COMMUNITY QUILT KNITS SOCIAL FABRIC.Byline: DIANA PEYTON Community Columnist SEWN together by a common thread, a group of Northeast Valley residents from the homeless to homemakers have completed the Neighborhood Ties Community Quilt, inspired by Tujunga resident and quilter Kim Clark. ``I dreamed it up two years ago. I wanted to create an artistic celebration of our community and to express our diversity as well as our commonality. This is real social fabric, its focus is community art,'' she said. With a $6,000 grant Clark won from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Cultural Affairs Department, the quilter found a way for under-served local residents to create a community by sewing together pieces of a 120-by-85-inch quilt in a series of neighborhood workshops. Assisted by three other women, Irene O'Bryan of Tujunga, Donna Felten of Chatsworth and Rita Streimer of Northridge the women held their classes in community rooms and libraries working closely with Councilman Alex Padilla's office. ``Sometimes, during a workshop we had no common language except to laugh and gesture. We found a way to break through all social and economic barriers. We found ourselves laughing and really having fun together. ``It was really surprising to see the men and boys enjoying themselves working on the sewing machines. They loved doing the work,'' Clark said. The women who held the workshops took sewing machines and fabric with them wherever they set up a class. Clark said when word got out in the hallways outside the quilting quilting, form of needlework, almost always created by women, most of them anonymous, in which two layers of fabric on either side of an interlining (batting) are sewn together, usually with a pattern of back or running (quilting) stitches that hold the layers rooms that people were having so much fun, attendance would increase in succeeding weeks. The quilt depicts 18 homes, the mountain skyline of the Northeast Valley, and an intricate sewn pattern of people joined together, holding hearts, on border strips of the quilt, ``it's stunning, really,'' Clark said. The quilter asked people from homeless shelters to sign their names in the squares depicting homes, to inspire them with hopes of having a home of their own one day, she said. ``It really deserves close inspection to appreciate all of the work that went into it,'' she said. Clark created a similar project for the Gene Autry Museum of Heritage working with the Glendale Quilt Guild in workshops during shows. She has been quilting for eight years. The Community Ties stitchery is on display at the Sylmar Library and will travel to the community rooms where it was created and local libraries in the next year. The piece will also be entered into a few local quilting shows and will eventually be retired to a local museum, Clark said. The Los Angeles County Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. Education Division has announced nominees for the 19th Annual BRAVO Awards Honoring Exemplary Arts Educators. Nominated individuals and the schools in which they teach are Jeremy Chung, Ernest Lawrence Ernest Orlando Lawrence (August 8, 1901 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. Middle School; Patty Fernandez, Fenton Avenue Charter School; Carlos Loya, John H. Francis Polytechnic High School John H. Francis Polytechnic High School is a secondary school located in Los Angeles, California, United States. Polytechnic, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Despite its name, Polytechnic is a comprehensive high school. ; Rhonda Magnus, Fulton Middle School Fulton Middle School is a school in Fountain Valley, California, in the US, serving grades 6-8. The principal is Chris Christensen, and the assistant is Chris Mullen. ; Kathleen Meske, Fernangeles Elementary School; Cynthia Nenezich, Robert Fulton Middle School; Vincent Houser, The Buckley School; Mary Rago, John Burroughs High School John Burroughs High School is a public high school located in Burbank, California. Emilio Urioste, Jr. is the current principal. The school was built in the 1920's, but wasn't established as a high school until 1948. The school was named after naturalist John Burroughs. ; Barbara Eisner, Burbank; Wendy Boyd, Castaic Elementary School; and Diane Macinnes, Columbus Elementary School. Other nominees are Pierre Odier, Hoover High School Hoover High School may refer to any of the following:
Nominated schools are Canterbury Elementary School, Pacoima; Valley Presbyterian School, North Hills; Glendale High School Glendale High School can refer to:
One school and two teachers will be selected from 73 nominees at a gala dinner to be held at the Regal Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles Feb. 26. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Kim Clark of Tujunga, right, led the Neighborhood Ties Community Quilt with Irene O'Bryan, left, and Donna Felten, center. |
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