Inauguration,
January 20, 2021,
watercolor, 4 7/8 x 6 3/4; Card © 2021. This painting has been recognized twice: One of four runner-ups in the NCE (Newton Community Education) Fall 2021 Catalogue cover contest. Chosen to hang in non-Covid real space/ time at Newton, MA's New Art Center's Trio Gallery "Creative Process - the Andrew and Jean Dibner Annual Student and Faculty Show," 1 1/1 5/2021-1/1 /2022. |
AWARD WINNER!
Won Placement in Online Exhibit at the New Art Center Peaceful Protest Posters: Online Exhibition Poster is in the 6th row, the Second from the Left We Said Black Lives Matter, July 2020 watercolor, 5 1/2 x 6 5/8; Card © 2021. The image on this card is one of 55 works of art chosen for placement in the "Peaceful Protest Posters: Online Exhibition," July 17- August 31, 2020. The curator of the show was Ibrahim Ali-Salaam, and a response to all senseless acts of violence against African Americans, the exhibit was also a response to the recent Brutal Assassination of African American, George Floyd on May 25, 2020 which lasted a full 10 minutes 8 seconds according to Wikipedia in its 1 1/25/2021 edition. video taken by a young female bystander recorded this Senseless Act as it was being committed at the hands of four members of the Minneapolis, Minnesota Police Department. The case has been and continues to be litigated numerous times. Among them are the following: One member, now former Police Officer Derek Michael Chauvin, was found guilty by a jury of his peers of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. On June 25, 2021, Chauvin was sentenced to 22.5 years in prison for the second-degree murder. Twenty-three million people watched the announcement of the verdict on live television. On February 24, 2022, the jury found all three other officers- J. Alexander Keung, Thomas Kiernan Lane and Tou Thao- guilty on all counts faced at trial. All three officers were convicted of willfully violating Floyd's constitutional rights by not providing medical care when he lost a pulse. Keung and Thao were also found guilty of failing to intervene to stop Chauvin from using unreasonable force. The New Art Center's website 'Exhibition' tab reads: "Peaceful Posters have been visual icons for social justice and have served as a call to action for societal change." |