Rotorua artists shortlisted for Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award
11 May, 2021 02:28 AM
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A piece of art for which Rotorua s Terry Ferguson has been shortlisted for the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. Photo / Supplied
A piece of art for which Rotorua s Terry Ferguson has been shortlisted for the Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture Award. Photo / Supplied
Rotorua Daily Post
Portraits featuring whakairo (carving), raranga (weaving), photography, ceramics and oil paintings are just some of the works shortlisted in the country s first portraiture award in honour of Kiingi Tuheitia.
The award, a partnership between the Office of the Kiingitanga and the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkenga Whakaata, was launched to inspire a new generation of emerging Māori artists to create portraits of their tūpuna (ancestors).
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A former video store three blocks south of the Chicago Ridge police station, revived as a video gaming bar, has gotten caught up in two federal criminal investigations in the past three years.
As Terry Ferguson and his son Timothy Ferguson were working on converting the shuttered video store into a bar, he already was the target of a sting operation in which a federal agent bought guns from a food truck owned by Ferguson, who also had been peddling cocaine.
Ferguson’s arrest in October 2018 ultimately led to the end of his son’s dream of opening the bar.
Terry Ferguson pleaded guilty Friday in U.S. District Court to narcotics and gun-trafficking charges that included the 2015 sale of two dozen guns from the back of his food truck "Chicago's Finest Deli on Wheels."
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