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Luba Drozd
Luba Drozd (born 1982) is an American installation artist. Biography Drozd was born in 1982 in Lviv, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, and as an adolescent later emigrated to the United States. Drozd received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute in 2006, then attended the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film/Video in 2015. Drozd's early works were single and two channel animation and video. For Smack Mellon's 2015 show ''Respond'', Drozd contributed ''Humane Restraint'', a video installation which art critic Jillian Steinhauer said "mashes up cheery instructional videos from mental hospitals and police forces that teach viewers how to properly restrain people . . . nd hingesbrilliantly on the point at which humor quietly swings into seriousness." In that same year, she received a new work grant from the Eastern State Penitentiary for a two-chann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lviv
Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main Ukrainian culture, cultural centres of Ukraine. Lviv also hosts the administration of Lviv urban hromada. It was named after Leo I of Galicia, the eldest son of Daniel of Galicia, Daniel, King of Ruthenia. Lviv (then Lwów) emerged as the centre of the historical regions of Red Ruthenia and Galicia (Eastern Europe), Galicia in the 14th century, superseding Halych, Chełm, Belz, and Przemyśl. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia from 1272 to 1349, when it went to King Casimir III the Great of Kingdom of Poland, Poland in a Galicia–Volhynia Wars, war of succession. In 1356, Casimir the Great granted it town rights. From 1434, it was the regional capital of the Ruthenian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Center For The Creative Arts
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) is a residential artist community in Amherst, Virginia, USA. Since 1971, VCCA has offered residencies of varying lengths with flexible scheduling for international artists, writers, and composers at its working retreat in the foothills of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. VCCA is among the nation's largest artist residency programs, and since 2004, has also offered workshops and retreats at its studio center in Southwest France, Le Moulin à Nef. VCCA fellowships aim to intensify creativity by freeing more than 400 artists a year, up to 25 at a time, from the disruptions of everyday life. Fellows have a private bedroom and studio, with three meals a day. Fellowships have been awarded to more than 6,000 writers, composers, and visual artists nationwide and from 63 different countries. Honors accorded to VCCA Fellows have included MacArthur "Genius Grants", National Book Awards, Pulitzer Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discount Store
Discount stores offer a retail format in which products are sold at prices that are in principle lower than an actual or supposed "full retail price". Discounters rely on bulk purchasing and efficient distribution to keep down costs. Types (United States) Discount stores in the United States may be classified into different types: Hypermarkets (superstores) Discount superstores such as Walmart or Target sell general merchandise in a big-box store; many have a full grocery selection and are thus hypermarkets, though that term is not generally used in North America. In the 1960s and 1970s the term "discount department store" was used, and chains such as Kmart, Zodys and TG&Y billed themselves as such. The term "discount department store" or "off-price department store" is sometimes applied to big-box discount retailers of apparel and home goods, such as Ross Dress for Less, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, and Burlington. Category killers So-called category killer stores, specialize i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hole Punch
A hole punch, also known as a hole puncher or paper puncher, is an office supplies, office tool that is used to create holes in sheets of paper, often for the purpose of collecting the sheets in a Ring binder, binder or folder (such collected sheets are called Loose leaf, loose leaves). A ''hole punch'' can also refer to similar tools for other materials, such as leather punch, leather, cloth, or sheets of plastic film, plastic or sheet metal, metal. Mechanism The essential parts of a hole punch are the ''handle'', the ''punch head'', and the ''die''. The punching, punch head is typically a cylinder, with a flat end called the ''face''. The die (manufacturing), die is a flat plate, with a hole matching the head. The head can move, while the die is fixed in place. Both head and die are usually made of a hardness, hard metal, with precise engineering tolerance, tolerances. One or more sheets of paper are inserted between the head and the die, with the flat face of the head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acetate
An acetate is a salt formed by the combination of acetic acid with a base (e.g. alkaline, earthy, metallic, nonmetallic, or radical base). "Acetate" also describes the conjugate base or ion (specifically, the negatively charged ion called an anion) typically found in aqueous solution and written with the chemical formula . The neutral molecules formed by the combination of the acetate ion and a ''positive'' ion (called a cation) are also commonly called "acetates" (hence, ''acetate of lead'', ''acetate of aluminium'', etc.). The simplest of these is hydrogen acetate (called acetic acid) with corresponding salts, esters, and the polyatomic anion , or . Most of the approximately 5 million tonnes of acetic acid produced annually in industry are used in the production of acetates, which usually take the form of polymers. In nature, acetate is the most common building block for biosynthesis. Nomenclature and common formula When part of a salt, the formula of the acetate i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prusa I3
The Prusa i3 is a family of fused filament fabrication 3D printers, manufactured by Czech company Prusa Research under the trademarked name Original Prusa i3. Part of the RepRap project, Prusa i3 printers were called the most used 3D printer in the world in 2016. The first Prusa i3 was designed by Josef Průša in 2012, and was released as a commercial kit product in 2015. The latest model (Prusa MK4S on sale as of August 2024) is available in both kit and factory assembled versions. The Prusa i3's comparable low cost and ease of construction and modification made it popular in education and with hobbyists and professionals, with the Prusa i3 model MK2 printer receiving Prusa i3#Recognition, several awards in 2016. The i3 series is released under an Open-source hardware, open source license, which has led to many other companies and individuals producing Prusa i3#Variants, variants and clones of the design. The i3 moniker refers to the printer being the third iteration of the des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Face Shield
A face shield, an item of personal protective equipment, aims to protect the wearer's entire face (or part of it) from hazards such as Projectile, flying objects and road debris, chemical splashes (in laboratory, laboratories or in Industry (economics), industry), or potentially Infection, infectious materials (in Medicine, medical and laboratory environments). Applications Medical In Medicine, medical applications the device is used to protect a medical professional during a procedure that might expose them to blood or other potentially infectious fluids or aerosols. An example is the use of a Pocket mask, CPR mask while performing Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, rescue breathing or Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR. Another example is the use of face shields to reduce the likelihood of inhaling potentially infectious bioaerosols. Police and military File:AssaultTraining2016-18.jpg, Russian Engineer Troops, Russian combat engineer with a 6B47 helmet and ballistic f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic In New York City
The first case of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City was confirmed on March 1, 2020, though later research showed that the novel coronavirus had been circulating in New York City since January, with cases of community transmission confirmed as early as February. By March 29, over 30,000 cases were confirmed, and New York City had become the worst-affected area COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, in the United States. There were over 2,000 deaths by April 6; at that stage, the city had more confirmed coronavirus cases than COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, China, the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, UK, or COVID-19 pandemic in Iran, Iran. Bodies of the deceased were picked up from their homes by the US Army, United States National Guard, National Guard, and Air National Guard. Starting March 16, New York City schools were closed. On March 20, the New York State governor's office issued an State executive order, executive order closing "non-essential" businesse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hessel Museum Of Art
The CCS Hessel Museum of Art is an art museum located on the campus of Bard College, in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. The museum was built in 2006. The Hessel Museum is housed in the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS). The Museum draws from the Marieluise Hessel Collection of Contemporary Art, which contains more than 1,700 objects on permanent loan to Bard. The Hessel Museum activates the collection for research for students, faculty and the general public through exhibitions, publications, and events – on site and through digital resources. History The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College was expanded and renovated in 2006 to include the Hessel Museum of Art, 17,000 feet of galleries built to accommodate its growing collections and programs. The Hessel Museum of Art opened on November 12, 2006, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The CCS facility, which houses a two-year graduate program in curatorial studies, comprises several interconnected parts, including a libr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yaddo
Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.". On March 11, 2013 it was designated a National Historic Landmark. It offers residencies to artists working in choreography, film, literature, musical composition, painting, performance art, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video. Collectively, artists who have worked at Yaddo have won 82 Pulitzer Prizes, 34 MacArthur Fellowships, 70 National Book Awards, 24 National Book Critics Circle Awards, 108 Rome Prizes, 49 Whiting Writers' Awards, a Nobel Prize (Saul Bellow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and Nobel Prize in Literature in 1976), at least one Man Booker Prize ( Alan Hollinghurst, 2004) and countless other honors. Yaddo is included in the Union Avenue Historic District. History The estate was purchased in 1881 by the fina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foundation For Contemporary Arts
The Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA), is a nonprofit based foundation in New York City that offers financial support and recognition to contemporary performing and visual artists through awards for artistic innovation and potential. It was established in 1963 as the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts by artists Jasper Johns, John Cage, and others. FCA was founded on the principle of "Artists for Artists" support as visual artists united to sponsor performance artists through grants funded by the sale of donated artworks. The first benefit exhibition was at the Allan Stone Gallery in 1963. Among contributors to the Foundation's first benefit exhibition were Marcel Duchamp, Ellsworth Kelly, Willem de Kooning, Elaine de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, and Andy Warhol. Since its establishment, FCA has awarded more than 2,500 non-restrictive grants to individual artists and art organizations through i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knockdown Center
Knockdown Center is a cultural space, performance venue, and art center, located in the Maspeth, Queens, Maspeth neighborhood of Queens, New York City. The Center includes many architecturally notable features: 20,000 square-foot main hall, a backyard nicknamed The Ruins, a large gallery, and several other adjacent halls of varying sizes. Since 2013, Knockdown Center has been the venue of many musical and visual art events. As of 2022, artists who have performed there include Wu-Tang Clan, LCD Soundsystem, Jeff Mills, Kim Gordon, Turnstile (band), Turnstile, Arca (musician), Arca, Frank Ocean, Kneecap (band), Kneecap Honey Dijon, Animal Collective, Juice Wrld, Juice World, James Blake (musician), James Blake, Fred Again, Sunn O))), Yung Lean, CNBLUE, and Chelsea Manning. Earlier in the same year, Pitchfork announced an all-new concert series called Pitchfork Presents, to be hosted at the Center. The venue has been called the "Queens' answer to The Kitchen," a reference to The Kitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
