nina tisara’s alexandria living legends
Open through September 20 – “Living Legends” Exhibition
The latest class of Living Legends of Alexandria is profiled in an exhibit at The Lyceum, Alexandria’s History Museum, 201 S. Washington St. This photography exhibition, featuring the work of Nina Tisara, celebrates people who have made remarkable contributions to the quality of life in Alexandria. “Living Legends of Alexandria 2008-09” showcases 26 nominees who have worked to improve life in Alexandria. The museum is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. The suggested admission is $2. For more information, visit http://www.alexandriahistory.org or call 703.838.4994.
Nina graciously hosted me for breakfast where she shared the photo documentary record of the Living Legends of Alexandria 2008. I have long admired Nina’s dedication to this project and I will be adding to this post in the near future with more details about the project, how you can nominate someone for this prestigious honor, and what Nina’s organization needs in terms of support from the community.
One of the legends, Mel & Donna Bergheim, has part of their story here.
featured artist: annie waldrop’s feminist art
Annie Waldrop sent us over her unsolicited image files on cd and her artwork papers, and although many art agents will not review these materials, I always look at whatever comes my way – more often than not, I’m surprisingly rewarded. Such is the case with Waldrop who is a talented mixed-media/assemblage artist from Salem, Virginia and also a teacher. She is working in themes of women’s abandonment, domesticity, fertility, women’s labor and the discarded. She explores both positive and negative aspects of domesticity and the issue of women’s labor and its place in society as demonstrated through her need for obsessive sewing and in the repetition of various elements of her work. Featured below are three of our favorites that all have an element of insight, originality, and depth of thought. “Detail Scorched” (2004); “Baggage” (2005); and “Steel Wool Christening Gown” (2005).
lussier wins hudson valley art association award
Barbara Lussier is an accomplished plein aire artist/colleague we’ve been watching for some time. Her Morning Fog oil painting below is honored with an award at the 78th Annual Exhibition of the Hudson Valley Art Association at The Ridgewood Art Institute, 12 East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ. Awards Ceremony Sunday, July 12, 2-5 p.m. Congratulations Barbara – nicely done.
lange accepts board membership with holloway ventures
Holloway Ventures is, among other things, a school of visual arts and an academic institute designed to integrate academic classes into visual arts. We lecture and conduct workshops on how to teach regular academics classes through visual arts. This non-profit has some pretty strong backers and the newly forming board will provide great debate about how to be creative and push visual arts and academics further into the 21st century. Shauna Lee Lange is thrilled to accept board membership. Lange’s Art Advisory has served the Washington DC metropolitan art community since 2006.
http://www.hollowayventures.com
Update 10/1/09:
Holloway Ventures, Inc., Visual Arts & Academics Institute is pleased to announce its Board of Directors. Their knowledge, expertise and vision will be an invaluable contribution to our mission “enhancing lives through visual arts.”™
The members of the Board of Directors are as follows:
Randall C. Holloway, Chief Executive Officer
Courtney Atkins, Education Director
Ric Garcia, Operations
Shauna Lee Lange, Chief Creative Officer
Diana Wyles, Esquire
Non-voting members:
Frenchie Davis, Honorary Member
Special Hagan, Legal Advisor
Renee Nash, Marketing Advisor
For more information, contact (202) 257-43HV or email hollowayventures@yahoo.com.
Holloway Ventures, Inc., Visual Arts & Academics Institute is a nonprofit arts and academics integration institute for grades K – 6 and serves the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Its mission is to inspire students to live spirited prosperous lives by using visual art tools that develop reading, writing and mathematic skills enabling them to succeed. Visit our website @: www.hollowayventures.org.
about us
Shauna Lee Lange creates life effectiveness strategies for global women and girls through relentless work in achieving equality for women in the digital divide. Digital literacy, women and the Internet, and how the lack of women’s technological advances creates economic and political disparity are all pillars of how information and communication technologies MUST act as catalysts for global feminism and equal rights.
I believe the single most growing threat to the physical, emotional and financial health of women worldwide is information systems illiteracy and when left unaddressed, will eventually lead to women’s complete exclusion and invisibility to the extent that it will ultimately trump and surpass existing or historic strongholds!
I have many experienced years in management consulting, leadership training, and serving the public in advisory information brokering. What that means is that I am qualified to work towards empowering women and communities to envision, enlarge, and exemplify their best based on sound practice, research & analytics, and contemporary techniques.
I also teach, write, lecture, exhibit, jury, curate, build teams, assess performances, motivate, research, promote, counsel, conceptualize, market, facilitate and measure. Recent subjects include access to technology issues, social hierarchies, cultural elite, art as economic leverage, technology literacy as anti-poverty, information societies, net neutrality, and the absence of women in technology developing professions.
Previously, I was the very first woman-veteran founder of a full-service arts advisory, design studio, and organized creativity expertise providers in the Commonwealth of Virgina (founded in 2006) with a motto: “progressive art, global women, and creative empowerment” or “more art is more love”. I also served 6 years with the U.S. Navy on Italy’s island of Sicily and over 15 years nationally with the U.S. Federal Civil Service as a management, program, and transportation analyst.
Fully believing in the therapeutic impact and applicability of the arts, education, technology and creativity in one’s life, I work to encourage people to embrace full expression aided by education, free speech and free expression. My own inspired, self-taught, late-emergent, exhibiting artist art work concentrates on these themes in vintage and contemporary thematic collage, art journals, visual diaries, sketchbooks, and paper & book arts in the exploration of personal geographies.
Social equity requires a commitment to women’s equality. Women’s participation in the information economy carries enormous value to all girls and women. Technology literacy for women is a strategy I intend to tirelessly illuminate, use and promote for true liberation, global connectedness, and leveraging tools in societal struggles.
Conquering the digital divide means a focus on: 1) infrastructure; 2) limited telecommunications networks; 3) bandwidth capacity issues; 4) non-availability of hardware & software; 5) poor transportation networks; 6) uninterrupted power supplies; 7) non-availability of financial resources; 
non-availability of trained technicians; 9) lack of technical maintenance staff; and most powerfully, 10) prevalence of negative attitudes.
If those challenges weren’t enough, women in China, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico, Brazil AND fully developed countries like the United States most often face difficulties in technology access with: a) male attitudes; b) lack of family support; c) institutional barriers; d) facilities issues (such as transportation or child care availability); and e) insensitive aid workers or instructors. These obstacles create an often unexplored gender dynamic in the world of technology where there is now limited effort to fully address issues of access, content and the positive impact of technology where women’s lives are concerned – not a women’s agenda, but one of ultimate human and civil rights. Civil rights in a technological age – a multidisciplinary, fascinating journey that I fully invite you to accompany.
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All rights to this site and its contents are retained and all original artwork is copyrighted. Click here to learn more about our licensing and permissions for text and artwork through Creative Commons. The firm of Shauna Lee Lange is comprised of professional service providers and administrators. Proud 2010 members of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) and the National Association of Investigative Specialists (NAIS). Life Coaching Certification was achieved in 2010 through the Advanced Life Coaching Institute (ALCI). Shauna Lee Lange is also member in good standing with the International Coach Federation (ICF) through March 2011. It’s important that coaches stay in the know about field developments and that they network with other coaches. We participate through Coach U and the ICF in the Career Coaches Special Interest Group which helps us give to the profession on an ongoing basis. We also hold Certifications in Civilian Leadership Development as a Trainer for Mentor/Assessment Training; Management Development Certifications for Leading People; High Performance Development Model; Ethics Training; Mastery in Alternative Dispute Resolution; Team Skills; and multiple other skills proficiencies in quantitative and qualitative analysis. Shauna Lee Lange is an advocate of 1st Amendment Free Speech, Net Neutrality, Open Internet, and Social Media.
