Centenary celebrations for school (UK)

With more than 50 years of teaching at Gloucester Public School between them (and they didn’t want to say exactly how many more than 50 years) Helen Fittler and Lorraine McLeod have spent many hours in the school’s classrooms.
And for the past three week’s they have added quite a few more hours to their tally.
They [...]

SCHOOL RINGS IN ITS 70TH BIRTHDAY (UK)

Pupils and staff at Longlevens Infants School are getting ready to celebrate the school’s 70th anniversary.They are appealing to members of the public to lend them memorabilia which they can feature in a special display of the school at the summer fair on June 28.
And they are also trying to trace the oldest living [...]

Fishbourne Roman Palace celebrates its 40th anniversary (UK)

Fishbourne Roman Palace will mark its 40th anniversary with a family trip back to the year it opened as a museum.
On Saturday May 31 a fleet of 1960s vintage cars will welcome visitors to the Palace for a return to 1968 to see how the archaeologists uncovered the world-famous mosaics.
Penelope Parker, marketing officer, said: “Hands-on [...]

Picking up the pieces, and making art (US-MASS)

“You Break It/You Make It: A Student Mosaic Exhibition,” featuring ceramic shard mosaic by workshop students of Bette Ann Libby will be on display in the cafeteria at the Old Lincoln School (temporary Town Hall), 194 Boylston St., through Wednesday, May 28. On May 28, there will be a meet-the-artists reception from 5-7 p.m.
Each mosaic [...]

Sara Ditta, The Edmonton Journal

Wayne Ashley sits in front of the monument he created to commemorate unmarked graves. The porcelain structure stands 10 feet tall and 14 feet wide.
Photograph by : Rick MacWilliam, The Journal
Wayne Ashley toiled 10 hours a day for about two years to keep a promise to God: to create a grand [...]

Royal Palm Art Teacher Uses School as Her Canvas

Yudy Pineiro / Miami Herald

Before Gloria Parlade came to Royal Palm elementary, the West Miami-Dade school had mostly drab, pasty white walls.
Now there isn’t a hallway void of Parlade’s artistic mark.
From the ceramic butterflies floating near classroom doorways, to the front entrance’s grand mosaic, all were her creations. And not a color on her palette [...]

Work of famous artist hidden in plain sight

He was a famous local artist known of the “Keeper of the Plains,” but Blackbear Bosin also left behind another legacy that until this week, many of his family had not seen.
The Keeper of the Plains is the symbol of Wichita, a city Blackbear Bosin loved.
“He wanted to kind of bring the people together, better [...]

Paul, Idaho woman’s art reflects a century of change

By Laurie Welch/Staff writer
South Idaho Press

Staff photo by LAURIE WELCH Audrey Woodward of Paul reminisces about the Nebraska plains where she lived as a young woman. The Midwest was a major influence on her nearly century of art, which is depicted on the two Jones Soda bottles shown as well as in mosaic above her [...]

Glass with class

Jonnette Speegle likes to keep busy.
When she’s not driving a yellow school bus, she’s cutting glass panes to fit in a church window. When she’s not devising ways to make a wind chime out of old cutlery and a teapot, she’s greeting people in her antique shop.
“Jonnette is really creative,” her husband Jay said. The [...]

Artist’s stained glass serves higher power

By William Loeffler
TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Wade Lenhart and others from Hunt Studios prepare to remove the stained-glass panels from the Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob Synagogue in the Hill District.
Keith Hodan/Tribune-Review
His work has graced the homes of Steelers Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris and Penguins legend Mario Lemieux.
But stained-glass artist Nick Parrendo usually serves a higher power.
For more than [...]