Offerings Jewelry and Art Gallery, Katonah, NY
Offerings Jewelry and Art Gallery in the heart of Katonah. Giving to Westchester for almost 25 years, we are proud to be part of the community and to carry unique handmade jewelry, art, housewares and furniture. Small and meaningful gifts for every occasion. Buy for yourself and for holidays, family and friends. We also offer so much more including: healings, readings and salons. Come in and get to know us. We look forward to meeting you.
PAVEL ZOUBOK - Vanessa German
V A N E S S A G E R M A N
S E L E CT E D E X H I B I T I O N S
2013 Vanessa German, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center,
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2012 Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center,
The Duam Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
The Art of Storytelling: Lies, Enchantment, Humor & Truth,
American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
Emerging Artist of the Year, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,
Pittsburgh, PA
Ill Perceived, Curated by Kristin Rogers, Museum of Contemporary Art
Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
African American Art 1950-Present, Smithsonian Institution and David C.
Driskell Center, College Park, MD
2011 Vanessa German, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY, NY
Are You A Good Woman, Gallerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA
HOME: HOMEWOOD Artist Residency, The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburg, PA
2010 Tar Baby, Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Tar Baby Jane and Doo-
Wop: Everything Useful For Your Modern Household, 709 Penn Gallery,
Pittsburgh, PA
Responding, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Art of the State: Pennsylvania
2010, Pennsylvania State Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Art For Life, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Beyond Swastika and Jim Crow, I.P. Stanback Museuem, Orangeburg, SC
2009 Visionary Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Associate Artists of Pittsburgh 99th Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of
Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2008 Black Clay in PA: A Dialogue in Flux, August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh,
PA
2007 Objectification, Callerie Chiz, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 Gestures: An Exhibition of Small Site-Specific Works, Mattress
Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
P E R F O R M A N C E S
2011 Pittsburgh Biennale Gertrude's/Lot, The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburg, PA
Too Shallow for Diving: the 21st Century is Treading Water, American
Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 TEDx MIT, Cambridge, MA Reading on Mars: American Shorts
Reading Series, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
2009 Black Clay, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
(Feature performance), Erie, CO
Testify, Multiple venues (Feature performance)
Women in Politics, Chatham College (Feature Guest Performer), Pittsburgh,
PA
2008 SNAP!, Science, Nature, Art and People Conference (Feature
performance), Boulder, CO
Testify, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts & PFM Biennale, Pittsburg, PA
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship International Conference
(Keynote Poem and performance), Boston, MA
2007 Pittsburgh International First Voice Festival, August Wilson Center,
Pittsburgh, PA PopTech!, Camden, Maine
2005 She Said: Words by Women, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
S E L E C T B I B L I O G R A P H Y
2013 30 Black Artist Under 40 You Should Know, Huffington Post,
February 26, 2013
2012 Art Review, Nadine Wasserman, Pittsburgh City Paper, October 10,
2012
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Chill Carrier - With You
The Mysterious ANCIENT GIANTS Who RULED America
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Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps | Wikipedia audio article
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Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps
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Presidents of the United States have frequently appeared on U.S. postage stamps since the mid–1800s. The United States Post Office released its first two postage stamps in 1847, featuring George Washington on one, and Benjamin Franklin on the other . The advent of presidents on postage stamps has been definitive to U.S. postage stamp design since the first issues were released and set the precedent that U.S. stamp designs would follow for many generations.
The paper postage stamp itself was born of utility (in England, 1840), as something simple and easy to use was needed to confirm that postage had been paid for an item of mail. People could purchase several stamps at one time and no longer had to make a special trip to pay for postage each time an item was mailed. The postage stamp design was usually printed from a fine engraving and were almost impossible to forge adequately. This is where the appearance of presidents on stamps was introduced. Moreover, the subject theme of a president, along with the honors associated with it, is what began to define the stamp issues in ways that took it beyond the physical postage stamp itself and is why people began to collect them. There exist entire series of stamp issues whose printing was inspired by the subject alone.
The portrayals of Washington and Franklin on U.S. postage are among the most definitive of examples and have appeared on numerous postage stamps. The presidential theme in stamp designs would continue as the decades passed, each period issuing stamps with variations of the same basic presidential-portrait design theme. The portrayals of U.S. presidents on U.S. postage has remained a significant subject and design theme on definitive postage throughout most of U.S. stamp issuance history.Engraved portrayals of U.S. presidents were the only designs found on U.S. postage from 1847 until 1869, with the one exception of Benjamin Franklin, whose historical stature was comparable to that of a president, although his appearance was also an acknowledgement of his role as the first U. S. Postmaster General. During this period, the U.S. Post Office issued various postage stamps bearing the depictions of George Washington foremost, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln, the last of whom first appeared in 1866, one year after his death. After twenty-two years of issuing stamps with only presidents and Franklin, the Post Office in 1869 issued a series of eleven postage stamps that were generally regarded by the American public as being abruptly different from the previous issues and whose designs were considered at the time to be a break from the tradition of honoring American forefathers on the nation's postage stamps. These new issues had other nonpresidential subjects and a design style that was also different, one issue bearing a horse, another a locomotive, while others were depicted with nonpresidential themes. Washington and Lincoln were to be found only once in this series of eleven stamps, which some considered to be below par in design and image quality. As a result, this pictographic series was met with general disdain and proved so unpopular that the issues were consequently sold for only one year where remaining stocks were pulled from post offices across the United States.In 1870 the Post Office resumed its tradition of printing postage stamps with the portraits of American Presidents and Franklin but now added several other famous Americans, including Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton and General Winfield Scott among other notable Americans. Indeed, the balance had now shifted somewhat; of the ten stamps issued in 1870, only four offered presidential images. Moreover, presidents also appeared on less than half of the denominations in the definitive sets of 1890, 1917, 1954 and 1965, while occupying only a slight major ...
Grand Central Terminal (21JUL2015)
A quick tour of the Grand Central Terminal in central Manhattan in New York, New York. Trains emerging from and entering the tunnel at East 97th Street near Central Park that leads to the Grand Central Terminal. Also a boat ride aboard Miss New Jersey to the Statue of Liberty.
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New York metropolitan area | Wikipedia audio article
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New York metropolitan area
00:03:23 1 Definitions
00:03:32 1.1 Metropolitan Statistical Area
00:06:50 1.2 Combined statistical area
00:09:06 2 Geography
00:10:45 2.1 Subregions
00:10:53 2.1.1 New York City
00:12:06 2.1.2 Long Island
00:16:39 2.1.3 Northern New Jersey
00:18:07 2.1.4 Central New Jersey
00:18:52 2.1.5 Lower Hudson Valley
00:20:22 2.1.6 Mid-Hudson Valley
00:21:34 2.1.7 Western Connecticut
00:22:15 2.1.8 Monroe and Pike Counties, Pennsylvania
00:23:20 2.1.9 Lehigh Valley
00:24:51 2.2 Urban areas of the region
00:25:07 2.3 Main cities
00:28:30 2.4 Climate
00:32:02 3 History
00:39:15 3.1 Statistical history
00:43:28 4 Demographics
00:43:37 4.1 2010 Census
00:46:53 4.2 Population estimates
00:53:55 4.3 Religion
00:54:11 5 Economy
00:55:19 5.1 Wall Street
00:57:43 5.2 Silicon Alley
01:00:35 5.3 Port of New York and New Jersey
01:02:01 5.4 Water purity and availability
01:03:22 6 Education
01:04:53 6.1 Attainment
01:05:58 7 Transportation
01:06:43 7.1 Rail
01:07:01 7.1.1 New York City Subway
01:07:52 7.1.2 PATH
01:08:44 7.1.3 Commuter rail
01:11:18 7.2 Major highways
01:11:29 7.2.1 Interstates
01:12:19 7.2.2 U.S. Routes
01:12:45 7.2.3 State Routes
01:13:30 7.2.4 Other limited-access roads
01:14:33 7.2.5 Named bridges and tunnels
01:19:19 7.3 Commuter bus
01:19:52 7.4 Major airports
01:20:26 7.5 Commuter usage
01:21:13 8 Culture and contemporary life
01:22:06 8.1 Sports teams
01:27:36 8.2 Media
01:29:26 8.3 Theme parks
01:29:34 8.3.1 In New Jersey
01:29:42 8.3.2 In New York State
01:30:10 8.3.3 In Pennsylvania
01:30:31 9 Area codes
01:30:44 10 See also
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The New York metropolitan area, also referred to as the Tri-State Area, is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at 4,495 sq mi (11,640 km2). The metropolitan area includes New York City (the most populous city in the United States), Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison, and their vicinities; six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and their vicinities.
The New York metropolitan area remains, by a significant margin, the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area (20.3 million residents in 2017) and the Combined Statistical Area (23.7 million residents in 2016). It is the largest urban agglomeration in the Americas and the tenth largest in the world. The New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States, with the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The MSA covers 6,720 sq mi (17,405 km2), while the CSA area is 13,318 sq mi (34,493 km2), encompassing an ethnically and geographically diverse region. The New York metropolitan area's population is larger than that of the state of New York, and the metropolitan airspace accommodated over 130 million passengers in 2016.As a center of many industries, including finance, international trade, new and traditional media, real estate, education, fashion, entertainment, tourism, biotechnology, law, and manufacturing, the New York City metropolitan region is one of the most important economic regions in the world; in 2015, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product (GMP) of nearly US$1.60 trillion, while in 2015, the CSA had a GMP of over US$1.83 trillion, both ranking first nationally by a wide margin and behind the GDP of only nine nations and seven nations, respectively. In 2012, the New York metropolitan area was also home to seven of the 25 wealthiest counties in the United States by median household income, according to the American Community Survey. According to Forbes, in 2014, the New York City metropolitan area was home to eight of the top ten ZIP codes in the United States by median housing price, with six in ...
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Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren (born Ralph Lifshitz October 14, 1939 in New York City) is an American fashion designer, philanthropist, and business executive, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation clothing company, a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He has also become well known for his collection of rare automobiles, some of which have been displayed in museum exhibits.
In 2010, Lauren was declared Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. As of September 2012, Forbes estimates his wealth at $7 billion dollars, which makes Ralph Lauren the 191st richest person in the world.
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Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer and business executive, best known for his Polo Ralph Lauren clothing brand, and a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise. He has become well known for his collection of rare automobiles, some of which have been displayed in museum exhibits. In 2010, Lauren was declared Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. As of September 2012, Forbes estimates his wealth at $7 billion dollars, which makes Ralph Lauren the 191st richest person in the world.
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