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4 thursday Online: Great Lives Lecture Series: Zora Neale Hurston / Eudora Welty. Presented by Gary Richards. Zoom webinars open at 7:15 p.m. and the lectures begin at 7:30 p.m. Prerecorded lecture will be followed by live Q&A. umw.edu/greatlives. 5 friday Spotsy “To Go” Restaurant Week. Order takeout, delivery or curbside pickup from a number of locally owned restaurants. Collect a stamp from five different spots to earn your chance to win prizes. Through March 14. More information, including a contest passport and list of participating restaurants is available at spotsyrestaurantweek.co...

A Three-Volume Book Becomes a Testament to Mary Ellen Mark’s Career The late photographer, who left behind more than two million images, spent her life in search of the elusive iconic frame. Mary Ellen Mark, Photobooks - January 26, 2021 “Mary Ellen would never have made this book,” Martin Bell, Mary Ellen Mark’s husband and collaborator of more than thirty years, writes in an essay accompanying The Book of Everything, the three-volume collection of the photographer’s life’s work recently published by Steidl. After Mark died at age seventy-five, in 2015, Bell imagined a book t...

On March 3, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) opens  Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood, a new exhibition of works by one of the most prolific documentary and portrait photographers of her generation. The exhibition features approximately 30 images that span Mary Ellen Mark’s 50-year-career, depicting girls and young women living in a variety of circumstances all over the globe.  Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood is open through July 11, 2021.  Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) is known for her compassionate and candid depictions of subjects living outside of mainstream society. ...

Donors grateful to be part of toy fund tradition Many send notes of thanks along with their donations. By Staff ReportStaff report Share The Press Herald Toy Fund is used to getting thank you notes from parents who, with a little help, were able to bring joy to their children at the holidays. But this year there have also been many notes of thanks from donors. It seems people were craving the chance to help struggling neighbors this year, and grateful that this particular holiday tradition survived the pandemic. “There have been such sentiments each day,” said Kathleen Meade, the toy fu...

Beyond Appearances Over the summers of 2001 and 2002, Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) brought a team of assistants and a large-format Polaroid camera to Twinsburg, Ohio, for the annual Twins Days Festival. The resulting series captures the physical similarity, and subtle differences, of identical twins. Cory Woodall, Assistant Curator at The San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), explains: “Mark engaged the twins in conversation, getting to know them in the short time they had together during the photoshoot. She worked with them in determining their poses and facial expressions. Some are depicted g...