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(above) Santa Monica Sister City Association (SMSCA) President Joseph E. Deering presents Santa Monica Mayor Ken Genser with a certificate of recognition at Santa Monica City Hall on Tuesday, September 8, 2009. (top) Graham Wong, Technical Director of the International Youth Soccer Tournament, gives Mayor Genser an official match ball.
The City of Santa Monica sponsored the International Youth Soccer Tournament with a $7,500.00 grant. In appreciation of the grant, Santa Monica Sister City Association presented the City of Santa Monica with 100 soccer match balls which will be distributed to the Santa Monica High School, Santa Monica College and John Adams Middle school boys and girls soccer teams. The International Youth Soccer Tournament brought together teams from Santa Monica High School, L.A.'s Korean, Japanese and Salvadoran communities, and a team from Cassino/S'Entelia, Italy. Other tournament sponsors are the City of Santa Monica, Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, Santa Monica Rotary Club, Santa Monica Kiwanis Club, Santa Monica Sister City Foundation, Santa Monica Daily Press and many individuals. The motto of the Santa Monica Sister City Association is "Peace in the World - One Person at a Time." To fulfill former President Dwight D. Eisenhower's dream of "citizen diplomats" establishing peace with "people-to-people" contacts between countries, the Santa Monica Sister City Association aims to educate, foster and encourage youth from all over the world.
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Cirque du SCE
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Electric Pole, Lineman, SCE, Southern California Edison
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MUSCLE BEACH CHAMPIONSHIPS
Bodybuilders pose at Venice Beach during the Labor Day Muscle Beach Bodybuilding Championship on Monday, September 07, 2009, marking the 75 Anniversary of Muscle Beach. The Muscle Beach Bodybuilding competition was presented by Joe Wheatley Productions.
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Bodybuilding, Venice
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UMBRELLAS
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Beach, Weather
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SUPERGIRLS
Professional snowboarder Laurie Currier takes first place and receives $5000.00 at Venice beach during the Third annual Supergirl Jam on Sunday, August 6, 2009. Supergirl Jam is the industry's only large-scale, all-girls action sports competition. This unique event features more than 100 of the top female action sports athletes in a competition series designed to promote and celebrate female strength, independence and empowerment. The event was presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and ASA Entertainment.
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Sports, Venice
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THE SUPER 8
Professional inline skaters (top to bottom) Coco Sanchez, Fabiola DaSilva, Fallon Heffernan, Katie Ketchum, Crissy Grasselli, Chynna Weierstall, Aarin Gates and Shannon Rodgers compete at Venice Beach during the Third Annual Supergirl Jam on Sunday, August 6, 2009. Coco Sanchez, 18, (top) won the competition. Supergirl Jam is the industry's only large-scale, all-girls action sports competition. This unique event features more than 100 of the top female action sports athletes in a competition series designed to promote and celebrate female strength, independence and empowerment. The event was presented by Warner Bros. Consumer Products and ASA Entertainment.
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Skateboarding, Sports, Venice
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Resonance Man
Mongolian throat singer Jurmeddorj Nordog plays the Morin Khuur (horse-head fiddle) while overtone chanting at the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, August 26, 2009.
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in Cultural, Music, Santa Monica Pier
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WATCHDOG
Eventually, she received her MFA in painting, but graduated with a refined body of sculpture large enough to have an exhibition at Rico Mizuno Gallery in Los Angeles in 1972. That launched the Los Angeles artist into a career as a sculptor, with a particular interest in the animal form, created with a unique balance between abstraction and representation.
"My second rocking horse from 1971 will be in this SMC show, and I will also be showing several pieces that were completed for my second solo exhibition, which was at Nick Wilder Gallery (in Los Angeles) in 1977," Murrill said. Also included in the exhibit will be pieces from the mid1980s when she was working with Koa wood while in Hawaii.
The work that will be in the SMC show comes from her own collection, while several pieces are on loan from private collectors, LA Louver Gallery in Venice, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Murrill said that working with wood blocks made it possible for her "to make radical changes in the sculpture" to tackle "sculptural problems I set up for myself."
"My interest in figurative sculpture is more about life and movement of the form as it is held by the surrounding space, rather than it is about the specific details of a certain individual," she said. "Though I use photographs while working, I try to stay away from portraiture and pay more attention to the abstract qualities of the form of the animal."
Murrill has had a prolific career in art, sculpting not only in wood, but also in marble, bronze, stone and ceramic.
Over her career, Murrill has received many accolades: the Guggenheim Fellowship, a Prix di Roma Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, National Endowment Grant, and a purchase award from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In June, her latest public commission, for The Montana in Pasadena, received this year's Public Art Network Year in Review Award.
Murrill's work is held by many private collections and can been seen in number of public commissions throughout the U.S. and across the globe. The American Embassy in Singapore displays one of her Eagles, as does the Target Corp. Headquarters in Minneapolis. The City of Obihiro, Japan installed seven of Murrill's Deer along its main thoroughfares in 2003, and Los Angeles' Grand Hope Park is home to a collection of three coyotes, a hawk, and one snake.
For information, call (310) 434-3434.
Fabian Lewkowicz
in Santa Monica College, Sculptures, art
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