Ceramic Arts Lecture - Everson Museum
April 1, 2 pm 11th Annual Ceramic Arts Lecture- virtually (Source: the everson museum) By Craig Thornton | March 16, 2021 at 3:38 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 3:38 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) -
The Everson Museum of Art is thrilled to have groundbreaking artist Grayson Perry deliver its Eleventh Annual Ceramic Arts Lecture on Thursday, April 1 at 2 p.m. EST. Taking place virtually on Zoom, the lecture is free and open for all to attend.
Perry is a renowned British potter, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster who explores central themes of humanity, including identity, gender, social status, sexuality, and religion. In 2003, Perry became the first ceramist to receive Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize. He has shown his work internationally while writing provocative books like
Decision in Albany case from arbitrator, a Syracuse professor, draws mayor’s ire
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
By Steve Hughes | Times Union, Albany
Albany, N.Y. An independent arbitrator exonerated city police officer Matthew Seeber of all charges last week for his role in an incident on March 2019 on First Street.
In response, Mayor Kathy Sheehan wrote a letter to the state board that handles police arbitration, criticizing the arbitrator’s “racially biased conclusions,” and asking the board to stop using him.
The ruling came nearly two years to the day that Seeber and other officers responded to 523 First St. for calls of a loud party. Three men Lee Childs, Mario Gorostiza and Armando Sanchez were arrested only to have their charges dropped after cell phone video of officers kicking Gorostiza was forwarded to police department leaders, sparking an investigation.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Carrie Cohen is an expert in public corruption and state and local government who made a name for herself by prosecuting former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. At Morrison & Foerster – or MoFo – she has assisted the New York City Council in investigations into the behavior of several members, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in a review of overtime practices, and a Rochester City Council probe into the death of Daniel Prude.
54. David Patton
Executive Director and Attorney-in-Chief, Federal Defenders of New York
A federal defender for nearly 20 years, David Patton in 2011 became the executive director and attorney-in-chief of the Federal Defenders of New York, a group that provides representation to those in need. During the coronavirus pandemic, Patton has been representing prisoners who are at high risk of catching the disease, telling Slate that the response by “prosecutors and prison officials to COVID-19 has been hard to fathom.”
Former state senator H. Douglas Barclay dies at age 88 Photo of H. Douglas Barclay, longtime state senator in northern New York, who died Sunday. (Source: funeral home) By Scott Atkinson | March 15, 2021 at 9:53 PM EDT - Updated March 15 at 9:54 PM
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - One of the north country’s longest serving and most influential politicians has died. Former state senator H. Douglas Barclay died at his home in Pulaski Sunday.
Barclay represented northern New York in the state Senate from 1964 until his retirement in 1984. He was a leading Republican, at a time when Republicans not only dominated north country politics but were influential statewide as well.