The Citizens’ Fire Academy is a 10-week program designed to educate and inform citizens about the demanding field of fire, emergency medical services, and emergency management. Students will achieve a […]
Fayette County, GA “What will you do after you graduate from high school?” is a question many students answer. More than a dozen students at Fayette LIFE Academy learned […]
City of Fayetteville administrative departments are moving from the old City Hall at 240 South Glynn Street to the new City Hall at 210 Stonewall Avenue West on Thursday and […]
Ben Durham, Amanda (text), 2019. Graphite text on handmade paper, 37×28″
“Amanda is nearly a total blank to me now,” writes artist Ben Durham. “Just a distant memory of a snarling lip.” Words take on a cellular quality in his Text Portraits, photo-realistic figures formed by language, memory, and impossibility. For 18 years, Durham has been studying friends and former classmates from his hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, sourcing their mugshots from an online database and producing large-scale works composed entirely of his written recollections of their lives. His graphite-on-paper drawings immaculately depict the visual, but the strain of each sentence suggests something inscrutable.