LIBBY GILL/ "YOU UNSTUCK"
Libby used to be a columnist for the Dallas Morning News, so you may be familiar with her work. Her new book is YOU UNSTUCK and she’s got a lot of great ideas for your viewers on how to get “unstuck” in their lives. Some example topics include:
- Clarify, simplify and execute your career vision for 2010.
- Stop suffering from “stress creep.”
- Manage your finances in this difficult economy.
- Identify core values to create your Wow career.
- 6 ways to get more from your job.
Recently, MORE MAGAZINE named YOU UNSTUCK one of the Top 10 books for job searching. http://www.more.com/6502/10589-books-to-help-you-get#3
For more info about Libby Gill: www.libbygill.com
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NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER
The Nasher Sculpture Center is pleased to present Boolean Valley in the Garden ponds, March 13 through June 6, 2010. The installation, conceived and created by potter Adam Silverman and architect Nader Tehrani, will explore the intersection between architectural precision and handmade craft.
Boolean Valley, subjects the intuitive and tactile process of ceramics to the stringency of Boolean logic. Named after mathematician George Boole, Boolean logic rationalizes the intersection of two or multiple sets. Today, it is most often used to narrow internet searches, but is also employed in architecture and design as an operation in digital modeling to add or subtract from volumes, thereby creating new forms. The artists use Boolean logic to determine the shape and configuration of nearly 400 cut clay objects, creating a topographic landscape within the space of the museum.
The installation of the objects changes according the parameters of the space in which they will be displayed. At the Nasher Sculpture Center, the artists will adapt the configuration to one of the ponds at the end of the garden. The surface of the water acts as a transparent plane intersecting the conical and domed shapes fired cobalt blue or charcoal black with distinctive craters and bumps from the silicon carbide in the glaze. Plunging into, rising from, or just skimming the top of the water, the arrangement of the ceramic forms produces an effect that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Silverman and Tehrani met while studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Since then, Silverman has pursued many creative endeavors—architecture, fashion, pottery—all of which are unified through his interest in structure, engineering, and the relationship of each medium to the human body. In 2002 Silverman decided to work exclusively in clay and founded Atwater Pottery. Today he serves as studio director of Heath Ceramics Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and featured in numerous publications from The New York Times to GQ.
Nader Tehrani heads the internationally renowned architecture firm Office dA in Boston, which has completed projects from California to China that range in scale from furniture to urban design, including BP Helios House (a sustainable gas station in Los Angeles), the RISD Library, Tongxian Arts Center in Beijing, and the Elemental community project in Chile, among others. In addition to his professional practice, Tehrani is a professor of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office dA has received numerous international awards including the National Design Award for Architecture.
Boolean Valley, subjects the intuitive and tactile process of ceramics to the stringency of Boolean logic. Named after mathematician George Boole, Boolean logic rationalizes the intersection of two or multiple sets. Today, it is most often used to narrow internet searches, but is also employed in architecture and design as an operation in digital modeling to add or subtract from volumes, thereby creating new forms. The artists use Boolean logic to determine the shape and configuration of nearly 400 cut clay objects, creating a topographic landscape within the space of the museum.
The installation of the objects changes according the parameters of the space in which they will be displayed. At the Nasher Sculpture Center, the artists will adapt the configuration to one of the ponds at the end of the garden. The surface of the water acts as a transparent plane intersecting the conical and domed shapes fired cobalt blue or charcoal black with distinctive craters and bumps from the silicon carbide in the glaze. Plunging into, rising from, or just skimming the top of the water, the arrangement of the ceramic forms produces an effect that is much greater than the sum of its parts.
Silverman and Tehrani met while studying architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Since then, Silverman has pursued many creative endeavors—architecture, fashion, pottery—all of which are unified through his interest in structure, engineering, and the relationship of each medium to the human body. In 2002 Silverman decided to work exclusively in clay and founded Atwater Pottery. Today he serves as studio director of Heath Ceramics Los Angeles. His work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries and featured in numerous publications from The New York Times to GQ.
Nader Tehrani heads the internationally renowned architecture firm Office dA in Boston, which has completed projects from California to China that range in scale from furniture to urban design, including BP Helios House (a sustainable gas station in Los Angeles), the RISD Library, Tongxian Arts Center in Beijing, and the Elemental community project in Chile, among others. In addition to his professional practice, Tehrani is a professor of architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Office dA has received numerous international awards including the National Design Award for Architecture.
ELLEN FITZPATRICK/ "LETTERS TO JACKIE"
Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation is a compilation of condolence letters sent to Jacqueline Kennedy in the days, weeks and months following the 1963 assassination of her husband. The book contains never-before-seen correspondence to Jackie. Author Ellen Fitzpatrick, is a noted historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator.
The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is hosting a free book signing event with Fitzpatrick tonight at 6:30p.m. The event is open to the public.
For more details log onto www.jfk.org
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