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Celebrate Black History by STEPHANIE CRIDER educational information and vendors at the fair. Both the Black History Quiz For the past nine years GOTDAD Inc., has sponsored the Black History 4ever Quiz Bowl and African Americans in the Military Appreciation Day. This Bowl and the Health Fair are scheduled to take place at The John D. Fuller Recreational Center. year the celebration falls on Feb. 23, with several events scheduled throughout Don���t miss the African Americans in the Military Appreciation Day Program the day. at noon. This event honors local Fort Bragg active veteran African Americans. The fun starts at 9 a.m. with the Black History 4ever Quiz Bowl. Age Wounded Warriors of all races are also honored at this event. categories are 8-9 years old; 10-12 years old; 13-15 years old and 16-18 years The activities end with a old. There is a study guide ���Ride to Freedom��� convoy as well as registration from The John D. Fuller information available at Recreational Center to the www.blackhistory4ever. North Carolina Veterans Park com. The questions are and the Airborne and Special in True/False, multiple Operations Museum. At the choice and fill-in-the-blank park and museum there will formats. Students answer be tours, storytelling, and the the questions independently opportunity to meet veterans and earn points for each from the community. correct answer. The event Contestants are tested on various people and topics at the Black History 4ever Quiz Bowl. GOTDAD is a group of is free to participants and fathers ��� both military and lunch is provided to the contestants. There is a study guide available for each of the age groups. Not only civilian; married and divorced ��� who recognize the importance of leading a balanced life. They understand the challenges of managing both family does the guide provide an itinerary of events for the day, it has the information life and work even when work sometimes included deployments and hectic that is required to compete in the quiz bowl. schedules. GOTDAD is an acronym for Giving Opportunities Through The study guides contain an alphabetical list of people and important places Dedication and Devotion. and events covering everything from Charles Sifford, to Shirley Chisholm Living up to their mission of finding balance in life, GOTDAD members to Zulu Nation, the Tuskegee Airmen and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In believes that keeping families safe is a priority and provides antiaddition, contestants are tested on military ranks of the U.S. Army, government, abduction and rape prevention classes to women and children. business and economic terms and definitions. The older contestants are The name of the program is called Flight or Fight. responsible for knowing similar information but at a more advanced level as Find out more at www. well as African American college life information like the names of different STEPHANIE CRIDER, Editor. COMBlackHistory4ever.com or www. fraternities and more. MENTS? Editor@upandcomingotdad.org. Also starting at 9 a.m. is a health fair that is open to the public. There will be gweekly.com Witnessing a Work of Art by SONI MARTIN Contemporary approaches to painting and sculpture are often far removed tactile. A painting can be about contradictions and teeter between something industrial and a delicate sensitivity at the same moment. A painting can be from the traditional approach to reproduce a still life or landscape in paint, to model a portrait in clay. Artists since the early 20th century have explored something you may want to scoop up like ice cream and eat! Robert Bern, an artist from Santa Fe, N. M., is exhibiting a sculpture titled the boundaries of what a painting and sculpture is and the possibilities of ���In America.��� Looking up at the 12-foot-tall table, one can see the tabletop what they can become. The exhibit, Contemporary Ideas in Art at Rosenthal Gallery, on the campus has a trap door that has fallen open. The words cut into the sides of the edges of the tabletop indicate a hopeful futility for many who try to break of Fayetteville State University, is an opportunity for visitors to see the range through the glass ceiling. The text reads: ���In America the doorway to sucof what artists are investigating as worthy of a painting and sculpture. It is an cess is within reach for those who work hard opportunity for visitors to the gallery to experiand believe���. ence the pleasure of witnessing and understandAnother exceptional local artist, Marcela ing new approaches to art. Casals, is exhibiting three sculptures. The Liselott Johnsson, an artist from Madison, Ga., most popular seems to be her dramatic is exhibiting a painting titled ���It is Not Dead, Just 12-foot-tall sculpture suspended from the Stunned.��� The size of the painting, an installaceiling; as if floating, the weight and beauty tion, is 12 feet by 13 feet; the work demands atof chiffon material exude through hollow cetention and reflection from visitors to the gallery. ramic tubes. White on white, gravity and maIn the work, the artist has stacked, on the floor, a terial give way to what is expressed in the title large number of abstract geometric paintings ��� ���Gift��� (Earth Bones Series). each different, precise, hard edged. Johnsson���s Other artists in the exhibit include painter work exemplifies the dramatic shifts in meaning, Contemporary Ideas in Art is on display through Feb. 27 at James Biederman from New York City, phowhich have taken place in the last 60 years in the Fayetteville State University���s Rosenthal Gallery. tographer Jeff Brown from Upper Darby, Pa., medium of painting. painter Dana Pasila from Provincetown, Mass., To understand one of the many new direcand Diane Wiencke from Peaks Island, Maine. tions of painting, Johnsson���s artist statement directs us towards her intent: Until the closing of the exhibit on Feb. 27, visitors to Rosenthal Gallery will ���Intrigued by the formal boundaries of painting as they relate to objects and have the opportunity to explore the complexities of contemporary architecture, I use materials, space, color and geometry to study the qualities art, experience a new full range of meanings and ways of exof these limits ��� By integrating painting with architectural space; I negate a pressing meaning being explored fixed view of the work.��� SONI MARTIN, Contributing Writer. by the artists in Contemporary The paintings by local artist Aaron Wallace are created by applying spray COMMENTS? editor@upandcominIdeas in Art. For information insulation foam on canvas before he applies his layers of paint. Visitors call Dwight Smith at 672-1795. gweekly.com may be stunned into sensing a painting can be gooey and puffy, playful and 16 UCW FEBRUARY 20-26, 2013 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM