New installation for Murals of La Jolla honors local Black pioneers
Artist June Edmonds designed the new Murals of La Jolla work, “Ebony on Draper and Girard.”
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For Los Angeles-based artist June Edmonds, the in-production “Ebony on Draper and Girard” mural is about more than making a three-story statement on the alley-facing side of 7724 Girard Ave. in La Jolla.
It’s a salute to Black women and their role in La Jolla’s development.
After completing a mural inspired by Maria Valdez, the first Afro-Latina woman to own property in Beverly Hills, Edmonds was invited to create a piece for the Murals of La Jolla public art program. She researched names such as Henrietta VanHorn-DeBose and Carrie Coleman, who were among the first to own property on Girard and Draper avenues.
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The Field Museum celebrates Asteroid Day by classifying a rare meteorite
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Field Museum scientist identifies rare meteorite spotted in Sahara Desert
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Rare meteorite spotted by field museum scientist
Dr. Maria Valdes, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, identified a rare meteorite that fell in the Sahara Desert Wednesday.
CHICAGO - A fallen asteroid has been spotted by a Field Museum scientist.
Dr. Maria Valdes, postdoctoral researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago, identified a rare meteorite that fell in the Sahara Desert Wednesday.
To the average eye, the meteorite might look like a hunk of concrete or asphalt, according to Dr. Valdes. Several clues give it away as a meteorite, the first and most obvious clue is that it has a black fusion crust that covers it and forms once the meteorite enters our atmosphere.the exterior melts and forms this glassy coating, so that is the first thing we look for, Valdes said.