John Langdon
Cassandra Agredo has grown the soup kitchen at St. Francis Xavier church into the multi-service agency that is Xavier Mission. As the organization’s executive director, Agredo and her team provide an array of services and opportunities to New Yorkers in need. They prefer to be called a “for-impact” instead of a “nonprofit” organization, focusing on things they can change instead of those they can’t.
Direct service work has always been a part of Agredo’s life. When she was growing up in Rhode Island, her father worked at the Department of Human Services, and once the first soup kitchen opened, her parents would bring Agredo along while they volunteered. She continued on this path and obtained a bachelor’s and master’s degree in social work from Fordham University. Since then, her passion to enact positive change has shone both through her work at Xavier Mission and Hunger Free America, a national organization set to end domestic hunger, where she’s a
Exhibition Explores Memories, Humanity and Tragi-Comedy In Wayne Thiebaud s Clowns
LAGUNA BEACH, California
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Wayne Thiebaud, Clown and Circle (2015), oil on board. copyright 2020 Wayne Thiebaud / Licesnsed by VAGA, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Wayne Thiebaud s oil-on-board painting “Boxed Clown (with Flag)” from 2017, in Wayne Thiebaud: Clowns.
Art historian Julia Friedman provides insights in a video tour of the current exhibition at Laguna Art Museum
Over the past seven years Wayne Thiebaud has made dozens of paintings, drawings, and etchings of clowns. Like much of his work, this latest series is in a sense autobiographical. During his boyhood in Long Beach, California, he looked forward to the visits of a traveling Ringling Brothers circus and sometimes helped out behind the scenes in exchange for tickets. The costumes, faces, and antics of the clowns were the beginning of a lifelong fascination fo