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Frigid Bitch 2019 Results

Frigid Bitch - back for year 6!

Continuing tradition as probably the biggest ladies/non-binary bike race in the universe with over 100 riders, this year’s Frigid Bitch expanded with first-time-ever-offered pre-registration and MORE PODIUMS. Held at Threadbare Cider in Spring Garden, at 10am on Saturday, February 16th, 2019, racers started flooding in to stock up on gear, check out the competition, and pick up their maps & manifests.

As always, there is a one hour window for racers to frantically plan their routes, forge alliances, and make friends. A few local ladies’ racing teams showed up in force, and some veteran Frigid Bitch ride-or-die gangs side-eyed up their matching kits and focused efficiency with determined fuck-it, let’s-do-this attitudes. New racers met riding partners on-site, and a handful of volunteers showed up to take in the crowd before heading out to their no-longer-secret positions.

A quarter to go-time, everyone was hustled outside to unlock their steeds and gear up for the start line.

THE CHECKPOINTS

Grandview Overlook Every year, for the out-of-towners, suburb queens, commuters who never stray from the beaten track - there’s always one checkpoint that everybody knows how to get to. Not that we’d make it easy! Pittsburgh’s famous overlook is a slag up Mt Washington, and with the main thru way closed, racers had to either bump it up via shattered sidewalks, or find away around. Volunteers were ready with a toast at the top!

Fineview Overlook In a city of hills and bridges you’re gonna have a lot of overlooks … Grandview’s much lesser known cousin on the Northside had racers figuring out how to find their way above the ballfield. Anyone who actually followed the map to this checkpoint found themselves climbing one of the toughest Dirty Dozen Hills….oh, did we do that? Whoops!

Herr’s Island Keep following the map in the other direction, and it’d take you down Rialto St (another Dirty Dozen Hill! Who drew this?!) and across the 30th St Bridge to Herr’s Island, haven of local crew teams and isolated Pgh elite. Everyone knows it’s there; most cyclists have zero reason to ever trek over. On the far end of the island, through some woods & down some steps to a gravel lot in a crumbling wall, volunteers were waiting with a camp fire to check off numbers of the racers who hiked-a-bike or threw down and hustled on foot.

5 Points Speaking of hike-a-biking, the furthest checkpoint from the start was tucked away in Pgh’s mountain biking mecca, Frick Park. There’s only one spot in the woods where 5 trails spike together in a star formations, colloquially known as…. FIVE POINTS!!! Entering the trail from Beechwood Blvd in Squirrel Hill, anyone who made it this far had to off-road their ride down dirt paths and over exposed roots. But hey, there was hot chocolate at the bottom!

Murray Hill Not far from 5 points, Murray Hill Ave gave everyone the opportunity to experience off- roading on a one of the most quintessential Pgh urban this-is-actually-still-a-road terrains (second only to massive potholes): brutally steep cobbles!

Iron Eden Metal Works Oh, but there were potholes. Snaking the back way up & down bombed-out Sassafras St, nestled in the shadows of the Bloomfield Bridge, lies a two-tiered & strange-looking structure. ~By night!~ a times-past underground venue in the woods, ~by day!~ a rustbelt relic: Iron Eden!

Bonus checkpoint feature: ~ * g l a m o u r s h o t s * ~

The Hot Metal Bridge It’s a classic. Need we say more?

The Boob Mausoleum Probably the most infamous tomb in the Allegheny Cemetery, the WHITE mausoleum features a bafflingly intense commitment to full-blown Egyptian theme&decor. Stationed just outside the crypt’s brass-cast pillar-flanked doors, 2 ~prominent~ sphinxes stand guard over the venerable (?) White family portal. Stationed just outside the sphinxes….Frigid Bitch BEACH PARTY!!

Mohawk St Finally, last in line but top of the list as far as checkpoint shenanigans go; bomb down Fifth Ave from Pitt campus and right before you hit the Birmingham Bridge, there’s a set of city steps that ascend into the woods of West Oakland. They spit out at Landslide Community Farms and a pink jersey barrier where volunteers waited with a camp fire* and a case of PBR. They’d set up a beer chute along the top of the stairs and stood in suspense while racers ran up the steps, not taking the bait. Finally, the vet bitch gang of Alex K, Katherine J and Frankie M threw their bikes over their shoulders, rushed the chute, grabbed a beer, cracked it with their teeth and chugged on the way up.

*if you missed the campfire, it’s because the fire dept showed up to put it out. See? Shenanigans!

Once the clock struck 2, everyone had 1 hour to race back to Threadbare. Bikes were slammed into the temp parking, road shoes clacked across the parking lot, the doors were thrown over and spoke card numbers hollered at the waiting table-side officials.

P A R T Y T I M E

Pizza was eaten, cider was drunk, war stories were exchanged! Multi-year Bitch Queen Elise R regaled audiences with a story that started as a complaint that she couldn’t run any red lights on the North Side because there were too many cops around, then perked up with details about bombing down towards an intersection from Mohawk, where a white SUV veered into the corner of the intersection, blocking traffic for Elise & her crew to blast their way through, waved them past and yelled “YEAH FRIGID BITCH!!!”

Podiums

For the first time, the Frigid Bitch podium split into multiple categories. Singlespeed, Mountain Bike, Masters, and Out-Of-Town were added in addition to the all-encompassing Women & Nonbinary Open Field. Check back next year; more are comin!

Fixed/Singlespeed 1. Alexandra Korshin 2. Rachel Thompson

Masters 1. Louanna Bailey 2. Frankie Montenegro 3. Kelly Haderly 4. Monica VanDieran 5. Jen Damon 6. Suz Falvey

7. Christa Ross 8. Stacie Truszkowski 9. Barbara Jensen 10. Sarah Crawford 11. Simone Riddle 12. Suzanne Kinsky 13. Athena Marsh 14. Cynthia Billisits 15. Suzie Silver 16. Heather Mccracken 17. Jolynn Gibson 18. Kelli Jones 19. Dorothy Voelker

Mountain Bike 1. Suz Falvey 2. Vincent Zeng 3. Nikki Turner

Out Of Town 1. Jane Hodge 2. Caitlin Woodson 3. Sara Khalil Open Field Results! 1. Elise Rowe #10 2. Shaena Ulissi #18 3. Caryn Willis #73 4. Anna Bieberdorf #114 5. Katie Webber-Plank #93 6. Julie Grove #91

7. Louanna Baily #15 8. Lydia Yoder #50 9. Lindsay Dill #28 10. Alyssa Crawford #62

11. Jessie Appleman #87 12. Ania Jaroszewicz #6 13. Amy Wincek #111 14. Emily Palmer #54 15. LaurynStalter #79 16. Mary-Wren Ritchie #86 17. Alexandra Korshin #69 18. Frankie Montenegro #44 19. Katharine Jordan #78 20. Lan Tran #89 21. Naomi Anderson #107 22. Alexandria Shewczyk #29 23. Jaime Martina #26

24. Megan Andrews #43 25. Cansu Ozen #39 26. Sara Horsey #75 27. Shequaya Bailey #7 28. Kelly Haderly #84 29. Megan Sybeldon #46 30. Allison Glick #104 31. Acadia Klain #37 32. Robyn Brewer #34 33. Anna Barensfeld #52 34. Kelsey Kradel #83 35. Monica VanDieren #4

36. Jen Damon #80 37. Suz Falvey #88 38. Christa Ross #82 39. StacieTruszkowski #102 40. Greta Daniels #60 41. Elizabeth Salesky #33 42. Barbara Jensen #41 43. Sara Madden #92 44. Vanessa Jameson #110 45. Jane Hodge #112 46. Sarah Crawford #90 47. Rachel Dingfelder #59

48. Mary Kate Minnick #27 49. Caitlin Woodson #13 50. Simone Riddle #64 51. Sara Khalil #94 52. Suzanne Kinsky #71 53. Taylor Wescott #35 54. Kathleen Blackburn #49 55. Athena Marsh #57 56. Riesa Lirette #14 57. Vincent Zeng #32 58. Anna Faber #47 59. Erin Potts #51 60. Molly Orzechowski #666 61. Jenna DeVivo #23 62. Laura Watson #99 63. Ngani Ndimbie #108 64. Rachel Thompson #113 65. Alexandra Falk #81 66. Cynthia Billisits #48

67. Sarah Martin #97 68. Laura Everhart #53 69. Bonnie Weibel #61 70. Mary Jackson #65 71. Leah Nicolich #103 72. Charlie Eddington #106 73. Catherine Armbruster #42 74. Paula Zamora #16 75. Ramona Stanley #38 76. Morgan Sulik #21 77. Anusha Simha #119 78. Yvette Aban #58 79. Hwa Han #63 80. Sarah Scherk #101 81. Hayes Indigo #1

82. Milo Spiders #100 83. Jenna Geiman #22 84. Hannah Berg #31 85. Suzie Silver #56 86. Julie Mallis #36 87. Morgan Tunstall #30 88. Heather McCracken #45 89. Shannon Frishkorn #115 90. Jamie Parke #66 91. Kate Bechak #105 92. Jaclyn Sternick #74 93. Jolynn Gibson #40 94. Maureen Duncan #9 95. Kelli Jones #12 96. Sarah Pearman #96 97. Lauren McKenna #17 98. Jennifer Ross #20 99. Kimberly Garrett #98 100. Chen Li #55 101. Rachel Shockey #25 102. NickyTurner #95 103. HEather McClain #109 104. Emily Voelker #24 105. Nicole Toney #68 106. Jenny Bender #67 107. Shelby Schmidt #72 108. Dorothy Voelker #19 109. Elizabeth LeDonne #77

Prizes

Were there enough prizes to go around? Were people bugging the f out over how awesome they were? We’ll let these photos speak for themselves.

The Best Part

The Frigid Bitch has always been a race to promote empowerment in the cycling community, to show that underrepresented groups of people can kick just as much ass as the status quo, and to support organizations that in turn provide for others in need. To that end, funds raised via registration fees and anonymous pledges have always been given to the Greater Pittsburgh Women’s Center & Shelter. Over the past year, another organization has provided immeasurable support for the founders of the Frigid Bitch in their hour of need. This year’s race raised $730 for the Women’s Shelter and $400 for the Women’s Law Project. It couldn’t be done without the support of our racers & our community.

THANK YOU for another great year! To all of our sponsors, who are solely responsible for the joy fest you just witnessed above! To all my lovely volunteers, without whom this race would never get off the ground, and who pull out all the stops to make this the funnest goddamn alleycat in the whole universe. Thank you to my photographers, without you no one would ever know how fucking awesome this event is! Thank you to my little brother, who always finds the time to churn out another amazing race flyer! THANK YOU TO MY TEAM OF LADIES who helped me throw this race! Without you, Frigid Bitch #5 would have been the last of its kind! Thank you Di-ay, Elise #1 & Elise #2, Kat, Mattie, & Kaylin! Thank you Pittsburgh for being the only city I’d ever wish to be from! I’LL BE BACK!

SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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Hammond Report January 4 2021 from Pandemic Quarantino Jon Hammond - Daily Music and Stories from the organist & accordionist Jon Hammond, today's story about playing my theme song "Late Rent" in Frankfurt's

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, my annual "Musikmesse Warm Up Party" on the band here, Heinz Lichius drums, Tony Lakatos tenor saxophone,

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Big Big Thank You to FDNY Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9 Time Square 48st and 8th ave Firehouse!!! - photos by yours truly Jon Hammond #Engine54 #Ladder4 #nevermissedaPerformance https://www.ny1.com/.../midtown-firefighters-honored-for... “Pride of Midtown” Firefighters Honored on 9/11 for Making the Ultimate Sacrifice By Rocco Vertuccio Manhattan PUBLISHED 12:41 PM ET Sep. 11, 2020 They are the names of 15 men, read aloud ever year on September 11th to ensure they are never forgotten, especially on this day. For the firefighters and families of Engine 54 Ladder 4 Battalion 9, forgetting is impossible. This firehouse in Midtown lost more members on September 11, 2001 than any other in the city. “When you come to work every day, you are reminded of the fact that those guys sacrificed their lives trying to save other people,” said firefighter John Fila. 15 fathers, sons, husbands, brothers and uncles who responded to the World Trade Center to save lives ended up losing their own . Al and Maureen Santora’s son Christopher was one of them. “I miss his smile, his laugh, and the fact he always was a person who could tell a joke, get into mischief and spark up the whole room,” said Mrs. Santora. He was just 23 years old. He had been with the FDNY for only two months. Christopher joined to follow in his father’s footsteps. “I’m very proud of him. He was doing what he wanted to do, this was his lifelong ambition. He wanted to be a firefighter from the time he was a little kid,” said Mr. Santora. Every year on 9/11, these families and members of this firehouse get together at a memorial park around the corner on 48th Street to honor the fallen. It brings them comfort but the pain never goes away. “When people say closure, there’s no closure. It’s a lifetime sentence. There is no parole,” said Leonard Ragaglia. He lost his son Lenny on 911. The names of these fallen men are also listed outside the firehouse. It’s a reminder to those who walk by this busy part of Manhattan, of the FDNY’s service and sacrifice, every day and especially on this day.

Photo by Jon Hammond - Nick Gravenites & Julius Karpen - Julius was Janis Joplin Big Brother and the Holding Company manager - Nick Gravenites aka Nick The Greek - Nicholas George Gravenites (/ɡrævɪˈnaɪtɪs/; born October 2, 1938) is an American blues, rock and folk singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for his work with Electric Flag as their lead singer, Janis Joplin, Mike Bloomfield and several influential bands and individuals of the generation springing from the 1960s and 1970s.[1] He has sometimes performed under the stage names Nick "The Greek" Gravenites and Gravy. #juliuskarpen #nickgravenites #bigbrotherandtheholdingcompany

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Jim Henson was a master of his craft. Not only did he give us The Muppets but he brought us the beloved series, Fraggle Rock as well. The show debuted in 1983 on HBO in the US (other stations internationally). The series became a hit with kids and continued for four seasons, with the last season airing until March of 1987. Now, those of us who grew up with the Fraggles can enjoy the series again and introduce them to a new generation with the release of Fraggle Rock: The Complete Series on Blu-ray.

This 12-disc release contains all 96 episodes of the series and it's a joy to relive favorite episodes and characters. The "cast" includes Gobo Fraggle, the level-headed main character of the pack who is also an explorer of the various tunnels in Fraggle Rock. His uncle is Uncle Traveling Matt, who explores "Outer Space", which is what the Fraggles call the human part of the world. Next, we have Mokey Fraggle, a free spirit type who is artistic and fairly low key; Wembley Fraggle, who is the high strung best friend of Gobo; Boober Fraggle, a highly intelligent yet often melancholy Fraggle; and Red Fraggle, the fun-loving and lively best friend of Mokey who would love to be in control of more situations like Gobo.

The entire collection is housed in digital sleeves which is not the best format to keep the discs scratch free and safe. It also makes the package take up more space on your bookshelf while the protective coating on the Blu-rays make DVD scratches ancient history. While the packing of the Blu-ray states Fraggle Rock is in 1080p it is actually in 1080i with a 1.33:1 aspect ratio. Because the source material was shot on video there was not much Sony could do to clean up the video to meet today's standards. However, while they try their best, that 80s retro video feel and all the artifacting that comes with it still shines through even with the best equipment. Fairing a bit better is the DTS-HD 2.0 audio mix. The dialog is crisp and clear and the songs come through in better quality than ever heard before.

Special Features included in this set are:

NEW Fraggle Music Celebration

Celebrate your favorite Fraggle songs with sing-alongs for every episode or hit shuffle and let the Fraggles choose for you!

NEW Life on Set: Moments with Jim Henson

NEW 1993 "The Today Show" Segment featuring Uncle Travelling Matt

Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes (48-minute version)

Fraggle Songs & Doozer Music

Interviews with Fraggle Rock Creators and Puppeteers

Seasons 2, 3 and 4 Overviews

Docs and Sprockets

"All Around the World" Music Video

Travelling Matt

20 Travelling Matt Segments

Special Tribute to Jerry Juhl

Scared Silly: Art Imitating Life

Production Design Featurette

Electro-Mechanical Puppetry

Doozer Design

How the Trash Heap Came to Be

Gorg Design

Interviews with Michael Frith, Kathy Mullen, and Gerry Parkes

HBO Promos

You Cannot Leave the Magic: Excerpts from the Last Day of Shooting

Dance Your Cares Away: The Evolution of the Theme Song

The Inner Gorg: An Interview with the Performers Inside the Costumes

Let the Music Play: An Interview with Phil Balsam and Dennis Lee

Celebrating Fraggle Rock: Excerpts from the Wrap Party

Designing the Puppets: An Interview with the Puppet Makers

Directing the Fraggles: An Interview with Eric Till and George Bloomfield

Additional Interviews:

Dennis Lee with Mokey

Jerry Juhl with Gobo

Jocelyn Stevenson with Red and Mokey

Faz Fazakas with Cotterpin Doozer

A Minute with Travelling Matt

ADDITIONAL CONTENT:

All 13 Episodes of Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series

Animated Series Behind-the-Scenes Featurette

Animated Series Character Galleries

Animated Series Opening Scene Storyboards

Sony and The Henson company made a great archive of one of the best shows of the early 1980s. While compared to today's video/audio standards the set does show it's age. However, for an 80s child like myself, it brings a smile to my face (I also am now taking my traveling Matt Cardboard Cutout that came with the set along with me everywhere I go!).

About Maureen Buccellato Maureen's taste in film and television is across the board; from horror to romantic comedies, drama to science-fiction, she likes them all.

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Must-See Portraits by True Master Artist Daniel Greene

Celebrating the Life and Art of Daniel Greene

As a trailblazer of figurative realism and one of the United States’ most accomplished artists, Daniel Greene is truly a master of his craft. From the beginning, the artist has vowed to create work distinct from the work of his peers — to make art that is truly original. And, for several decades Greene has accomplished just that.

Daniel E. Greene by Peter A. Juley, photograph, 1964

Below are some of Greene’s iconic portraits featured in his new book, Daniel E. Greene: Studios and Subways. From the movers and shakers of his day — including Ayn Rand, Eleanor Roosevelt and astronaut commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. — to art students and passersby, these portraits almost effortlessly portray the expressions, mood and personality of their subjects in such a skillful way only a true master could capture.

“As each country’s language reveals its culture, particularly the structure of relationships, a nation’s attitudes toward portraiture reveal what it values and how it interprets the past,” states Maureen Bloomfield, art critic and co-author of Greene’s new book.

The vast ways portraits are important to specific cultures throughout history are clearly not lost on Greene. And some of his portraitures almost offer a tiny time capsule to the trends and styles of decades past, such as Mary Ann and Mark with Cap.

We hope you love this roundup of this artistic pioneer’s awe-inspiring portraits as much as we do.

The Power of Portraits

Pictured above is Greene painting astronaut commander, Walter M. Schirra Jr. at his studio in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1963.

Astronaut Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr. by Daniel Greene, pastel on paper, 1963. Collection of Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

It’s important to note Shirra’s expression in the actual photograph and how expertly Greene was able to portray this strong gaze in the portrait. I also love the attention to detail in Schirra’s uniform.

Wendell Niles Jr. by Daniel Greene, pastel on paper, 1958. Private collection

The subject of this portrait, Wendell Niles Jr., is the son of famous radio announcer for “The Bob Hope Show” and ” The Milton Berle Show,” Wendell Niles. He was in the Publicity Recruiting Center on Governors Island with Greene during his stint in the army.

“The Army’s Publicity Recruiting Center was home to actors, singers [and] announcers,” recalls Greene in the book. “It was considered the Army’s art department.”

Mary Ann by Daniel Greene, oil on canvas, 1959. Collection of the artist

This portrait is of Greene’s first wife, Mary Ann, who was an aspiring opera singer. The artist met her while she was performing at a club in Greenwich Village.

Spin the Ball Kelly by Daniel Greene, oil on canvas, 1962.

Greene, by his own admission, is no stranger to the night and pool halls. The subject of this portrait, “Spin the Ball Kelly,” was certainly a character and a little bit of a hustler, too, who used his hand instead of a cue.

Portrait of Ayn Rand by Daniel Greene, pastel on paper, 1960. Collection of Leonard Peikoff

While still in the army, Greene started this striking portrait of Ayn Rand. He finished this piece at his 31st Street studio, which is deemed an “artist’s studio” by virtue of its north skylight — through which you can see the top of the Empire State Building, a view very much enjoyed by Rand.

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt by Daniel Greene, oil on canvas, 1962. Collection of F.D.R. Library, Hyde Park, New York

In response to a request made by McCall’s, which was a monthly American women’s magazine, Greene referenced photos of Eleanor Roosevelt to paint this artwork overnight. Mrs. Roosevelt has been captured as the subject for more than one of Greene’s portraits. In fact, the artist has admired her since he was a child.

The biggest house in Washington, D.C., even recognized Greene’s love for Eleanor Roosevelt. Here, the artist is pictured presenting his pastel painting, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, to the then First Lady Hillary Clinton at the White House on May 26, 1994.

Mark with Cap by Daniel Greene, oil on wood, 1965. Private collection

Always interested in painting what was around him, Greene was drawn to the clothing styles of the 1960s and 70s. He would often paint his art students in whatever they were wearing as they would walk through the door. In this portrait, you truly get a sense of the style during this era.

John Mack Carter, Editor in Chief, Hearst Corporation by Daniel Greene, oil on linen, 1972. Collection of Hearst Corporation, New York, New York

In this portrait of then editor-in-chief of Hearst Corporation, John Mack Carter, you can’t help but wonder what the subject is thinking. Maybe he’s contemplating big decisions to come.

The oil painting captures so many minute details, it almost leaves you questioning if it is indeed a painting or, perhaps, really a photograph.

Richard Pionk by Daniel Greene, pastel on paper, 1977. Private collection

The Pastel Society of America named Richard Pionk (1936-2007) a Master Pastellist in 1984. He was a monitor for Greene’s class at the Art Students League and later went on to become the president of the Salmagundi Club.

Want More from Daniel Greene?

Self-Portrait with Palette by Daniel Greene, oil on linen, 2011. Collection of Seven Bridges Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut

Did you enjoy this roundup? Be sure to check out Daniel E. Greene: Studios and Subways, which features more than 200 of Greene’s best oil paintings and pastels, from the underworlds of pool halls, carnivals and New York subways to classically posed nudes and the elite culture of auction houses.

What is equally as impressive is the inside look into Greene’s personal journey from his early days in Cincinnati, Ohio, to now. This book is a “definitive study of this legendary artist, full of insight and inspiration for artists and art lovers alike.” Enjoy!

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The Fascinating 150-Year History of the American Watercolor Society

Turning Darkness Into Light

One of our fellow members of the Artist’s Network and editor of The Artist’s Magazine, Maureen Bloomfield, had the honor of speaking at the recent 150th Anniversary celebration of the American Watercolor Society. Her speech was so moving, we wanted to share it with those of you who could not attend the event.

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Cave of Lascaux

Lascaux | 15,000 B.C.

In a valley in Southern France, in September 1940, four boys were wandering in the woods when their dog vanished. Mystified, they ran to the spot where he’d disappeared. The oldest boy described what happened next.

“Suddenly we found a hole. We moved a few stones to make the opening wider. And because I was the strongest, I was the first to climb into the darkness. I slipped, tried to hold onto some stones, but slid [downward]. When I finally came to the bottom, I was amazed to see the strangest pictures on the walls.”

Wall Art in Lascaux Cave

What he had discovered were the caves of Lascaux and the more than 2,000 paintings that date from 15,000 BC; those works consist of pigment rubbed onto limestone with blood and water.

A thousand years later, other anonymous artists worked pigment into wet plaster, creating for the Palace of Knossos in Greece, the first frescoes—and this labyrinthine city once the dwelling place of the mythical Minotaur was discovered in 1878, 11 years after the American Watercolor Society’s first exhibition.

Decorative Border from Hall of Knossos, Crete

Hall of Knossos | Crete, 1500 B.C.

From Crete to another island (Ireland), variations on those decorative motifs recur in 800 AD; Columban monks drew designs and ornaments on vellum to illustrate the Four Gospels and, of course, the medium was watercolor.

A writer in the 12th century describes the experience of inspecting the Book of Kells.

Book of Kells, 800 A.D.

“You will make out intricacies, so delicate and so subtle, so full of knots and links, with colors so fresh and vivid, that you might say that all this were the work of angels, and not of men.”

I have to amend that last phrase, as women—nuns and abbesses— also illumined manuscripts. In fact, in the Claricia Psalter of the 12th century, we find the earliest self-portrait of a woman artist, who drew her own figure, clothed in a nun’s habit, as a diagonal line that differentiates the letter Q from the letter O.

Luminosity

For the past few weeks, I’ve been brooding about watercolor; I’ve come to the conclusion and, alas, it’s not an original one, that its rarest quality and the one hardest to describe is luminosity, from lumen the Latin for light. To illumine is to light up, to shed light on.

I’m not an artist but I spent my childhood and adolescence taking private classes in oil and pastel. Although my mother believed that all lessons were good lessons, I never took a class in watercolor. I think, in retrospect, I knew even then that it would be too hard.

Sheherezade by Betsy Dillard Stroud

As Betsy Dillard Stroud told me, “You have to be spontaneous—you have to react with alacrity because watercolor is always moving.”

Apple Blossoms by Joseph Raffael

Joseph Raffael explains why: “The flow of water is emblematic of a vital force. Watercolor expresses flow, life as transparency, the ineffable, the transient air, motion, life moving. Watercolor itself is a force of nature.”

From the 1800s to the 2000s

Tonight we celebrate the AWS that has been so influential in promoting this medium and in educating artists and collectors of its range and worth since 1866—a year after the conclusion of the Civil War that claimed 620,000 lives.

Bayonet Charge by Winslow Homer

Winslow Homer was embedded in the Union Army and did drawings on site; his true-to-life etchings, one showing an amputation on the battlefield, appeared in Harper’s Magazine. In that war, New England bled as copiously as the South, and artists were not alone in wanting to escape the tragic waste (the Battle of Antietam alone resulted in 22,700 casualties; so devastating were the losses at Antietam that neither side could claim victory). Given the carnage of war and the darkness of a divided country, it makes sense artists would want to pursue light.

Hauling Anchor by Winslow Homer

So in 1866, a call went out to “all American artist and amateurs interested in forming a group devoted to watercolor painting.” To announce the first exhibition, 400 circulars were printed.

In addition, the AWS members, fearful they wouldn’t be able to fill the walls of the National Academy of Design, canvassed local studios, commercial galleries and private collections. Of the 278 pictures in the first show, only half were watercolors.

The 46 regular members of the AWS contributed the bulk of the work, but 109 other nonmember artists were represented including about a dozen foreigners. The opening on December 21, 1867, the AWS secretary called “A brilliant occasion, full of the most exultant camaraderie.”

According to Kathleen A. Foster, the author of the catalogue for the exhibition “American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent,” now on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: “The history of watercolor painting in the United States divides neatly into two parts: before the foundation of the AWS and after.”

Before 1866, watercolor painting was not considered a fine art medium and the perverse reason was that it was, in fact, the most popular medium in the country—for illustrators, engravers, architects, engineers, commercial artists, travelers, scientist and naturalists like Audubon, etc., and, not incidentally, for well-bred ladies, students and children. “That changed,” according to Foster, “with breathtaking speed after 1867. By 1881, watercolor was the toast of New York. Within 50 years, many of the most lauded and adventurous American artists were watercolorists.”

From that great crop of “most lauded and adventurous artists,” the first Golden Age, before this one so radiantly on display at this show, I’d like to single out three.

First, Winslow Homer, who was famously reticent but nonetheless managed to say something completely in the spirit of watercolor: “I like painting done without your knowing it.”

Corfu, Light and Shadows | John Singer Sargent

Second, John Singer Sargent who had two ways of working: one with broad strokes in limpid colors and the other with tinges of pigment; the effect in both is startlingly evanescent.

Up in the Studio by Andrew Wyeth

Finally, Andrew Wyeth, who countered Homer’s sensation of light with the most mesmerizing darkness, a darkness that is complicated but, paradoxically, transparent.

In addition to promoting watercolor, the AWS has been a progressive force throughout and before its history. Its precursor, the New York Water Color Society admitted women as members right from the beginning in 1850 (to put that in context: the U.S. didn’t ratify the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote until 1920).

Further, the AWS led the way in expanding the popularity of alternate media, such as charcoal, pastel and “painterly” etching, inclusively exhibiting all types of works on paper, generally until newer groups gained the strength to organize separate shows. “Throughout the 1870s and much of the 80s,” writes Foster, “the society mustered the country’s largest, most diverse survey of progressive work in all the graphic arts.”

Perseverance Through Art

One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1867, coinciding with the birth of this society, Walt Whitman published a new edition of Leaves of Grass and Emily Dickinson withdrew from the world, though she continued to tend her gardens. Both poets had been affected by deaths: Dickinson, having lost in succession her father, then her favorite teacher and then a nephew; and Whitman, having witnessed unbearable suffering as he tended soldiers, as a volunteer nurse, during the Civil War.

In 2017, we find ourselves in a similarly dark and divisive time. Just as the boys at Lauscaux stumbled into a cave, I feel sometimes it would be lovely to find a rabbit hole to descend into; but as artists and writers and lovers of the arts, we know that the only antidote to ignorance and darkness is art.

As Marcel Proust, who was confined to bed for most of his life, wrote: “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

Interior Light by Joseph Raffael

It has been a pleasure and an honor to be with you tonight. I’d like to end by reading parts of two poems. The first is from “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” Walt Whitman’s meditation on the loss of Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated in April 1865, one year before the AWS was founded.

O what shall I hang on the chamber walls?

And what shall the pictures be that I hang on the walls,

To adorn the burial house of him I love?

Pictures of growing spring and farms and homes,

With the Fourth-month eve at sundown, and the gray smoke lucid and bright,

With floods of the yellow gold of the gorgeous, indolent, sinking sun, burning, expanding the air, …

And the city at hand with dwellings so dense, and stacks of chimneys,

And all the scenes of life and the workshops, and the workmen homeward returning.

Finally, a section of a canto by Ezra Pound:

What thou lov’st well remains,

The rest is dross

What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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We hope you enjoyed Maureen’s touching speech in honor of AWS’ 150-year celebration. Love watercolor? Check out the June 2017 issue of Watercolor Artist, available now!

Book Cited:

American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent by Kathleen A. Foster, Yale University Press, 2017

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Learn what steps hospitals are taking to improve their food service and nutrition as part of an improved standard of patient care.

The primary purpose of hospitals is to help patients get healthier. So why is the nutrition in hospitals often an afterthought? No one expects to come home from the hospital raving about the applesauce, but most people expect healthy food. Recently published studies indicate that, beyond taste appeal, many hospital kitchens have some work to do on the nutrition side, as well.

Hospitals are paying attention. They recognize that quality care involves every aspect of the patient experience, including food service.

This realization is driving hospitals to revamp all areas of their food service, from sourcing ingredients and cooking techniques to the menu and delivery. The end goal is food that is both tasty and healthy.

In the end, if the food isn’t healthy, it’s not meeting the hospital’s primary goal. If it’s not appealing, patients who need good nutrition to support their recovery simply won’t eat it.

Health First

“Food has a major impact on wellness and recovery. That’s a scientific fact,” says cardiologist Joel Kahn, clinical professor of medicine at Wayne State University and author of The Whole Heart Solution. “A heart patient’s tray should not have eggs, bacon and pancakes on it.” While this may seem obvious, hospital dieticians face a dilemma when it comes to balancing healthy food with what patients will actually eat. Luckily, more and more hospitals are coming up with new ways to address the challenge.

Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.,1 exemplifies many of the new practices that are transforming hospital food with an eye on both nutrition and taste. Beaumont prioritizes buying fresh, local produce whenever possible, and has partnered with a food aggregator to create a business bridge between a hospital serving 5.5 million meals a year and small Michigan farmers accustomed to being paid in cash.

“Hospital patients, on average, are sicker than they used to be,” says Maureen Husek, Beaumont Hospital director of nutrition and retail services. “Medications, or the diagnosis itself, can leave patients with little or no appetite, and sometimes we have to be creative to get them to eat.” She cites the local, fresh lettuce Beaumont serves as an example. “It tastes better and it’s more enticing than what we could import from elsewhere.”

Beaumont operates a room-service model of food delivery, as opposed to the older cafeteria-style model. Patients choose from a menu and then order their meals via a phone bank, where operators with access to patients’ records and diet restrictions review the choices before passing them on to the kitchen. In addition to helping the hospital provide food that patients are likely to consume, this just-in-time system has taste benefits — food gets to patients faster — and cuts much of the waste inherent in the tray-line approach.

Healthy Shouldn’t Mean Tasteless

Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital2 is also engaged in an ongoing effort to provide more nutrition in hospitals with food that is both nutritious and attractive. This effort is driven by Chef Rob Hindley’s strong conviction that healthy should not mean tasteless. Hindley operates a “brigade-style” kitchen based on the ideas of legendary French chef, Auguste Escoffier. It’s as far from assembly-line cooking as one could imagine, and cutting corners is not allowed.

For example, for pre- and post-surgical patients who may not have much appetite, the kitchen prepares a clear consommé made from scratch from bone and vegetable broth, an item that is hard to find even in fine restaurants because its preparation is so time-consuming and labor-intensive. Vegetables are shocked with cold water after they’re boiled to brighten their appearance. “It’s a little more expensive doing things this way,” says Hindley, “but we make up for it by being efficient and not wasting a scrap of food. We use everything.”

In addition to what could only be called gourmet cooking techniques, Hindley uses fresh (not canned) fruits and vegetables whenever possible. “Your food is only as good as the ingredients,” he says. To further add zest, the kitchen uses sodium alternatives such as fresh herbs, spices and vinegars.

Beyond the Hospital’s Four Walls

At the Lankenau Medical Center3, which is part of Main Line Health near Philadelphia, efforts to provide healthy food extend beyond the hospital’s kitchen to include a half-acre farm that produces more than 4,000 pounds of food annually, much of which is distributed to patients after clinic visits or hospital stays.

As Lankenau Associate Administrator Chinwe Onyekere explains, “We wanted to design something that supports people on a local level and provide an example for people to take home, show them what they can do in their own communities." In addition to its educational value, the organic farm removes any cost barrier the hospital’s vulnerable patients might have to trying new foods, and gives doctors “a tangible hook to talk about nutrition."

This is not a trivial matter. Proper food plays a crucial role in the health of patients with chronic diseases such as obesity, heart disease and diabetes.

Another Creative Approach

The Aalborg University Hospital4 in Denmark has taken yet another creative approach to hospital food. It has teamed up with DuPont Nutrition & Health to help the estimated 50 percent of hospital patients believed to be at some nutritional risk using a snack most everybody likes: ice cream. Together, they created two protein- and fiber-rich frozen sorbets — blackcurrant and raspberry — as ideal alternatives for patients with low appetite, an impaired sense of taste or swallowing difficulties.

All in all, with fresh ingredients, classic French kitchen practices and alternative offerings such as DuPont’s new sorbets, hospitals are taking huge strides in improving both the nutritive value and the taste appeal of the food they serve. These developments in nutrition in hospitals are important components of improving the quality of life for all patients.

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1http://www.beaumont.edu/patients-visitors/locations-maps-and-directions/beaumont-royal-oak-campus/

2https://www.henryford.com/locations/west-bloomfield

3https://www.mainlinehealth.org/locations/lankenau-medical-center

4http://www.aalborguh.rn.dk/Service/English

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