Sheila pree bright biography of christopher
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My personal study will be revolved around my family history and the story of my family through my eyes, in chronological order to create a narrative. I chose to do this because the theme of liberation, led me to think about immigration which led me to think about both my parents, and how they left their home in Madeira to come to Jersey. This study will essentially be me exploring their, and my own, story. I will begin this project by exploring historical context, in order to help me understand economic and social issues in the late 80s when my parents came to Jersey. I then wanted to explore the concept of them arriving in Jersey. I will do this by exploring family images and through archival documentation. I then want to represent them meeting, falling in love and getting married by photographing important objects and old images. I would also like to explore significant locations in Jersey that have importance to my parents before I was born, and also to me. Towards the end, its also important I represent my parents splitting up and find a way to show their new lives now through images. My first photo shoot will be me documenting family documents and images. My second shoot will be me taking images of important locations relating to my story around Jersey. My third sho
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Faraway Nearby · Addressing Suburbia
Chris Ballantyne · Sheila Pree Bright · Don Lambert · Paho Mann · Matthew Moore · Amy Stein · Greg Stimac · Brian Tolle · Michael Vahrenwald
Faraway Nearby • Addressing Suburbia features 50 works by nine artists who draw inspiration from – or critique – today’s suburbs. Their works examine the origins, preconceptions, sustainability and social implications of the suburban landscape. “As a contemporary art museum and college located in a major suburban community, it seems especially appropriate for our museum to organize this exhibition,” said Bruce Hartman, executive director of the Nerman Museum.
More Americans now live in suburban areas than in central cities and rural areas combined. However, despite its scale and influence (physically, economically and socially), suburbia is a relatively under-examined power in shaping America’s cultural life.
The suburbs have served as an arena for conjuring images of both the best and the worst of contemporary social life. Alternately stereotyped as either a domestic utopia or a realm of conformity, these stereotypes disguise a more realistic interpretation of contemporary suburbia. Many of the artists in Faraway Nearby address popular, preconceived notio
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