Jeanne Robert Foster’s Adirondack legacy to be told in stories, song | The Daily Gazette
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Eileen Egan Mack, left, and also with Dan Berggren in “Voice of the Mountains: Jeanne Robert Foster, An Adirondack Legacy.” (photos provided)
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When Eileen Egan Mack first stumbled upon “Adirondack Portraits: A Piece of Time,” she thought the book would make a great gift for a friend.
“It was supposed to be a birthday present, but I started reading it and I couldn’t part with it,” said Egan Mack, referring to the collection of Jeanne Robert Foster poems edited by Noel Reidinger-Johnson and published back in 1986.
A few months ago, Megan Mack discovered a lump in her breast. Mack is 36, and with breast cancer most often diagnosed in women 50 and older, she said her doctor initially told her not to worry about it. “I trusted her, and I thought if you say it s benign, it s benign.” said Mack, who is the producer for the talk show Connections on WXXI News. Mack s doctor didn t seem overly concerned, but said she could go for imaging if she wanted to. Mack decided to follow her instincts and have that done. In the back of my mind, something was like, you have to go, you have to do this for yourself,” Mack said.
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April 20, 2021
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Above: Pratt Institute Fine Arts & Photography MFA thesis exhibition 2021 artists 1- 2 Precious Baswell / 3-4 Elle Ellinger/ 5 Bethanya Adebe/ 6 Dalya Bain
Nearly 30 graduates from the 2021 Fine Arts and Photography MFA course at the Pratt Institute are showcasing their final projects in a digital and physical show at The Pfizer Building, NYC.
The show, which opened 14 April features works that explore the relationship between landscapes, our perceptions of people and embrace nostalgia and optimism.
Precious Baswell’s project, Hoodies, sees the graduate photographing people dressed in oversided hooded sweatshirts. Baswell obscures the face of the wearer, creating what Baswell describes as ‘an unsettling and ambiguous’ figure. Baswell continues: ‘Due to the cocoon-like nature the figures are within, some of their senses are inhibited by my control. In this way, I am controlling the audience’s senses as well by manipulating both the comp