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Mary Fortuna
MARY FORTUNA EDUCATION Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan \ Bachelor of Fine Arts 1992 Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan Foundry Workshop 1993 - 1996 EMPLOYMENT / PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Paint Creek Center for the Arts Education Coordinator 2000 – 2004 Exhibitions Director 2004 to April 2014 Contemporary Arts Council/Art Detroit Now 2009 – 2012 Detroit Artist’s Market Exhibition Advisory Committee - 1998 – 1999 Detroit Institute of Arts/Friends of Modern Art Forum for Contemporary Art 1995 – 1997 Detroit Focus Exhibition Committee – 1994 –1996 Paint Creek center for the Arts Exhibition Committee – 1997 - 1999 Ground Up, Bi–Monthly Arts Journal Founder, Editor 1995 - 1998 Artists Cooperative, The (A.C.,T.) President 1992 –1993; Secretary 1993 – 1994 ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITS 2015 Mythos ArtNxT Birmingham, MI 2013 She Towers Above Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, MI 2006 New Work Flatlanders Blissfield, Michigan 2003 Recent Works – Mary Fortuna and Jo Powers Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center Birmingham, Michigan 2002 Hanging Garden Detroit Contemporary Detroit, Michigan 1996 Sinister Objects Start Gallery Birmingham, Michigan 1995 Memory Lapse and The Event Horizon with Robert Taormina Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan 1993 Terrors of the Flesh with Dave Roberts Willis Gallery Detroit, Michigan 1992 On and Off the Wall Artist’s Cooperative, The Detroit, Michigan SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS 2015 It's Like Toys In Here Detroit Artists Market Detroit, Michigan Women's Mixed Media Exhibit Ellen Kayrod Gallery Detroit, -
Wiithe People
Wii the people... Of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect body, Establish exercise, Insure tranquil weight loss, Provide for the common citizen, Promote general sports, party and fitness games, for ourselves and our players do ordain and establish this Wiistitution for the United States of America. nexus a magazine of culture sual C The Grady Arts i ui V Staffer Payton si festival featured n Fritch critiques an e a wide variety of 1 enjoyable meal at creative work by 3 4th and Swift, Grady students. Claire a restaurant that Buyens and Emily serves “southern Atkinson were there 6 comfort food” in the to take pictures. 3heart of Atlanta. io d u Table of A Contents The Hansons and The Veronicas rocked out at the Variety Playhouse 1on October 6 in Little Five and Emily Atkinson was there to take in the 0sights and sounds. re tu u o 15 In this issue, we C examine the Wii phenomena that has swept the nation. The Wii Spirit week at Grady has done what no other was one big fashion show. From tacky to video console has done 2 blast-from-the-past erie before. It has changed day, students were ag n the way people exercise, decked out from head e to toe. M provided an educational 6 experience for kids, rehabilitated the elderly and even revolutionized drinking games. Have you ever wondered what Cover art by Taylor Alford and Ann Haley some of your favorite 3male teachers would look like as women? Turn to page 36, if 6you dare! nexus Volume 5 Issue 2 Fall/Winter 2008 Selected Contributing re Writers/Artists Dean Jackson Standing a head above nearly every student at Grady, Dean really stands out in the crowd. -
Captain Haye!:' to Leave
Affi rdable housing ons prompt protest ~ PAGE 13 Community Newspapef Company • ailstonbrightontab.com FRIDAY, MAY Vol. 11; 41 • 40 Pages • 3 Sections 75¢ TOP COPTURNOVER-AGAIN FROM DALLAS TO BOSTON Captain HaYe!:' to leave By Karen Elowltt Sergea 'l! STAFF WRITER William Foger fter only nine months on ty of Disnict the job, Captain Mark 14, staff had AHayes will be leaving been beari ng District 14 at the end of the buzz for a cou month for a new job at police ple of weeks headquarters. before that, but Hayes is being promoted to Captain were not sure captain detective and will be Mark Hayet what to belie ve. leading a unit in the internal af "We were all boping that Ihe fairs department. rumors were wrong, but they The captain quietly made the were true," said Fogerty, who announcement to his staff last said he will miss the captai n's Friday, May 11. According to HAYES, page 21 MAY 13 SHOCK Electrocution STAFF PHOTO 8Y K£rrH [. At Deep Ellum, 477 Cambridge Allston, bartender/ server Ronlt Hasson draws a draft. The establlahment features 22 taps, IJ(). circumstances plua bottles and one cask. I m 1corne to Deep Ellum . I questioned By Katie McDonough ular Bukowski's Tavern in Cambridge. CORRESPONIJEHT Deep Ellum 477 Cambridge St. Over the course of a few years, they often By Karen Elowltt The incident occurred on May OU may know Deep in Allston, is open seven days a mused about opening their own restaurant, STAFF WRITER 13 at a utility pole near the comer area of Dallas, Texas, week for lunch and dinner and Sat· but they were waiting for the right opportu- At least one friend and one of Dustin and Cambridge slr",1s Y rooted restaurant and urday and Sunday for brunch. -
November 13,2008
Time for Wayne County to update o* ^ * ^ A passport to outdoor ..(, • • spectacular adventure in the state hion Our Views, A6 ^ ir-Df November 13,2008 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com BYOARRELLCLEM residents who embrace the effort. to-participate curbside recycling between city leaders and recycling now have garbage collection would OBSERVER STAFF WRITER City leaders hope to implement a programs, but the new citywide plan consultants. be supplied with carts in which they long-awaited plan as early as March would use a trash-disposal tax already A majority of Westland City Council could place all their recyclable materi After trailing many communities, 30 ~ a move applauded by local in place from an era when local gar members favored a recommendation als without having to separate them. Westland appears poised to imple recycling enthusiasts and heralded by bage was burned at a now-demolished from Ann Arbor-based Resource Eventually, city leaders plan to extend ment a curbside recycling program outside consultants who say this city incinerator. Recycling Systems Inc. to seek com the program to apartment complexes that could reduce landfill costs, boost of 86,000 residents could become a "I'm convinced this is the right petitive proposals from companies to and other multifamily dwellings. the city's environmental reputation regional leader. thing to do," Mayor William Wild haul materials to a recycling facility. and provide financial incentives to Westland has twice failed at pay- said Monday evening, during talks Initially, 28,000 households that Please see RECYCLING, A3 Over there: Veterans honored for service BY SUE MASON . -
October 16, 2008
Pink Ladies weigh in on the choice for county *" 4*. ico venom season's legwear - Our Views, All - Grid Picks, B1 - pink D8 October 16,2008 A 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com BY SUE MASON the way to collect signatures to recall. Elected officials cannot extend its 2006-2008 collec has to do is run the district in a Monday when a "hacker" appar OBSERVER STAFF WRITER recall school board President be recalled during their first six tive bargaining agreement with responsible way and within the ently shut down the account. She's Martha Pitsenbarger, "Vice months in office or their last six the only change being class size budget" he said. "When I ran for now relying on her cell phone Four members of the Wayne- President Skip Monit, Treasurer months in office. Schofield and reductions at all levels, then voted school board, I promised that I to keep connected with people Westland school board are in the Steve Becher and Trustee Ed Gabriel were elected to the school to allow the administration to would put the students first, the interested in working on the cross-hairs of a recall by parents Turner. board in May and took office on discipline members of the Wayrie- parents second and staff and recall. People can call her at (734) angry about last week's teachers "We're not happy with the nego July 1. Walker was appointed to Westland Education Association" administrators third. I think I 521-9110. strike and faltering contract nego tiating process," said Maxwell. -
Betty Brownlee Bio 2020
Betty Brownlee, MFA 933 Calumet Street, Detroit, MI 48201 TEL 313-570-8755 EMAIL [email protected] SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2018 “Hindsight 2018: Betty Brownlee, A Retrospective”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI 2015 “Very Current Work”,Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI 2012 ”Betty Brownlee: Works on Exhibit”, Detroit Repertory Theatre, Highland Park, MI 1995 “Paintings”, Otherwise Gallery, Lansing, MI 1993 “Paintings: 1985-1992”, Detroit News Building, Detroit, MI 1983 “Landscapes”, Feigenson Gallery, Detroit, MI SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2020 “Dual Visions”, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI “Natural/Automatic”, Janice Charach Gallery, West Bloomfield, MI 2019 “I’m with the Band”, The Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI 2018 “Big Highland Park Show”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Women Strong”, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit 2017 “Revolted”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2016 “Big Sculpture”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2015 “Midland August”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Local Perspectives, Global Reach”, Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc. Redford, MI 2014 “Big Paintings”, Annex Gallery, Highland Park, MI “Knowing” Wayne County Community College, Taylor, MI 2013 “Betty Brownlee, Nancy Mitchnick, Shirley Parish”, Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit 2012 “The Detroit Artists Market: The First -
October 30, 2008
Election art entertainment sr"-Dl Our Views, L. October 30,2008 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com BY DfiRRELL CLEM a document that Assistant publicly revealed what some to redevelop about 15 acres City Councilman Charles to partially compensate for OBSERVER STAFF WRITER Wayne County Executive Alan officials had known for years — along the 100-acre park's east Pickering has voiced frustra the park's closure by erecting Helmkamp said will likely that Central City Park, a former ern edge for use as soccer fields tion with the pace of progress in a huge play structure, dubbed After tweaking a plan to amount to "many hundreds of landfill, was contaminated yet and walking areas. addressing the park situation. Play Planet, that was built last redevelop portions of lead-con pages" before it is handed over still used for recreation purpos "I feel good that things are In another development, week in Tattan Park, just north taminated Central City Park, to MDEQ officials. es ranging from Little League moving along," Westiand Mayor Helmkamp confirmed that of Central City Park. He also Wayne County and Westiand When asked Monday if he is baseball to the cancer-fighting William Wild said Monday, a verbal agreement has been said the city hopes to install city officials hope to submit confident the proposal will be fund-raiser Relay for Life. adding that he is hopeful "shov reached that continues a long just south of Play Planet a a formal proposal in early submitted before the December Meanwhile, county and city els can be put into the ground standing agreement, which was summertime "spray park" — a December to the Michigan holidays, Helmkamp said, "that officials in September learned this spring." to expire this fall, in which the water-play area dubbed H20 Department of Environmental certainly will be the case, if all that they would have to fine- Even so, officials can't say county diwns the park but leases Zone — within the next year Quality. -
Cripping Broadway: Neoliberal Performances of Disability in the American Musical
Cripping Broadway: Neoliberal Performances of Disability in the American Musical by Samuel R. Yates B.A. in Dramatic Arts and English, May 2011, Centre College M.Phil in Theatre and Performance Studies, June 2013, Trinity College Dublin A Dissertation submitted to The Faculty of The Columbian College of Arts and Sciences of The George Washington University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 19, 2019 Dissertation directed by David T. Mitchell Professor of English The Columbian College of Arts and Science of The George Washington University certifies that Samuel R. Yates has passed the Final Examination for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy as of 9 April, 2019. This is the final and approved form of the dissertation. Cripping Broadway: Neoliberal Performances of Disability in the American Musical Samuel R. Yates Dissertation Research Committee David T. Mitchell, Professor of English, Dissertation Director Robert McRuer, Professor of English, Committee Member Ann M. Fox, Professor of English, Committee Member ii © Copyright 2019 by Samuel R. Yates All Rights Reserved iii Chapters two and five of this dissertation contain reworked material previously published in the venues listed below. Additionally, Figure 5.1 is reprinted with permission from Springer Nature. I have permission from publishers to use the work listed below in my dissertation: Yates, Samuel. “Choreographing conjoinment: Side Show’s fleshly fixations and disability simulation.” Studies in Musical Theatre, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 67–78, doi: 10.1386/smt.13.1.67_1 Yates, Samuel. “Spider-Man’s Designer Genes: Hyper-capacity and Transhumanism in a D.I.Y. -
FY 2016 Fall Grant Announcement December 8, 2015
FY 2016 Fall Grant Announcement December 8, 2015 State and Jurisdiction List Project details are current as of December 1, 2015. For the most up to date project information, please use the NEA's online grant search system. Included in this document are Art Works and Challenge America grants. All are organized by state/jurisdiction and then by city and then by name of organization. Click the state or jurisdiction below to jump to that area of the document. Alaska Kansas Minnesota Alabama Kentucky Ohio American Samoa Louisiana Oklahoma Arizona Maryland Oregon Arkansas Massachusetts Pennsylvania California Michigan Rhode Island Colorado Minnesota South Carolina Connecticut Mississippi South Dakota Delaware Missouri Tennessee District of Columbia Montana Texas Florida Nebraska Utah Georgia New Hampshire Vermont Guam New Jersey Virginia Hawaii New Mexico Washington Idaho New York West Virginia Illinois North Carolina Wisconsin Indiana North Dakota Wyoming Iowa Michigan Some details of the projects listed are subject to change, contingent upon prior Arts Endowment approval. Information is current as of December 1, 2015. Page 1 of 243 Alaska Number of Grants: 5 Total Dollar Amount: $82,500 Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. (aka ACA) $25,000 Anchorage, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works To support a multidisciplinary presenting series and related activities. ACA will work with community partners to arrange workshops, residencies, house concerts, and other outreach activities. Proposed artists include Dublin Guitar Quartet (Ireland), Afiara Quartet (Canada), and Bela Fleck with Abigail Washburn. Perseverance Theatre, Inc. (aka Perseverance Theatre) $10,000 Douglas, AK FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater & Musical Theater To support the production of "Into the Wild," a new rock musical with book by Janet Allard and music and lyrics by Niko Tsakalakos. -
November 27,2008 A2 (W) LOCAL NEWS
HOLJaW GIFT GUIDE- / irfiJ- '<•' •**•»•••- - \i , *** 75 cents WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com guilty plea in BY DARRELLCLEM crash at Merriman and Warren that ing and eluding; failing to stop at an tion to his case considering that he Westland police have said. He sus OBSERVER STAFF WRITER killed 35-year-old Ndalima Yussuf accident involving injury or death; had only been ordered to stand trial tained severe head injuries and died Nzaro. and operating without a driver's on Nov. 3. two days later at the University of A Redford Township teenager has Foster, designated as an adult, license. The teenager was accused of los Michigan Hospital, where he had been pleaded guilty to second-degree mur could face a broad range of sentenc "I'm OK with the plea," Westland ing control ofa silver Mercedes while airlifted from Garden City Hospital. der amid allegations he lost control of ing options when he is sentenced for Police Chief James Ridener said. "It fleeing east on Warren and strik Miller has said that Foster could be a Mercedes Benz, slammed into two a crime that carries penalties ranging can't get much better than that for ing a Honda Accord and a Ford van sentenced as a juvenile or potentially vehicles and killed a Walled Lake man up to life in prison. this type of crime." that had stopped for a traffic light receive a "blended sentence" that while fleeing from Westland police at Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Ron Kroll, who is in charge of the on southbound Merriman. -
Police: Body Found in Dunr Ipster Was Homeless
WINNERS OF STATE AND NATIONAL AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE www.hometownlife.com The following vote totals are unofficial totals for how residents of Westland voted. BYDARRELLCLEM Overall winners are denoted with a S OBSERVER STAFF WRITER U.S. PRESIDENT After clinching a Wayne County 0 Barack Obama (D) 25,387 Commission seat Tuesday, 12th John McCain (R) 13,112 District victor Joan Gebhardt U.S. SENATE said she hopes to play a crucial 0 Carl Levin (D> (i> 27,093 role in addressing severe budget Jach Hoogendyk (R) 9,157 problernsworsenedbyatroubled< ' U.S. HOUSE 11TH DISTRICT economy. Joseph W. Larkin (B) 21,638 "We know that our tax dollars 0ThaddeusMcCotier(R)(t)... 13,979 are dwindling because people are losing their homes, so they're not STATE HOUSE DISTRICT 18TH paying their taxes," Gebhardt said 0 Richard LeBlanc (D) (i) 29,044 Tuesday. "We're going to have to Harold Dunn {Taxp.) 3,867 make cuts, because we can't have STATE PROPOSALS more money going out than we mtmim have coming in. It's gding to be a A legislative initiative to permit the use and monumental task." cultivation of marijuana for specified medical Gebhardt, D-Livonia, defeated conditions Republican nominee Thomas 0Yes 25,745 No 11,756 Thompson in a district that mnmn includes Westland, Jnkster A proposal io amend the state constitution to and south Livonia. She won a address human embryo and human embryonic two-year term to replace com stem cell research in Michigan mission appointee Ronaele gj Yes „... 21,162 Bowman, who had served since Ho 16,284 veteran Commissioner Kay Beard COUNTY COMMISSION resigned in March due to health urn mm\ reasons. -
September 2018 Welcome Mike Hausberg
SEPTEMBER 2018 WELCOME MIKE HAUSBERG Welcome to The Old Globe and this production of The Heart of Rock & Roll. Our goal is to serve all of San Diego and beyond through the art of theatre. Below are the mission and values that drive our work. We thank you for being a crucial part of what we do. MISSION STATEMENT The mission of The Old Globe is to preserve, strengthen, and advance American theatre by: creating theatrical experiences of the highest professional standards; producing and presenting works of exceptional merit, designed to reach current and future audiences; ensuring diversity and balance in programming; providing an environment for the growth and education of theatre professionals, audiences, and the community at large. STATEMENT OF VALUES The Old Globe believes that theatre matters. Our commitment is to make it matter to more people. The values that shape this commitment are: TRANSFORMATION Theatre cultivates imagination and empathy, enriching our humanity and connecting us to each other by bringing us entertaining experiences, new ideas, and a wide range of stories told from many perspectives. INCLUSION The communities of San Diego, in their diversity and their commonality, are welcome and reflected at the Globe. Access for all to our stages and programs expands when we engage audiences in many ways and in many places. EXCELLENCE Our dedication to creating exceptional work demands a high standard of achievement in everything we do, on and off the stage. STABILITY Our priority every day is to steward a vital, nurturing, and financially secure institution that will thrive for generations. IMPACT Our prominence nationally and locally brings with it a responsibility to listen, collaborate, and act with integrity in order to serve.