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PERFECT LEON GERSKOVIC
At left, Gordana Gerskovic is shown outside of “The Story of the Creative” exhibit hosted by the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts in New York City the last week of July. Below, one of Gordana’s fine art photography pieces, “Natura.”
JOSETTE GESTIN
A collage called “Playtime 2” by Rockville artist Josette Gestin, will be on view at VisArts in Rockville through Sept. 8. During her two-month Fleur and Charles Bresler Residency at VisArts, Gestin explored the connections between play, creativity and a meaningful life.
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VIRGINIA TERHUNE STAFF WRITER
Three large, colorful paintings by artist Josette Gestin of Rockville show children playing jump rope, hopscotch and other games outdoors, activities that are becoming extinct in today’s society because of TV and the Internet. “These games are disappearing, because there’s no one there to teach them,” said Gestin about her exhibit at VisArts in Rockville. Her work and the work of three other artists will be on view through Sept. 8 at the arts center. Their twoand three-dimensional pieces reflect thoughts and feelings about technology, environment, memory and connections to other people. A native of Brittany, Gestin has exhibited her paintings in France, Italy,
PHOTO FROM CHING CHING CHENG
A mixed-media piece called “Argus 127” by California artist Ching Ching Cheng is on view at VisArts in Rockville through Sept. 8. Her interest in the relationship between memory, pictures and facts manifests itself in sculptures made from bits of books.
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BOOKS
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Bethesda author releases second book BY
GORDANA GERSKOVIC
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hen Gordana Gerskovic moved to the United States in 1997, she was 23 and spoke no English. Against the strong urging of her parents, she had dropped out of university in her native Croatia where she had been studying theology. Last month, Gerskovic was invited to showcase her photographs as a part of “The Story of the Creative” exhibit at Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts in New York City. Fifteen of her photographs will be on display as a part of an exhibit at the Bohrer Activity Center in Gaithersburg through Sept. 22. “Sometimes you need to relax and
let life lead you,” Gerskovic said. “And mine led me to the U.S.” Growing up, Gerskovic shared a one-bedroom, fifth-floor apartment with her parents and brother. She said the family was “very conservative and also very poor.” “We didn’t have money to buy a camera. To buy a simple toy would be a big deal,” Gerskovic said. So instead, Gerskovic resorted to collecting her own toys in the form of whatever she could find on the streets around her apartment building. “What I would usually do ... I would
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CARA HEDGEPETH STAFF WRITER
A year after the release of his first book, “Mighty Mac,” Bethesda author and Kingsview Middle School English teacher Marc Waldman released a sequel, “Mac is Back,” the first week of July. “The second book is a better book because of the mistakes I made on the first one,” Waldman said. “I learned what works and what doesn’t work.” “Mac is Back,” reunites readers with the story’s hero, McKinley Arthur Coolidge — aka Mac. After foiling a potential terrorist attack on Washington, D.C., in “Mighty Mac,” this time around, Mac is protecting local children from a new
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“Mac is Back,” the second book from Bethesda author and teacher Marc Waldman, went on sale the first week of July.