‘Chef’s Kiss’ at art school
What is the idea of Mastery and how can we, as a community, reappropriate the ideas of ‘the masters of visual art,’ into something more inclusive and more diverse? Thinking of Kerry James Marshall’s in depth analysis of ‘codified ideas of what it is to make art’ and how we ‘calibrate our art making against that system,’ was integral in this revamping of what has historically been known as a Kimball Jenkins Summer Masters Exhibition....
Book: ‘The Flamingo’
‘The Flamingo’ Guojing (141 pages, Children’s Graphic Novel, 2022) “The Flamingo” is a gorgeous graphic novel that’s excellent for introducing new readers (of any age) to the graphic novel format. Don’t be fooled by the 100+ page count: the story is a breeze to get through, being told nearly entirely in pictures, with very sparse text. The story follows a little girl who leaves her home in the city to visit her grandmother, or Lao Lao...
Bulletin board for the week of July 13, 2023
Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages Thursday, July 13, from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m., Joan Radner visits Gibson’s Bookstore at Gibson’s Bookstore on 45 South Main Street in Concord to present her new book, Wit and Wisdom: The Forgotten Literary Life of New England Villages! In rural New Hampshire, Maine, and Vermont, ordinary men and women, farmers and intelligentsia, selectmen and schoolchildren...
This week in Concord history
July 13, 2003: Authorities continue their search for Sarah and Philip Gehring of Concord in the Midwest. The 14- and 11-year-old were last seen with their father, 44-year-old Manuel A. Gehring of Concord, at the Memorial Field fireworks on July 4. FBI agents and local authorities scour highways and open land for the bodies of the two missing children by air and by ground, but do not find them. July 13, 1860: The grounds of the...
