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...Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents a major lecture series each year, bringing major artists to CCVA to show and discuss their work. This past fall we have had Ed Ruscha, Maya Lin, and Jane and Louise Wilson. In the spring we will host Laura Mulvey, Wayne Guyton and Kelley Walker, and Julie Mehretu. This is an extraordinary opportunity for our students to meet, hear, and talk with these established artists...
DIED. ARTHUR GUYTON, 83, eminent cardiovascular physiologist; of injuries suffered in an automobile accident; in Jackson, Miss. While recovering from polio in 1947, he invented a special leg brace and an electric wheelchair. Later he wrote The Textbook of Medical Physiology, first published in 1956 and a best seller ever since...
...description of artist Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project in Detroit [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 25], Ron Stodghill II noted that Heidelberg Street is festooned in polka dots. Stodghill said that neighbors weren't thrilled by other aspects of the project, including the thousands of old shoes displayed in the area. But support from neighborhood residents, local businesses and government groups far surpasses any dissatisfaction. The Heidelberg Project provides a stimulating, relatively safe stretch in Detroit's inner city where residents and visitors can play, create, learn, sit and think. Many of the artworks, constructed by Guyton with the help of children...
...opportunity this summer to visit the Heidelberg Project and found myself standing in the middle of the street in awe of the beauty before me. The thousands of used shoes (soles) represent all the lost souls in Purgatory hoping for mankind's prayers to help them ascend to heaven. Guyton's polka-dot theme is seen everywhere, sending the message "I don't care what race you are, if you are black or white or even polka dot, God's love sees no colors." JUDITH ZABAWSKI Sterling Heights, Mich...
...course, election-year politics leave Archer little room for more sole searching. The flap isn't likely to cost him many votes, but the longer it plays out, the more embarrassing it is for the city. In one meeting, Archer urged Guyton to drum up more community support so that the administration could back the project more forcefully. "You need to take off your artist cap and put on your business hat," he said...