Sentences with phrase «who draws her material»

In order to make her work as historically precise and therefore more substantial in meaning, Walker became an expert researcher who draws her material from a diverse array of sources, from painted pieces of portraiture to pornographic novels.

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Unlike our sketch and improv brethren who work to create funny characters and situations, today's stand - ups draw upon their own experiences and viewpoints to create material that is honest and authentic.

The present text of Kings, drawn from many sources, is the editorial achievement of Deuteronomic historians of the sixth century B.C. who, though regarding Solomon with nostalgic admiration, nevertheless incorporate material reflecting the perspective of stanch Yahweh loyalists.

Luke modifies some of the eschatological material derived from Mark; he agrees that the end will come, but Christians must not follow those who say, «The time has drawn near» (21:8).

Drawing material from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS - 88) and tracking a representative sample of students who were in 10th grade in 1990 and 12th grade in 1992, to see what was happening in their lives in 2000, the following was discovered in comparing high school athletes to non-athletes.

A meta - analysis of American interventions with very young fathers points to quality intensive community - based interventions with a good understanding of gender: the staff (who were experienced, empathetic, enthusiastic, and well connected into their communities) partnered with community organisations and used incentives to draw the young men in; they utilized needs assessments and participant feedback; developed one - on - one relationships with their young clients and provided mentoring; offered a comprehensive array of services delivered in engaging and interactive ways which incorporated teaching methods and materials appropriate to young men's culture, sex and age.

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

It sends up the quirky idiosyncrasies of local and national politics; writer / director Alex Crowley, who was Boris Johnson's former political advisor, had a rich source of material from which to draw.

The volume of this material drew a rebuke from Caproni, who has expressed frequent impatience with what she has criticized as excessively drawn - out defense gambits.

«We drew our inspiration for the soft actuated material from the elegant design of the heart,» said Wyss Core Faculty member Conor Walsh, Ph.D., the senior author, who is also an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at SEAS and founder of the Harvard Biodesign Lab.

Dorey says Britain needs a national library of information about suitable materials and production methods which manufacturers can draw on, and a training programme for engineers who will design and build the tiny devices.

As for the substance behind this series, no matter how much the final product both bloats and hurries itself along, it's hard as all get - out to deny the value within Alex Haley's «factional» tale, which is rich with the potential for compellingness and thematic depth that, more often than not, recieves justice from teleplay writer and source material book completer David Stevens, who draws lively characterization and depth, which in turn recieves its own bit of justice from director John Erman.

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16 mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution.

Harrison, who joined the project in 2005, said she was drawn to the material because it's a powerful love story and a unique portrait of a relationship that faces an unexpected test.

A recently released trailer positions the drama as a comedy of errors, showcasing the immense acting talent who were clearly drawn to the classic material.

Those who were drawn to the trailers and other marketing materials may enjoy the end result, but anyone sitting on the fence can wait for home media.

THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967 - 1975 mobilizes a treasure trove of 16 mm material shot by Swedish journalists who came to the US drawn by stories of urban unrest and revolution.

The multi-talented Martin directs himself as the title character, an aimless Brooklyn illustrator who's drawing a blank when it comes to finding material for his second book.

Gervais» understated approach helps draw out the best in Leoni and Kinnear, co-stars who already approach the material with candor.

This may be fine where perhaps you have some under - utilized trainers who can usefully work on authoring materials alongside the day job, or even where you can draw on volunteers to contribute.

Year 7 - Term 1 - Basic Drawing Skills Scheme of Work / Practice Makes Permanent (Literacy Bank) / Assessment and Feedback Materials This resource has been developed in response to the Knowledge Rich Curriculum advocated by teachers, researchers and administrators who have inspired the Free School Movement.

For an author to possess all the skills, experience and materials to carry out every part of the publishing process to a professional standard is about as likely as someone who decides to build their own home being able to do everything from drawing the plans to digging the foundations to putting on the roof without expert help.

Those who commit themselves will receive an official I AM NO LONGER AN ARTIST badge designed by Bob and Roberta Smith, and shall be invited to create one final drawing for inclusion in the Art Amnesty gallery exhibition, using materials provided onsite.

Artwork for Bedrooms draws a parallel narrative from the same moment of young artists who were similarly invested in «poor» materials, but who put them to work in more abstract, fragile, or conceptual ways.

The exhibition also draws attention to behind - the - scenes figures who worked on the project through archival materials shown publicly for the first time.

Understood in their broadest definition, the drawings and photographs assembled here include a wide range of material, among which are an 1864 photograph of the forest of Fontainebleau by the little - known French photographer Constant Alexandre Famin; a pastel completed earlier this year by Jasper Johns; a 3 x 5 inch Cezanne figure drawing; a new 6 1/2 x 10 foot landscape drawing by Ugo Rondinone; a digitally - manipulated photograph of the musician Björk by Inez van Lamsweerde; a small piece by an outsider artist known as the «Philadelphia Wireman,» who carefully bound his drawings up with bits of wire so they are barely visible; a recent charcoal on canvas by Gary Hume; and a 1949 sketchbook by Tony Smith.

Of those I visited, Art Miami reprised its welcome survey of Latin American artists; Untitled lit its beach tent with wide, carefully curated booths showing refreshingly unfamiliar material from all over the world; Pulse drew the young to accomplished work by mid-career artists who remain affordable; and the Design Fair played curated interiors of mid-century masters against the technological marvels of space - age lighting and the the largest - ever 3D printed work from sustainable materials — SHoP architects» outdoor pavilion digitised out of recycled bamboo whose combined airiness and tensile strength stand to revolutionise building.

, both on view through December 17 — engage that complicated relationship in indirect but interesting ways: Betbeze is a Georgia native who continues to make work here despite now living in New York, and Detroit artist Harrison's show draws much of its source material from Atlanta - based collections of African art.

Each of the museum's two current headline exhibitions — Anna Betbeze's Venus and Matthew Angelo Harrison's Dark Povera Part 1, both on view through December 17 — engage that complicated relationship in indirect but interesting ways: Betbeze is a Georgia native who continues to make work here despite now living in New York, and Detroit artist Harrison's show draws much of its source material from Atlanta - based collections of African art.

Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction of Color to explore the history of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins of poured paint and crumpled paper with bits of marble and scrap metal.

Yet this is not an exclusive element; there is a long line of artists, including Gianni Ruffi, Roberto Barni, Silvio Pasotti, Umberto Bignardi, and Claudio Cintoli, who take on reality as a toy, as a great pool of imagery from which to draw material with disenchantment and frivolity, questioning the traditional linguistic role models with a renewed spirit of «let me have fun» à la Aldo Palazzeschi.

She is one of a generation of artists who have re-engaged with craft techniques and the symbolic resonance of materials, her work draws on architecture and household objects.

By taking the utility out of the material, Irwin's drawings call back to artists like Jasper Johns, who has used the light bulb as a motif.

In bringing together these materials on Zuaiter's life and her own research, the artist draws attention to the efforts of the intellectuals who endeavoured to bring international attention to the Palestinian cause.

By its nature, paper is fragile, and up until fairly recently this was a factor that made some collectors nervous — particularly those who lived in countries with high humidity or prone to extreme changes in temperature, which could impact the material in drawings.

Inspired both by traditional bracelets and cargo cults — religious groups who believe material wealth can be obtained through ritual worship, the San Antonio artist presents a monumental charm bracelet sculpted out of reclaimed wood and related drawings.

Horn drew my attention as an artist who offers new approaches to abstraction, material, color, surface, memory, history, and language.»

19 November 2008 5:00 — 7:00 pm Ibrahim Theater, International House, 3701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia Changing the Canon: Self - Taught Artists Film Screening and Panel Discussion James Castle: Portrait of an Artist A film by Jeffrey Wolf Introduction by Molly Dougherty, Executive Director, Foundation for Self - Taught Artists Brendan Greaves, Folklorist, University of North Carolina John Ollman, Director, Fleisher - Ollman Gallery Ann Percy, Curator of Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art Jeffrey Wolf, Film Producer and Director Wendy Steiner (moderator), Founding Director, Penn Humanities Forum Born deaf, James Castle (1900 — 1977), a self - taught American artist who refused to read, write, or otherwise communicate except through art, used soot, saliva, and found materials such as ads and food wrappers for his creations.

Frankenthaler, who began her career as a second - generation Abstract Expressionist, consistently pushed the boundaries of what painting could be by embracing new materials and techniques, abandoning the gestural drawing of earlier work as she transitioned from oil to acrylic paint.

Erlea Maneros Zabala is a mixed media artist who creates wall paintings, drawings and image - based work in which the material processes intersect with museological and news media sources.

Drawing on documentary materials, photographs, and film and video footage, VITO ACCONCI: WHERE WE ARE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?)

With the backing of Queen Victoria, who was personally passionate about the medium, sculptors drew on new materials and methods to create ever - greater and more magnificent works.

The paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings and videos focus on ordinary objects, such as a brown paper lunch bag, a pink eraser or a 2 - ply, white garbage bag, which are transformed by the artists, who employ unexpected materials or play with scale.

We had lectures on anatomy in the Mac lecture theatre using skeletons and life models, lectures about colour and pigment, materials, and art history, of course, and tutors who were familiar with traditional drawing and painting materials and technique.

Among the exhibitors are influential nonagenarian Indian artist Krishna Reddy, who shows drawings from the 1950s articulating various experiments with form, and (at the other end of the age scale) Dhaka - based Ayesha Sultana, whose hypnotic watercolours follow her interest in material, movement and distance (and, fundamentally, form).

In designing posters, event graphics, programmes and other printed materials, The Partners created hand - drawn typographic illustrations from the complete text of each monologue, «referencing the dramatic telling of the stories on stage, and how the event rings a unique focus and emotional power to children who would otherwise have no voice,» the agency explains.

Sterling Ruby (born 1972) is an American artist who works in a wide range of aesthetic and material strategies, from sculptures made of saturated, glossy, poured polyurethane, bronze and steel, to drawings, collages, richly glazed ceramics, spray - paint paintings, photography and video, as well as textile works that include quilts, tapestries, garments and soft sculptures.

Leah Raintree is a multidisciplinary artist who addresses our relationship to the environment through permeable, process - based interactions with sites and materials, working across drawing, photography and installation.

Mithu Sen is an internationally recognized multi-media artist who uses unconventional materials in her drawings, sculpture and site and time specific installations.

The experience was a bit bewildering at first, since the studio is a laboratory where the artist has more than a dozen «experiments» going simultaneously: a giant firefly contraption takes up a swing - set zone; materials for an upcoming performance are laid out on every surface of the seating and sofa zone; fish tanks surround a computer zone and provide the staging ground for an oceanic corral project; dozens of human arm forms, cast in a Black Power salute and cast in gold, are lined up along a wall, in preparation for a huge installation in Washington, D.C. this fall; a 3 - D printer is on pause as it creates Lilliputian figures for who - knows - what; and everywhere are various staging grounds of plastic models which will eventually be sprayed in gold and mounted on pins, to create Kaino's now - signature six - foot - tall, glittering gold pin drawings that suggest atomized worlds.