Word: annina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Painter Steven Mueller has had his work featured at the Annina Nosei Gallery; the Tibor De Nagy Gallery; and Mary Boone galleries. His numerous awards include a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a fellowship from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation...
...following week she visited Embry Rucker for the first time, carrying a brightpink shoulder bag that served as a magnet for the delighted children. They tugged at her jeans and pleaded to see what was inside the bag. Annina opened it and handed out markers, crayons and paper, enabling the children to make drawings that were poignant and sometimes chilling. For six months, Annina made weekly visits, often bringing along friends to help her play with, read to and tutor the children...
...most teens, those would have been enough good deeds. But Annina went on to start an organization at George C. Marshall High School, where she was a student. She dubbed it Y-NOT. She took the drawings she had collected during her visits to the shelter and used them to illustrate calendars, which the group then sold for the dual purpose of making the public aware of these forgotten children and raising funds for the shelter. She financed the first calendar with $250 she earned bagging groceries part-time and with a donation from her proud father...
...spring of 1996, Y-NOT had grown to 40 members and was the largest group of student volunteers at the high school. Annina oversaw its transition to an official school club. Since she would be graduating in a year's time, she also set about to ensure the club's survival. In her senior year, she persuaded two Y-NOT volunteers to serve as co-presidents and talked the English department chair into becoming the club's faculty sponsor. Annina also forged a relationship with a company that is, at no cost, printing this year's calendars. Lastly, just...
...Today Annina, 18, attends Penn State tuition free, on a Bunton-Waller Fellows Scholarship (named for two of the college's first black graduates). She won the award because of her help to minority children. Earlier this year, React magazine donated $25,000 in kids' clothing, shoes and toys for Annina to distribute at her discretion. She will divide the goods between Embry Rucker and her latest undertaking--an educational media project on nutrition that she is designing for underprivileged middle-school children near the college. She still assists her old friends back...