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Sister artists explore nature, humanity By Sara Hastings
The Lawrence Little League 50-70 baseball team shows off their District 12 championship banner.
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level is winning a 50-70 tournament, that’s icing on the cake. The real goal is to have them be competitive when they reach the high school level.” For the second straight year, the same group of 11- and 12-year-olds played up against 13-year-olds during April. Last year they dropped back to the 46-60 fields for the District 12 tournament but had trouble re-adjusting. “It’s a different game of baseball,” See LITTLE LEAGUE, Page 11
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The bonds of sisterhood and the bonds of simply being humans sharing this earth underpin two concurrent exhibitions by local artists at Artworks Trenton. “The World We Share” is a collaboration by two sister artists, Marzena Haupa and Magda Dodd that is on view through Saturday, August 16. The inspiration for their art comes from many shared experiences; a love of nature, people, and art. They venture out into nature by bike or on foot, visiting galleries, enjoying the arts, and meeting diverse communities of artists and art lovers. Their paintings capture and embody the beauty of the nature they experience as well as the people they meet, admire, and love. The exhibit features both portraits and paintings of nature. The collection of portraits is an attempt to capture these people in a moment, with their colorful personalities, physical characteristics, and the depth of their emotions. The collection of paintings dedicated to nature captures lakes, rivers, streams, mountains, flowers, and lots of forest, which Haupa is mesmerized by. The paintings show the beauty of nature from a slightly different vantage point, with an element of surprise. “The world is full of diverse communities with beautiful, extraordinary people looking for love, lust, acceptance, and fulfilment,” Haupa says. “The whole collection is all about positive feelings,” Dodd adds. “It is happy art created with bright happy colors and positive emotions. It is meant to ignite these positive emotions in the audience.” See ART, Page 5
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