T.C. Williams History Club & Living Legends

Nina Tisara will be speaking about Living Legends to the History Club at T.C. Williams High School in April.  They are working on their own Parker-Gray project and are interested in learning what they may be able to do for Living Legends.

 

Market Square Exhibit

With much appreciation to Bill Clayton for the translation, for the first time the exhibition labels describing the photos in the Market Square lobby will be in English and in Spanish.

Living Legends in City Hall

The portraits of the 12 Living Legends of 2011 will be installed in the Market Square Lobby of City Hall on Tuesday March 1 where they will be on display for a year until the 2012 Legends are chosen. This year's Legends include Mollie Abraham, Lynnwood Campbell, William Clayton, H. Stewart Dunn, Timothy S. Elliott, Jon Liss, Peter Lunt, Don Mela, Fran and Gant Redmon, Carlyle C. Connie Ring, Jack Taylor and Joseph F. Viar, Jr. Nomination forms for next year's Legends may be downloaded from the website www.AlexandriaLegends.com Hours for city hall vary but generally the lobby is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays the lobby is open if there is a public hearing scheduled. Sundays and holidays it is closed.

Family Legends

We're excited to report planning for a new facet of Living Legends--Family Legends.  Members of the Living Legends Board will meet with folks from Archaeology, Black History Museum, the Athenaeum, Alexandria City Schools and artist Sushmita Mazumdar to plan the project which will involve young people in photographing and writing stories about the Legends in their families.  The project may culminate in a one-of-a-kind handbook and/or news feature.

Joe Viar - 2011 Living Legend of Alexandria

Here's the link for the feature story on 2011 Living Legend Joe Viar:

http://www.alexandrianews.org/2011/02/2011-living-legend-of-alexandria-joseph-viar/

 

Joe is the first of 12 Living Legends of Alexandria that will be profiled this year.

 

NOVA Exhibition

Steve Wharton, Nina Tisara, Pam and Kerry St. Clair

Melvin Miller and daughter, Erika

Dr. Jimmie McClellan, Dean of Liberal Arts, NOVA

Sarah Raymond, Assistant Dean, Photo, NOVA

Pam St. Clair and 2009 Legend Arlene Hewitt

Dr. McClellan, Melvin Miller, Nina Tisara, Jim Singerling and Steve Wharton

Guests listen to remarks

All photos by Steven Halperson/Tisara Photography

Living Legends of Alexandria photographs by Nina Tisara from 2008, 2009 and 2010 are being exhibited at the Tyler Gallery, Alexandria Campus, Northern Virginia Community College through February 2.  Gallery hours: noon to 9pm, Mon-Thurs.  For info about the NOVA Photography program, see http://www.nvcc.edu/alexandria/visual/photo.

Living Legends of Alexandria Opens at NOVA

You are cordially invited to attend the Opening Reception of Living Legends of Alexandria on Thursday, January 13th, 5:30-7pm,Tyler Gallery, Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus. This exhibition features the Legends of 2007-08, the Legends of 2008-09 and the nominees and Legends of 2010. The evening will be dedicated to the memory of Eula Miller, who passed away this week after a long illness. Eula was a member of NOVA's Early Childhood Education faculty for more than thirty years and the intellectual godmother for many of the teachers in our City. She was named a Living Legend of Alexandria in 2008.
Exhibition Dates: January 10 through February 2; Gallery hours: noon to 9pm, Mondays through Thursdays.
The public is also invited to an Artist's Talk at the Tyler Gallery on Thursday, January 20th, 6-7pm. The Tyler Gallery is located in the Tyler Building (past the Schlesinger Center). Paid Parking is available in the Beauregard Street garage on campus.

For information about the Northern Virginia Photography program, go to http://www.nvcc.edu/alexandria/visual/photo or contact Sarah Raymond at sraymond@nvcc.edu. For information about Living Legends of Alexandria contact AlexandriaLegends@ninatisara.com .