April 14, 2021
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, Lou Jean Fleron was raised on the Great Plains by working-class parents; her mother was a schoolteacher, her father worked in the oilfields. She attributes her commitment to equality to her upbringing – a commitment she’s used for 44 years to make Western New York a better place for working people.
“I’m a Midwestern pragmatist,” says Fleron, who has led the ILR School’s programs in Buffalo, New York, since 1976. “I believe you have to listen to everybody, and you have to work with people where they are, and you have to try to understand diverse interests and come to a common good. That is something that I think ILR, as an institution, is uniquely positioned to do.”
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Hemi Macgregor’s new paintings in exhibition ‘Toitū Te Whenua, Toitū Te Moana, Toitū Te Tangata’ at Mahara Gallery Waikanae.
As you leave Pukerua Bay going north, sea and sky open you up to the light. Kāpiti Island floats sentinel in the sea and the coast lies as a lip before the mountains. Paintings by Paekākāriki based, Levin raised artist Hemi Macgregor at Mahara Gallery in Waikanae shimmer and reverberate with the feeling of this landscape. Macgregor has also been recognised as part of the current major Auckland Art Gallery survey Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Artand is part of the team working on the new wharenui at Massey University’s Pukeahu campus. His work as sculptor is evident here in the layered ridges of his work ‘Parawhenuamea’ named after the personification of fresh water in Te Ao Māori.
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