 imagine how her future wedding will be someday!! Thanks for sharing the beautiful day with your blog readers.
So excited to see you on craft schooling Sunday, and Wow, what an amazing bat mitzvah celebration you put together, truly special! That silhouette machine was certainly worth it if just for this! Hope to see you again soon at the party, and I still remember that Purim peacock costume you shared years ago, so it was fun to see that the peacock love still lives on!
Thank you so much for sharing images from this wonderful celebration! EVERYTHING LOOKED LIKE PERFECTION! We just happened upon it while researching a local fashion show fundraiser that we participated in last weekend. The Bat Mitzvah looks amazing in our BETH dress in Peacock. We’d love to share her photo on Stella M’Lia’s Facebook page and Instagram feed if that would be ok with you. We are just thrilled that she chose to wear our dress for her special day (and thank Radical Rags in Mt. Pleasant for taking such good care of you).
Generally portaloos are the absolute low light of any public event out there, which is what makes this particular party all that more special. A bunch of festival goers at the Sziget Festival in Budapest, which runs from August 9th – 15th, transformed the portaloo experience altogether by turning them into a passageway for a secret rave.
A couple of lucky peeps at the party got to experience the secret dancefloor hidden behind one of the doors of portaloos where dj’s dropped some super silky tracks to small crowds each night.
Theatre built as part of the "Bayfront Center" complex. Opened May 1965. 1987-1988 renovations. 2004 extension and rebuilding after demolition of the "Bayfront Arena" wing. Re-opened 2004 as "The Mahaffey Theater for the Performing Arts" after a sponsor. The center was officially renamed "Progress Energy Center for the Arts" in 2007 and "Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts" in 2013, after corporate sponsors. 2031 seats.
Reverse Text: "St. Petersburg's magnificent five-million-dollar Bayfront Center seating 2,000 people in the Auditorium and 9,000 in the Arena. Designed for all kinds of exhibitions, business shows, ice shows, circuses and infoor sports. The Center is located between Al Lang Field and Albert Whitted Airport at St. Petersburg, Florida."
Reverse Text: "View showing St. Petersburg's new auditorium, baseball park, yacht harbor and Vinoy Park Hotel"
Victoria Crowe Beyond Likeness is the first major exhibition to focus on the artist’s work as a portrait painter, and with the 54 paintings and drawings in this exhibition we get an insight not only into the subjects of these works, but the artist herself.
Born in Kingston Upon Thames on VE day in 1945, Victoria Crowe studied at Kingston School of Art (1961 to 1965) and the Royal College of Art in London (1965 to 1968) and over the subsequent years has built up a deserved reputation as a painter with a very special insight into all of her work that encompassed not only portraiture, but landscapes, interiors and still life.
Portraits of numerous culture figures from the world of the arts, politics and the sciences feature in this exhibition, including Nobel Laureate Sir Peter Higgs, composer Thea Musgrave and astrophysicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, but there is something else at work in these paintings than merely trying to capture the likeness of the sitter. Through innovative use of colour, textures and design, each painting has woven into its overall imagery images that are very personal to the sitter. Beyond Likeness is an appropriate name for this exhibition as Victoria Crowe is constantly looking beyond the immediate image of her sitters and trying to establish a link and a rapport with them to somehow get below their outward surface and see perhaps a little into the very identity and souls of them. Perhaps in these paintings we get as clear an example as possible as to why portrait painting and photography may on the surface appear to reach at times the same destination, but are in fact two completely different art forms. This is not the mechanical eye of a camera looking at its subject, but the human eye of an artist that perhaps is perceiving something extra that a camera lens will never be able to see.
Although this exhibition is one of portraits, there is far more going on in many of these compositions as backgrounds relating closely to the sitter explore a variety of vibrant colours and textures that at time remind me on a few paintings of works by Gustav Klimt (Browse and Darby for example) in their textural fabric swatch use of golden colour and design. Other designs on closer examination see Victoria Crowe taken us beyond the physical into almost meta physical and magical realms where sitter and background inter-weave with one another to create something that is. as the exhibition name implies. truly Beyond likeness. Victoria Crowe is clearly not just a “painter” but a designer of great vision too.
Mar 1, 2012
To foster the love of books, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign holds an annual book collecting contest. The competition includes separate judging and prizes for undergraduate (Fletcher Award) and graduate (Baldwin Prize) students. $500. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to the Friends of the Library's Friendscript newsletter. Winners may be eligible for the national College Book Collecting Contest sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
To enter, each contestant must submit a document describing the collection, a list of five titles they would like to add, as well as a bibliography of the collection, with high points noted.
Entries may be dropped-off, campus-mailed or mailed to The Rare Book & Manuscript Library (346 Library, 1408 West Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801 (UI Mail code 522)), or e-mailed to the Public Programs Manager, Dennis Sears (dsears@illinois.edu). Deadline for entries is April 6, 2012.
The collection must be owned by the student. It should be based on some unifying principle, such as subject, a single author or group of authors, or place or genre of publication, type of book, bindings, etc. It may be on any subject and may include manuscripts, issues of periodicals, and graphics. Evaluation is based on motivation, discrimination and judgment, coherence of the collection, originality, accomplishment, and condition of the works entered.
Prizes are awarded at the regular May meeting of The No. 44 Society, the book collectors’ club of Urbana-Champaign, based in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
Complete rules and information are available at.
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