May 2013 - Clatsop Community College

The Bandit
Volume 9 Issue 5
May 2013
Your Student Publication
Earth Day: the earth needs your help
CHRISTOPHER PARTIN
REPORTER
When I first set out to write about
the Earth Day discussion that took
place at Clatsop Community College, I was expecting to pen about
the speakers, their presentations, and
the audience. I was planning on having a rather usual piece on who, what,
where, when, and why. But then
something changed. When I looked
around the room that day, seeing only
a handful of people attending such an
important event, I knew what I had to
say.
We must have a better turnout
next year. We must.
We must have a
greater number of
people interested in,
if not volunteering,
then at least learning
and educating themselves about the environment. We must,
as a collective, do
what we can to get
as many students and
faculty attending.
We must. We
must. We must.
Why? Well, not
to sound like an environmentalist hippy
or anything, but we
kind of only have
one planet, at least
Photos by
Katie Schaumburg
(Top Photo)
CCC trees
planted by
volunteers.
(Left Photo)
Earth Day
volunteer
planting tree
on CCC main
campus.
that I’m aware of, and so far we’ve
done a real fine job of showing it.
Many people believe individuals cannot affect
af
anything, but those are the
only people who ever do in the first
place.
Often people will get angry when
others try to sweep problems under
the rug, and yet here we are, generation after generation after generation,
each promising a new frontier of energy resources, an ending to our bar-
baric dependency on oil, and yet nothing ever changes. Nixon promised it.
Ford promised it. Both Bushs promised it. Obama recently promised it.
I’m still waiting.
I don’t want to wait forever. I don’t
want to be an old man, glancing back
at the promising days of my childhood, and glancing forward to the end
of days, seeing not only a world that’s
largely worse than it was before, but a
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Chinook power board unveiled AN
AUGUST FRAME
REPORTER
This spring, change is in the air
as April showers bring May flowers. That’s not all that’s happening as
Clatsop has a new piece of significant
artwork on display. With twenty-eight
people in attendance, the crunch of
crackers and meringues filled the upper Columbia seating area as an old
but new piece of cultural art was unveiled.
“Shwiqhiq Pi Mun” (Frog and
Moon) is a power board made of red
and yellow cedar created by Greg
Robinson. Power boards were originally leaned against longhouses of
tribes, such as Robinson’s own Chinookan tribe, to show a gesture of
welcoming, a kind and welcome display showing an expression of family
identity and spiritual protection. For
students coming in on the upper Columbia Hall floor, the board is adjacent to the stairs and visible from the
café dining seating. It was on display
as a part of the Clatsop Community
College exhibit last spring entitled
Pacific Rim Art: Emergence from
Place—Neo Traditional Indigenous
Art.
A member of the CCC Board of
Directors was kind enough to donate
the plaque found below, carrying the
description of the board from the artist himself: “Long ago the moon was
controlled by Frog, who kept the moon
in his mouth. The panel shows frog at
the top, with moon in his mouth, and
the human form of the moon below,
with lightening (sic) snakes along the
sides.”
Thirty-four community members
who saw the art a year ago felt the
piece belonged at Clatsop Community College and helped raise enough
money to purchase Robinson’s work
as a way for the college to honor the
Chinook Nation that included the
Clatsop Tribe.
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They were some of
the earliest inhabitants of the Lower
Columbia Basin and still maintain a
tribal presence here with a local tribal
office in Bay Center, Washington.
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INSIDE
LOOK...
History Lesson:
A reporter looks at colonists
and Native Americans
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Tribute To Ebert:
Well-known film critic
works to the very end
PAGE 4
Reenactment
Reen
eenactment:
One-woman performance
captures spirit of reform
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Tr
Transitioning
:
Photos by Patricia Warren
(Top Photo)
CCC’s President Larry Galizio
unveiling the Chinook
power board.
(Right Photo)
Closeup of the Chinook power
board on display.
Film and diversity panel
discuss transgender issues
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The
he A
Arts:
Crane Crow ceramic
exhibition at CCC gallery
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EARTH DAY
world that still doesn’t care, still
doesn’t get it. Take Kurt Vonnegut, who spent most of his life
making jokes about depression,
but after the Iraq war finally
spun into a real, visceral depression. “Dear future generations:
Please accept our apologies. We
were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
It’s true, the Earth Day
Celebration was pretty melancholy. Hearing about the dying sea turtles, the endangered
birds, the plastics strewn about
the ocean in seemingly infinite
gyres (might as well be infinite
for what our technology can do,
which is doodley squat), about
how the best way to fix most
of our problems is to just stop
reproducing, isn’t the biggest
pick-me-up.
But the most depressing
thing of all was just how few
people showed up at all, how
little people cared.
Mark Ward, the founder of
the Seaside based organization
“Sea Turtles Forever,” was adamant and clearly aggravated by
the lack of a turnout.
Michael Bunch was disappointed, even going as far as
to say that teachers should go
one day without class in order
to participate in something as
imperative as the health of our
only planet.
Mark Ward told me that
Cannon Beach, such a small
town, has twelve days of Earth
Day, where each day they do
something different for the environment and local ecosystems.
Twelve days, and yet we
can’t even pull off one day
without embarrassing results?
It’s maddening.
So instead of beating ourselves up, let’s prepare for next
year. What can we do now?
What can we do for the future?
Well, first of all, you can volunteer, donate, or at least educate
yourself.
Mark Ward’s “Sea Turtles
Forever” has a wonderful website,
www.seaturtlesforever.
com, and getting a hold of Sharnelle Fee, Executive Director
of the “Wildlife Center of the
North Coast,” is as simple as
picking up the phone or going
to their website, www.coastwildlife.org.
You can help prepare next
year’s celebration, or at least
show up. Sit in a chair, have
some free popcorn, listen for a
couple of hours.
As a teacher, you can bring
your class in, or if you don’t
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have class during that time, you
can at least offer extra credit to
those students who do attend. You can not only do the usual
three R’s (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle), but you can add a fourth R,
as per request from Mark Ward:
Refuse. Do your part in reducing
the amount of plastics that end
up in the foraging of marine life.
Most of all, you can care, if
only a little bit.
Of course there was some
good that came out of it. Each
speaker was wonderful, entertaining, and informative, and
they deserve a round of applause
for their moral work and determination.
The students who did show
up were courteous, listened,
asked questions, and genuinely
Photos by Katie Schaumburg
(Top Photo) California Brown Pelican.
(Above Left Photo) Executive Director Sharnelle Fee
of the Wildlife Center of the North Coast.
(Above Right Photo) A California Brown Pelican
brought in for needed care.
(Right Photo) A Common Murre receiving care
at the wildlife center.
wanted to be a part of the cause,
many of whom signed up on the
volunteer sheets.
The birds that were brought
in by Sharnelle Fee—a gorgeous
California Brown Pelican, two
Common Murres, and a North-
ern Fulmar—were delightful
and wonderful to watch. Our very own Pat Keefe and
Michael Bunch both gave fantastic talks on the horrors of our
Earth, but also what we can do
to help it. The entire thing, from
the PowerPoint presentations,
to the showing of the birds, to
the planting of the tree, was set
up beautifully.
Gina Bowen and everyone else involved did a great
job preparing the first Earth
Day celebration Clatsop Community College has had. And
although there was such a low
attendance, the audience that
did show up was great. The tree
See EARTH DAY on
page 3
The Bandit Asks
“The Bandit” asks, “What are your plans for Mother’s Day?”
Elias Blum
Marilisa Peña
Eric McMillan
Makayla Watson
“I’m going to pamper my mother
like the queen she acts like.”
“I don’t really have a plan for Mother’s
Day. It depends on if she’s home. We
might go out to dinner.”
“Probably taking my mom out to
dinner or something.”
“Going to the Saturday Market with
my grandma, who is like my mom.
I’ll probably tell her good things.”
student news
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Colonists and Native Americans and what went wrong
CODY OSBURNE
REPORTER
Generally, when someone
thinks of how land was obtained
by early English settlers, they
think of English settlers offering
something trivial to the natives
through which they’d obtain a
large sum of land. However, the
relation between the two groups
of people was quite beneficial in
the beginning until things went
sour. It all begins with the Virginia colony.
When the first English settlers arrived at Virginia in 1607,
their intentions were to make it
rich from mining gold and other
rare minerals. This meant most
of the colonists of Jamestown
were either jewelers or goldsmiths. Since the settlers’ first
priority was quick wealth, they
neglected creating a source of
food. No one wanted to do the
petty work such as farming. The
food supply was so scarce that
half of the initial colonists died
during the first year.
Around this time, the captain of Jamestown John Smith
was making relations with the
natives’ chief Powhatan. Smith
gathered enough information
about the surrounding tribes to
begin trade. With more tribes
trading with the colonists, conflicts often occurred over hunting territory. The colonists
created a lot of issues for the
natives. They’d often fence
off their land, making the areas inaccessible. Additionally,
livestock was allowed to roam
freely which resulted in the natives’ crops being trampled and
grazed. This was still considered
a time of peace. Unfortunately,
Smith was injured in a gunpowder explosion, so he was quickly
sailed back to England for medi-
cal attention. Smith was the only
tether of this relationship, and
when he left, things finally went
sour.
When Smith left the colony,
the colonists began stealing food
and massacring the natives. The
colonists became so desperate
for food that Powhatan’s daughter Pocahontas was kidnapped
and ransomed. However, Pocahontas adopted Christianity during her time with the English,
and she became the wife of an
Englishman named John Rolfe.
She left for England with her
husband, but during her return trip to Virginia, she fell ill
from disease. Pocahontas met
her demise just before landing
in Jamestown. The marriage of
Pocahontas and John Rolfe did
help relations for a short period
of time, but natives realized the
colonists were there to stay, and
the settlers cared little for respecting the natives’ land and
culture.
By 1618, Jamestown started
the headright system. Anyone
willing to pay for transportation of a laborer or indentured
servant would be offered fifty
acres of land. This was great for
the wealthy. Since indentured
servants were practically slaves
for up to a decade, the landowners now had workers to till their
tobacco plantations. For reference, the first group of African
slaves were brought to Virginia
in 1619. All this cheap land
given away seems like it would
have angered most natives.
In 1622, Powhatan’s brother
Opechancanough led an attack
on Jamestown. The colonist
death toll was three hundred
fifty-seven colonists. After the
massacre in Jamestown, the
English requested supplies from
the empire, and they began
slaughtering the natives with su-
perior weaponry.
When Virginia became a
royal colony in 1644, the remaining two thousand natives
were forced to sign a treaty allowing them to live in reservations west of Virginia.
Now a lot of you may be
thinking, “What about the Mayflower and the Pilgrims who
landed in Massachusetts? Didn’t
they have Thanksgiving; then,
all was well and dandy?” Well, it’s practically the same relationship that the Virginia colony
had with Powhatan’s tribe. The
difference is the Pilgrims were
seeking religious freedom, so
their perspective of the natives
were heathens and savages.
Pilgrims were initially grateful for the natives since they’d
have starved to death right off
the boat. With such hospitality,
the natives brought food to the
Pilgrims. Whether or not this
was the commonly recognized
first Thanksgiving is debatable.
However, this needs emphasis:
the Pilgrims, just like the Virginia colonists, began encroaching on native land. We all know
how this turned out in Virginia.
A group of natives from the
Pequot tribe killed a trader; afterwards, the colonists rallied
soldiers to massacre a Pequot
settlement--one trader compared to five hundred Pequots.
This was practically how most
battles went. The natives did try
to retaliate during Metacom’s
War. The end of the conflict was
the year of 1678. The Massachusetts colonists lost eight percent
of their male settlers while most
of the natives in the region were
shipped to Bermuda as slaves.
Other survivors joined neighboring tribes for refuge.
The natives of the 17th century were good people. Savages
would have watched the Pil-
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grims starve, and it seems like
the colonists didn’t want any
true interaction besides their
charade for trade . If the colonists had lowered their fences
and been a little more welcoming, the outcome of this relationship may have been different.
It’s important not to leave
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Sources:
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watch?v=TTYOQ05oDOI
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/
timeline/colonial/indians/
Bandit Feature
•••
Dear Aunt Blabby,
What’s up with the
no smoking on campus?
No smoking anywhere.
What do you think?
Signed,
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
Dear Smoke,
As far as I know,
the College Council has
NOT approved the ban
on campus yet. If they do
approve a ban, it still needs
to go before the board
[of directors] to be made official.
If you want to ensure the continued use of tobacco products on campus, I recommend you GET INVOLVED! Go to
the college board meeting and speak your piece. As to my
opinion on the subject, I hate cigarette smoke, but I detest oppressive government regulation even more. I believe people
have a right to make bad choices whether it’s smoking or eating processed food. I do feel that the smoking areas need to be
made in such a way that it protects non-smokers from having
to breathe secondhand smoke, but smoking areas should be
allowed. One thing I would ask smokers to consider, though,
is their butts. It is a lot easier for me to empathize with smokers’ rights when I am not picking up cigarette butts left on the
ground, just a thought.
Dear Aunt Blabby,
My neighbor masturbates in front of his window where
everyone can see. Is it illegal? What can I do to stop him?
Signed,
Front Row Seats
Dear Front Row,
Yes, it is illegal, but it’s tricky. According to the D.A. Statute
Number ORS 163.467 deals with private indecency; however,
the law requires you prove his intent was to arouse himself
or others or to annoy. The key word is intent. You should call
the police, but they might hesitate to do something initially.
Personally, before I did that, I would leave a note for the guy
asking him if he will enjoy “performing” for his cellmates as
much as he does for his neighbors now. Hopefully, that will
help him realize no one wants to see his free matinee.
EARTH DAY
Continued from page 2
we planted, a skinny but tough
Cascara, was beautiful and will
probably outlive me.
All that can be asked from
anyone now that it’s all said and
done is to remember that the
Earth is the only planet we have,
and we can’t expect anyone else
to fix the ever-rising problems
on it.
We are the ones who have to
do it, and it starts by education;
it starts by attending a two-hour
presentation. It starts by spreading your ideas, and it starts by
caring.
That’s all that I ask of you.
To do what you can to make
Earth Day here on campus a
real thing for the community
of Clatsop County. Because the
animals need it, our Earth needs
it, we need it.
And maybe together, we
can do something to change the
world, even if it’s just one step
at a time.
Remember next Earth Day:
April 22, 2014
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COMMUNITY NOTES
Remembering Roger Ebert
CHRISTOPHER PARTIN
REPORTER
“I know it is coming, and I
do not fear it, because I believe
there is nothing on the other
side of death to fear. I hope to
be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I
was perfectly content before I
was born, and I think of death
as the same state. I am grateful
for the gifts of intelligence, love,
wonder and laughter. You can’t
say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have
brought home from the trip. I
will require them for eternity, no
more than that little souvenir of
the Eiffel Tower I brought home
from Paris.”
(Roger Ebert, Life Itself: A Memoir)
One can’t help but envy
Roger Ebert’s view of the necropotent void, of death. To say
you’ve faced it once and aren’t
afraid is the definition of courage. After he was diagnosed
with thyroid cancer in 2002,
after it ate away his voice, his
ability to eat, and most of his
lower jaw, it would have been
easy, understandable even, for
him to give up. Yet he didn’t.
Instead he focused even more
on his writing and became a
stronger wordsmith because of
it. After he had seemingly taken
to the devastating changes to
his life so easily, almost without
skipping a beat, it was hard to
imagine cancer taking anything
else, that Ebert might actually
conquer the dreadnought so
very few have. And for a while
he did. The cancer had retreated
as if it had realized it was wrestling with a literary giant who
just wouldn’t give up, as if it had
realized that the Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist was bigger
than life itself, as if it had realized that if it messed with Ebert, it would have messed with
all of us. He was too strong to
touch, a hero of film advocates
and literary enthusiasts alike.
The Bogeyman had finally met
its match. Or so I thought. So we
all thought. On April 4, 2013,
merely days before I write this,
the beloved film critic, who was
as well known for his epic pans
and hatred for some movies as
he was for his awe-inspiring adoration for others, passed away.
Although his death was sad, in
some ways soul crushing, it also
paved way for something beautiful.
The truth is, I am afraid of
death. Maybe not the axe-murderer is going to get me kind of
afraid, but of a different
dif
kind,
one of incomprehension and lack
of understanding that browbeats
us all into submission. Trying
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to
understand what “And then you
die, and then nothing,” means is
like trying to understand what it
would be like to be a caterpillar,
to be a living, breathing star, to
be a tree devoid of water in the
annihilating sun, your leaves
wilting away and your whole
being slowly shriveling into
nonexistence. How can one be
and then suddenly not be? Ebert
didn’t seem to have anymore answers than the rest of us, yet he
was able to say,
say with a straight
face even, that he had no fear,
that there wasn’t anything to be
scared of after all. Maybe there’s
DID trust him. He changed the
face of movie reviews, of the
way people looked at the way
movies could be reviewed. He
was a decent person in a world
void of so many. He was an author to a memoir and multiple
collections of his reviews and
essays.
He loved film. It didn’t always seem like it, though, especially when he bolstered his
inner critic and threw movies to
the butcher with his striking wit
and merciless tongue. Take,
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for
example, his infamous pan of
the high grossing film “Armageddon”:
“The movie is an assault
on the eyes, the ears, the brain,
common sense and the human
desire to be entertained. No matter what they’re charging to get
in, it’s worth more to get out.”
are actually made for nobody in
particular. Movies about specifspecif
ic characters in a detailed world
are spellbinding because they
make no attempt to cater to us;
they are defiantly,
defiantly triumphantly,
themselves. As I watched the
film again, I was spellbound as
much as by any film I consider
great.”
He battled cancer, even became one of the biggest workhorses in journalism in spite of
it. In 2005, he was the first critic
to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk
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of Fame. He cared
about your paycheck and finding
movies worth the ever increasing price. He would have rather
been proven wrong and forced
to praise a previously loathed
actor, than continue berating
that actor’s future work. (Referring to an incident with Rob
out with a statement shortly afaf
ter his death. “We were getting
ready to go home today for hospice care, when he looked at us,
smiled, and passed away. No
struggle, no pain, just a quiet,
dignified transition.” To me, that
doesn’t sound like the thrashing
of a man in the wake of the inexorable tide. It sounds like he
saw it coming and embraced it
with open arms. Was
W it a horrible thing? Yes, in a way it was,
but it was also beautiful, almost
as if it was scripted in one of the
very movies he himself loved,
or hated, depending on the many
variables of execution, on his
own objectivity.
He will be dearly missed.
The only thing we can do now is
make sure his death doesn’t go
in vain. Follow his example and
do your best until the very end.
something to that.
I think the way to conquer
death is not to become invincible, either literally or metaphorically, but to instead ask yourself every moment of every day,
day
“If I suddenly died right now,
now
if some horrific groundbreaker
came through the wall and blew
me to pieces, and was given the
opportunity to look back on this
moment and all moments before
it, would I be happy with how
I spent them?” I’m sure it’s impossible to say,
say “Yes,
“Y I am happy with how I spent every moment of my life, thank you very
much,” but striving for it is the
one thing we can do.
In 1975, Roger Ebert was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
Criticism, and he was the first
film critic to win the award.
He was a television icon along
with Gene Siskel in the review
show aptly named “Siskel &
Ebert.” He has written countless reviews, stories, articles,
essays on film and on life. When
he died, Barrack Obama, the
President of the United States,
made a statement, where he
said, “Roger was the movies.” If
there is a greater sentence to describe Ebert’s dedication, I don’t
know it.
Ebert was prolific, brilliant,
outspoken, honest. He didn’t
lead you astray or pamper blockbuster films simply because it
was the status quo to do so. People could trust him and people
Or his dissatisfaction of
the “mystery” behind M. Night
Shyamalan’s “The Village”:
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“To call it an anticlimax
would be an insult not only to
climaxes but to prefixes. It’s a
crummy secret, about one step
up the ladder of narrative originality from It Was
W All a Dream.
It’s so witless, in fact, that when
we do discover the secret, we
want to rewind the film so we
don’t know the secret anymore.
And then keep on rewinding,
and rewinding, until we’re back
at the beginning, and can get up
from our seats and walk backward out of the theater and go
down the up escalator and watch
the money spring from the cash
register into our pockets.”
But he did love film. Although possibly more known
for the above and many,
many many
other zingers against the dredge
in Hollywood, he also showed,
on countless occasions, why he
became a movie critic instead of
any other kind of journalist. The
following is an excerpt from his
review on Hayou Miyazaki’s
brilliant film, “Spirited Away,”
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during which he showed an
unwavering, almost childlike,
wonder of the film, the animation, the genius behind the creation:
“Miyazaki says he made the
film specifically for ten-yearold girls. That is why it plays
so powerfully for adult viewers.
Movies made for ‘everybody’
Schneider, he had said, “Sometimes when I write a negative
review, people will say,
say ‘I’ll
bet you can’t wait to hammer
his next film.’ Not true. I would
far rather praise the next film to
show that I maintained an open
mind.”) He was active with the
community—blogging, tweeting, keeping himself up to date.
After his diagnoses with potential terminus, he rumbled along
on his blog, asking himself and
others about the meaning of life,
of what happens after death, before life, what lies beyond the
universe, what preluded the Big
Bang, and what or who he is,
anyway.
And through it all, it’s easy
to nod your head in recognition.
If he was given the opportunity
to look back at his life, if he’s
doing that right now—looking
down as some spiritual incantation from the cosmos—I find
it hard to believe he wouldn’t
be satisfied with what he’s accomplished. He had plans for
the future, of course he did. I
feel like most of us will until the
very end, but life is a very finite
resource, and it doesn’t go on
forever no matter how much we
keep pushing on. I believe that if
he wasn’t ready to go, he was at
least willing, and the last stand
against a treacherous cancer that
was supposed to go down and
stay down, was not an unhappy
one.
His wife, Chaz Ebert came
I leave you with one more quote
by him, from the same essay
from which the epigraph of this
article came, one that I hope we
can all follow through this life
and the next and the next, whatever may come when each of
our stories are finished. Through
it we gain an inkling of what life
is all about. Forget your politics,
your stubbornness. Just remember what matters.
“‘Kindness’ covers all of
my political beliefs. No need to
spell them out. I believe that if,
at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to
make others a little happier, and
something to make ourselves a
little happier, that is about the
best we can do. To make others
less happy is a crime. To make
ourselves unhappy is where all
crime starts. We
W must try to contribute joy to the world. That is
true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We
W must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I
lived long enough to find it out.”
So are we, Roger, so are we.
Goodnight. I’ll see you at the
movies.
“I am grateful for the gifts of intelligence, love, wonder and
laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting.” - Roger Ebert
The May Sky
CODY OSBURNE
REPORTER
With spring bringing
clearer visibility and less
cloud cover, amateur astronomers and other sky-watchers can view some different
constellations in the May
night sky. Here is a brief
sampling along with some
background information.
Virgo (Vir) - Right Ascension: 13.21 hours Declination: -3.73 degrees
Virgo the maiden is the
V
Egyptian goddess of motherhood, magic, and nature.
The goddess’s actual name
was Isis. Well, that’s what
hieroglyphic translators decided for the pronunciation.
Isis was quite a popular goddess to worship. In the past,
the constellation was used as
a sign of harvest. It also has
the second largest amount of
galaxy clusters.
Centaurus (Cen) - Right Ascension: 13.13 hours Declination: -45.96 degrees
This constellation is in
honor of Chiron. His name
translates to “skilled with
hands.” Chiron was a tutor,
healer, and surgeon, and he
also taught many great heroes. This centaur of Greek
mythology gave up his immortality, for he was hit
with a poison arrow coated
with hydra venom. The pain
was unbearable and never
ending with his immortality.
When he died, Hyginus gave
him a place among the stars.
Corvus (Crv) - Right Ascension: 12.47 hours Declination: -13.33 degrees
Apollo requested Corvus
the crow to fetch water for a
sacrifice to Jupiter. During
the crow’s journey, it noticed
Sources for this article
include the following:
Life Itself: A Memoir (Roger Ebert)
CNN.com
The Huffington Post
Salon.com
RogerEbert.com
Centaurus
a fig tree about to ripen. Corvus waited patiently until
the fruit was ready. After the
crow was finished indulging
itself, it retrieved the water
for Apollo, but it brought a
water snake, also known as
a hydra, clutched within its
claws. Corvus blamed the
snake for its delay; however,
Apollo could tell it was lying.
Apollo picked the crow up
and tossed it into the night
sky. The crow now sits next
to a crater of water and a hydra. Now Corvus will spend
all of eternity parched, and
it’ll be just out of reach of
water. This was also the reason why crows kaw instead
of singing like other birds.
source:
http://www.seasky.org/constellations/constellations-may.html
Corvus
student news
Elizabeth Fry
Prison Reform
ELLIOT FOX
REPORTER
A child, no older than five,
sits with her mother in a dirty
cage about the size of a community college classroom. They are
surrounded by other women and
their children who are packed
in tight enough to feel suffocated by the closeness. Scarcely
clothed and covered in their own
feces, these were the prisoners
of London’s Newgate Prison of
the 19th century.
On Thursday, April 11th,
the Clatsop Community College
Arts & Ideas series presented
“A Visit with Elizabeth Fry,” a
one-woman show featuring a
costumed Roena Oesting acting
the role of Elizabeth Fry, 19th
century Quaker and prison reformer. When Oesting donned
her bonnet, she brought the audience alongside on a journey
through the past as she weaved a
tale about a young girl who grew
to become a woman capable of
knocking a cemented way of
life on its rear and changing the
world for the better. Oesting did
a fantastic job in her portrayal of
Elizabeth as she provided her audience with information in a fun
and memorable fashion using
humor and audience inclusion to
captivate and enlighten them on
the horrors of 19th century prisons and one woman who took a
stand against an unjust system
bringing about a change that
extended far beyond what she
could have ever imagined.
Elizabeth Fry’s story began
in her childhood as she explored
the life set before her, dealing with family, illness, young
love, and loss; it was a life not
unlike that of today’s average
teenager. As she grew up, Fry
eventually married, had a plethora of children, and after meeting a strange visiting Quaker
decided to make a fateful visit
to Newgate Prison that would
changer her life. The women’s
cell Fry visited was filled to the
brim with not only females, but
also children. Scarcely clothed,
starved, freezing, and covered in
their excrements, these people
were locked away and often
sentenced to death for the most
trivial things. An example would
be the two seventeen-year-olds
Fry had befriended that
were hanged for merely
forging a five-pound bank
note to buy some food.
Fry later published letters
she received from those
girls in the newspaper to
bring awareness to what
was happening within
the confining walls of the
jail. Even when her family was struggling through
financial devastation and
her children were taken
away by relatives, Fry
continued to work for
prison reform by sending
clothes, creating better
living conditions, starting committees, and even
teaching schools in the
jail for the mothers and
their children who were
uneducated. Eventually
Photo by Elliot Fox
Fry drew enough attention
to what she was doing that
Roena Oesting holds a
Newgate Prison became
representation
of the quilt
something of a tourist atElizabeth Fry received from the
traction; even people from
women prisoners that she
other countries began to
helped after being
catch wind of her associadeported to Australia.
tion for women prisoners
and began to join in on the com- out and give her show to groups
mittees she had jumpstarted. As who are interested in listening
she grew older, Fry branched and spreading the word of prison
her work out and made commit- reform to others willing to listen.
tees for just about everything Her performance usually lasts
that needed attention. From poor about forty-five to fifty minutes
houses to books for soldiers, with another ten to fifteen minthere was a committee for ev- utes of questions and answer
erything. This diligent woman time. The full program is meant
worked and worked; even after for an audience size ranging
bankruptcy and abandonment by from fifty to two hundred fifty
her fellow Quakers, Fry contin- people; however, she does do a
ued to work for her cause until smaller session for children and
she passed away after suffering young teens that runs from five
a stroke in the year 1845.
to fifteen minutes if arranged in
Elizabeth Fry may have advance. The program is free
passed on, but her work is still and can be used as a fundraiser
carried out even now by pres- as long as the recipient organient-day Quakers and others zation is discussed in advance
who believe in her movement and overnight hospitality may be
to reform. Some work in secret, requested. Roena Oesting’s consmuggling necessities to prison- tact information is as follows:
ers who are in need. In doing Roena Oesting
so they risk their own freedom PO. Box 180844
from carrying out these illegal Coronado, CA 92178
deeds. Roena Oesting’s work of 619.522.6893
presenting Elizabeth Fry’s story, And her e-mail is: oesting2@yawhile safer and much more le- hoo.com
gal, is equally as important and Please support Roena Oesthelps spread the word of reform ing and her continuation of
in a positive and entertaining Elizabeth Fry’s work by staying
way.
informed and spreading the word
Oesting has been perform- of prison reform to anyone who
ing as Elizabeth Fry for three will listen.
years now and is willing to go
May 2013 | The Bandit 5
ASG Notes
TREVOR JACOBSON
ASG President
Associated Student Government would like to welcome
you all back to CCC for spring
term. It’s the ending stretch before graduation or to summer,
and ASG has a few events that
are planned before the year adjourns.
We have a new member for
the remainder of the year: Anna
Teadtke, who will be working as
our Activities Director. I am excited to see her fill the position
and look forward to having a
few decent events before the end
of the year.
On May 2, 2013, ASG, the
Latino Club, and the ROV Club
held the annual Cinco de Mayo
event. Students were offered
food, a raffle, and the history of
Cinco de Mayo in the Café of
Columbia Hall. Students were
also able to vote for CCC’s Unsung Hero, Instructor of the
year, and Student of the year. We
will tally up the votes and announce them on a future date.
Anna Teadtke has been organizing an event where ASG
and volunteers will take flowers
to local retirement communities. One of our core goals in our
vision statement is to have more
community involvement. This is
obviously difficult with such a
small staff, but I hope our small
act of goodwill helps to brighten
a few days.
Uncertain and Tentative
spring term plans include a
Student Forum, a Student Survey, and an end of the year celebration. We will post flyers and
posters and update our electronic slideshow to reflect these
future events.
We look forward to helping
you in any way, shape, or form
for spring term. Feel free to stop
by our office in Columbia 109,
and we’ll do our best to answer
any comments, questions, or
concerns you might have.
CCC Presents Annual
Art Student Show
by Patricia Warren
The 2013 CCC Art Student Show will be on display at the
CCC Art Center Gallery from Thursday, May 16th to Friday,
June 7th. An opening reception for the student artists is scheduled for Thursday, May 16th at 6:00 p.m. in the Art Center Gallery (located at 1799 Lexington Ave. in Astoria, OR). During the
reception, cash prizes and award winners will be announced.
The CCC Art Student Show is an annual juried event. Art
students are invited to submit work created in the studio art
classes in which they have been enrolled during the past year
(up to three pieces from each). The show will feature a range of
disciplines taught at CCC, including graphic arts, basic design,
drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, photography and printmaking.
This year’s juror is Michael Foster, a long-time art collector
affectionately known as “Mr. Astoria” and “godfather of Astoria art” as described by local photographer and writer Dwight
Caswell. Retired from Astoria High School, where he taught
and served as librarian for many years, Foster has also been involved with countless cultural causes throughout the years. He
has served on many boards, such as the Astoria Concert Association Board, the International School of Kabul (Afghanistan),
the Oregon Arts Commission (he was the first from Astoria to
serve), and the Columbia River Girl Scouts, among others. He
was Director of the CCC Foundation, and he has also served as
president of many community organizations, such as the Clatsop County Historical Society, Astoria Rotary Club, and the
Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Foster will be present at the reception to give a juror’s
talk. The show is free and open to the public, and the gallery is
ADA accessible.
Please direct inquiries to: Kristin Shauck, 503-338-2472.
Transitioning to being knowledgeable
about transitioning
AUGUST FRAME
REPORTER
Mid April, Clatsop Community College, national nonprofit
PFLAG (Parents, Families, and
Friends of Lesbians and Gays),
and the Lower Columbia Diversity Project sponsored a few
events designed to share information and answer questions
about transgender issues.
Gender is a complex combination of roles, expressions,
identities, performances, and
more which are assigned gendered meaning.
Gender is self-defined as
well as defined by our larger
society, but how gender is embodied and defined varies from
culture to culture and from person to person.
The path of transitioning
between the sexes of male and
female can be a difficult one.
A campus viewing of the
documentary film “Southern
Comfort,” a 2001 film about
Robert, a female to male transgender (FTM), was shown
twice, on April 16th and 17th. The film runs approximately
ninety minutes and is available
on Hulu to stream as well as on
DVD from Netflix.
An open discussion followed each screening where
any question could be asked to a
panel about the topic of gender
identity.
Panelists shared their personal and professional experiences about the many areas of
concern that impact transgender
individuals, their friends, and
their families.
In the documentary, filmmaker Kate Davis follows Robert during what turns out to be
his last year of life.
Robert was born a woman,
gave birth to two sons, and lived
the life of a lesbian until beginning gender transition at age
thirty-five.
The cancer was quite advanced when he began seeking
medical help, and after being
turned away by two dozen doc-
tors, he finally found some treatment, but it was too late.
Medical care is difficult to
obtain for people in the transgender community--sometimes
worse for females-to-males.
This story of being stigmatized in numerous ways is a
common theme here. His goal is
to live long enough to attend the
Southern Comfort Conference
in Atlanta--“the cotillion of the
trans community,” Robert says. His friends rally around him
and provide support as his life
slowly slips away. It’s a compelling story, to be sure; most
fiction could never come this
close.
Unfortunately, their situations are interesting, but the
characters themselves are rather
ordinary, saved primarily by the
moving story that is Robert’s
dying year and “the prom that
never was.”
For those who may not have
attended these events, transgender is an umbrella term for
people whose gender identity
or expression doesn’t match the
gender they were assigned at
birth.
A more common term for
those who undergo FTM or
MTF transitions is transsexual:
this term often refers to binary
trans people (trans men and
trans women) or to trans people
who physically transition in any
way.
While still a preferred term
for many, some people dislike
the term because of its connection to the medicalization of
trans people and the focus it can
put on physical transition.
Many people are ignorant
to just how diverse even a small
area like the Lower Columbia
region can be, and they are surprised and occasionally resistant
to ideas within that concept.
They believe in something
called the gender binary, where
there are cisgender men and
women (masculine men and
feminine women) and nothing
else outside those two categories exists.
The loss of the innocence
about gender identities can be
an extremely beneficial and useful.
For those looking to go out
into the world and work, it is inevitable that you will work with
or around someone of this nontraditional, but no less fantastic,
gender identity.
Clatsop Community College’s own board member Jim
Scheller sports a smile as she
embraces herself as an open
member of the transsexual community.
The mission of these events
by Lower Columbia Diversity
Project (LCDP) and supporting institutions such as Clatsop Community College and
PFLAG is to engage pro-actively with diversity issues in
the region, educate the community on the benefits of diversity, tolerance, and inclusion, and
provide a forum through which
individuals, groups, and organizations may address concerns
relating to diversity in the community.
6 The Bandit | May 2013
student news
Carlos Fuentes, escritor
mexicano y del mundo
PATI MORRISSEY
COLUMNIST
Carlos
Fuentes,
escritor mexicano y del mundo
En mayo de este año se cumple
el primer aniversario de la
muerte del gran escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes. Fuentes nació en Panamá el 11 de
noviembre de 1928 y falleció
en la Ciudad de México el 15
de mayo del 2012. Ya que su
padre era diplomático, Fuentes vivió en Washington D.C.,
Quito, Montevideo, Santiago
de Chile y Rio de Janeiro. A los
16 años regresó a México para
terminar sus estudios y eventualmente graduarse de abogado
en la Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México. Fuentes
fue también economista habié-
ndose graduado de un instituto
suizo. En 1975, aceptó ser embajador en Francia. Durante su
estadía como embajador, Carlos
Fuentes comenzó a desarrollar
sus ideas políticas y llegó a ofrecerles asilo a los refugiados
latinoamericanos que se vieron
obligados a salir de sus países
a causa de dictaduras militares.
En el área de la literatura, Carlos Fuentes es un gigante. Al
igual que Mario Vargas Llosa
(Perú), Gabriel García Márquez
(Colombia), José Lezama Lima
(Cuba), Jorge Amado (Brasil)
y otros reconocidos escritores,
Fuentes popularizó la literatura
latinoamericana y es considerado uno de los grandes escritores
del BOOM latinoamericano.
Su primera novela, La región
más transparente, describe la
realidad urbana de la Ciudad de
México y fue publicada en 1958
cuando Fuentes tenía 29 años.
La muerte de Artemio Cruz,
considerada una de sus mejores novelas, fue publicada en
1962. El protagonista, Artemio
Cruz, reevalúa su vida desde
su lecho de muerte. Esta novela abarca desde los años de la
Revolución Mexicana hasta los
años cincuenta. El libro Gringo
viejo, publicado en 1985, se
trata de la aventura del periodista americano Ambrose Bierce
quien decidió viajar a México
durante la revolución y desapareció sin dejar rastro alguno.
Carlos Fuentes también escribió excelentes cuentos cortos. La colección Chac Mool y
otros cuentos relata episodios
fantásticos en donde se mezcla la realidad y el mundo de
la fantasía y su colección de
cuentos, La frontera de cristal,
analiza la relación entre la fron-
tera de los EEUU y México.
Aparte de dedicar su vida a la
literatura, Carlos Fuentes fue un
cinéfilo. Escribió guiones para
películas basadas en sus propios cuentos y también adaptó
obras latinoamericanas, tales
como Pedro Páramo, basada
en el libro del mismo nombre
de Juan Rulfo. Su contribución
a guiones de habla hispana es
considerable. En 1992, Fuentes
escribió el libro The Buried Mirror. Esta obra fue escrita en inglés y presentada en una serie de
televisión. En este libro, Fuentes
analiza la relación entre España
y América Latina después de
medio siglo de colonización.
Es imposible mencionar todos los premios nacionales
(México) e internacionales que
ha recibido este escritor. Entre
los más importantes destacan
el Premio Rómulo Gallegos
(México), El Premio Nacional
de Literatura (México), el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las
Letras y el Premio Miguel de
Cervantes (España) y el Premio
Galileo (Italia). Carlos Fuentes
también ha sido declarado Doctor Honoris Causa de múltiples
universidades tales como las
universidades de Harvard en
los EEUU y Cambridge en Inglaterra. Aunque fue propuesto
varias veces para el Premio Nobel de literatura, nunca lo ganó.
Si no has leído a Carlos Fuentes,
uno de los grandes escritores
latinoamericanos, busca sus libros en la biblioteca de CCC
o en la pública. Este es realmente un escritor excepcional.
Lewis
and
micide. Dr. Dave
Clark National
Peck will lead a
Historical Park,
lively discussion
Fort Clatsop is
on the current theopleased to anries of what hapnounce the next
pened that night in
In Their FootTennessee.
steps free speak Dr. Peck is the
er series event. author of “Or PerThis
program
ish in the Attemptis What Killed
The Hardship and
Lewis? Viable
Medicine of the
Theories or FanLewis and Clark
tasy? A Closer Photo courtesy of Lewis & Clark Expedition,” pubLook at the Prelished by Bison
National Historical Park
vailing Ideas in
Books/University
2013 presented Author Dr. Dave Peck of Nebraska Press
will present current
by David Peck,
in 2011. This book
D.O. on Sunday, theories of what happened is available for purto Captain Lewis.
May 19th, at
chase at the Lewis
1:00 p.m.
& Clark National
Captain Meriwether Lewis Park Association bookstore in
died in October 1809, just three the visitor center. Dr. Peck will
years after the expedition. Some have a book-signing following
people believe it was suicide, his presentation.
and others argue that it was ho- This monthly Sunday forum
is sponsored by the Lewis &
Clark National Park Association
and the park. These programs are
held in the Netul River Room of
Fort Clatsop’s visitor center and
are free of charge.
For more information, call
the park at (503) 861-2471.
Nothing is foolproof
to a sufficiently
talented fool.
In
Their
Footsteps
What
Killed
Lewis?
Catfish interview
ELLIOT FOX
REPORTER
1) (What exactly is a casting
producer?)
A person that finds people
and books guests for a program. “Casting Director” is a
term used for scripted television, a person who finds individuals who fit the description
for a program. “Casting Producer” is for
unscripted shows like “Catfish.” He or she has to find
the right people for the show.
They often do a lot of research,
searching for areas where they
can find people. They do do an
outreach program, but lots of
people write in.
2) (How much of “Catfish”
is scripted?)
“Catfish” is more of a documentary (docu) series, so it is
all authentic, documenting the
experience.
3)(Are these people even
real?)
Yes, someone writes in to
the show to get in touch with
me; then if we like their story,
we give them a call (we read
every e-mail) to hear about the
situation. We always look to
see if the stories of their possible “catfish’s” story lines
up to see if the other person
might not be real and help get
to the bottom of it. The process involves a background
check and a psych evaluation
(psychologist meets with applicant). Then if they want it
on the show they put e-mail
in Nev and Max’s e-mail. Nev
and Max don’t know where
they’re going till they read the
e-mail. Filming takes place
over a period of a week, and
the show confronts the catfish. (Sometimes the catfish
contacts them for help as an
opportunity to end that way of
life). Everyone works to help
preserve relationships and to
be as helpful and supportive
as possible.
4) If e-mail is put in Nev and
Max’s e-mail, they will be on
the show.
5) Once
individuals
sign,
(there’s some paperwork-standard) they don’t get any
say in the way the episode is
cut. Guests on the show generally don’t have a problem with
what is shown: almost everyone says it’s been one of the
best experiences of their life.
Even catfish usually become
something great; for example,
Chelsea fights bullying and
Matt becomes a role model.
6) Like anyone, we can all
get frustrated. On the whole,
though, everyone has cooperated, saying, “Hey, that wasn’t
that bad”--after it’s all over.
7) If someone is on our show,
we cover every applicant that
is on the show. Their expenses
are completely paid for. They
receive a stipend, and we provide them money for any work
they missed to be on the show.
8) We encourage people to
apply for the show. Everything
remains confidential until they
have signed forms and are on
the show. The application process takes a number of weeks
to go through.
9) “Catfish” only helps people who actually appear on the
show. It’s “show based.”
10) We recommend that people interested in applying go
to the website www.mtv.catfishcasting.com.
11) Applicants should definitely fill it out the form including a description in a
couple of paragraphs about
how they feel for example-passionate. Provide a way for
us to contact you. An option is
to include pictures (put a face
to the name).
Information for this article
came from Mark Pommerville and the website http://www.
katiecouric.com/features/
why-are-online-dating-hoaxers-called-catfish/.
For more information you
can contact: Attn. Mark Pommerville, Hollywood Center
Studios, Longpond Media,
1040 North Las Palmas Ave.,
Building 24, Los Angeles, CA
90038
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Headlines for fun College Announces 2013
All-Oregon Academic
Team Scholars
Courtesy of
Mamie Lee Wood
by Patricia Warren
Clatsop Community College students Jennifer Challis
and Thomas Stewart have been
selected as the CCC 2013 All0regon Academic Team Scholars. Academic Team Scholars
are selected annually from each
community college in Oregon
based on excellence in the classroom, intellectual curiosity,
service to the college and community, and their ability to share
their talents with others.
Ms. Challis is a resident of
Long Beach, Washington. She
started attending CCC when she
was 16, and earned her first associate’s degree at 18, graduating
with High Honors. She is currently working toward a second
associate’s degree with the intention of transferring to a technical
school and pursuing a bachelor’s
degree in engineering with a focus in renewable energy.
Mr. Stewart is an Astoria
resident, originally from Austin, Texas. He is a USCG Active
Duty Veteran who participated in
search and rescue missions and
law enforcement operation on
the Columbia River Bar. Following active duty, he began his college education at CCC pursuing
an Associate of General Studies
degree in order to begin a career
in allied health.
Both students will be hon-
Photos courtesy of CCC
CCC students
Jennifer Challis and Thomas Stewart
selected as the
2013 All-Oregon Academic Team Scholars.
Stewart was selected to give a speech at the reception in
Salem where Team Scholars met Govenor Kitzhaber.
ored with a trip to Salem in April
where they will attend a brunch
with other All-Oregon Academic Team Scholars, and meet
Governor John Kitzhaber, who
will present the scholars with
medallions recognizing their
achievements. The students will
be accompanied by CCC President Lawrence Galizio.
All-Oregon Academic Team
Scholars receive a $1,000 Oregon transfer scholarship, and
are also nominated for national
recognition as a member of
the “All-USA Today Academic Team” and the “Coca-Cola
Community College Academic
Team.”
CCC Math Instructor Liz
Hylton coordinates the All-Oregon Academic Team selection
process, which is sponsored by
the Oregon Community College
Association. Please direct inquiries to: Liz Hylton, 503-3382507; lhylton@clatsopcc.edu.
North Coast
Printmakers
Collective
Art Gallery
Show at CCC
The North Coast Printmakers Collective is pleased to announce their
first gallery show in Astoria, Oregon
at the Clatsop Community College Art
Center. The show opens June 13th and
runs through July 11th. The opening
reception is planned for the evening of
June 13th at 6:00 p.m. in the Art Gallery at 1799 Lexington Ave., Astoria.
It will be a “must see” for art lovers and collectors, and an opportunity
to enjoy the diverse and fascinating
world of fine art printmaking.
The college gallery will open to the
public for this exhibit Monday –Thursday 9-5 p.m. through July 11th. All art
work is available for purchase.
The talented print makers of this
show have expressed their artistic passion using a variety of printing techniques including monoprint, etching,
woodblock, linocut and mixed media
printing. There will be a brief presentation explaining the fundamentals of
each printing method and an opportunity to meet the artists. Music will be
provided and light refreshments will be
served.
Contact: Kirsten Horning, Clatsop
Community College liaison and
Committee coordinator @ khorning@
clatsopcc.edu.
Light travels
faster than sound.
This is why some
people appear
bright until you
hear them speak.
The Arts
Crane Crow: A shared heritage
8 The Bandit | May 2013
SHAUNA COBB
REPORTER
Photos by Shauna Cobb
Clatsop Community Art
Gallery held the opening reception for the Crane Crow Exhibit on April 4th during early
evening hours which featured
a marvelous collaboration of
magnificent art in the form of
ceramics, paintings, and collages from both Grace Sanchez and
Terry Inokuma.
In the words of exhibit curator Richard Rowland, “For this
exhibition I purposely invited
two artists who demonstrate a
sense of commitment, experience, and selected memory that
comes from landscape and environment which is interpreted
from cultural mining and personal, intimate relationships that
are worlds apart.”
The evening began slowly
with a fair amount of visitors
who enjoyed visiting with both
the artists as they graciously
worked the room. Then came a
steady stream of guests over the
next hour which clearly, filled
the entire art gallery.
Both women come from
very different backgrounds: Inokuma is of direct Japanese descent while Sanchez grew up in
South Arkansas, yet her mother
was Japanese. They both found
a unique way to unite their past
experiences together through
their individual artistic talents.
Sanchez
and
Inokuma
seemed to make an amazing
team together and were clearly
passionate about their healing
abilities in a variety of ways
right down to the tasty buffet
style of appetizer foods from
both cultures. Most of us can relate to the healing power of food
and comfort this brings.
It seemed they put a great
deal of thought into their presentation which was adequately delivered throughout the evening.
This created a very warm and
inviting atmosphere for the visitors to truly enjoy themselves. We took a journey through
their past experiences that included cultural foods, beautiful
singing bowls, and thought-provoking pictures, which seemed
to have a life of their own.
Sanchez showcased a collection of beautiful paintings
that included a variety of collages that I found fascinating to
view. She shared in her profile
that “The results of being raised
with this sense of being the outsider, has allowed for an ability
to create from a more observational aspect.”
This was only part of her
message as Sanchez also included another perspective where
she shared: “In a sense it gives
one the feeling of being in the
world, but not of the world.” All
of her pieces appeared to tell a
story that was easily understood
and yet left plenty of room for
our own interpretations.
Inokuma also showcased
her creative singing bowls, with
each having a story of its own
to share. I found my own story
in many of them and watched as
the guests enjoyed playing the
amazing pottery bowls to hear
their own songs and stories as
well.
She shared that “Singing
bowls are used in rituals and
ceremonies marking the beginning and the end of a meditation,
evoking tranquility in humans
with their surroundings.”
Inokuma also stated that she
makes these pots for people to
incorporate into their own daily
routines, hoping the pots will
stop them momentarily, long
enough to give a nod to the earth
and everyone who lives on it. I especially enjoyed this idea
as I have put a great deal of effort into incorporating a form
of meditation in my daily life of
gratitude and appreciation to our
earth and those within as well.
I had a moment to share
my gratitude with both amazing women for their inspiring
works of art that brought amazing beauty to my heart. I was reminded that no matter where we
come from or what our past and
the past of our ancestors hold, we
can all come together and unite
in many poetic ways every day. The evening opened my eyes
once again to endless possibilities and filled my heart deeply
with a great deal of compassion.
I was grateful for the invitation
to share my own thoughts and
tightly wrap my hidden message
on their tree filled with hope that
still sits in the window on their
showroom floor today.
Inokuma and Sanchez offered this magnificent tree for all
to become part of their art exhibit as well and to share their own
stories of inspiration and hope
throughout the evening as well.
This night touched my heart
in very profound ways, and I am
grateful to both of them.
“They are not
just telling their
stories; they are
continually
reinterpreting
them into
blended
contemporary
and shared
melting pots.”
- Richard Rowland
(Top photo)
Left to Right:
Ceramicist Terry Inokuma
and painter/collage artist Grace
Sanchez at the opening of their
Crane Crow exhibit.
(Middle photo)
Oregon Rain Rock Jar
holding the
Branches of Memory.
(Right photo)
Exhibit visitors viewing the
collaboration of artwork
including ceramics,
paintings, and collages.