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"Adam Frelin (born 1973) is an American artist working in sculpture., video, photography,Fulford, Jason and Halpern, Greg (editors). The Photographer's Playbook Aperture, 2014. and performance. He received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. He has shown at venues such as the Getty Center, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, I-Park Foundation, the Columbus Museum, Samson Projects Evergreen House and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Frelin's work is known for its usage of place and impermanence, informed by extensive travel, though he does not consider himself an environmental artist. "Since I don’t have a big white room to show work in, I make it outside," he told St. Louis Post-Dispatch art critic David Bonetti in 2006. "When I began travelling, I found that it was advantageous to not interrupt what I saw by putting it through my own filtering system. I’ve learned to isolate and concentrate attention of perceived phenomenon. The more you train your eye in that direction, the better you get at it". In 2000, while completing his second and final year of graduate school, Frelin received a National Endowment for the Arts College Art Association Fellowship. A year later, he became a visiting artist and then a faculty member at Webster University in St. Louis, MO. In 2004 he received an award from the Gateway Foundation for his installations White Heat and Things Airborne. He has also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Of Frelin's 2006 work, The Mirroring Stone, a gravestone made of polished steel, Boston Globe Correspondent Cait McQuaid said: "Walking past, the reflection of grass and other monuments reads like a dizzying warp in your vision. Stop and focus, and you'll discover your own reflection, a chilling reminder that in the end, all that will be left of you is a marker on your grave". In 2007, Frelin participated in two international commissions. The United States Embassy, Japan, commissioned Frelin for an art installation in Tokyo, Japan. The project, White Line (Tokyo), consisted of lighting instruments suspended along an arching steel cable, was installed in the garden of the International House of Japan. The Center for Contemporary Art, Kyiv, commissioned Frelin and two others to travel to Ukraine and produce works based on the experience, which were later exhibited in Los Angeles.White Line (Wyoming), 2005 In 2008, the Milwaukee Art Museum Exhibited a series of Frelin's video work as part of the Media Projects 2008 exhibit. "With an over- the-river-and-through-the-woods storybook feel," said the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Mary Louise Schumacher, "Frelin's works are filled with pilgrimages and a sense of place" Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts among others. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY. He participated in 2013's Art in Odd Places festival with a performance piece, KODAMAZOTHGOLEMNKISI In 2014, Frelin's Crier appeared as part of The Last Billboard installation by Pittsburgh artist Jon Rubin. The text of his billboard installation reads "Let's put loudspeakers on the roofs of hospitals/Let's announce births and deaths as they occur". In December, his work was exhibited at the Radiator Gallery in Long Island City, alongside artist Rena Leinberger in a show titled From Within the Flesh of the World. In February 2015, Frelin and co-artist Barbara Nelson were selected by Bloomberg Philanthropies as one of 12 finalists for the Bloomberg Public Art Challenge. Their project, on behalf of three upstate New York cities, proposes to illuminate the windows of vacant buildings in New York's Capital Region. In June 2015, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced that their proposal was selected for funding, with an award amount of up to $1 million. Education He received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. Work Firefall, 2012As part of an essay written for Frelin’s book of photography, Trees Hit By Cars, Toby Kamps, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Menil Collection in Houston describes his work this way: “While he covers large physical and aesthetic territories, Frelin is aware that he works in a time of limited resources––natural and artistic. His is an art for the age of global warming. Even as he goes to great lengths to create and catalogue revelatory intercessions in the environment, Frelin realizes the hubris and the ultimate impossibility of bending the world to his will and his will to the world. As a countermeasure, he makes self-criticism a central part of his process. Frelin’s aesthetic and philosophical road––twisting and turning between human and natural, between theory and practice––is treacherous, but he also shows us that the marks left in the struggle for control can serve as portentous blazes on the trail.” References Category:Living people Category:1973 births Category:American sculptors Category:Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni Category:University of California, San Diego alumni "
"Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (formerly the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction and Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction) is an annual book award presented by the Librarian of Congress each year at the National Book Festival. It was established in 2009 as a lifetime achievement award, although the first award was presented in 2008. In 2008, the LoC was inspired to award Herman Wouk with a lifetime achievement award in the writing of fiction. That honor inspired the Library to grant subsequent fiction-writing awards, beginning with the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction from 2009-2012. Beginning in 2013, the award was renamed to the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. Honorees ; As the Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for the Writing of Fiction * 2008 Herman Wouk ; As the Library of Congress Creative Achievement Award for Fiction * 2009 John Grisham * 2010 Isabel Allende * 2011 Toni Morrison * 2012 Philip Roth ;As the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction *2013 Don DeLillo *2014 E. L. DoctorowAlison Flood. "EL Doctorow wins Library of Congress prize for American fiction", The Guardian, April 17, 2014. Accessed December 19, 2014. *2015 Louise Erdrich *2016 Marilynne Robinson *2017 Denis Johnson * 2018 Annie Proulx * 2019 Richard Ford References External links *Fiction Prize, official website Category:Literary awards honoring lifetime achievement Category:2009 establishments in the United States Category:Awards established in 2009 Category:American literary awards "
"Kathy S. Crawford (born March 15, 1942) is an American author, business owner, and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives representing District 38.Office of State Representative Kathy Crawford Crawford is a former member of the Oakland County Board of Commissioners where she served for two terms before running to replace her husband Hugh in the Michigan House once he became term limited.Kathy Crawford for State Rep She worked as a professional in the Field of Aging for more than 30 years in Oakland County. She retired from the City of Novi in 2004 to launch her own business, Kathy Crawford Communications. Prior to her election to the Oakland County Board of Commissioners, Crawford served on the Novi City Council.Friends of Kathy Crawford - Community Service Early life During her youth, Crawford lived on two different farms in the days before extensive commercial and residential development came to Novi. Her farms were at 12 Mile and Haggerty, and at Grand River and Meadowbrook. Throughout much of her younger life, Crawford's family was routinely on the move. Her family moved three times and subsequently Crawford attended elementary schools in Northville, Wixom and Walled Lake. Although she lived within the limits of the City of Novi at the time and because Novi High School had yet to be built, Crawford attended both Farmington High School and Farmington Middle School. In the early 1960s, Kathy Crawford met her future husband Hugh. Hugh and Kathy Crawford were married on September 26, 1964 at the Novi Methodist Church where they both attended. Professional life Crawford worked as a professional in the field of aging for more than 30 years in Oakland County. Crawford was one of the founders of the Michigan Association of Senior Centers, assisted the State of Michigan in writing the rules to certify professionals in the field of aging and was Michigan's second senior center director to become certified. In addition, she was appointed by former Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox to conduct workshops for citizens regarding Identity Theft. She retired from the City of Novi in 2004 to launch her own business, Kathy Crawford Communications. Crawford has authored several workbooks for senior center directors along with authoring her memoir titled "Two Broads Abroad."About Kathy Public Offices and Affiliations Crawford was elected to the Novi City Council in 2007. In 2010, she was elected to the Oakland County Commission representing the 9th District of Northville and Novi where she served until her election to the Michigan House. Crawford also has served on the board for the Novi Pavilion Shores Conservancy, Novi Library Fundraising Committee. She remains a Novi Library Friends volunteer and Novi Senior Theater cast member and continues to be the Master of Ceremonies for the annual Senior Variety Show. She is past chair and member of the Novi Retirees Association, and is a member of the American Business Women's Association. She is currently the chair of Novi's Historical Commission. 2014 Michigan House Election District 38 in the Michigan House represents the cities of Novi, Northville, Walled Lake, South Lyon, Lyon Township, New Hudson, and Novi Township. After serving for three consecutive terms, incumbent State Rep. Hugh Crawford was term limited and unable to seek another term in the Michigan House. In July 2013, Kathy Crawford announced her candidacy for the position of State Representative for the 38th District, the seat held at the time by her husband. During the election, she garnered the support of dozens of public officials from throughout the State of Michigan and Oakland County - mayors, council members, business leaders. Many opposing voices cited what they called the "Crawford Dynasty" and encouraged voters to seek new voices in the Michigan Legislature. On November 4, 2014, Kathy Crawford was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives winning 62% of the vote. State Representative Kathy Crawford was inaugurated into office on January 2, 2015 by Michigan Supreme Court Justice David Viviano on the floor of the Michigan House in a ceremony with her friends and family. She currently serves on four House Committees: Families, Children, and Seniors, Health Policy, Regulatory Reform, and Workforce and Talent Development. Rep. Crawford is a supporter of a statewide Master Plan for older active adults and senior citizens in Michigan.Elect Kathy Crawford - Issues and Values On March 11, 2015, Crawford made headlines by becoming one of only five Republican representatives to vote against repealing Michigan's film production subsidies.GOP Politicians Who Voted Against Ending Film Subsidies References Category:1942 births Category:Living people Category:Members of the Michigan House of Representatives Category:County commissioners in Michigan Category:Michigan city council members Category:Michigan Republicans Category:People from Novi, Michigan Category:Women city councillors in the United States Category:21st-century American politicians Category:21st-century American women politicians Category:Women state legislators in Michigan Category:American Methodists "