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Sierra Leone News: 80 Countries celebrate Meteorology Day
Sierra Leone has joined other countries around the world to celebrate World Meteorology Day, on the theme, "Measurements and the Global Energy Challenge".
Welcoming his audience in the Presidential Lounge of the National Stadium, Chairman on Standards, Meteorology and Technical Regulation, Ibrahim Sesay said the need for accurate measurements is evident throughout history, but it was the rapid rise in international trade that led to the desire for an internationally recognized system. He noted that measurement is everywhere, playing a vital role in people's lives as it underpins the welfare of people in modern societies and touches on almost every part of daily lives.
Sesay maintained that in some industries, the need for accurate measurement is critical, especially for countries manufacturing precision engineering components used in aeronautic engines.
Representing the Trade and Industry Ministry, Ahmed Akar Ahmed, the professional head in the Ministry, indicated that the world will face "growing global energy challenges" in the coming decades because of what he said, "is the growing energy demand" particularly from emerging nations, coupled with the need to limit or reduce green house emissions. Akar Ahmed stated that measurement of energy has always been one of the central challenges that have shaped the system of base and derived units.
Ahmed Akar Ahmed stressed that the availability of energy from many different sources is vital for human existence. The professional head at the Trade and Industry Ministry asserted that the well-being of industries, commerce and the maintenance of quality life depends on safe, secure, sustainable and affordable energy.
He disclosed that government through the Trade Ministry has put in place a meteorological structure with the aim to establish a National Meteorological Institute, to serve as reference point for the ECOWAS region and to provide an accurate measurement system for Sierra Leone and the sub region.
The Executive Director of Standards Bureau, James Dumbuya expressed delight that Sierra Leone joined other countries the day, marking the commemoration of the anniversary of the signing of the Meter Convention in 1875. He said the convention ensured the provision for a world-wide coherent measurement system. The Executive Director admonished that as the world faces growing global energy challenges, "there is need to improve on the ability to measure a whole series of parameters".
Dumbuya noted that across the world, national meteorological institutes are continually advancing measurement science by developing and validating new measurement techniques at different sophisticated levels.
The Standards Bureau, Executive Director noted that the day is set aside to recognize and celebrate the contributions of intergovernmental and national organizations staff and their efforts to ensure that measurements are central to most countries' basic decisions on complex energy challenges.
By Ade Campbell


Sitting in front of a fire on a cold February day and deciding what to plant is imminently satisfying to most gardeners. If pumpkins are part of the plan, knowing how long they take to grow is essential.
How Long Do Pumpkins Take to Grow?
Can I Speed Up the Growing Process?
If you have decided to plant pumpkins, it is vital to know in which planting zone you live. Although pumpkins can grow nearly anywhere, they require a longer growing season than most other garden plants.
The planting zone is based on the last and first hard frosts of the growing season in your area. To get this information, the USDA has an interactive map online. However, the best way to find out what the planting zone is for your region is to ask an experienced gardener.
Tip: Most local nurseries can also provide information about your local growing season and are happy to answer your questions.
All pumpkins require a long growing season with a lot of sun, but some varieties mature more quickly than others. At a minimum, you need to plan for at least 85 days for some variations, and up to 160+ days for a Giant Pumpkin. The back of the seed packet you purchase will have the average days to maturity listed on the back.
There are many different kinds of pumpkins, and which type you choose will dictate how long you need to plan for them to be in the ground. Most ornamental pumpkins have a shorter growing season, but many people do not eat ornamental ones and they cannot be used for pies or Jack O'Lanterns.
There is no way to fool Mother Nature into growing your pumpkins any faster than the package indicates. However, you can give your pumpkin seeds a head start by starting them indoors about four weeks before the last frost date. Starting them inside allows you to plant longer-growing varieties if you live in a region with a short growing season.
Another option is to purchase established seedlings at your local garden center. For beginning gardeners, this may be the best option as it takes the extra work out of planting and almost guarantees a plentiful harvest.
Tip: Whether you plant seedlings or seeds, the soil needs to reach a consistent temperature of 65°F (18°C) for the pumpkins to grow.
If you want to grow large pumpkins for carving Jack O'Lanterns or even a Giant Pumpkin to enter into the fair, you need to be sure to provide plenty of frost-free growing time.
Lumina (this kind has a white rind).
Tip: The above pumpkins require around 110 days to harvest, with some ripening earlier and some slightly later. Plan for approximately 120 days to harvest.
Giant Pumpkins, however, are in a category all their own. They can grow as large as 500 pounds (227 kilograms) and more, so you can imagine the time it takes to nurture them to harvest. The average growing season for this size of pumpkin is about 165 days.
Whichever variety you choose to plant, the best way to help them during the season is to take stellar care of them. While all pumpkins need at least six hours of sunlight, pumpkins thrive when they have 8-10 hours of direct sunlight.
Feeding your pumpkins with a high-quality organic fertilizer will help them mature into healthy, robust fruits.
Water is vital for your plants from planting through harvest harvest. Plan on watering every time the soil around the plants whenever it looks dry.
Regardless of the type of pumpkin you want to plant, planning your garden is the key to success. Be sure to read the seed packets carefully to ensure that you give the seeds enough time to mature. Many gardeners plant several varieties with different harvest times; this provides more pumpkins for a more extended period. If you love pumpkins but not quite that much, pick one variety and watch it grow!
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When bitcoin, the first cryptocurrency, was launched, its developers and earliest adopters were filled with optimism about blockchain technology as a way to counter the powerful distrust that they held for banks and middlemen.
Let us get face to face with jargons of the blockchain world.
Encryption "hides" data by converting data into a form in which only a computer can read and encrypted data can't be read by humans. The coded version can be used only if users have another code, which transforms the data back into a format that humans can read. These codes are called keys.
Private Key data is the object of cybercriminals' desire. Breaching blockchain security involves breaking through security measures to possess private keys. That's because cryptocurrency has no physical form, such as dollars or euros do.
The "somewhere" you store it in is a digital wallet, a must-have part of cryptocurrency investment. That "somewhere" can be online storage in a wallet or with a third-party storage service, called an exchange. Offline storage on paper or a hardware device is other (many say more prudent) alternatives.
Level of a security threat – The longer the device that stores your private key is connected to the internet, the higher is the risk of losing your cryptocurrency investment.
Hot wallets are stored at online exchanges and can be accessed with apps or a Web browser. They are "hot" because they are connected to the internet, which makes them more vulnerable to security breaches and malware attacks.
Cold wallet is a method of storing coins offline (not connected to the internet). This approach eliminates the opportunity for hackers to use an internet connection to break into a digital wallet and steal private key information.
The process requires miners to solve an extremely complex puzzle and whoever solves the puzzle first, gets the coin. Staying competitive with other crypto miners, however, requires a computer with specialized hardware, lots of computer processing power and energy resources.


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Sjögestads socken i Östergötland ingick i Valkebo härad, ingår sedan 1971 i Linköpings kommun och motsvarar från 2016 Sjögestads distrikt.

Socknens areal är 19,99 kvadratkilometer land. År 2000 fanns här 759 invånare.  Tätorten Sjögestad med sockenkyrkan Sjögestads kyrka ligger i socknen.

Administrativ historik
Sjögestads socken har medeltida ursprung.

Vid kommunreformen 1862 övergick socknens ansvar för de kyrkliga frågorna till Sjögestads församling och för de borgerliga frågorna till Sjögestads landskommun. Landskommunen inkorporerades 1952 i Norra Valkebo landskommun och ingår sedan 1971 i Linköpings kommun.  Församlingen uppgick 2006 i Vikingstads församling.

1 januari 2016 inrättades distriktet Sjögestad, med samma omfattning som församlingen hade 1999/2000.

Socknen har tillhört samma fögderier och domsagor som Valkebo härad.  De indelta soldaterna tillhörde  Första livgrenadjärregementet, Stångebro kompani, och Andra livgrenadjärregementet, Västanstångs kompani.

Geografi
Sjögestads socken ligger mellan Mjölby och Linköping kring Svartåns biflöden. Socknen är en slättbygd med skog i söder och väster.

Fornlämningar

Kända från socknen är åtta gravfält med stensättningar från järnåldern. Fyra runristningar är antecknade.

Namnet
Namnet (1330-talet, Sigwaldstadhe) kommer från kyrkbyn. Förleden är mansnamnet Sigwald. Efterleden är sta(d), 'plats'.

Se även
Sjögestads församling
Lista över fasta fornminnen i Linköpings kommun (Sjögestad)

Referenser

Fotnoter

Vidare läsning
Sveriges bebyggelse : statistisk-topografisk beskrivning över Sveriges städer och landsbygd. Landsbygden. Östergötlands län, del 1 Hermes 1946 libris

Externa länkar

Indelningar i Linköpings kommun
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Last Tree-sitters Removed from Path of Mountain Valley Pipeline
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By Matt Dhillon
It was a foggy morning on March 24, in the valley bisected by Highway 460, near the town of Elliston, Virginia. Several dozen local residents gathered on the southbound side in ongoing protest of the Mountain Valley Pipeline — a hotly contested 42-inch-wide pipeline carrying fracked gas from wells tapping the Marcellus and Utica shale in northern West Virginia to Pittsylvania County, Virginia. The rally formed in support of two tree-sitters blockading the path of the pipeline from one of the last sections of trees along its 303-mile route. A little bit up the road, police were working to extract the remaining tree-sitter.
The two tree-sits — each consisting of a platform anchored to a tree 50 or more feet above the ground, continuously occupied by a rotation of volunteers, and supported with food, materials and communication by a base camp on the ground — contested MVP's right of way, preventing construction from proceeding. The tree-sits had remained for 932 days, with activists enduring three winters, snow, ice and turbulent weather, but a November injunction by a Montgomery County Circuit Court prompted law enforcement to clear out the base camp, leaving the two tree-sitters on their own.
Supporters of the Yellow Finch Blockade showed up across the highway from the police barricade on March 24. Photo courtesy of Appalachians Against Pipelines
At 7 a.m. on March 23, police and work crews shuttled in a crane to be assembled at the end of Yellow Finch Lane, the gravel road at the base of the tree-sits from which the protest took its name. They successfully extracted one of the two tree-sitters, known by the alias Robin. Now, on the following morning, supporters were awaiting news of the second, whom they referred to as "our friend, Acre."
Police blockades walled off the road from the valley to the tree-sits deeper in the mountains, and, according to the group of protesters, police were spread out through the woods denying access to supporters, witnesses and media. That's why the band of sign-waving supporters were clustered at the closest accessible point to the action — on the side of the highway, across from a police barricade where officers monitored who went in and out.
In more than three years of conflict with the MVP project, this pattern had become familiar to protesters. A similar process of tree-sit, injunction, extraction had unfolded at other points along the route such as Peters Mountain and near Four Corners Farm. But outrage was still palpable and intermittent shouts could be heard across traffic at the police checkpoint: "Why are you here? Go home," "No pipeline," and "They don't live here; we live here."
As police ushered work vans through the police line, the crowd's heckling punctuated their angry sentiment that the law was siding with corporate interests.
"You know, my tax dollars — I pay Virginia state tax — my taxes pay for that road, and now I'm no longer allowed to go across that road, but the pipeline is?" said protester Jammie Hale. "I was born and raised here. My family goes back a couple hundred years in Giles County. And these people over here with their badges and their guns, if they don't want to protect it, by God, we will."
Hale, who has been opposing the Mountain Valley Pipeline for several years, summed up his frustration as a feeling of being "rolled over" by the project and the state power backing it, a feeling that was made too tangible for him that day by the police perimeter.
"We're being criminalized for trying to save the environment, and clean water, and clean air for the next generation," Hale said.
Hale and his friends could only guess at how the extraction was progressing. Out of sight from where protesters were allowed, hired tree workers were advancing in a massive crane to cut out the remaining tree-sitter, who had locked themself to the tree, authorities would later report. For now, people scanned the vehicles going in and out of the police checkpoint from their side of the highway, looking for clues about what was going on. Around noon, someone spotted what they thought to be the tree-sitter's escort to the local jail. Less than an hour later, the local news station confirmed it: the final tree-sitter had been removed and taken into custody. Later that day, the trees they were defending were also cut down.
Both tree-sitters were subsequently charged with two misdemeanors, obstruction of justice and interfering with the property rights of another, and held without bail.
Yet, spirits remained high among the band of supporters, even as they splintered and dispersed. The arrest was not a defeat, they maintained, but the conclusion of a triumph.
Acre remains in their tree-sit at Yellow Finch on March 23, the day that fellow tree-sitter Robin was extracted. Photo courtesy of Appalachians Against Pipelines
Counting 932 days, this tree-sit marks the longest in the campaign around the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and one of the longest in American history — supporters point to Julia Butterfly's 738 day occupation of a coastal redwood in Northern California for reference. Add that to earlier blockades of the pipeline, including on Peters Mountain and near Four Corners Farm, plus MVP's loss of multiple permits in court due to deficiencies in the companies' permit applications and construction practices, and the delays have pushed MVP's estimated completion date back by at least two years. When construction began in January 2018, the company projected it would be completed by the end of 2019. Now, the company has set their sights on the end of 2021, and analysts say it is likely to be longer.
During that time, the landscape has changed for MVP and similar pipeline projects across the country.
On day 93 of the Yellow Finch tree-sit, Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring filed suit against MVP for "repeated environmental violations." On day 406, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a stop work order on any new construction while federal agencies reevaluated impacts on certain endangered species along the route. On day 669, developers of the nearby Atlantic Coast Pipeline cancelled their project amid similar resistance. On day 670, a federal judge ordered the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to cease operations. On day 868, the incoming Biden administration revoked the permit for the long-debated Keystone XL pipeline.
Sixty-four days later, as Virginia State Police and Montgomery County Sheriffs evicted the tree-sitters at Yellow Finch Lane from the path of MVP, supporters emphasized on social media that the extraction would not erase their impact. Opponents of the pipeline have reason to hope that their grassroots resistance will help stop the multi-billion dollar pipeline project as it faces growing economic, legal and practical challenges.
Felled trees cover the ground on March 26, 2021, at the former site of the Yellow Finch tree-sits. Photo courtesy of Appalachians Against Pipelines
The Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, a coalition that aims to protect the heritage, resources and economy of the region, estimated in July that 52% of the pipeline is fully complete and restored, rather than the 92% reported by MVP. The company must still obtain new permits from state and federal agencies in order to build across streams and wetlands. Until April 15, FERC was accepting public comments on MVP's request to change its 2017 permit to allow it to bore beneath approximately 180 streams and rivers in Virginia and West Virginia. There is also a pending legal challenge to the permit that allows MVP to cross the Jefferson National Forest.
The proposed MVP Southgate extension, which would extend the pipeline into North Carolina, also faces challenges. In August 2020 the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality denied Southgate a necessary North Carolina water quality permit. The decision is currently being challenged in court. At this time, grassroots groups also are organizing to stop the proposed Lambert Compressor Station in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, which would damage local air quality.
Robin, one of the two tree-sitters removed from Yellow Finch, wrote in a statement after their arrest, "With my arrest, this one instance of resistance, this one physical place that is an enactment of our dreams of another world will fall. But these tree sits were one place out of many that have existed and that will exist, and the flames of resistance cannot be extinguished this easily. The fight continues, and the struggle for a better world always will."
Appalachian Voices does not fund, sponsor or engage in activities such as tree-sits and pipeline blockades.
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Find A Park > Kaiser Park > News > Parks Cuts The Ribbon On Reconstructed Field House And Basketball Courts At Coney Island's Kaiser Park
Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe today joined Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, City Council Member Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., State Senator Diane Savino, and Assembly Member Alec Brook-Krasny, to celebrate the renovation of the Kaiser Park basketball courts and field house. The field house was funded by generous allocations of $1.26 million from Council Member Recchia, $902,000 from Mayor Bloomberg, and $160,000 from Borough President Markowitz. In addition, the basketball court reconstruction was funded by $1.6 million from Council Member Recchia and $575,000 from the Mayor.
"Although famous for its beach and boardwalk, Coney Island is a destination for all seasons," said Commissioner Benepe. "Thanks to generous allocations from Borough President Markowitz, Council Member Recchia and Mayor Bloomberg, Kaiser Park has new basketball and handball courts, fitted with recreational lighting to allow for more hours of play. The renovated field house includes park office and storage space as well as new restrooms and a community room for all to enjoy."
The reconstructed basketball courts feature new backboards and rims, new asphalt pavement with color seal coat, recreational lighting for night play and new bleachers and benches. The renovation also included new handball courts, the upgrading of the fitness area, two drinking fountains and perimeter landscaping.
The field house project includes a new multipurpose community room and park office space as well as new restrooms and storage space accessible from the building's exterior. The new interior finishes included flooring, walls and lighting. The building received a new roof and windows and the exterior brick was restored. The plumbing, electrical and HVAC systems were completely replaced.
These recent improvements to Kaiser Park follow the $3million conversion of the worn football field to state-of-the-art synthetic turf with brand new perimeter track, the reseeding of two ballfields with new bleachers, new paths and landscaping which was completed in 2006. In 2007, $200K in capital improvements to the playground were completed. The $1 million installation of recreation lights serving the synthetic turf field was completed in 2008.
This park is named for Dr. Leon S. Kaiser (1884-1951), a dedicated educator who served as a teacher and principal at several public schools in Manhattan and Brooklyn. A native of Manhattan, Kaiser moved to Coney Island, in 1924, taking a post as principal of PS 188. In 1937, Kaiser became the first principal of Mark Twain Junior High School (IS 239). Throughout his career, Kaiser held leadership positions in many educational and civic groups. The dedicated principal worked at Mark Twain Junior High School until his death on April 7, 1951. Later that year, a local law passed naming the park in Kaiser's honor.
This property was acquired by Parks from the Sinking Fund in two parcels, the first assigned in 1934 and the second in 1937. Kaiser Park was formerly known as the Coney Island Lots and features a fishing pier that boasts a terrific view of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. The Gravesend Bay border of the park is also one of the best locations in Brooklyn to watch bird migrations.


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Ann Dawkins
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Alumnus Ann Dawkins graduated in 2019 with an MFA in Painting. Dawkins had two solo exhibitions during her time here at SIUC School of Art and Design. She is currently an instructor of Drawing and Painting at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK. Check out her website at anndawkins.com.
Joe Vachon
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Alumnus Joe Vachon was recently featured by Yakima Magazine for his career in blacksmithing—how he began, the stages of his education, and his post-SIU career:
"Now a movement is growing — to turn back the clock. Parents are paying life coaches to help them pry the screens out of their children's hands. The coaches recommend simple things like giving the kid a ball to kick around or getting a dog. Millennials are embracing farm-to-table food and objects created by artisans.
Joe Vachon is one of those artisans. He is known as Joe the Blacksmith and he plies his trade in a small studio out back of his Goldendale home. He's 35 now and he's been a blacksmith since he was 22. He was in his second-to-last semester as a studio art major at Southern Illinois University when he took an Intro to Blacksmithing class. 'It just totally blew my mind,' he says. 'Definitely a life-changing thing. I got on the phone and called my dad after the first class, and he said 'Oh yeah, your great-grandpa was a blacksmith in a rail yard, and his brother was a blacksmith in a shipyard.' ' It was the first time Joe had heard that, and he had an epiphany. Blacksmithing was in his blood and this was what he was meant to do."
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Chintia Kirana's "Transient" exhibit was displayed at Southeast Missouri State University from September 6th to October 20th, 2019.
"Transient explores the concept of growth and change, a representation of the fragility and temporality of moments, memories, and a metaphor for life itself. Chintia Kirana is a multidisciplinary artist. She received a Master of Fine Arts in painting and drawing from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her work has been featured at a multitude of solo, group and juried exhibitions across the United States and abroad. An opening reception will be held from 4-8 p.m. Sept. 6 with an artist talk at 6 p.m."
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MFA alumna Chintia Kirana is a matchmaker for the art world. The founding editor-in-chief of Expose Art magazine—a digital/print arena that showcases early-career professionals to a captive global audience of art enthusiasts—Kirana has created a forum that benefits both sides of the artistic landscape.
Featured up-and-coming artists are more easily discoverable by the galleries, bottegas, and patrons whose stylistic preferences align with their own. At the same time, museums, agencies, and other professional institutions use the platform to cast a wider net for scouting new exhibit pieces, filling artist residencies, and more. Kirana's mission to facilitate simpatico partnerships between creators and audiences has seen great success through the publication's grand-scale-exposure approach.
It's no wonder, then, that Montgomery, Alabama's recent community art project was a perfect fit for her talents.
Montgomery recently joined forces with the "Inside Out" series, a worldwide initiative which uses collages of large-format portraits as street-art murals to offer new glimpses into the personalities who make up a community. Moreover, the impact of any of these "identity makeover" reaches far beyond visitors to the actual physical location. Once each community's installation is complete, the project is visually recorded and uploaded into IO's holistic world gallery, offering "digital tourists" the experience of visual immersion into the subtle piquancy and self-expression of any destination from their own computer. (To date, the project encompasses over 129 countries and more than a quarter-million individual participants.)
In Kirana's case, she became involved in Montgomery's IO installation as part of a citywide effort to address the area's historical notoriety by providing old and new photo images in tandem, depicting a more visual and robust evolution of her community over time. As she explains in one recent Montgomery news article:
"They never hear our story from us...That was our history, back then, but this is us now."
Kirana knows a thing or two about changing political climates from her own personal history, too. Originally born in Indonesia during the heavily-militarized Suharto regime, young Chintia was only twelve years old when her family left Indonesia to escape the mounting governmental chaos and civil unrest. Despite none of them speaking English, her family found refuge in the United States.
The world of visual dialogue frequently offers a common vernacular transcending spoken language barriers. While Chintia's early passion for the arts had already taken hold in Indonesia, her family's immigration opened new doors to academically pursue those interests in America.
Her professional mastery of artistic communication is evident throughout Kirana's many career roles today, and the artist's studio website credits faculty mentors at Southern Illinois University Carbondale as having been "influential in shaping her artistic voice." SIU looks forward to finding out what new messages Kirana's projects will "speak" in the future.
Kari Woolsey
MFA Ceramics 2018
Kari was awarded a year-long residency at Arrowmont School of Craft.
https://www.arrowmont.org/artist-in-residence/
BA Art History 2018
Sara was one of the top students in Art History who won the Tony Fehm Award in Art History.
Sarah Ballek
BFA Ceramics 2016
Awarded a year-long residency at Odyssey Clay Works in Asheville, NC
Jan. 2019-Dec. 2019.
https://www.odysseyclayworks.com/
Jam Lovell
MFA Sculpture 2018
Jam Lovell is currently adjunct faculty at Illinois Central College and is co-founder and owner of Black Dog Metal Arts, LLC. along with Danny Rohr. She is on the Steering Committee for 2019 and 2021 for the National Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art and Practices at Sloss in Birmingham, AL. In June of 2018 she spoke on a panel called Iron and Materiality alongside Gina Miccinilli, Katie Hovencamp, Jenny K. Hager, and Cristin Millett at the International Conference on Contemporary Cast Iron Art in Scranton, PA.
Her work is currently on exhibit at the Jackson Street Gallery in Morton, IL. Her work was recently exhibited at the 16th Annual Waterloo Arts Festival juried by Ray Juaire in Cleveland, OH, and at the Hot CIAO V annual exhibition in Peoria, IL juried by Erin Buczynski where she won 2nd place.
She will be featured in an episode of the podcast Studio Break hosted by David Linneweh in November of 2018 where she will be discussing her current and past work as well as promoting an upcoming performance/exhibition in Peoria, IL.
Website: www.jamlovell.com and www.blackdogmetalarts.com
Instagram: jamlovellart and blackdogmetalarts
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamlovell/
Email: jamlovellart@gmail.com
Ayako Kurimoto
Ayako Kurimoto is currently a resident at Paul Artspace in St. Louis, Mo. Her residency affords the opportunity to work alongside resident artists Alexis Rivierre, Steve Coplin and Director, Michael Behle. Ms. Kurimoto's recent developments includes giving an artist talk and studio visits at the University of Mississippi and participating in Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Open Studios. While in resident, she also participated in the Western Cast Iron Art Alliance Conference in Granite City's Art & Design District in Granite City, Mo. Prior to her residency, Ms. Kurimoto led a workshop at Blazing Paddles Studio in Macon, Georgia. During one her workshops she demonstrated animal origami sculpture and taught origami jewelry.
Kurimoto's work has recently been featured in a multitude of juried shows and a solo exhibition displaying sculptures and artworks that are rarely seen. The exhibits include "MASTER PIECES" at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 2018; "Micro/Macro" at the Foundry Art Centre in St. Charles, Missouri, Aug. 2018; "Green" at Webster Arts Center in St. Louis, MO., Sept. 2018; "Professional" at Granite City Art & Design District, Granite City, IL., Oct. 2018; "Japanese folktale" a solo exhibition at Blazing Paddles Showroom in Macon, GA., June 2018; "City" at Art Room Gallery, July 2018 and "Art & Fear" at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, Mo., June 2018, where she received best in show.
Ayako Kurimoto's current work can be seen at the Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO., "Child's Play" from Jan. 4th through Feb 15th, 2019 and forthcoming exhibitions at Indianapolis Art Center, IN., "Pushing Paper", Feb 8th - April 10th, 2019; and "Fired Works 2019", Macon Arts Alliance, GA., April 5th - 14th, 2019.
Kurimoto is also one of the finalists for the MANIFEST Grand Jury Prize. The works shown represent the highest ranking artworks out of roughly 8,200 separate works submitted for consideration across 21 group and 9 solo exhibitions during our 14th season. This Season 14 Grand Jury Prize features a pool of 52 works by 48 artists, representing 30 different exhibitions. The exhibits presented 505 works by 312 artists in 41 states and 12 countries. Details on the exhibitions, and all of season 14, can found at this link. The entire season, and all works shown, will be documented in the forthcoming Manifest Exhibition Annual publication planned for release in late 2019 or early 2020.
https://www.manifestgallery.org/about/awards/grand_jury_prize/mgjp_s14/index.html
Website: https://www.ayakokurimoto.art/
Instagram: @ayako.kurimoto
Facebook: @AyakoKurimotoArt
Email: ayakokurimotoart@gmail.com
Anna Wonnell
BFA Painting 2017
Online exhibition for Fusion Art
https://fusionartps.com/4th-landscapes-art-exhibition-january-2019/
Painting entitled "Shawnee" – Acrylic on Canvas
@anna.bandana
James L. Webb
James has been invited to present a guest lecture to the Harvard Ceramics Program on February 13. While James bases his work out of Somerville, Mass. as the current Artist-in-Residence at Mudflat Studio, he is originally a Kentucky native and will discuss his life and work in ceramics with the Harvard Arts community at this public event. Photos of James's work and more about his SIU narrative can be found in Harvard's event preview.
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