FireBoard Site Syndication http://www.tattoolovers.gr Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:13 +0300 FireBoard 1.0.5RC2 http://www.tattoolovers.gr/components/com_fireboard/template/default_ex/images/english/emoticons/rss.gif http://www.tattoolovers.gr FireBoard Site Syndication http://www.tattoolovers.gr/forum?func=view&catid=2&id=40#40 Georgine Clarke, Kentuck's magician, its visionary, its mother, died Wednesday night in Montgomery after a long illness. She was 71. Where others saw a simple downtown Northport street fair, celebrating the city's centennial in 1971, Clarke looked further down the road, specifically to an overgrown park. “Postmaster Ellis Teer and I walked around it to figure out how much of it we could mow — Ellis brought his lawn mower along — and that became the area we'd set up in,” she said in an interview with Smithsonian Magazine in 2003. “Each year, we mowed a little bit more, and the festival grew that much.” From 20 artists on Main Avenue in 1971 evolved the Kentuck Festival of the Arts, drawing 30,000 visitors to Kentuck Park each third weekend in October. From that grew the year-round arts center featuring display space, a gift shop, working artists' studios, outreach programs, monthly multi-media events including Art Night and ala cARTe, and more. Clarke, Kentuck's executive director until hired by the Alabama State Council on the Arts in 1994, had help, but she was the prime mover, said Kentuck executive director Jan Pruitt. “She is the mother of us all,” she said. “This place would not be here if it weren't for Georgine.” Like any good parent, Clarke bolstered and encouraged those in need, and cajoled or fought anyone who didn't treat her children right, said Al Head, executive director of the state arts council. Clarke was the state's visual arts program manager, assisting artists and organizations with grant money and other support. http:/ elliewhitehead.blog.com/files/2010/11/Fashion-in-Motion-UGG-2010-256x300.png ------------------------------------------ Obey Hats (http://www.xrcheaphat.com/OBEY-Hats-c-164.html) Ymcmb Hats (http://www.xrcheaphat.com/YMCMB-Hats-c-180.html) Snapback Hats (http://www.xrcheaphat.com/Snapback-Hats-c-34.html) Sat, 05 May 2012 13:29:48 +0300