This week’s drawings.
This week’s Hitting Left with the Klonsky Brothers with guests Cook County Clerk David Orr and Chicago Votes Stevie Valles.
This week’s blog posts.
My heart is with Mexico.Trump makes the threats. Democrats vote to back him up.Can you hear me now? Making Medicare better.
Lost your LHS class ring? It may have been found!
One rarely knows what you’ll find in file drawers, especially since I have used primarily technology and hardly ever looked in the drawers of my office. But as I begin sorting through things getting ready in just over a month to relinquish my role as superintendent to some else, I came across two apparently lost Lee High School class rings.
The oldest is from the Class of 1981 and appears to be sized for a girl. It contains the initials “J M B” and there were two such members of that class: Either “Joan Marie Bieber” or “Jeanne M. Bouley.”
The other ring is from the Class of 1992 and is inscribed with the name “Angie Gilland.” An Angela Gilland is not listed in the 1992 yearbook but she does appear as a junior in the 1991 yearbook. From other yearbook info, she may have had a brother named Bob Gilland.
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Michigan ArtShare and Michigan State University Extension announce a “Call for Art” program | MSU Extension
Michigan State University Extension applies research from MSU to help Michigan residents solve everyday problems in agriculture, community development, nutrition, family finances, youth development and more.
Michigan ArtShare is pleased to announce this opportunity for artists in Michigan.
Michigan ArtShare is creating a “Looking-At-Art-Images” education program named ArtShare, utilizing a ‘critical thinking practice’ called Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS). VTS is a facilitation method created by Phillip Yenewine, a former Director of Education at MOMA in New York, where viewers look at narrative-based images and interpret what they think is happening in the image. This facilitation method utilizes active listening, paraphrasing and observation to create a unique collaborative environment where viewers explore, investigate and problem-solve visual information. Michigan ArtShare is creating an art education program for 1st through 3rd grade viewers that will be available through Michigan State University Extension offices throughout the entire state of Michigan.
The project goal is to use narrative images created exclusively by Michigan artists for the students to view using the VTS method, instead of using images from art history or other states or countries. This enables Michigan’s children to become more visually literate and creative problem solvers, and they will do so by looking at professional Michigan artist’s images and becoming more familiar with their work.
The ArtShare education program will select 12 pieces of art for each grade (1st through 3rd) for a total of 36 pieces. Artists will receive a $250 stipend for each selected work to be included in the education program. Michigan ArtShare will accept applications for ArtShare through June 28, 2017. The ArtShare program will be launched in Detroit’s Brightmoor neighborhood in September of 2017 and will be made available through MSU Extension offices across the state of Michigan.
To apply, please read the ArtShare Call for Art guidelines and then fill out an application form.
ArtShare is a cooperative project of Michigan ArtShare and MSU Extension and is supported in part by the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Project Grant.
We have been here before. 75 years ago today, FDR signed Executive Order 9066.
We have been here before. 75 years ago today, FDR signed Executive Order 9066.
by Fred Klonsky
In the summer of 2011 we were on a road trip through beautiful western Wyoming.Jackson Hole. The Tetons. Yellowstone.
We drove back through the eastern part of the state so that we could stop for a day in Cheyenne for the rodeo.
I desperately needed an excuse to wear my white Stetson hat that I had purchased in Fort Worth a few years earlier at an NEA Representative Assembly in Dallas.
There are not many opportunities to wear a white Stetson hat in Chicago.
That part of the west is not called big sky country for nothing. Eastern Wyoming is mostly flat with a few outcroppings, one of which is Heart Mountain.
We drove along the interstate through miles of open prairie until we came upon markers for the Heart Mountain internment camp.
In the summer of 2011 we were on a road trip through beautiful western Wyoming.
Jackson Hole. The Tetons. Yellowstone.
We drove back through the eastern part of the state so that we could stop for a day in Cheyenne for the rodeo.
I desperately needed an excuse to wear my white Stetson hat that I had purchased in Fort Worth a few years earlier at an NEA Representative Assembly in Dallas.
There are not many opportunities to wear a white Stetson hat in Chicago.
That part of the west is not called big sky country for nothing. Eastern Wyoming is mostly flat with a few outcroppings, one of which is Heart Mountain.
We drove along the interstate through miles of open prairie until we came upon markers for the Heart Mountain internment camp.
During World War II 14,000 Japanese, some American citizens and some non-citizen immigrants, were rounded up…
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Sunday mishmosh.
Today we were notified by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that on Dec. 5th, they will close all lands north of the Cannonball River, which is where Oceti Sakowin camp is located. The letter states that the lands will be closed to public access for safety concerns, and that they will allow for a “free speech zone” south of the Cannonball River on Army Corps lands.
Our Tribe is deeply disappointed in this decision by the United States, but our resolve to protect our water is stronger than ever. We ask that all everyone who can appeal to President Obama and the Army Corps of Engineers to consider the future of our people and rescind all permits and deny the easement to cross the Missouri River just north of our Reservation and straight through our treaty lands. When Dakota Access Pipeline chose this route, they did not consider our…
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From the Heart of America: #NeverGiveUp
From the Heart of America: #NeverGiveUp
by John Laurits
Greetings, brothers, sisters, & others — Once again, I am writing to you from Oregon, after our long journey home from the demonstrations in Philadelphia. It was a 19-day journey, which took us through 12 different states and carried us about 6,000 miles, there & back — we did this as two citizen-journalists, essentially penniless, upon […]
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Let’s Talk About Voter Suppression (w/ math!)
Let’s Talk About Voter Suppression (w/ math!)
by John Laurits
Let’s Talk About Voter-Suppression Greetings, my sisters & brothers & others — I hope that you are all in good spirits & doing well, when this article finds you. I wasn’t planning on writing an article today — but, after having a conversation with a Clinton-Supporter, I was inspired to write one. Before I begin, I’d like […]
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Mister Journalism: "Reading, Sharing, Discussing, Learning" 