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Yavapai College Verde Art Gallery Presents
Consecrate: Works about Preparation and Sanctity

February 16, 2017No Comments

Clarkdale AZ (February 16, 2017) – Yavapai College is proud to present an exhibition titled “Consecrate: Works about Preparation and Sanctity” at the college’s art gallery on its Verde campus at 601 Black Hills Drive Bldg. F-105.

Consecrate is a collaborative show, assembling the works of Alyssa Ritchie, Sean Oswald, and Ben P Norton. The show focuses on the theme of Consecration, using the word as a prompt for each artist’s concepts to spill forth.

The act of art-making in itself is an act of consecration – an act of making special. The role of the painter is one that feels consecrated, one that feels akin to a calling. In this show, each artist confronts this notion as filtered through his/her own intellectual and spiritual convictions. How do we make things special, and how do we preserve that feeling through painting? How do we align ourselves with a calling, and how does it appear to others? This show attempts to address these questions, crossing between the secular and the spiritual in search of consecrated ground.”

Alyssa Ritchie and Ben Norton will be giving an artist talk, Thursday, February 16, 2017, at 10:30 AM. Also, please join us for the opening reception Thursday, February 16, 2017, from 5-7 PM, artists Ritchie and Norton will be present. The exhibition, artist talk, and reception are free and open to the public.

Consecrate: Works about Preparation and Sanctity: will take place at the Yavapai College Verde Art Gallery at 601 S. Black Hills Drive, Bldg. F-105 Clarkdale, AZ, from February 13 through March 9, 2017. An opening reception will be held on February 16, from 5 – 7pm. This event is free and open to the public.

If you would like more information about this exhibition, please contact Bennett Roti at 928.649.5479 or visit online at www.yc.edu/artgallery. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 10 AM – 3PM.

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A Cauldron of Misconceptions: Sedona Enquirer
By Sean Dedalus

Sedona, AZ — I don’t know what happened to the Publisher of Sedona.Biz, the once moderate and reasonable journalist, Tommy Acosta. Or maybe I do. He must be pulling our leg.

In Mr. Acosta’s last Opinion piece, Cauldron of Chaos, Acosta pins together a necklace of current events and concludes we are on the verge of a “cosmic reckoning”. Acosta throws paint on the canvas with each hand slapping the slop on the imagination of the readers. He says in Georgia, a young college student jogging on campus was raped and murdered by Jose Antonio Ibarra, an illegal alien. Shortly thereafter, Congress passes the Laken Riley Bill.

In Louisiana, Acosta points to Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a US Army veteran who killed 14 people and left 35 more injured after he drove a truck into a crowd on New Years Day.

In New York City Sebastian Zapeta, another illegal alien took out a match and set afire a sleeping woman to death on a Brooklyn subway. Meanwhile, up in Manhattan, the CEO of United Healthcare was shot in the back by Luigi Mangione an Ivy League graduate. Acosta also takes us to Colorado where the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua took over an entire apartment building.

Acosta is not finished as he suggests that Los Angelas County’s California looked like nine concentric circles of torment which constituted hell on Earth, as spelled out by Dante Aligheri.

Finally, Mr. Acosta draws our attention to the skies all around the world where US Black Op drones follow alien plasma orbs, while Joe Biden wears his typical dumbfounded look and mumbles that even though he does not know what is going on, there is no evidence of any danger to public safety.

Mr. Acosta warns American society is unravelling at the seams. He stops short of predicting the showdown between Jesus and the Antichrist. His Opinion reads like the script to The Birds by Alfred Hitchcock.

I am sorry to report to Mr. Acosta that there is no evil spirit spreading fear throughout America. That’s right. No evil spirit. Just greedy criminals and politicians. And very stupid politicians whose malfeasance borderlines on criminal conduct.

If we were to reflect as to events suggesting the end of the world we need only look back to World War II (1939-1945). Over 30 Nations were actually at war. Over 100 million people served in uniform. An estimated 70-85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the global population in 1940. On 6 and 9 of August 1945, the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 286,818 people were killed.

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