Street art painted on the sides of buildings or plywood-covered windows can help us understand the complexity of the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and systemic racism, reveals a mapping project spearheaded by St. Thomas faculty.
For the past year, a team of St. Thomas faculty and students have been working to systematically document and map street art. Dr. Todd Lawrence, Dr. Paul Lorah and Dr. Heather Shirey co-direct the Urban Art Mapping Project, which digitally archives the work of many artists and writers.
“People have used walls to claim space to tell their stories, to express their justified anger, and to show their vision for the future. Our goal is to amplify these voices and experiences and make sure that these textual and visual messages are not simply erased,” Shirey, an art history professor, said during the College of Arts and Sciences’ recent Teach-in Tuesday presentation.
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Recycling sorting at River Hills Recycling CenterPhoto: Eric England
A sound not unlike rain patters incessantly at the back of the open-air building where trucks dump material at Nashville’s River Hills Recycling Center. This is the largest recycling facility in Nashville, and that sound is a thunderstorm of sorts. It’s a steady stream of pill bottles, drink cans, cardboard boxes and other materials hurtling through a large machine called a drum feeder, which sends the items down a conveyor belt to be sorted.
Although operations manager Dilan Vince says the drum feeder can handle about 20 tons of material per hour, not everything that ends up at the River Hills facility is recyclable. In fact, Jenn Harrman, the waste reduction program manager for Metro Public Works, says as much as 46 percent of what Nashville puts into residential recycling bins is unusable. She says that’s a high contamination rate compared to other cities, but Metro is working to educate re
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Adam Weig knows what it’s like to face a tough opponent. His teams played several of them when Weig was guiding the boys’ basketball program at South Hardin High School in Eldora.
Weig was head coach for seven seasons, from 2010-17. During that time, the Tigers never confronted a challenge like the one that Weig endured in the early morning hours of Thanksgiving Day 2019.
While sleeping, he went into cardiac arrest.
Sammi Weig woke up around 1 AM and heard her then-fiancé Adam struggling to breathe. When he wouldn t respond to her calling out his name, Sammi dialed 9-1-1. As she spoke with the dispatcher while waiting for the paramedics to arrive, Adam s breathing worsened and Sammi could not detect a pulse. She started chest compressions.
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