered in the program's 15,000-square-foot studio at 224 Western Ave., near the Harvard Stadium in Allston.

Artists exhibiting this year include:

Alice Abrams

Natalie Andrew

Bruce Armitage

Pam Baker

Paul Bessette

Jenny Blicharz

Satomi Bol

Rosanna Bonnet

Darrah Bowden

Ann Boyajian

Summer (Min) Chen

Margaret Clark

Sarah de Besche

Angela DeVecchi

Holladay Dickerman

Richard Farrell

Darcie Flanigan

Stuart Gair

Justin Goedde

Pamela Gorgone

Tina Gram

Christine Gratto

Maurisse Gray

Louise Gutheil

Susan R. Hallstein

Marcia Halperin

Rachael Hamilton

Vicki L. Heller

Marek Jacisin

Madeline Johnson

Melinda Jordan

Judy Kanigel

Adria Katz

Mary Kenny

Gretchen Keyworth

Taeeun Kim

Joyce Lamensdorf

Laurie Leuchtenburg

Judy Levin

Gretchen Mamis

Joanna Mark

Cyndi Mason

Zachary Mickelson

Maeve Mueller

Steve Murphy

Julie Nussbaum

Stephanie Osser

Vicki Paret

Jennifer Howe Peace

Maxine Peck

Florence Pénault

Seth Rainville

Crystal Ribich

Carol Rissman

Judy Rosenstein

Mia Saporito

Lucy Scanlon

Gunnel Schmidt

Nancy Shotola

Kathi Tighe

Bernard Toale

Kyla Toomey

Emma Vesey

Lansing Wagner

Miriam Weil

Hiroko Williamson

Pao-Fei Yang Kuo

Trish Youens

Katherine Younger

Joseph Zina

The Studio is wheelchair accessible.

For more information or directions please call 617.495.8680 or visit www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: POH

New York City Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

The DOT Urban Art Program presented artist Chang-Jin Lee's work "Comfort Women Wanted" on one of the DOT Urban Art Program's art display structures in a temporary plaza located at 14th Street and 9th Avenue in Manhattan for one month starting on May 6, 2013. Based on the artist's interaction with comfort women survivors and a former Japanese solider from WWII, "Comfort Women Wanted" sheds light on one of the largest cases of female trafficking in the 20th century.

During WWII, young women from Asia and the Netherlands were kidnapped, imprisoned and forced to cater to the needs of the Japanese Imperial Army. By some estimates, only 30% of these women survived the "comfort stations." For the project "Comfort Women Wanted," ad-like posters depict black & white portraits of Asian comfort women survivors. The title and text reference Asian newspapers' comfort women advertisements that were circulated during the war. The project promotes awareness of the comfort women, some of whom are still alive today, and examines a history that has been largely forgotten.

To further explore the complexities of this project, visit Lee's one day screening at Hauser & Wirth Gallery on May 29th.

NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Art Display Structure

Comfort Women Wanted by Chang-Jin Lee

14th Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan

nyc.gov/urbanart

changjinlee.net

On Saturday, April 30,

Stevenson University’s Fashion Design program presented its Fifth Annual Student Fashion Show, “Fashion Expressions.

The student-produced event features original clothing designs for men, women, and children. A special segment of the show will introduce the audience to the “Fine Art of Fashion,” a collection of original art-inspired garments created by the junior fashion design students.

In celebration of the program’s third graduating class, the senior students will be showcasing their individual collections. Each original garment has been crafted and meticulously constructed using both hand and machine methods.

Bill Anderson, President of the Little Juniata River Assocation, fishes with longtime friend John Norton in the Little Juniata River in Blair County, Pa., on May 19, 2015. The Little Juniata River Association has secured roughly 4.5 miles of permanent fishing access with help from the Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission, and successfully lobbied to designate 14 miles of the Little Juniata River as catch and release. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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A photo credit mentioning the Chesapeake Bay Program is mandatory. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way or used in any way that suggests approval or endorsement of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Requestors should also respect the publicity rights of individuals photographed, and seek their consent if necessary.

Delaware U.S. Senator Chris Coons’ aide J. J. Singh helps build an outside wall on the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program’s 50,000th home in Bridgeville, DE on Jun. 8, 2015. Volunteers from Congressional staff, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD), and local lenders gathered to help the Tony Tilsen family frame their new house. The volunteer effort helped take two weeks off the Tilsens expected construction time and was part of June’s National Housing Month celebrations. The Tilsens are building their house with the help of other local Self-Help participants and the assistance and supervision of the Milford Housing Development Corporation, a non-profit. USDA photo by Steve Thompson.

Elev8 Parent Mentor Program at Ames Middle School Chicago:

eric@smittyimage.comGloria Bedillo had never served as a school volunteer before, or thought of herself as a leader. But within XX months of the day her daughter enrolled at Logan Square’s Ames Middle, all that changed. Suddenly Bedillo found herself serving as a classroom assistant, a family book group leader, a truant outreach worker, a member of the local school council, and chair of the school’s No Child Left Behind Committee. REACTION FROM HER—IS SHE SURPRISED? While Bedillo is one of the more active parents at Ames, she is hardly unusual. Inner-city schools often bemoan the lack of parental involvement, but Ames has it in spades: 20 parents are volunteering or working for modest wages at the school almost daily at a variety of jobs through Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program. “It’s an enhancement to everything we do,” said Ames Principal Thomas Hoffman who credits the program’s parent truancy outreach workers for helping to raise the school’s average daily attendance rate more than two percentage points in the past two years. LSNA launched the Parent Mentor Program in 1995 as a way to give parents, mainly Hispanic women, the skills and confidence to get more involved in their children’s education. Since then, the program has trained more than 1,300 parents at nine neighborhood elementary schools as classroom mentors for struggling students.But learning how to assist students and school staff is just the beginning. Parent mentors are encouraged to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. And they are urged to pursue personal goals, such as finding employment or pursuing further education. Many have gone on to take ESL or GED classes offered at Ames and four other Logan Square elementary schools.Maria Marquez, a former parent mentor who now coordinates that program at Ames, went even further. She enrolled in LSNA's “Grow Your Own” program which helps Logan Square residents earn undergraduate degrees in education and land jobs in Chicago Public Schools, helping to alleviate the bilingual teacher shortage. More than 20 other parent mentors have done likewise. “Had it had it not been for the Parent Mentor Program I would not be going to Northeastern [University],” she said.For Bedillo, joining the program was no less transformative. As a former substance abuse counselor with an associates degree in social services, she had always enjoyed helping people. BUT OUTSIDE HER CIRCLE?, she had been hesitant to speak her mind. “She was kind of quiet when she first started, not wanting to say a lot,” Marquez recalled.But in the safety of the parent mentor group—LSNA trained a dozen this fall—she began to speak up, said Marquez. “She's a little bit more confident about her opinions.”During one meeting, when a mother complained that her son was unable to get reduced city bus fare because he couldn't prove he went to Ames, Bedillo volunteered to ask the principal about providing student IDs. The principal agreed to do so. WHAT MADE HER DECIDE TO DO THAT.The other mothers were impressed, said Marquez. Later, when she asked for volunteers for the school’s No Child Left Behind Advisory Committee, they quickly nominated Bedillo as chair, said Marquez.“I was like 'Me?' Bedillo recalls. “They were like, 'Yes, you.'”Bedillo, a friendly woman with a ready smile, initially signed-up as a parent mentor because of concerns about school safety, which provided to be unfounded, she said. But that first step was a gateway. “The more I get involved with my daughters school,” she said, “the more I want to be involved.”Her sudden interest surprised her daughter, Jaileen Martinez. “I was shocked about it. I just thought of my mom as a house mom.” The 7th-grader was also worried. “I was kind of scared because I thought she would embarrass me,” Jaileen acknowledged. But she needn't have worried. Her friends thought Bedillo was cool. “When they see me they're like, 'Where's your mom?'” And rather than embarrassed by her mother's involvement at the school, Jaileen found herself impressed. “She's so into it. Her trying to help somebody makes me want to do the same. She motivates me.”Parents in neighborhoods like Logan Square often don't realize how eager schools are for their participation, said Marquez. That's especially true for those immigrating from Mexico or other Central American countries, she explained.In Mexico, parents don’t ever question the teacher or principal, said Marquez. “You can't come into the classroom because it’s invading their domain.”But the parent mentor training makes it clear how much they are valued, not only by recruiting them to serve in a variety of additional roles—safety patrol, truancy outreach, after school tutorCK—but by building their confidence. Before parents step foot in the classroom, they get two weeks of training on the school's math and reading curriculum and also on personal development and leadership. The training continues for two hours a week throughout the school year. Parents without degrees often imagine they don’t have much to offer the school, said Leticia Barerra, another Parent Mentor alumna who now manages the program for LSNA. When parents realize they have lots of skills and talents they can offer to the school, they feel important and useful.” CAN BEDILLO COMMENT ON HER EXPERIENCE?Parents also need to know they have the right to speak up to authority, she said, whether to the principal, the alderman or their state representatives. “They didn't realize how much power they could have,” Barerra explains. “As soon as they know, they start making phone calls.” During last school year's training, a group of mothers suddenly decided to visit the alderman and demand traffic-calming measures around the school: They got their way. After this year's initial training, parents spontaneously teamed up to go door to door to encourage their neighbors to vote. ASK BEDILLO ABOUT THIS.HOW MANY TIMES THIS YEAR, past and present parent mentors have hopped on a bus to Springfield to lobby legislators on immigration reform. NEED A LITTLE MORE HERE“We're speaking out and being heard and not being afraid,” Bedillo said. “We're not just parents now. Were being heard as a group and working together.”After that, came back and was speaking more passionately.Gloria already had associates degree. Benefits mothers as much as students. many gone on to get bachelors degrees and become teachers in the community. Feeds into Grow Your Own,HeadBedillo said she initially decided to join the mentor because her daughter, a 7th-grader, was nervous about attending the new school which she heard had a lot of fighting and bullying, rumors that later proved to be unfounded. Parents receive xx hours of training over xx weeks before they are each assigned to a classrooms two hours a day Monday through Thursday. Bedillo assigned to a math class and then a science class, helps all students but particularly those who are still learning English. QUOTE FROM TEACHER ABOUT WHY THIS IS HELPFULIdea is to make parents realize that they can be part of school. in mexico, not welcome.Bedillo is from Puerto Rico, immigrated to Chicago at three and grew up in Spanish-speaking household. Graduated from St. Augustine college with an associates degree in social services and worked as a substance abuse counselor until 2008. Never been active in school before. When her daughter went to Nixon, didn’t have those opportunities. NEED TRANSITION.Comfort of group, started speaking up. went to principal. Got ids. Then chosen for no child left behind, also on local school counsel.now that I got involved as a parent mentor at my ds school ive felt the need to get more inv and more invRecruited to do extra work for modest hourly wage. Part of elev8 programs. Ames part of elev8 program, extra funds to do truant outreach—phones disconnected and many parents don’t realize kids not in school. money also for literacy ambassadors.Recently she and her daughter visited another neighbor and read about seeds. Youngest participant in 5th grade, the oldest his grandmother. Xx said bedillo’s daughter, who also went along.Role models for their kidsBedillo’s daughter said she was worried when her mother was going to volunteer, meant they would walk to school together each morning. thought she was going to embarrass me. Surprised to find that her friends thought her mom was actually pretty cool. Now she’s motivated. Also part of the Elev8 program where afterschool tutoring raised her math grade c TO A. mother also able to help out more, with parent mentor traning. huge confidence boost. Set her sites on selective high school marine biology. mother as an inspiration.The award-winning program was launched xx years ago and now operates at nine neighborhood schools including Ames. Since its founding, LSNA has trained over xx parents to mentor struggling students in the classroom. But mentorship is just the beginning. The program trains parents, mainly Hispanic women, to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. It also recruits them to serve in a variety of additional roles at the school from safety patrol to neighborhood book group leader.Gloria quotesThe more I get involved with my daughters school the more I want to participate, the more I want to be involved.Speaking out. To the needs that I see that we need. And not being afraid. Speakingout and being heard. Safe place to do that. I see solutions and bepeople workingwith it. We'rebeingheard. Wer'not just parents now. Were beingheard as a group and working together.encouraging them to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities.

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: Bo Vallin

New York City: Laundry - Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Boeing on July 28 delivered a third C-17 Globemaster III airlifter to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force and Air Defence at the C-17 program’s final assembly facility in Long Beach. In this photo, the aircraft takes off after the delivery ceremony.

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A pair of mating blue crabs, known as a "doubler," are caught in a dip net on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Choptank River on Aug. 27, 2010. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Troy Bishopp stands between two corn crops in Madison County, N.Y., with Eight Mile Swamp on the horizon, on May 28, 2015. The field on the left was clean-tilled and treated with herbicide and the right employed a cover crop of rye that was plowed in and seeded. "Our objective is to find out which system grew the better corn," Bishopp said. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp prepare to go inner tubing down a river June 24, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)

At the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) in Gloucester Point, Virginia, a tray holds the remnants of some of the more unique organisms found in the stomach contents of fish collected by the Chesapeake Bay Multispecies Monitoring and Assessment Program (ChesMMAP) as well as the Northeast Area Monitoring and Assessment Program (NEAMAP), which samples the Atlantic coast. "Most everything here you'd see in the Bay," said Gregg Mears, a marine scientist and chief of diet operations at VIMS. Stomach contents can include mysid shrimp, worms, bivalves, bay anchovy, and menhaden. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Spotlight Program's Board hosted students for breakfast on the first day of #GSUnited Homecoming 2016.

A mushroom rises above a foot trail near Dueling Creek in Colmar Manor, Md., on Oct. 1, 2014. The area is part of the 9-mile Anacostia Water Trail, which features natural areas as well as riverfront recreation and ends where the Anacostia meets the Potomac River. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Shot on the way to the market; and came home to hear about UH Warriors football program's problems: www.kitv.com/news/what-happens-to-uh-football-revenue/276...

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: POH

New York City Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Elev8 Parent Mentor Program at Ames Middle School Chicago:

eric@smittyimage.comGloria Bedillo had never served as a school volunteer before, or thought of herself as a leader. But within XX months of the day her daughter enrolled at Logan Square’s Ames Middle, all that changed. Suddenly Bedillo found herself serving as a classroom assistant, a family book group leader, a truant outreach worker, a member of the local school council, and chair of the school’s No Child Left Behind Committee. REACTION FROM HER—IS SHE SURPRISED? While Bedillo is one of the more active parents at Ames, she is hardly unusual. Inner-city schools often bemoan the lack of parental involvement, but Ames has it in spades: 20 parents are volunteering or working for modest wages at the school almost daily at a variety of jobs through Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program. “It’s an enhancement to everything we do,” said Ames Principal Thomas Hoffman who credits the program’s parent truancy outreach workers for helping to raise the school’s average daily attendance rate more than two percentage points in the past two years. LSNA launched the Parent Mentor Program in 1995 as a way to give parents, mainly Hispanic women, the skills and confidence to get more involved in their children’s education. Since then, the program has trained more than 1,300 parents at nine neighborhood elementary schools as classroom mentors for struggling students.But learning how to assist students and school staff is just the beginning. Parent mentors are encouraged to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. And they are urged to pursue personal goals, such as finding employment or pursuing further education. Many have gone on to take ESL or GED classes offered at Ames and four other Logan Square elementary schools.Maria Marquez, a former parent mentor who now coordinates that program at Ames, went even further. She enrolled in LSNA's “Grow Your Own” program which helps Logan Square residents earn undergraduate degrees in education and land jobs in Chicago Public Schools, helping to alleviate the bilingual teacher shortage. More than 20 other parent mentors have done likewise. “Had it had it not been for the Parent Mentor Program I would not be going to Northeastern [University],” she said.For Bedillo, joining the program was no less transformative. As a former substance abuse counselor with an associates degree in social services, she had always enjoyed helping people. BUT OUTSIDE HER CIRCLE?, she had been hesitant to speak her mind. “She was kind of quiet when she first started, not wanting to say a lot,” Marquez recalled.But in the safety of the parent mentor group—LSNA trained a dozen this fall—she began to speak up, said Marquez. “She's a little bit more confident about her opinions.”During one meeting, when a mother complained that her son was unable to get reduced city bus fare because he couldn't prove he went to Ames, Bedillo volunteered to ask the principal about providing student IDs. The principal agreed to do so. WHAT MADE HER DECIDE TO DO THAT.The other mothers were impressed, said Marquez. Later, when she asked for volunteers for the school’s No Child Left Behind Advisory Committee, they quickly nominated Bedillo as chair, said Marquez.“I was like 'Me?' Bedillo recalls. “They were like, 'Yes, you.'”Bedillo, a friendly woman with a ready smile, initially signed-up as a parent mentor because of concerns about school safety, which provided to be unfounded, she said. But that first step was a gateway. “The more I get involved with my daughters school,” she said, “the more I want to be involved.”Her sudden interest surprised her daughter, Jaileen Martinez. “I was shocked about it. I just thought of my mom as a house mom.” The 7th-grader was also worried. “I was kind of scared because I thought she would embarrass me,” Jaileen acknowledged. But she needn't have worried. Her friends thought Bedillo was cool. “When they see me they're like, 'Where's your mom?'” And rather than embarrassed by her mother's involvement at the school, Jaileen found herself impressed. “She's so into it. Her trying to help somebody makes me want to do the same. She motivates me.”Parents in neighborhoods like Logan Square often don't realize how eager schools are for their participation, said Marquez. That's especially true for those immigrating from Mexico or other Central American countries, she explained.In Mexico, parents don’t ever question the teacher or principal, said Marquez. “You can't come into the classroom because it’s invading their domain.”But the parent mentor training makes it clear how much they are valued, not only by recruiting them to serve in a variety of additional roles—safety patrol, truancy outreach, after school tutorCK—but by building their confidence. Before parents step foot in the classroom, they get two weeks of training on the school's math and reading curriculum and also on personal development and leadership. The training continues for two hours a week throughout the school year. Parents without degrees often imagine they don’t have much to offer the school, said Leticia Barerra, another Parent Mentor alumna who now manages the program for LSNA. When parents realize they have lots of skills and talents they can offer to the school, they feel important and useful.” CAN BEDILLO COMMENT ON HER EXPERIENCE?Parents also need to know they have the right to speak up to authority, she said, whether to the principal, the alderman or their state representatives. “They didn't realize how much power they could have,” Barerra explains. “As soon as they know, they start making phone calls.” During last school year's training, a group of mothers suddenly decided to visit the alderman and demand traffic-calming measures around the school: They got their way. After this year's initial training, parents spontaneously teamed up to go door to door to encourage their neighbors to vote. ASK BEDILLO ABOUT THIS.HOW MANY TIMES THIS YEAR, past and present parent mentors have hopped on a bus to Springfield to lobby legislators on immigration reform. NEED A LITTLE MORE HERE“We're speaking out and being heard and not being afraid,” Bedillo said. “We're not just parents now. Were being heard as a group and working together.”After that, came back and was speaking more passionately.Gloria already had associates degree. Benefits mothers as much as students. many gone on to get bachelors degrees and become teachers in the community. Feeds into Grow Your Own,HeadBedillo said she initially decided to join the mentor because her daughter, a 7th-grader, was nervous about attending the new school which she heard had a lot of fighting and bullying, rumors that later proved to be unfounded. Parents receive xx hours of training over xx weeks before they are each assigned to a classrooms two hours a day Monday through Thursday. Bedillo assigned to a math class and then a science class, helps all students but particularly those who are still learning English. QUOTE FROM TEACHER ABOUT WHY THIS IS HELPFULIdea is to make parents realize that they can be part of school. in mexico, not welcome.Bedillo is from Puerto Rico, immigrated to Chicago at three and grew up in Spanish-speaking household. Graduated from St. Augustine college with an associates degree in social services and worked as a substance abuse counselor until 2008. Never been active in school before. When her daughter went to Nixon, didn’t have those opportunities. NEED TRANSITION.Comfort of group, started speaking up. went to principal. Got ids. Then chosen for no child left behind, also on local school counsel.now that I got involved as a parent mentor at my ds school ive felt the need to get more inv and more invRecruited to do extra work for modest hourly wage. Part of elev8 programs. Ames part of elev8 program, extra funds to do truant outreach—phones disconnected and many parents don’t realize kids not in school. money also for literacy ambassadors.Recently she and her daughter visited another neighbor and read about seeds. Youngest participant in 5th grade, the oldest his grandmother. Xx said bedillo’s daughter, who also went along.Role models for their kidsBedillo’s daughter said she was worried when her mother was going to volunteer, meant they would walk to school together each morning. thought she was going to embarrass me. Surprised to find that her friends thought her mom was actually pretty cool. Now she’s motivated. Also part of the Elev8 program where afterschool tutoring raised her math grade c TO A. mother also able to help out more, with parent mentor traning. huge confidence boost. Set her sites on selective high school marine biology. mother as an inspiration.The award-winning program was launched xx years ago and now operates at nine neighborhood schools including Ames. Since its founding, LSNA has trained over xx parents to mentor struggling students in the classroom. But mentorship is just the beginning. The program trains parents, mainly Hispanic women, to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. It also recruits them to serve in a variety of additional roles at the school from safety patrol to neighborhood book group leader.Gloria quotesThe more I get involved with my daughters school the more I want to participate, the more I want to be involved.Speaking out. To the needs that I see that we need. And not being afraid. Speakingout and being heard. Safe place to do that. I see solutions and bepeople workingwith it. We'rebeingheard. Wer'not just parents now. Were beingheard as a group and working together.encouraging them to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities.

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Members of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Citizens Advisory Committee tour Stroud Water Research Center in Avondale, Pa., on Sept. 18, 2019. The group listened first to Stroud's executive director David Arscott describe onsite wastewater treatement and other conservation features incorporated into the Stroud campus, before touring research facilities with aquatic entomologist John Jackson. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Opening Reception:

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4pm - 8PM

Friday, December 8, 10am - 7pm

Saturday, December 9, 10am - 7pm

Sunday, December 10, 10am- 7pm

Location: 224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 | Directions

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The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

Nearly seventy artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this annual exhibition. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. Free cups made by the exhibiting artists will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis during the festive Opening Reception on Thursday, December 7, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. The Show and Sale continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 8, 9, and 10, from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm.

Gallery 224, the Ceramics Program’s dedicated exhibition space, will showcase works from artists participating in the Holiday Show and Sale.

The Ceramics Program Show and Sale runs concurrently with the Allston-Brighton Winter Market next door at the Harvard Ed Portal. Artists’ studios nearby at 119 Braintree Street will also be open on Saturday and Sunday for Allston Open Studios.

A touchstone for the arts within Barry’s Corner, Allston, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas. Courses, workshops, master classes and special events are offered in the program's 15,000-square-foot studio at 224 Western Ave., near the Harvard Stadium in Allston.

Artists exhibiting this year include:

Alice Abrams

Natalie Andrew

Bruce Armitage

Pam Baker

Paul Bessette

Jenny Blicharz

Satomi Bol

Rosanna Bonnet

Darrah Bowden

Ann Boyajian

Summer (Min) Chen

Margaret Clark

Sarah de Besche

Angela DeVecchi

Holladay Dickerman

Richard Farrell

Darcie Flanigan

Stuart Gair

Justin Goedde

Pamela Gorgone

Tina Gram

Christine Gratto

Maurisse Gray

Louise Gutheil

Susan R. Hallstein

Marcia Halperin

Rachael Hamilton

Vicki L. Heller

Marek Jacisin

Madeline Johnson

Melinda Jordan

Judy Kanigel

Adria Katz

Mary Kenny

Gretchen Keyworth

Taeeun Kim

Joyce Lamensdorf

Laurie Leuchtenburg

Judy Levin

Gretchen Mamis

Joanna Mark

Cyndi Mason

Zachary Mickelson

Maeve Mueller

Steve Murphy

Julie Nussbaum

Stephanie Osser

Vicki Paret

Jennifer Howe Peace

Maxine Peck

Florence Pénault

Seth Rainville

Crystal Ribich

Carol Rissman

Judy Rosenstein

Mia Saporito

Lucy Scanlon

Gunnel Schmidt

Nancy Shotola

Kathi Tighe

Bernard Toale

Kyla Toomey

Emma Vesey

Lansing Wagner

Miriam Weil

Hiroko Williamson

Pao-Fei Yang Kuo

Trish Youens

Katherine Younger

Joseph Zina

The Studio is wheelchair accessible.

For more information or directions please call 617.495.8680 or visit www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with members of the North Charleston Police Department, Charleston Farms Community, and a program participant in the department's innovative program S.T.A.N.D. (Stop and Take A New Direction).

Attorney General Holder heard first hand how the program, which focused on not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better, has changed the lives of several participants and improved the quality of life in the neighborhood. AG Holder praised the department for "thinking outside of the box" in crime reduction strategies and for its community involvement.

Of the original eight (8) participants accepted in to the program, four completed the program, maintain full time employment and continue to be productive citizens. The project was broadcast nationwide last year on Dateline NBC.

Photo by Ryan Johnson

Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp participate in a team-building exercise June 25, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)

In this photo: Steve Monfort, Dennis Kelly, Roger Sant, Alan Merten, Wayne Clough and Eva Pell begin the digging for the Smithsonian-Mason Program's new buildings, slated to open fall 2012.

Scientists and educators from the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and George Mason University are donning their hard hats and dusting off their shovels to break ground June 29 on a green-design conservation complex that embodies the concept of the living classroom. Since October 2008, the Smithsonian–Mason Global Conservation Studies Program has trained future conservationists with an interdisciplinary and interactive program at SCBI headquarters, the Smithsonian National Zoological Park’s 3,200-acre facility in Front Royal, Va. There, undergraduate, graduate and professional students from the U.S. and abroad participate in courses taught by prominent scientists and educators from the Zoo, Mason and other institutions.

The Smithsonian–Mason Program began with 15 undergraduate students in fall 2008. When the expansion is complete in fall 2012, SCBI Front Royal will be able to accept 60 undergraduate students and 60 graduate students and professionals.

“There is no greater goal than to invest in educating and training the next generation of conservation professionals,” said Steve Monfort, director of SCBI and co-founder of the

Smithsonian–Mason Program. “By improving science-related education and engaging students in ways that provide them with hands-on experience, we’re fulfilling that goal.”

At the groundbreaking ceremony, Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian, and Alan G. Merten, president of George Mason University, spoke about the expansion project. Two graduates of the Smithsonian–Mason program, Michelle Waterman and Joanna Lambert, offered insight about their experiences as participants of the program. Also in attendance at the ceremony were Eva Pell, the Smithsonian’s Under Secretary for Science; Roger Sant, Regent of the Smithsonian; Dennis Kelly, director of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo; Monfort; and Alonso Aguirre, executive director of the Smithsonian–Mason Program.

“We are extremely excited to literally build upon this unique partnership between two highly regarded institutions,” said Aguirre. “These new facilities will allow our students to live and learn in a collaborative environment where conservation is happening every day.”

The three new buildings will be LEED-certified Gold Standard and will model the best green practices, including green-roof technology, geothermal heating and cooling, composting kitchen waste, reuse of rainwater and storm-water management. The space will house classrooms, laboratories, dining and events facilities, dormitories and study halls.

SCBI serves as the umbrella for the Smithsonian’s conservation science. The priority for SCBI’s animal collection is veterinary and reproductive research. By living in controlled environments, the 22 species—most of them little-known and endangered birds and mammals—provide ideal subjects for intensive study and the rapid acquisition of urgently needed information. Findings from these studies provide critical information for the management of captive populations and valuable insights for the conservation and management of wild populations.

For information about the Smithsonian–Mason Global Conservation Studies Program, visit the National Zoo’s website: nationalzoo.si.edu/SCBI/ConservationEducation/Smithsonian....

Photo Credit: Mehgan Murphy, Smithsonian's National Zoo

The 2000 Chesapeake Executive Council Meeting is held in Friendship, Md., to sign a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement on June 28, 2000. (Chesapeake Bay Program)

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Opening Reception:

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4pm - 8PM

Friday, December 8, 10am - 7pm

Saturday, December 9, 10am - 7pm

Sunday, December 10, 10am- 7pm

Location: 224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 | Directions

Share our Facebook event

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

Nearly seventy artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this annual exhibition. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. Free cups made by the exhibiting artists will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis during the festive Opening Reception on Thursday, December 7, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. The Show and Sale continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 8, 9, and 10, from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm.

Gallery 224, the Ceramics Program’s dedicated exhibition space, will showcase works from artists participating in the Holiday Show and Sale.

The Ceramics Program Show and Sale runs concurrently with the Allston-Brighton Winter Market next door at the Harvard Ed Portal. Artists’ studios nearby at 119 Braintree Street will also be open on Saturday and Sunday for Allston Open Studios.

A touchstone for the arts within Barry’s Corner, Allston, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas. Courses, workshops, master classes and special events are offered in the program's 15,000-square-foot studio at 224 Western Ave., near the Harvard Stadium in Allston.

Artists exhibiting this year include:

Alice Abrams

Natalie Andrew

Bruce Armitage

Pam Baker

Paul Bessette

Jenny Blicharz

Satomi Bol

Rosanna Bonnet

Darrah Bowden

Ann Boyajian

Summer (Min) Chen

Margaret Clark

Sarah de Besche

Angela DeVecchi

Holladay Dickerman

Richard Farrell

Darcie Flanigan

Stuart Gair

Justin Goedde

Pamela Gorgone

Tina Gram

Christine Gratto

Maurisse Gray

Louise Gutheil

Susan R. Hallstein

Marcia Halperin

Rachael Hamilton

Vicki L. Heller

Marek Jacisin

Madeline Johnson

Melinda Jordan

Judy Kanigel

Adria Katz

Mary Kenny

Gretchen Keyworth

Taeeun Kim

Joyce Lamensdorf

Laurie Leuchtenburg

Judy Levin

Gretchen Mamis

Joanna Mark

Cyndi Mason

Zachary Mickelson

Maeve Mueller

Steve Murphy

Julie Nussbaum

Stephanie Osser

Vicki Paret

Jennifer Howe Peace

Maxine Peck

Florence Pénault

Seth Rainville

Crystal Ribich

Carol Rissman

Judy Rosenstein

Mia Saporito

Lucy Scanlon

Gunnel Schmidt

Nancy Shotola

Kathi Tighe

Bernard Toale

Kyla Toomey

Emma Vesey

Lansing Wagner

Miriam Weil

Hiroko Williamson

Pao-Fei Yang Kuo

Trish Youens

Katherine Younger

Joseph Zina

The Studio is wheelchair accessible.

For more information or directions please call 617.495.8680 or visit www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics

21/1/2022

S.C. Army National Guard Soldiers and fire department/EMS rescuers with the S.C. Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) program, S.C. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (SC-TF1), arrive to Table Rock, S.C., and initiate pre-mission operations during their first, 2018, quarterly rescue training event Table Rock, Pickens County, Jan. 17, 2018. The three-day training event includes both day and night operations, with focus on land and water-based rescue, along with incorporating a variety of additional challenges for crews and rescuers, such as extraction of survivors from mountain-wooded areas and other “constricted” scenarios. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine)

Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain

Photo: POH

New York City: Laundry - Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative

Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org

A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.

This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.

Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.

Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.

After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.

Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.

For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.

The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.

Background:

Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.

Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.

In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.

Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.

The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.

Laundromat locations:

1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights

2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem

3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx

4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx

5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx

6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx

Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.

Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.

Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org

Each year EOP Transitional Programs offers a summer experience to help students bridge the time between high school and university. The program's goals are to give students a head start toward a successful college experience and the opportunity to begin building a strong community.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with members of the North Charleston Police Department, Charleston Farms Community, and a program participant in the department's innovative program S.T.A.N.D. (Stop and Take A New Direction).

Attorney General Holder heard first hand how the program, which focused on not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better, has changed the lives of several participants and improved the quality of life in the neighborhood. AG Holder praised the department for "thinking outside of the box" in crime reduction strategies and for its community involvement.

Of the original eight (8) participants accepted in to the program, four completed the program, maintain full time employment and continue to be productive citizens. The project was broadcast nationwide last year on Dateline NBC.

Photo by Ryan Johnson

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with members of the North Charleston Police Department, Charleston Farms Community, and a program participant in the department's innovative program S.T.A.N.D. (Stop and Take A New Direction).

Attorney General Holder heard first hand how the program, which focused on not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better, has changed the lives of several participants and improved the quality of life in the neighborhood. AG Holder praised the department for "thinking outside of the box" in crime reduction strategies and for its community involvement.

Of the original eight (8) participants accepted in to the program, four completed the program, maintain full time employment and continue to be productive citizens. The project was broadcast nationwide last year on Dateline NBC.

Photo by Ryan Johnson

Elev8 Parent Mentor Program at Ames Middle School Chicago:

eric@smittyimage.comGloria Bedillo had never served as a school volunteer before, or thought of herself as a leader. But within XX months of the day her daughter enrolled at Logan Square’s Ames Middle, all that changed. Suddenly Bedillo found herself serving as a classroom assistant, a family book group leader, a truant outreach worker, a member of the local school council, and chair of the school’s No Child Left Behind Committee. REACTION FROM HER—IS SHE SURPRISED? While Bedillo is one of the more active parents at Ames, she is hardly unusual. Inner-city schools often bemoan the lack of parental involvement, but Ames has it in spades: 20 parents are volunteering or working for modest wages at the school almost daily at a variety of jobs through Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program. “It’s an enhancement to everything we do,” said Ames Principal Thomas Hoffman who credits the program’s parent truancy outreach workers for helping to raise the school’s average daily attendance rate more than two percentage points in the past two years. LSNA launched the Parent Mentor Program in 1995 as a way to give parents, mainly Hispanic women, the skills and confidence to get more involved in their children’s education. Since then, the program has trained more than 1,300 parents at nine neighborhood elementary schools as classroom mentors for struggling students.But learning how to assist students and school staff is just the beginning. Parent mentors are encouraged to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. And they are urged to pursue personal goals, such as finding employment or pursuing further education. Many have gone on to take ESL or GED classes offered at Ames and four other Logan Square elementary schools.Maria Marquez, a former parent mentor who now coordinates that program at Ames, went even further. She enrolled in LSNA's “Grow Your Own” program which helps Logan Square residents earn undergraduate degrees in education and land jobs in Chicago Public Schools, helping to alleviate the bilingual teacher shortage. More than 20 other parent mentors have done likewise. “Had it had it not been for the Parent Mentor Program I would not be going to Northeastern [University],” she said.For Bedillo, joining the program was no less transformative. As a former substance abuse counselor with an associates degree in social services, she had always enjoyed helping people. BUT OUTSIDE HER CIRCLE?, she had been hesitant to speak her mind. “She was kind of quiet when she first started, not wanting to say a lot,” Marquez recalled.But in the safety of the parent mentor group—LSNA trained a dozen this fall—she began to speak up, said Marquez. “She's a little bit more confident about her opinions.”During one meeting, when a mother complained that her son was unable to get reduced city bus fare because he couldn't prove he went to Ames, Bedillo volunteered to ask the principal about providing student IDs. The principal agreed to do so. WHAT MADE HER DECIDE TO DO THAT.The other mothers were impressed, said Marquez. Later, when she asked for volunteers for the school’s No Child Left Behind Advisory Committee, they quickly nominated Bedillo as chair, said Marquez.“I was like 'Me?' Bedillo recalls. “They were like, 'Yes, you.'”Bedillo, a friendly woman with a ready smile, initially signed-up as a parent mentor because of concerns about school safety, which provided to be unfounded, she said. But that first step was a gateway. “The more I get involved with my daughters school,” she said, “the more I want to be involved.”Her sudden interest surprised her daughter, Jaileen Martinez. “I was shocked about it. I just thought of my mom as a house mom.” The 7th-grader was also worried. “I was kind of scared because I thought she would embarrass me,” Jaileen acknowledged. But she needn't have worried. Her friends thought Bedillo was cool. “When they see me they're like, 'Where's your mom?'” And rather than embarrassed by her mother's involvement at the school, Jaileen found herself impressed. “She's so into it. Her trying to help somebody makes me want to do the same. She motivates me.”Parents in neighborhoods like Logan Square often don't realize how eager schools are for their participation, said Marquez. That's especially true for those immigrating from Mexico or other Central American countries, she explained.In Mexico, parents don’t ever question the teacher or principal, said Marquez. “You can't come into the classroom because it’s invading their domain.”But the parent mentor training makes it clear how much they are valued, not only by recruiting them to serve in a variety of additional roles—safety patrol, truancy outreach, after school tutorCK—but by building their confidence. Before parents step foot in the classroom, they get two weeks of training on the school's math and reading curriculum and also on personal development and leadership. The training continues for two hours a week throughout the school year. Parents without degrees often imagine they don’t have much to offer the school, said Leticia Barerra, another Parent Mentor alumna who now manages the program for LSNA. When parents realize they have lots of skills and talents they can offer to the school, they feel important and useful.” CAN BEDILLO COMMENT ON HER EXPERIENCE?Parents also need to know they have the right to speak up to authority, she said, whether to the principal, the alderman or their state representatives. “They didn't realize how much power they could have,” Barerra explains. “As soon as they know, they start making phone calls.” During last school year's training, a group of mothers suddenly decided to visit the alderman and demand traffic-calming measures around the school: They got their way. After this year's initial training, parents spontaneously teamed up to go door to door to encourage their neighbors to vote. ASK BEDILLO ABOUT THIS.HOW MANY TIMES THIS YEAR, past and present parent mentors have hopped on a bus to Springfield to lobby legislators on immigration reform. NEED A LITTLE MORE HERE“We're speaking out and being heard and not being afraid,” Bedillo said. “We're not just parents now. Were being heard as a group and working together.”After that, came back and was speaking more passionately.Gloria already had associates degree. Benefits mothers as much as students. many gone on to get bachelors degrees and become teachers in the community. Feeds into Grow Your Own,HeadBedillo said she initially decided to join the mentor because her daughter, a 7th-grader, was nervous about attending the new school which she heard had a lot of fighting and bullying, rumors that later proved to be unfounded. Parents receive xx hours of training over xx weeks before they are each assigned to a classrooms two hours a day Monday through Thursday. Bedillo assigned to a math class and then a science class, helps all students but particularly those who are still learning English. QUOTE FROM TEACHER ABOUT WHY THIS IS HELPFULIdea is to make parents realize that they can be part of school. in mexico, not welcome.Bedillo is from Puerto Rico, immigrated to Chicago at three and grew up in Spanish-speaking household. Graduated from St. Augustine college with an associates degree in social services and worked as a substance abuse counselor until 2008. Never been active in school before. When her daughter went to Nixon, didn’t have those opportunities. NEED TRANSITION.Comfort of group, started speaking up. went to principal. Got ids. Then chosen for no child left behind, also on local school counsel.now that I got involved as a parent mentor at my ds school ive felt the need to get more inv and more invRecruited to do extra work for modest hourly wage. Part of elev8 programs. Ames part of elev8 program, extra funds to do truant outreach—phones disconnected and many parents don’t realize kids not in school. money also for literacy ambassadors.Recently she and her daughter visited another neighbor and read about seeds. Youngest participant in 5th grade, the oldest his grandmother. Xx said bedillo’s daughter, who also went along.Role models for their kidsBedillo’s daughter said she was worried when her mother was going to volunteer, meant they would walk to school together each morning. thought she was going to embarrass me. Surprised to find that her friends thought her mom was actually pretty cool. Now she’s motivated. Also part of the Elev8 program where afterschool tutoring raised her math grade c TO A. mother also able to help out more, with parent mentor traning. huge confidence boost. Set her sites on selective high school marine biology. mother as an inspiration.The award-winning program was launched xx years ago and now operates at nine neighborhood schools including Ames. Since its founding, LSNA has trained over xx parents to mentor struggling students in the classroom. But mentorship is just the beginning. The program trains parents, mainly Hispanic women, to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. It also recruits them to serve in a variety of additional roles at the school from safety patrol to neighborhood book group leader.Gloria quotesThe more I get involved with my daughters school the more I want to participate, the more I want to be involved.Speaking out. To the needs that I see that we need. And not being afraid. Speakingout and being heard. Safe place to do that. I see solutions and bepeople workingwith it. We'rebeingheard. Wer'not just parents now. Were beingheard as a group and working together.encouraging them to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities.

Orange contrast lane striping is clearly visible in this aerial photo of a work zone in Fife.

The contrast striping was added in this area where both directions of I-5 have been shifted to the right to make room for the work area in the median. Crews are building new bridges as part of the Puget Sound Gateway Program's SR 167 Completion Project. Shifting lanes can leave behind "ghost stripes" that can occasionally make it difficult to clearly see current striping. In addition, many people still drive through fast through work zones, endangering themselves, others and crew. This pilot project will help determine whether orange striping is an effective tool to increase work zone awareness and safety.

Washington is only the fifth state to experiment with orange contrast lane striping. We're gathering information about speeds, collisions, work zone intrusions and whether drivers more consistently maintain their lane. The orange lane striping will remain in place through fall 2023.

The information we gather will be submitted to the Federal Highway Administration in 2024 to help it determine if orange striping is something that can be used more often across the nation.

Elev8 Parent Mentor Program at Ames Middle School Chicago:

eric@smittyimage.comGloria Bedillo had never served as a school volunteer before, or thought of herself as a leader. But within XX months of the day her daughter enrolled at Logan Square’s Ames Middle, all that changed. Suddenly Bedillo found herself serving as a classroom assistant, a family book group leader, a truant outreach worker, a member of the local school council, and chair of the school’s No Child Left Behind Committee. REACTION FROM HER—IS SHE SURPRISED? While Bedillo is one of the more active parents at Ames, she is hardly unusual. Inner-city schools often bemoan the lack of parental involvement, but Ames has it in spades: 20 parents are volunteering or working for modest wages at the school almost daily at a variety of jobs through Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program. “It’s an enhancement to everything we do,” said Ames Principal Thomas Hoffman who credits the program’s parent truancy outreach workers for helping to raise the school’s average daily attendance rate more than two percentage points in the past two years. LSNA launched the Parent Mentor Program in 1995 as a way to give parents, mainly Hispanic women, the skills and confidence to get more involved in their children’s education. Since then, the program has trained more than 1,300 parents at nine neighborhood elementary schools as classroom mentors for struggling students.But learning how to assist students and school staff is just the beginning. Parent mentors are encouraged to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. And they are urged to pursue personal goals, such as finding employment or pursuing further education. Many have gone on to take ESL or GED classes offered at Ames and four other Logan Square elementary schools.Maria Marquez, a former parent mentor who now coordinates that program at Ames, went even further. She enrolled in LSNA's “Grow Your Own” program which helps Logan Square residents earn undergraduate degrees in education and land jobs in Chicago Public Schools, helping to alleviate the bilingual teacher shortage. More than 20 other parent mentors have done likewise. “Had it had it not been for the Parent Mentor Program I would not be going to Northeastern [University],” she said.For Bedillo, joining the program was no less transformative. As a former substance abuse counselor with an associates degree in social services, she had always enjoyed helping people. BUT OUTSIDE HER CIRCLE?, she had been hesitant to speak her mind. “She was kind of quiet when she first started, not wanting to say a lot,” Marquez recalled.But in the safety of the parent mentor group—LSNA trained a dozen this fall—she began to speak up, said Marquez. “She's a little bit more confident about her opinions.”During one meeting, when a mother complained that her son was unable to get reduced city bus fare because he couldn't prove he went to Ames, Bedillo volunteered to ask the principal about providing student IDs. The principal agreed to do so. WHAT MADE HER DECIDE TO DO THAT.The other mothers were impressed, said Marquez. Later, when she asked for volunteers for the school’s No Child Left Behind Advisory Committee, they quickly nominated Bedillo as chair, said Marquez.“I was like 'Me?' Bedillo recalls. “They were like, 'Yes, you.'”Bedillo, a friendly woman with a ready smile, initially signed-up as a parent mentor because of concerns about school safety, which provided to be unfounded, she said. But that first step was a gateway. “The more I get involved with my daughters school,” she said, “the more I want to be involved.”Her sudden interest surprised her daughter, Jaileen Martinez. “I was shocked about it. I just thought of my mom as a house mom.” The 7th-grader was also worried. “I was kind of scared because I thought she would embarrass me,” Jaileen acknowledged. But she needn't have worried. Her friends thought Bedillo was cool. “When they see me they're like, 'Where's your mom?'” And rather than embarrassed by her mother's involvement at the school, Jaileen found herself impressed. “She's so into it. Her trying to help somebody makes me want to do the same. She motivates me.”Parents in neighborhoods like Logan Square often don't realize how eager schools are for their participation, said Marquez. That's especially true for those immigrating from Mexico or other Central American countries, she explained.In Mexico, parents don’t ever question the teacher or principal, said Marquez. “You can't come into the classroom because it’s invading their domain.”But the parent mentor training makes it clear how much they are valued, not only by recruiting them to serve in a variety of additional roles—safety patrol, truancy outreach, after school tutorCK—but by building their confidence. Before parents step foot in the classroom, they get two weeks of training on the school's math and reading curriculum and also on personal development and leadership. The training continues for two hours a week throughout the school year. Parents without degrees often imagine they don’t have much to offer the school, said Leticia Barerra, another Parent Mentor alumna who now manages the program for LSNA. When parents realize they have lots of skills and talents they can offer to the school, they feel important and useful.” CAN BEDILLO COMMENT ON HER EXPERIENCE?Parents also need to know they have the right to speak up to authority, she said, whether to the principal, the alderman or their state representatives. “They didn't realize how much power they could have,” Barerra explains. “As soon as they know, they start making phone calls.” During last school year's training, a group of mothers suddenly decided to visit the alderman and demand traffic-calming measures around the school: They got their way. After this year's initial training, parents spontaneously teamed up to go door to door to encourage their neighbors to vote. ASK BEDILLO ABOUT THIS.HOW MANY TIMES THIS YEAR, past and present parent mentors have hopped on a bus to Springfield to lobby legislators on immigration reform. NEED A LITTLE MORE HERE“We're speaking out and being heard and not being afraid,” Bedillo said. “We're not just parents now. Were being heard as a group and working together.”After that, came back and was speaking more passionately.Gloria already had associates degree. Benefits mothers as much as students. many gone on to get bachelors degrees and become teachers in the community. Feeds into Grow Your Own,HeadBedillo said she initially decided to join the mentor because her daughter, a 7th-grader, was nervous about attending the new school which she heard had a lot of fighting and bullying, rumors that later proved to be unfounded. Parents receive xx hours of training over xx weeks before they are each assigned to a classrooms two hours a day Monday through Thursday. Bedillo assigned to a math class and then a science class, helps all students but particularly those who are still learning English. QUOTE FROM TEACHER ABOUT WHY THIS IS HELPFULIdea is to make parents realize that they can be part of school. in mexico, not welcome.Bedillo is from Puerto Rico, immigrated to Chicago at three and grew up in Spanish-speaking household. Graduated from St. Augustine college with an associates degree in social services and worked as a substance abuse counselor until 2008. Never been active in school before. When her daughter went to Nixon, didn’t have those opportunities. NEED TRANSITION.Comfort of group, started speaking up. went to principal. Got ids. Then chosen for no child left behind, also on local school counsel.now that I got involved as a parent mentor at my ds school ive felt the need to get more inv and more invRecruited to do extra work for modest hourly wage. Part of elev8 programs. Ames part of elev8 program, extra funds to do truant outreach—phones disconnected and many parents don’t realize kids not in school. money also for literacy ambassadors.Recently she and her daughter visited another neighbor and read about seeds. Youngest participant in 5th grade, the oldest his grandmother. Xx said bedillo’s daughter, who also went along.Role models for their kidsBedillo’s daughter said she was worried when her mother was going to volunteer, meant they would walk to school together each morning. thought she was going to embarrass me. Surprised to find that her friends thought her mom was actually pretty cool. Now she’s motivated. Also part of the Elev8 program where afterschool tutoring raised her math grade c TO A. mother also able to help out more, with parent mentor traning. huge confidence boost. Set her sites on selective high school marine biology. mother as an inspiration.The award-winning program was launched xx years ago and now operates at nine neighborhood schools including Ames. Since its founding, LSNA has trained over xx parents to mentor struggling students in the classroom. But mentorship is just the beginning. The program trains parents, mainly Hispanic women, to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. It also recruits them to serve in a variety of additional roles at the school from safety patrol to neighborhood book group leader.Gloria quotesThe more I get involved with my daughters school the more I want to participate, the more I want to be involved.Speaking out. To the needs that I see that we need. And not being afraid. Speakingout and being heard. Safe place to do that. I see solutions and bepeople workingwith it. We'rebeingheard. Wer'not just parents now. Were beingheard as a group and working together.encouraging them to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with members of the North Charleston Police Department, Charleston Farms Community, and a program participant in the department's innovative program S.T.A.N.D. (Stop and Take A New Direction).

Attorney General Holder heard first hand how the program, which focused on not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better, has changed the lives of several participants and improved the quality of life in the neighborhood. AG Holder praised the department for "thinking outside of the box" in crime reduction strategies and for its community involvement.

Of the original eight (8) participants accepted in to the program, four completed the program, maintain full time employment and continue to be productive citizens. The project was broadcast nationwide last year on Dateline NBC.

Photo by Ryan Johnson

Government Island Park is seen in Stafford County, Va., on Dec. 3, 2016. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

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