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Local Accession Number: 06_11_003349
Title: Gay Head cliffs, Martha's Vineyard.-(Bird's-eye view.)
Statement of responsibility: Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers, Littleton, N. H.
Creator/Contributor: Kilburn Brothers (photographer)
Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints
Created/Published: Littleton, N.H. : Photographed and published by Kilburn Brothers
Date issued: 1850-1920 (approximate)
Physical description: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.
General notes: Title from item.; No. 2019.
Date notes: Date supplied by cataloger.
Subjects: Cliffs; Coastlines
Collection: Harper Stereograph Collection
Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department
Shelf locator: Massachusetts
Rights: No known copyright restrictions.
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Shot this going to a flea market. SE stands for the municipal of "Segeberg" in Germany. The letter and numbers to complete the awesomeness are vanity.
Needless to say that it wasn't a hot chick, but an old hag that left the car.
Panasonic DMC-GF3 on Schneider Kreuznach Curtagon 2.8/35, 1/400 sec., ISO160, f2.8
The act of creativity is cathartic.
As one of my seniors said, "one must only be human, before he/she is an artist."
Being human, we are made to feel. Yet we are taught the value of control from an early age, we are expected to keep undesired emotions in, waiting for them to blow over, rather than to let them blow up.
My works begin with a visceral emotion. I hope to create a visual voice to inner thoughts and feeling, making up for the times where words have failed and other expressions have been restrained.
I started my IB art journey detached, choosing what I deemed safe subject matter: trees, butterflies, flowers, cats; devoid of emotion, nothing messy and complicated. I was lost, the first few months were spent stumbling, scared, clumsy and directionless. Yet now my works are very personal, perhaps more personal than I ever intended them to be. My friend and photographer, Nicole Wu, and her self-portraits were a huge influence. She showed me how to turn emotions into inspiration. It made me realize that was what I wanted to do in my works; to fulfill my need for cathartic expression, for reaching out and looking inwards, connecting with minds, touching thoughts, understanding psyches. Other artists that have heavily influenced my works are Cesar Del Valle, for his incredible interactive hyper-realistic illustrations and Alan Coulson, for his wonderfully expressive portraits.
The mediums I use are simple, 50-cent biro pens, charcoal pencils and acrylic paint, all monochrome. This way there are no colors to seduce the eye, the essence of scenery, objects and people become more visible. Emotion is emphasized by contrast, light, shadow, form and lines.
“I want people to feel what I’m doing, not just see what I’m drawing.”
Questions are asked and statements made to a farm advocacy panel of moderator Rural Advancement Foundation International – USA Executive Director Scott Marlow and panelists Federation of Southern Co-op Ben F. Burkett, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) Administrator Elanor Starmer, USDA Farm Service Agency Administrator Val Dolcini, USDA Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (OASCR) Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Dr. Joe Leonard, and Farmer’s Legal Action Group Deputy Director and Senior Staff Attorney Stephen Carpenter, on Sept. 15, 2016, in Washington, D.C. The panel discussion followed a screening of Farm Aid's Homeplace Under Fire film about the frontline, grassroots work of American farm advocates and their thirty-year efforts to keep family farmers on the land. The film is directed by Charles D. Thompson and produced by Farm Aid in cooperation with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.
Manic Coffee
for Eric and Avo's show opening on May 6, 2015
Only the street shots - thestreetzine.blogspot.com/
Charles Price's Statements:
- "I became a Sierra Club volunteer because I care about Virginia's natural
environment and its inhabitants, and for the survival of life on Planet
Earth."
- "I am proud of the role I palyed last year in achieving placement of a
public land conservation easement on the City of Richmond's James Richmond
Park System because of the permanent protection that if affords to
Richmond's unique "urban wilderness" from the relentless pressures of
development, but also for the precedent that this initiative established for
local jurisdictions in Virginia to use the state's conservation easement
statute to permanently protect locally-owned public lands."
- "I think others should get involved with the Sierra Club because of the
sense of incalculable accomplishment and importance one feels in being a
member of the grass-roots "Paul Reveres" warning of the imminent degredation
and destruction of our only home's life-sustaining natural environment."
Story About Volunteer:
September 17, 2009, Press Release: City of Richmond, Department of Parks,
Recreation & Community Facilities:
At the July 27, 2009, meeting of the Richmond City Council, Charles Price
was recognized for his efforts to mobilize the community to protect the
city's James River Park System with the presentation to him of the
Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities' prestigious Jesse
Reynolds Award. The Award was named for the city's first director of
recreation and parks.
Almost 10 years ago, it was Dr. Price, who, as "Friends"
president of the newly-established Bandy Field Nature Park in Richmond,
Virginia, and member of the local Falls of the James Group-Sierra Club,
introduced to the city the idea of using a conservation easement to protect
the James River Park System from development and to preserve it as a natural
area. It took years of educating the public and Richmond's city officials
before the concept caught hold and made any progress, but then it
languished. Dr. Price, however, never gave up and continued to meet and
discuss his idea with state and local officials. In 2005, as the result of
an attempt by the outgoing city council to exchange a parcel of James River
parkland for private riverfront development, Price met with incoming
Council President Bill Pantele and Council member, Kathy Graziano, who had
been recently elected to the new Council. Ultimately, Graziano and her
staff, and the city administration, worked to develop the conservation
easement and shepherd it through the Council's legislative process. Still it
hit many road bumps and Dr. Price worked relentlessly for its support. The
easement was finally adopted by Richmond City Council on February 23, 2009.
Largely due to the determination and future vision of Dr. Charles Price, the
City of Richmond will forever have this 280-acre crown jewel, the James
River Park System, as a unique wilderness playground in the heart of the
city for all citizens and visitors to enjoy.
Concluding his remarks before Richmond City Council at the
ceremony accepting the Jesse Reynolds Award, Price said:
"...Another important by-product of the Conservation Easement (CE)
Initiative was the Attorney General's Ruling as to to whether or not a local
jurisdiction in Virginia could palce a CE on property that it owned. Before
we started the Initiative, no local jurisdiction Virginia had placed a CE on
property it owned. Virginia's CE statute seemingly applied only to CEs on
privately-owned property. Becuse there was no precedent for it, nor
legislation permitting it, Richmond decided to ask for an Attorney General's
Opinion with respect to whether or not it could grant a CE on property it
owned. The Attorney General ruled that it could do so. As a result of that
Ruling, since 1999, a total of four local jurisdictions in Virginia have
placed a CE on their public lands. In March, 2003, Chesterfield County
placed a CE on 262 acres of wilderness porperty donated by the Brown &
Williamson tobacco compnay along one mile of the James River. In March,
2007, the City of Fredericksburg placed a CE on 4,232 acres of property it
owned along 32 miles of riverfront of the Rappahannock and Rapidan Rivers.
In April, 2008, the city of Roanoke put a CE on 6,185 acres of its
publicly-owned land around the Carvins Cove Water Reservoir. And, in
February, 2009, the City of Richmond, placed a CE on 280 acres of riverfront
property and islands of its Jamrs River Park System. To date, the effort
initiated in Richmond in 1999 has resulted in 10,959 acres of public lands
of local jurisdictions in Virginia being placed under the permanent
protection of conservations easements."
Ballyer Trad Hub Mission Statement
The Ballyer Trad Hub is an open space dedicated to creating awareness of the connection between traditional music and Ballyfermot and the fun and education which comes from music learning.
The Trad Hub aims to be a welcoming and encouraging environment for people of all ages, inviting each individual to come along and find out about the music and also to try out the musical instruments on display. Two of the major obstacles facing people who would like to learn an instrument, are 1. financial and 2. self-doubt; the Trad Hub aims to break down these and other barriers in a bid to create that vital initial access point to musical instruments for anybody with an interest. There will be free, informal lessons given by the Trad Hub supervisor on the instruments at the Trad Hub. Of course, participants do not have to intent on committing to learning an instrument, they might just want to grasp the opportunity to hold a fiddle or a banjo for the first time in their lives. All interest is welcome and encouraged.
The Hub will also provide information, in Irish and English, on traditional music in the area, both at present and historically, as well as information on concerts, sessions, events and lessons in the area. It is planned that the Trad Hub will commence on Saturdays, 11-1pm, at Ballyfermot Library.
Functions of the Ballyer Trad Hub
Instrument Try-out Zone
It is the aim of the Trad Hub to provide a variety of musical instruments on display for people to pursue and try out at their leisure.
Archive
The Trad Hub will also be compiling an archive of music and material relating to traditional music and musicians from Ballyfermot. To this end, please see
copirl.wixsite.com/ballyermusichub/traditional
for some information compiled so far, on musicians from the area who have played traditional music.
Saturday 6th February 2016 saw a Manchester City play Leicester City at the Etihad Stadium.
The Force’s photographer was on hand to take a series of images to be used in future safety briefings and also captured some images of the build up to the game.
The Manchester weather did its best to dampen the spirits of both sets of supporters and the rain poured constantly. Despite the inclement weather Leicester fans left the ground in good spirits after a win.
Policing the many major football games played in our region is a regular duty for many of our officers.
For more information about Policing in Greater Manchester please visit our website. www.gmp.police.uk
To report crime call police on 101 the national non-emergency number.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
Installation View
Juror Statement:
It was a delight to jury EDGE 2017. The chosen works explore and experiment along the edges, where quilters meet and mingle with painters, weavers, collage/assembly artists.
When approaching an artwork in any media I look for several things: skill in the use of the media, a recognition of the history and traditions of the materials being used, strong formal visual language skills, an awareness of artistic conventions (including when they are artfully broken), and the ability of the artist to combine these elements into original content that can engage the viewer deeply in an aesthetic, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual way.
The artists in this exhibit honor traditional media and criteria for excellence while celebrating experimentation and creative use of materials. They exemplify high skill and wild innovation. I selected a total of 28 exceptional works that include expressions that range from abstract and textured to graphic and figurative. These works truly do forge new pathways, and new connections with other visual disciplines.
HELEN KLEBESADEL, juror
Bio:
Helen Klebesadel is an artist, an educator, and an activist. Best known for her environmental and women centered watercolors, she is particularly interested in how myths and stories socialize us to have different expectations for some people than others. She uses the creative process to re-examine and re-present narratives that resist and contest existing power structures by revealing they exist.
Helen earned her BS and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught studio art and chaired the art department at Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) from 1990-2000, before leaving to accept the position of Director of the University of Wisconsin System’s Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium in 2000. From 2013-2016 Helen was the Director of the UW-Madison Division of Continuing Studies’ Wisconsin Regional Art Program. Helen continues to direct the Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium, now hosted by UW-Madison Department of Gender and Women’s Studies.
Press Statement by Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore: State Visit of the Governor-General of New Zealand Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae and Lady Janine Mateparae, 6 to 8 July 2015
The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae will make a State Visit to Singapore from 6 to 8 July 2015 at the invitation of President Tony Tan Keng Yam. Governor-General Mataparae will be accompanied by his wife Lady Janine Mateparae and officials from the New Zealand Government House and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
An official welcome ceremony will be held for Governor-General Mateparae on 7 July, following which he will have separate meetings with President Tan and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. President Tan and Mrs Tan will host a State Banquet in honour of Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine that evening.
During the course of Governor-General Mateparae’s visit to Singapore, he will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean on a tour of the Treelodge@Punggol, HDB’s first Eco-Precinct. Deputy Prime Minister Teo will host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch after the tour. Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen will also host Governor-General Mateparae to lunch to reaffirm the close and long-standing defence ties between Singapore and New Zealand. Governor-General Mateparae will be accompanied by Minister for Health Gan Kim Yong to the KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) to view ongoing collaboration between Singapore and New Zealand at the Neurodevelopment Research Centre under A*STAR’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
Governor-General Mateparae and Lady Janine will attend an orchid-naming and tree-planting ceremony at the Singapore Botanic Gardens on 7 July.
Governor-General Mateparae’s visit underscores the excellent ties between Singapore and New Zealand as both countries commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations this year. There is close cooperation in the fields of trade and investment, defence, and the people-to-people sectors.
. . . . .
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
SINGAPORE
5 JULY 2015
25 September 2009 - New York
President of Carnegie Endowment Jessica Mathews makes a statement during the Conference on Facilitating the Entry Into Force of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
CTBTO Photo/ Sophie Paris
"The Ladybug wears no disguises.
She is just what she advertises.
A speckled spectacle of spring,
A fashion statement on the wing....
A miniature orange kite.
A tiny dot-to-dot delight." ~ J. Patrick Lewis
Out practicing with a new lens, I discovered a million and one bugs milling about. Being that the minimum focusing distance on the 70-200 is 4.6 ft. - even at 200mm the bug was far from filling the frame. This is an extreme crop and in the end, not half bad compared to doing the same thing with the 28-300, which doesn't render as high a quality in this situation.
Nikon D300s + 70-200mm VRII
Exp 640; ISO 200; f/6.3
Shot at min. focus distance 4.6ft
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Assange supporters at Ecuadorean embassy fear police invasion - 16.08.2012
Following the astonishing statement on 15.08.2012 by British officials that the government is willing to revoke the diplomatic status of the Ecuadorean Embassy in Knightsbridge in order to enter it and arrest Wikileaks founder Julian Assange who is applying for political asylum from the Ecuadorean government - which is making their decision known later today - around 20 Wikileaks supporters gathered outside the embassy in the very early hours of 16.08.2012, fearful that the embassy was going to be invaded by the police.
The police had substantially increased their presence around the embassy, and I had sight of around five officers occupying the main foyer of the embassy. They were also closely guarding the fire exits in case Assange tries to make a break for freedom.
Observers say that if the British did this they would be in direct violation of the Vienna Convention, which governs the rules of diplomacy and diplomatic jurisdictions under international law. Already there have been threats to invade British emnbassies abroad should the Foreign and Commonwealth Office carries out its threat.
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Mission Statement is a sweet hardcore band from Virginia Beach, this is a new t-shirt that they had printed. Check them out here: www.myspace.com/mission757statement
An imposing twelve-sided table
Estimate: PHP 1,200,000 - 1,400,000
First quarter, 20th century
Laguna
Narra and kamagong, kamagong inlays
83 x 224 x 224 cm (32 1/2 x 88 x 88 in)
Provenance:
Formerly from the family of Candelaria Moldes Santos, wife of Col. Leopoldo Santos, Philippine army and guerilla fighter during the Japanese occupation
Made in the Bilibid Prison which, from the early American colonial period until the end of the first half of the 20th century, manufactured high quality household and office furniture as part of its program to rehabilitate prisoners in preparation for their reintegration into mainstream society. Their outputs were arguably unrivaled in terms of craftsmanship, design and prolificity.
A rare 12-sided top, made of solid one-piece narra wood, framed by precious kamagong wood carved around the edges with acanthus gadrooning. To harvest wood with a girth this size - over 7 feet across when finished - the felled giant tree must be well over a hundred years old. Each conforming side of the frieze is carved with foliated scrolls centering an anthemion flower inscribed with C-volute. The heavy base is made of two crossed curule seat-shaped legs carved with foliated scrolls bordered by broad kamagong inlays, and undulate with winged rosettes, connected to a huge, turned central cylinder with flutings surmounted by scrolled arches and a finial. The lion’s paws with winged extensions embody immense strength and power.
Overall, the workmanship is quite remarkable, displaying great detailed carvings and decorations alluding to the Italian Neoclassical style that was popular in the early 19th century. A classic, timeless statement piece that will surely draw exclamations of surprise and admiration. Found in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
Lot 189 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on 18 March 2023. Please see www.salcedoauctions.com for more information.
I caught these young men in typical elegant, understated Osaka fashion during my morning walk to the train station. Minami Senba, Osaka.
Statement leather necklace Fashion flowers necklace
Material: leather, beads, wire
Color: black, yellow, green
Length from clasp to clasp - 19" (49 cm) + extended chain
Can you imagine this hanging -on a wall-OR-
on-a high ceiling entryway?!!!
What-a-Statement piece!
Especially if it was dyed indigo blue!
Artist Statement
These images are works in the process being refined for eventual showing..
The images in this Flickr set will be part of a NoMa photo group project I'm involved in. The NoMa (North Manhattan) Photo Group is a dynamic group of talented community minded artists who support each other and promote the work they are doing. For images of the NoMa Photo Group please check out this exciting Flickr group. See: www.flickr.com/groups/manhattanville/pool/
We are documenting the Manhattanville area (Broadway between 125th St. and 137th St. in Manhattan) that will be razed to make way for the octopus expansion of Columbia University. There are of course issues relating to the displacement of a poor and working class neighborhood that may be priced-out of the existing rental housing market through the use of QUESTIONABLE (unconstitutional) eminent domain maneuvers.
The legal concept of eminent domain allows the government and municipalities to take over and raze properties that are partially “blighted”, in order to transfer their sites to private institutions such as Columbia University. Community advocates and protesters argue that this approach to urban redevelopment favors wealthy redevelopers and private institutions at the expense of poor and working class residents, and encourages profligate municipal expenditures and tax variances in support of dubious or marginal benefit to the existing community.
“Terrain Vague” is a French term used by Spanish architect and critic Ignasi de Solà-Morales to describe ambiguous, unresolved, and marginalized spaces in the urban landscape. Terrain vague refers to sites that are often ignored in the mainstream discourse on architecture and design, such as industrial wastelands and monotonous suburban developments.
Solà-Morales notes that photographers and architects address terrain vague in differing ways. The photographer sees these spaces as places that are imbued with a storied past. Architects, however, approach these spaces as problems to be solved through design. Solà-Morales asks:
What is to be done with these enormous voids, with their imprecise limits and vague definition? Art's reaction . . . is to preserve these alternative, strange spaces. . . . Architecture's destiny [by contrast] has always been colonization, the imposing of limits, order, and form, the introduction into strange space of the elements of identity necessary to make it recognizable, identical, universal. The voids, imprecise limits and ambiguities typical of “vague terraine” conjure visions of a species of twilight zone. Rather than being submitted for entertainment and approval by Rod Serling, the haphazard spaces of discontinuous improbabilty of Manhattanville are being submitted for exploitative redevelopment.
True to Solà-Moraleshas' observation, as a group of photographers, we have chosen to address “terrain vague” by documenting aspects of a neighborhood community that will soon disappear into the mist of NYC history. The Manhattanville community has historically given sustenance and a sense of place to a succession of working-class poor but soon will give way to trendy gentrification. The proposed draconian development project is occurring in the context of an insular university institution that has continually expanded at the expense of its surrounding minority neighbors. Understandably, this has resulted in a significant amount of conflict dating back to at least the 1960's.
I found the proliferation of advertising signs in the ManhatanviIle community to be visually oppressive and amplified my own sensation of “terraine vague.” On some level I felt the huge advertising signs were selling “solutions” and “fixes” for manufactured needs that could not be openly discussed.
The intrusive messages seemed to overwhelm\ and diminish the legitimacy of signs calling for urgent action such as: “Halt Columbia University's abuses of eminent domain!”
Some billboards pictured self indulgent, self-satisfied role models enticing as they flaunt their wealth, fame, lifestyle and accomplishments. As if to say….I got mine,….and you? They insinuate to pedestrians what cannot legitimately be articulated or promised in words.
These corporate mercenaries of popular culture model poses and attitudes, that dangle an antidote to the toxic powerlessness and soul sickness of poverty.....quickly, effortlessly, magically….. Without the bother of self-awareness or struggle for social justice.
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.” ~From the movie Fight Club, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk
It is no wonder to me that the mixed messaging of political advertising and policy makers, etc., keep voters confused and easily misdirected, by so-called "wedge issuues", that appeal on the basis of low self esteem driven uncertainty and fear. Induced mass low self esteem is an interesting phenomenon that drives passive consumption of ideas, values, decision-making......and, yes, let's not forget.....material consumption!
Check out “Happiness: Lessons From a New Science”, by Richard Layard who exposes a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most of us want more income so we can consume more.
Mind control, anyone?
For me, the ideas that drive this photographic essay are connected to the vagaries of urban space usage and how the meaning of community is distorted, misdirected and shaped to fit the purposes of the power elite.
This art project hopes to bring attention to these ideas and inequities. It is expected that this work will result in an exhibition at sometime at the begining of 2008.
STATEMENT MAGAZINE
March - April 2010
Photography I DOC MARLON PECJO
Hair I DINO LAZARO on Maiara & MARK BAQUIRAN on Walisson
Make Up I ALLEN ROSALES
Styling I REY SANTOS
Models I MAIARA GARCIA of Reco Models & WALISSON RAMOS of Ideal People
One video still from each "Life is Drag" video portrait (performance documentation).
lifeisdrag.com
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I create bodies of work that explore subjects such as gender, artifice, and spectacle. Utilizing processes ranging from directorial to curatorial to anthropological, I showcase exuberantly irrepressible personalities who revel in challenging clichés associated with constructs such "masculinity" and "femininity". A sampling of subjects include Girls Girls Girls (the world's first and only all-female Mötley Crüe tribute band), Tazzie Colomb (the world's longest competing female bodybuilder), and LACTIC Incorporated (an avant-garde clothing brand that takes the detritus of corporate life and reinterprets it into one-of-a-kind structural garments that challenge the polarization of gender).
With this current and ongoing project "Life is Drag", I am documenting the most innovative and singular performers of the currently exploding international alt-drag and neo-burlesque scenes. I am 3 years into this project, and so far have created 250+ portraits. These are created in my studio as well as during residencies - in New York City (The Cell Theater, Bushwig), Pittsburgh (The Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Blue Moon Bar, Bloomfield Garden Club), and New England (3S Artspace).
This project began in early 2019 in my studio in Brooklyn, when I collaborated with a local visual artist by the name of Untitled Queen - a deeply beloved, highly respected, and uniquely visionary performer and conduit within the NYC drag scene who uses drag as a part and extension of her artistic process. I then worked with selected performers from Ohio and Kentucky in conjunction with a mid-career retrospective in my hometown of Cincinnati in the spring of 2019, and in January and February of 2020, I worked with 20+ New England-based drag artists as part of a residency and exhibition at 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
From the autumn of 2020 until the summer of 2021, I was an artist in residence at The Cell Theatre in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, where I expanded the project in the midst of the pandemic to also include neo-burlesque performers and performance artists whose work deals specifically with gender performativity. Most recently was a residency in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio - which included creating video portraits of performers from the drag haus ODD Presents, members of the neo-burlesque troop Smoke & Queers, and other alt-drag and burlesque artists from the tri-state area. This residency also included an exhibition featuring this ever-growing archive, as well as multiple live performance events.
My long-term goal is to continue to do a series of such residencies nationally and internationally, which will allow me to create a comprehensive archive of video portraits of drag, burlesque and performance artists from a wide range of locations, backgrounds, cultures, and ages. Each portrait includes video of the artist performing (lip-synching, singing, telling stories, reciting monologues, dancing, etc.) in addition to interview documentation, and will live online as well as in galleries and unexpected places in between. "Life is Drag" has so far been exhibited at such venues as the the Carnegie Museum of Art and Bunker Projects (PA), Satellite Art Club, Bushwig and The Cell (NYC), 3S Artspace (NH), and the Weston Art Gallery (OH).
I believe this project is innovative and important in that it is treating and respecting "drag" (defined as broadly and inclusively as possible) as a proper art form – recognizing it as an extremely vital and valid style of performance art, and every bit as deserving of the deference reserved for more traditional classical art forms like painting and sculpture. Drag is painting and sculpture and performance all at once - and quite often also activism, education, protest, therapy, resistance, catharsis, comedy, tragedy, enlightenment, inspiration - or some combination of the above - to those who practice it, and also to those who experience it as an observer. This project is about celebrating this experimental and expansive form of art and its wide range of practitioners and manifestations. It is about creating a record - an archive - of these brilliant but ephemeral performances, from dive bars to art galleries, city streets to grand theater stages. It is about trying to properly document and share these wildly diverse acts and profound stories that will surely open minds and capture hearts.
From March 30, 2106 to April 4, 2016, a small team of subject-matter experts from BOEM's Alaska OCS Region and its Sterling, Va. headquarters traveled around Alaska hosting a series of 10 public meetings.
The purpose of the meetings was to get public input on the draft environmental impact statement prepared to analyze the potential environmental impacts of the 2017-2022 Proposed Five-Year Program.
BOEM photos by John Callahan. All photos are in the public domain.
Judaica ・/jü-ˈdā-ə-kə/ plural noun
things pertaining to Jewish life and customs, especially when of a historical, literary, or artistic nature.
Judaica is a space for work by Jewish creators to be considered within a Jewish lens. The term ‘Jewish creators’ acknowledges the vast diversity of Jewish backgrounds and experiences and is open to anyone who identifies as Jewish regardless of their personal practices and belief systems. Judaica is a space for both overtly and covertly Jewish art. That is, both art that codes itself as Jewish through the use of easily recognizable imagery and symbols, and art that is not explicitly recognizable as Jewish but contains ideas or themes that relate to the creator’s Jewish identity. Judaica aims to combat the room-of-silence phenomena by creating a space explicitly for creators to have their work talked about within a Jewish context. Without any preconceived notions of what the self-identified Jewish artist has to be or look like, Judaica aims to amplify the voices of Jewish artists and to be the first step in a larger conversation connecting Jewish art-makers in the RISD and Brown communities.