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Sponsor - Sainsbury's
Artist - Anne Schwegmann-Fielding
Design - 'Sarasvati'
What inspired the design?
Sarasvati is the Hindu Goddess of the Arts. She helps us with creative expression. The stars are based on those from the internationally loved song “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” written in Colchester.
Inspired by Indian decoration, she is made using fragments of beautiful things including crockery, mirror, coins and jewels.
About the Sponsor
As a retailer Sainsbury’s has been providing great products and service to our communities for over the last 143 years and our vision is to be the most trusted retailer where people love to work and shop. My team at Stanway are proud to be involved in the 50th year celebration of Colchester zoo and to be a giraffe patron.
The community and the environment are very important to us as a company and I can proudly say that we are one of the only retailers in the world to have committed to put no food waste into landfill, highlighting as a company we really do respect our environment and are committed to making a positive difference in our communities.
About the Artist
Anne is an internationally renowned sculptor and mosaic artist who has been creating a wide range of works for public and corporate clients since the mid 1990’s. There is a strong emphasis on recycled materials in her work; her aim being to make the ordinary, extraordinary. She often incorporates artefacts into her works that have been donated by, or have connections to the people and location of each commission.
She has won several awards and appeared on numerous television programmes. Her work is in private and public collections around the world.
Community-Based Fire Prevention and Peatland Restoration Phase 2. Kayu Ara Permai Village, Siak.
Photo by Perdana Putra/CIFOR-ICRAF
If you use one of our photos, please credit it accordingly and let us know. You can reach us through our Flickr account or at: cifor-mediainfo@cgiar.org and a.sanjaya@cgiar.org
View of Base Hospital No. 65’s wards and additional medical service tents in France in 1918 during World War I. Seen in the foreground are several ambulances and male staff of the Base Hospital (1918) [photograph is a reprint from an original photograph].
From Ione B. Bain Papers, WWI 61, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Seen in Bournemouth, Dorset.
The current owner is the second and has owned it since 1980.
The vehicle details for AJN 950B are:
Date of Liability01 05 2015
Date of First Registration18 08 1964
Year of Manufacture1964
Cylinder Capacity (cc)1798cc
Fuel TypePETROL
Vehicle StatusLicence Not Due
Vehicle ColourGREEN
This is just a picture of a base I made a while ago, just so that I can get a decent picture of it before I scrap it. (gallery on Mocpages if you're interested)
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held Sept. 10, 2020, for the 433rd Training Squadron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
I built this MOC for Andromeda's Gates on Eurobricks. It shows a MANTIS mining base in full swing, there's even some little loader trucks carrying loads of Awesomnium. The building has a full interior as well.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE SALEARNO, Afghanistan (AFPN)-- Sergeant First Class Ricky Bryant is last in line to board a C-130H2 Hercules cargo aircraft at this 8 March, 2006 dirtstrip operational resupply mission to forward operating base Salearno, Afghanistan. The aircraft and crew are from the 185th Airlift Squadron, Will Rogers World Airport, Oklahoma Air National Guard and are deployed to the 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Lance Cheung)
P&J Ranches Producer Steve Burke (black baseball cap) and other landowners use water from the Ruby Reservoir at the base of the Ruby Mountains where water flows along the West Bench Canal, just above the mountain base, above the farmlands; along the way, improved U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funded control valves allow water through debris grates and additional (self-cleaning) rotating cylindrical algae filter screens before entering inlets to funded Irrigation Water Management systems and into the (gravity-flow) Irrigation Pipeline that supplies five center-pivot and one wheel-line Sprinkler System without the use of pumps in Sheridan, MT, on August 28, 2019. The elevation drop from the canal to the sprinklers provides the needed water pressure to efficiently spray water out of the hanging sprinkler nozzles and the gun sprinklers with a rocker-arm drive. This improved water availability, reduced irrigation labor, reduced runoff and erosion, reduced water use, increased yield, cut costs.
Mr. Burke worked with Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist John Wagoner (tan baseball cap and sunglasses) and NRCS Soil Conservation Technician Clayton Marxer (straw cowboy hat).
The irrigation sprinklers systems are fully controlled and monitored from his smartphone connected to the local rural broadband network.
To check the soil health, Mr. Burke uses a hand auger to drill into the soil and pull out samples from his crops.
At this time, he is busy operating a combine to harvest the wheat from the fields. Then his son Steve Burke, Jr., uses stacker equipment to collect the big straw bales quickly.
USDA Photo by Lance Cheung.
Irrigation System Sprinkler System (Practice Code 442) is an irrigation system in which all necessary equipment and facilities are installed for efficiently applying water by means of nozzles operated under pressure. for more information, please see nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb1046885.pdf
Irrigation Pipeline (Practice Code 430) is an irrigation pipeline and its appurtenances that are installed as part of an irrigation system to convey water for storage or application. For more information, please see nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/water/?cid=nrcs144p2_027153
Irrigation Water Management (Practice Code 449) Irrigation water management is the process of determining and controlling the volume, frequency, and application rate of irrigation water in a planned, efficient manner. For more information, please nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/ny/technical/cp/?cid=nrcs144p2_027155
For more information, please see:
Conservation Practices - usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detailfull/national/technical/cp/ncps/?cid=nrcs143_026849
NRCS – NRCS - nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/site/national/home/
FPAC - Farm Production and Conservation - usda.gov/our-agency/about-usda/mission-areas
USDA - USDA.gov
Story and photo by Captain Austin Liu
6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery
SUWON AIR BASE— Eighth Army Commander Lt. Gen. John Johnson visited the Soldiers and Families of 6th Battalion, 52nd Air Defense Artillery, 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, here June 22.
During his visit, Johnson observed PATRIOT air defense gunnery training and toured the U.S. Army supply support area. In addition, he stopped by the Community Activity Center, barracks, and the new mini-commissary to see first-hand the living conditions and amenities available.
Johnson held a luncheon with the unit command teams and Family Readiness Group leaders, including a question and answer session to address any issues.
High on Johnson’s agenda was the topic of tour normalization, command sponsorship, as well as the progress made by the Camp Carroll Task Force. The EUSA Commander also reminded the leaders to start planning and executing risk reduction measures as monsoon season approaches.
Johnson thanked air defense Soldiers and their Families for the “level of dedication and sacrifice” they made in accomplishing a “very special and critical mission of defending against enemy tactical ballistic missiles. “Your mission is very important to the U.S.-ROK alliance because it establishes the basis of the local nationals’ confidence in our ability to protect the peninsula against the greatest threat everyone is worrying about.”
Brittney Tinkey, one of the FRG leaders who attended the luncheon, thought the session was “informative as well as great experience for all the participants He was honest and respectful with all of his answers. And I believe we all walked away with a strong sense of hope for the future and the continued improvement of the Army lifestyle.”
Perhaps the most memorable moment came when Johnson took the time to recognize a few distinguished Soldiers in the Iron Horse Battalion who have performed well above and beyond their assigned duties here in Korea.
One of the Soldiers being recognized was Spc. Wesley Himbricks, assigned to Headquarters Battery.
The communication specialist received the coveted EUSA Commander’s coin along with congratulations from Johnson.
Himbricks said he was “extremely excited and happy about meeting the general.”
“It was a rewarding experience and I felt that my hard work has paid off,” Himbricks said.
Suwon Air Base is the home of the 6-52 Air Defense Artillery Battalion and a unique combined base operated solely by the Republic of Korea Air Force.
It was Johnson’s first visit of Suwon Air Base since taking over as the Eighth Army commander.
For more information on U.S. Army Garrison Humphreys and living and working in Korea visit: USAG-Humphreys' official web site or check out our online videos.
Camera: Zero 2000 Pinhole
Film: Kodak Portra 400
Exposure Time: 12 seconds
Location: Colonial Creek Campground - North Cascades National Park, Washington State
A night in the forest and two days on the trails, surely makes for a great retreat from the rat race of the city. After spending the long 4th of July weekend attending a beer festival and going to BBQs and celebrating our nation's birthday with friends I hit the road for a night of solitude in the North Cascades National Park.
Pictured above is the walk-in site I selected upon arriving at Colonial Creek Campground, site 135 if anyone is interested. I am not good at measuring distances but I'd say it was a good 50 or 60 yards from the car, far enough in that I could no longer see my Mazda anyway. There was a real sense of being out in the wilderness, surrounded by the lush old growth forest around me. The calmness of the woods spooked me a bit once nightfall came. I suppose I am still working on my zen like oneness with nature, but other than that I did just fine.
I spent much of the two days up in the park hiking in the woods with my cameras. I came away with a handful of images I am satisfied with. Sadly the rolls I shot with my Minolta X-700 by and large had fogging issues. A reoccurring issue with the camera lately. A series of images from the trip will follow in the coming days.
Nº 7e.
Volkswagen Golf Mk1 (1974-1984).
Yellow, red seats, clear windows, black base, black roof rack & surf boards.
Escala 1/56.
Matchbox Superfast.
Lesney Products.
Made in England.
© 1976.
This variation was produced from 1981 to 1982.
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Volkswagen Golf - 7e
"The Mark 1 Golf was brought into the range in 1976 and stayed there until the brand folded in 1983, there are some post-Lesney versions known, produced by Matchbox Toys Ltd after 1983.
The model is a good representation of the early Golf and is better for having no opening parts to break its lines. There should be a pair of surf boards on the roof on many of the versions, usually lost on playworn examples.
The first Golfs released 1976/77 were in metallic lime green with black surfboards on the roof, from 1977 to 1981 they were metallic green, still with the surfboards on the roof, there are variations in this phase; red or yellow seats, black or grey bases and darker or lighter amber coloured windows.
Also in 1977 there was a German release in yellow with ADAC graphics and no surfboards and in 1979/80 there were red cars with surfboards and red or yellow seats.
From 1981 to 1982 the car was yellow with surfboards and in 1983/3 the car was silver without surfboards and interior colours of red, tan or blue."
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Source: www.chezbois.com/non_corgi/matchbox/Model_2963.htm
More info:
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matchbox.wikia.com/wiki/V_W_Golf
www.mbxforum.com/11-Catalogs/00-Software/jnmb75nda.php?uS...
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Volkswagen Golf Mk1
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The Volkswagen Golf Mk1 is a small family car, the first generation of the Volkswagen Golf and the successor to the Volkswagen Beetle.
Presented in May 1974, it was intended by Volkswagen as a modern front-wheel-drive, hatchback replacement for the aging Beetle."
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"The Golf was designed by Italian automobile architect / designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, of the ItalDesign design studio. Giugiaro had also designed the Alfasud and the Lotus Esprit Mk1."
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Volkswagen Golf GTI
"In 1975 a sports-oriented variant of the Volkswagen Golf, called the Golf GTI was introduced in March of that year at the Frankfurt Motor Show.
The idea behind was rather straightforward - take a basic-transportation economy car and give it a high-performance package, making it practical and sporty.
It was one of the first small cars to adopt mechanical fuel injection. In 2004, Sports Car International declared the Golf Mk1 GTI to be the 3rd best car of the 1980s.
This special model was powered by 1588 cc and 1780 cc four-cylinder engines fed by a Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection, which helped them develop a respectable 110 & 115PS (80 kW) @ 6,100 rpms and 140 Nm (103 lbs-ft) of torque @ 5,000 rpm. Aided with a curb weight of just 810 Kg (1,785 lbs), it allowed the GTI to accelerate 0-60 mph in 9 seconds.
The top speed was of 180 km/h (some 110 mph)."
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Volkswagen Golf Mk1
Manufacturer
Volkswagen
Also called
Volkswagen Rabbit
Volkswagen Caribe
Volkswagen CitiGolf
Volkswagen Cabriolet
Production
6.8 million units
1974–1983
1976-1985 (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
1979-1993 (Cabriolet)
Assembly
Melbourne, Australia
Brussels, Belgium
Wolfsburg, Germany
New Stanton, Pennsylvania, United States
Uitenhage, South Africa
Shah Alam, Malaysia
Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
TAS Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Vogošća, Yugoslavia
Designer
Giorgetto Giugiaro
Class
Small family car (C)
Body style
2-door convertible
3-door hatchback
5-door hatchback
2-door coupe utility (pickup)
Predecessor
Volkswagen Beetle
Successor
Volkswagen Golf Mk2
OSAN AIR BASE, Republic of Korea (Feb. 8, 2018) - Vice President Mike Pence lands at Osan Air Base. This is the Vice President's second visit to the Republic of Korea within the past 12 months. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Franklin R. Ramos) 180208-F-FV476-031
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Base Protección Civil Vilagarcía de Arousa,Pontevedra,Galicia.
Agrupación de Voluntarios y Servicio de Emergencias.
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U.S. Air Force Airmen, 323rd Training Squadron, graduate basic military training, Feb. 25, 2021, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. The graduation and coining ceremony took place at the Pfingston Reception Center on JBSA-Lackland. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19). (U.S. Air Force photo by Sarayuth Pinthong)
Please accept my apologies for this picture being numerically out of place.
It appears that I can't count depite being an accountant for over thirty years !! . . . . . . Found on internet.
Focus on Eldercare's response to COVID-19
At the purpose when the noxious impacts of COVID-19 showed first in Wuhan, the entire city and therefore the entire of Hubei Province ground to a halt. The lockdown of Wuhan brought remarkable torment and threatening difficulties for several individual occupants therein first focus. Presently, COVID-19 represents those equivalent difficulties for individuals and social welfare frameworks all-inclusive. Especially, it tests our aggregate endeavors to believe one another, particularly the foremost defenseless among us.
As a populace, individuals quite 70 will generally have more fragile insusceptible frameworks and progressively fundamental conditions that obstruct their capacity to battle the infection. They're likewise sure to dwell on bunch day to day environments, nearby people. Floods of COVID-19 passings in nursing homes — first within the Seattle territory, at that time on the brink of Sacramento and now during the country — have underscored this inauspicious reality. Up until now, Californians quite 65 have made up, at any rate, a fourth of the state's affirmed instances of COVID-19.
Be that because it may, guidelines, especially for helping living offices, are unsafely failing to satisfy the expectations in protecting California's older folks from this infection. Luck, Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan on Aging activity, as of now ongoing, presents an opportunity to forcefully address this peril and find how to secure an enormous number of more seasoned Americans.
Helped living focuses are an aid to the Eldercare business and therefore the enormous corporate proprietors that currently command the market. Simultaneously, in any case, an absence of guideline and oversight of staffing levels and capabilities — particularly prerequisites for on-location doctors and much prepared clinical experts — has left the business defenseless against misuse and unfortunate results. One glaring issue that has got to be tended to: helped living focuses are directed by the state Department of Social Services rather than the Department of Public Health.
In any case, it helped to measure maybe a piece of social welfare and clinical consideration conveyance framework, not only a direction for living. Propelled a year ago, Newsom's plan on Aging has framed a warning advisory group, is holding open gatherings and within the fall is planned to offer a 10-year plan which will address issues from lodging and vagrancy to crisis readiness to manhandle and disrespect. The venture has made a "Value Committee" to urge a contribution from a progressively differing gathering of residents and associations, including agents of the crippled network, Native Americans and other ethnic minorities.
Considering the spreading coronavirus general wellbeing emerging, it's basic that the representative's plan on Aging takes on an expansive and genuine open arrangement job. We weren't bothered with elevated level clichés for tending to the wants of the old. We'd like solid arrangements, solid guidelines with implementation teeth and a guarantee to continued oversight.
The Age of COVID-19
Older people who get themselves out of the blue alone without authority over their conditions are at specific hazards for an assortment of serious, even hazardous, physical and psychological well-being conditions, including a subjective decrease. Limitations on the opportunity of development ought to be proportionate and not founded solely on age.
COVID-19, as different irresistible melodies, represents a higher hazard to populaces that live in nearness. This hazard is especially intense in nursing or matured consideration offices, where the infection can spread quickly and has just brought about numerous passings. About 1.5 million older people individuals live in the nursing homes in the US, barring helped living offices and different settings making nearness.
Twenty-three individuals kicked the bucket in a flare-up at an office in Washington State in February and March, and the US Centers for Disease Control detailed 400 additional cases in offices as of April 1. On March 31, wellbeing experts in the Grand East district of France detailed 570 passings of older people in nursing homes.
Older people often end up in nursing homes due to governments' inability to offer adequate social types of assistance for individuals to live freely in the network, approaches that have put millions at included danger of getting the infection as a result of their organization. Governments ought to guarantee the progression of network-based administrations with the goal that individuals don't wind up in organizations without different alternatives.
Expound now on the roles played via care laborers in continuing the lives of the old during that emergency, and who, however dreadful themselves, by and by remain day in and outing inside the bounds of their wards to offer fundamental consideration.
Care supervisor Chang, the woman in charge of the consideration laborers among whom I led my hands-on work, coordinated the change of her ward into a self-sufficient fixed of a unit of care. The passage to her floor is carefully monitored; just fundamental conveyances are permitted, for instance, nourishment and clothing. Since nobody can enter or leave the structure, the flask for the older was transformed into a dozing region for care laborers. Despite the very fact that a lot of consideration laborers have their circle of relatives to require care of, they put that piece of their life under the control of others. Care specialist Lin, whose spouse died at the start of the pandemic, did not have the chance to completely grieve his passing due to incessant understaffing at Sunlight. She came back to figure following the burial service, despite realizing that she not, at now expected to figure at Sunlight to hide her significant other's clinical costs. Lin's arrival says much regarding her promise to her calling, to her colleagues, and to the old she had come to understand so well. My examination with care laborers recommends that it's an enthusiastic association and an awareness of other's expectations that propels them to remain the end of the day in care work. This is often borne out immediately.
Carefully add China is often seen as being grimy and unfortunate, thanks to an excellent extension to its nearby hook up with the realistic consideration required by slight, skilled bodies. Chinese consideration laborers are for the foremost part provincial to urban transients or urban specialists laid far away from previous state-claimed processing plants. In any case, direct consideration is intricate. In any case, its unpredictability goes unrecognized, or maybe disregarded by institutional powers that organize benefits and generalize the old as bodies to chip away at, to the disregard of their social-passionate necessities. As is valid with Sunlight, things which might typically undermine the keenness of care laborers, for instance, the absence of institutional acknowledgment for his or her enthusiastic work, are required to be postponed. Care specialists are currently centered around a shared objective: ensuring the gift assistance of the older. COVID-19 propels care laborers to consider what kind of care is required and the way to offer that care. It fills in as a channel through which the elemental beliefs of care are observed. Care is about common human weakness and our intrinsic association. Care laborers at Sunlight, in their aggregate every minute of everyday endeavors to secure the older, typify this ethic through their consideration. May the respectful regard, they hold of the older in their consideration redound on them and everyone consideration laborers overall who are fighting this pandemic on the bleeding edge!
Like the consideration laborers at Sunlight, the laborers in numerous nations are regarded human life so that we cannot be embarrassed to return clean with the leading edge about ourselves. Salute the spearheading staff who salutes our purposeful endeavors to handle the pandemic in numerous settings around the globe, within the daylight, yet additionally to ensure that veterans are appropriately treated, took care of and washed.
We all hope and pray that the coronavirus will soon be controlled and subdued. And that when the crisis is behind us, that we continue the important work of protecting the elderly and other vulnerable segments of our citizenry.
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YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan -- Senior Airman Daniel Ramos, 730th Air Mobility Squadron crewchief, marshals a Boeing-767 aircraft out for take off here March 19. The aircraft, along with 233 passengers, are part of the first voluntary authorized departure flight from Yokota. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Robin Stanchak)
I think this is the Washington Mutual Bank Tower in downtown Seattle. It has some of my favorite metal public art in its courtyard on 2nd Avenue.
Two Dollar Square Base
Created by F. J. Cpntreras
Diagrams by Glenn Sapaden
This model uses two single dollar bills assembled into a square base that can be folded as if it were a square sheet.
Hot, Young Fort Worth Artists?
There aren’t many — at least based on the art up on the walls now.
Wednesday, 21 September 2011 08:02 ANTHONY MARIANI
Where my hot, young Fort Worth artists at?! Getcher hands in the air! Getcher hands in the air!
*crickets*
I said, Where my hot, young Fort Worth artists at?!
*cough*
Oh, wait! I see you. All the way in the back there. With your Cosby sweater on. And a warm, fresh glass of Pepto in yo hand. That’s cool. That’s cool.
Anyone else? Anyone born after 1922?
Anyone?!
Nope. At least if we are to extrapolate from the art currently hanging in the handful of progressive galleries in town. Am I exaggerating a smidge to underline a point? OK, fine. The photorealist work of several fresh-faced BFA’ers from the University of Texas at Arlington can be admired at Gallery 414, and there’s one artist’s name that rings a bell at the Moudy. But, otherwise, the pickin’s? Pretty slim.
Now if you’re from Dallas or Denton (or anyplace else for that matter) you’re probably doing just swell in Fort Worth now. Actually, I’d say that Dallas and Denton artists, of all ages, are better represented in Fort Worth’s progressive galleries right now than under-40 artists from the great 817. Gaffes & Informations, the current exhibit at the normally non-817-flavored Fort Worth Contemporary Arts (Fort Worth Contemporary Arts) is by two young Dallasites, and the majority of wall space at the often very 817-friendly Fort Worth Community Arts Center is devoted to out-of-towners.
All of which is, of course, a crying shame. Well, you say (in your whiny, annoying, high-pitched voice), maybe there just aren’t any progressive young Fort Worth artists in town. To which I would stand back, inhale deeply, and shout, Brandley, Budd, Harding, Lassen, Nowlin, Yarborough! –– and that’s without even consulting my handy List O’ Hot, Young Fort Worth Artists that I whip on occasion (some would say, much too often). Well, you go on (annoyingly), maybe all of Fort Worth’s quote-cool-unquote artists don’t want to exhibit here –– maybe they think that Fort Worth is too backward for their zaniness.
Now, my incredibly annoying friend, you may have a point. For his relatively recent anthropological installation piece, “Come On Guy,” in which frat bros from the wild got shit-faced behind glass in a gallery, Richie Budd had to take his crazy spirit to the Big Apple (“Hoist a Bud to Richie Budd,” Apr. 14, 2011). And until his recent one-man’er at Gallery 76102, I can’t remember the last time Timothy Harding had a solo show here in town.
And, yes, Fort Worth is located in Tarrant County, one of the reddest counties in the entire thick-as-a-brick-red Lone Star State, and most of the galleries here skew toward watercolor society-esque politeness. But Fort Worth has not been without its glimpses of artistic derring-do. Remember Microaudiotellarevolution (“The Revolution, Televised,” Feb. 18, 2009), Chris Blay’s one-man show at Gallery 414 a couple of years ago? Dude covered an entire wall in vintage tape-recorders simultaneously playing back his voice reading from assorted scripts, and in the (unlit) back gallery, the artist offered a dollhouse-sized shanty shot through with flashlight beams and peopled by little army men. And don’t forget all of the insane Fluxus exhibits that have hung at FWCAC over the years.
However, regarding the current timeframe: For the past 35 years, the Fort Worth Art Dealers Association, a local business association, has set aside a single autumn evening for Fall Gallery Night, a gallery-walk replete with free cheese cubes and unlimited plastic glasses of Franzia. Fall Gallery Night is the time for all of the local galleries (nonprofits and academically based included) to kick off the fine-arts season and boast new and exciting work. Fall Gallery Night 2011, celebrated two Saturdays ago, witnessed perhaps the largest turnout ever, which was probably anticipated — the recent emergence of Facebook as a marketing tool nonpareil was no doubt largely responsible for the drastic uptick in foot traffic. Why then did most of our progressive galleries opt to show non-Fort Worth work, especially when most of our progressive galleries rely on Fort Worth artists throughout the year and when, well, Fort Worth is home to a lot of progressive artists?
Obviously, the most likely answer lies in an undetermined set of variables that aligned themselves to produce a set of non-817-friendly circumstances. In other words, no sinister plot is afoot. But what if Fort Worth’s persistent standing as a dreary ol’ backwater has run off our progressive talent? Maybe Brandley, Budd, Harding, Nowlin, and Yarborough were here a minute ago but have discovered the miracle of automotive transportation and absconded to some faraway fairyland like Dallas or Denton. Or Austin. Or Plano. If so, I must extend my deepest apologies to the progressive gallery owners whose civic pride I’ve undoubtedly sullied. But maybe, just maybe, in the 16th-largest city in the United States, according to the most recent census data, our Brandleys, Budds, Hardings, Nowlins, and Yarboroughs are merely trapped beneath white-tablecloth-covered tables weighted down by big, juicy sirloins or are in an eternal battle with the dreaded dark (and bold) lord Mr Coffee. Or maybe, just maybe, there’s just not enough support here — commercial, academic, and critical — for our progressive artists to thrive.
As the only underground/non-mainstream art critic in the entire county of Tarrant, I’m probably partly to blame for their lack of recognition. But, no, I actually haven’t thought about going door to door and asking the “man” of every house in the county if there’s an artist on the premises and, if so, may I see his or her etchings, please?
A more likely scenario, in my humble opinion, is that Fort Worth’s tastemakers (looking at you, curators and gallery owners) are either A.) not making themselves available to Fort Worth artists or B.) purposefully ignoring Fort Worth artists, mainly *sigh* to educate us, because we all know that Fort Worth is where trends come to die horrible, unspeakable deaths, not rise to life.
Gallery owners, hear me knockin’?
U.S. Air Force basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held May 28, 2020, for the 326th Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Centeron on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).
U.S. Air Force Airmen and Space Force Guardians basic military graduation and coining ceremony is held June 3, 2021, for the 321st Training Squadron at the Pfingston Reception Center on Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Due to current world events, the graduation ceremonies will be closed to the public until further notice for safety and security of the newly accessioned Airmen and their family members due to coronavirus (COVID-19).