Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 November 1999 — Page 23

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBERS, 1999

During Library Hours Cantral Library 40 East St Clair Streat 269-5200 Voyages: Indiana Artists Look at Spirit and Place - Indiana artists will present a variety of works using substances to create new visions of the world in this special display throughout Central Library in support of the 1999 Civic Festival, “Spirit and Place: Changing Landscapes.”

12:00 -1:30 p.m. Scottish Rite Cathedral 650 North Meridian Street Mystery at the Cathedral: Four Mystery Writers Talk Shop - Authors Anne Perry, Jeremiah Healy, John Gils trap and Dorothy Cannell are the panelists for this mystery writers discussion. Call 269-5209 for more information. 4:00 • 7:00 pm East Washington Library 2822 East Washington Street

269-1867

Aithur-Fest - Children of all ages and their families are invited for activities featuring Arthur, the popular children’s character.

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November 2

4:00 pm

Wartamaker Library 8822 Southeastern Aveiwie

269-1883

Arthur’s Family Read-Aloud - In support of the 1999 November Read-Aloud Program, families are invited as WFYI-TV 20 staff will read aloud and lead activities that extend lessons portrayed in the “Arthur” TV series. Call 269-1883

to register. 6:00 pm

Brightwood Library 2435 North Sherman Drive

269-1860

Brightwood Book Discussion • The Living Is Easy by Dorothy West will be discussed. Call 2691860 to obtain a copy of the book. 6:00 - 8:00 pm Central Library 40 East St Clair Street

269-5209

Business Library Basics - This program features a tour of the Business, Science and Technology Service Section of Central Library with an emphasis on how to research a company, find sources of supplies and research business topics. Call 269-5209 to register.

7:00 pm Warren Library 9701 Eaat 21 at Street 269-1890 Arthur’s Family Read-Aloud - In support of the 1999 November Read-Aloud Program, families are invited as WFYI-TV 20 staff will read aloud and lead activities that extend lessons portrayed in the “Arthur” TV series. Call 269-1890 to register.

Works of Black artist who left Columbus in 1907 return to city

10:30 am Broad Ripple Library 1550 Broad Ripple Avenue 269-1791 Hooray for Arthur! - Children ages 2-5 are invited for stories about Arthur, the popular children’s character. Call 269-1793 to register.

1:30 - 3:30 pm Central Library 40 East St Clair Street

269-5209

ABC’s of Diabetes - Class members will participate in individual consultations with a registered dietician and a diabetes nurse during this diabetes self-management class. Participants are encouraged to attend all four sessions. Call 541-2094 to register.

6:30 pm

Decatur Library 5301 Kentucky Avenue

269-1872

“Science Fair Project” Workshop - School-aged children are invited as Mad Science of North Central Indiana will demonstrate how to identify “good” science fair projects. Call 269-1872 to register.

6:30 pm

Brown Library 5427 East Washington Street

269-1864

Introduction to Chinese Medicine - Lei Shaw, Licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist, will demonstrate and explain traditional Chinese health care techniques.

4:00 pm

Spades Park Library 1801 Rowland Avenue

269-1882

“Science Fair Project” Workshop - School-aged children are invited as Mad Science of North Central Indiana will demonstrate how to identify “good" science fair projects. Call 269-1882 to register.

6:30 p.m.

Emerson Library 3642 North Emerson Avenue

269-1868

to register.

7:00 - 8:30 pm Warren Library 9701 East 21st Street

269-1890

Introduction to Machine Quilting with Ruth Hans - Ruth Hans will discuss how she taught herself to machine quilt and what materials are needed to start. She will also give a demonstration.

7:30 pm

Lawrence Library 7898 North Hague Road

269-1884

Acupuncture: History, Art and Science - Mark W. Kimpel, M.D., founder and medical director of Acupuncture & Holistic Health of Carmel, will focus on the history pf acupuncture.

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - When her interest in art and painting was first sparked by the flowers in her mother’s garden, Alma Thomas wasn’t allowed into the Columbus Museum to get inspiration. But Ms. Thomas, bom in Columbus in 1891, overcame her roots in the segregated South to become one of the nation’s first Black modem artists. Now the city is honoring Ms. Thomas, who died in 1979 at age 88, with a 54-painting retrospective of her work at the Columbus Museum. The exhibU, which will be open through Jan. 9, is making the last stop on a national tour. “We artists are put on God’s good earth to create,” the artist once said. “Some of us may be black, but that’s not the important thing. The important thing is for us to create, to give form to what we have inside

of us.”

Ms. Thomas’ talent blossomed after her family moved to Washington, D.C., in 1907 to open up educational opportunities for her and her sisters. Columbus historian Frank

Schnell said the Thomas household was “amazing.” “They had prints of famous artists on their walls,” he said. “A reading group they founded became the first African-American library.” Ms. Thomas originally poured her energies into teaching, not painting. After graduating from Howard University, she became the art director for the Washington school system. She didn’t take up serious painting until she was in her 60s, one possible reason for her success. “I don’t know if she would have had the same intensity had she started at a younger age,” said Sachi Yanari-Rizzo, assistant curator of collections at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, who has studied Ms. Thomas’ work for the last five years. “She was always pushing for something new and different. She lived a very full life. She even took her paints and brushes with her to the hospital shortly before her death.” Some of Ms. Thomas’ best-

known pieces are “Red Azaleas 1 Singing and Dancing Rock and j Roll Music,” which showed the ; influence of musical ihythms on ; her work, and an early piece called | “Blue and Brown,” which shows a heavier style than her later paintings. “Air View," a piece of boldly colored stripes, is Ms. Thomas’ _ interpretation of the ground as seen ^ (torn an airplane. The piece hangs ; permanently at the Columbus* Museum, fulfilling her lifelong; dream of having a painting hang in her hometown gallery . At 77, Ms. Thomas became the first Black woman to hold a solo show at New York’s Whitney Museum, and her work hangs in the New York Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery. Yanari-Rizzo said Ms. Thomas may have been as influential a teacher as she was an artist. “She worked to instill creativity in children,” Yanari-Rizzo said. “She didn’t feel art should be dependent on race, gender or generation. To her, it made one universal statement/’ >

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