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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-style: normal; font-weight:
normal"><font color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font
size="3">Columbus
Ohio-based artist and activist Laurel Hobden will be sharing
her art
pieces & banners at the First Unitarian Universalist
Church on
May 1<sup>st</sup> at 11 am as part of the ongoing
Homecoming 2022
</font></font></font><font color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial
Black, sans-serif"><font size="3"><font color="#1c1c1c"><font
face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font size="3">(last
weekend in July) </font></font></font>first Sunday
series. The event is open to the
public. </font></font></font>
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normal">
<font color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font
size="3">Local
artist Bonnie Bolen will be displaying her two
Ukrainian-themed pieces of her art. </font></font></font>
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<font color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif"><font
size="3">The
abbreviated service will feature the annual dancing the May
pole with
the congregation. Live music by Mike Mullen, Betsy Kalter
and the
African Drumming Group will be enjoyed during coffee hour
immediately
following the May pole dancing. Feel free to bring your
favorite instrument to play along with the live music. For
more information contact Annie
Warmke <a href="mailto:annie@bluerockstation.com"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">annie@bluerockstation.com</a>
or (740) 252-6295.</font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font
color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif">More about
the artist: At
Memphis State University Laurel received the prestigious
Creative
Achievement Award, giving her an entire room in the university
gallery to display her work during the annual student show. <font
size="3"><span style="font-style: normal">As
a student she led a Peace & Justice group on campus.
Her first
banner was a collection of student's hand prints to be
displayed at a
nuclear power protest.</span></font></font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font
color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif">Laurel's
mixed media social commentary work includes weavings about
nuclear
issues & mixed media sculptures concerned with
environmental
degradation. A recurring theme in her work is the earth
bleeding at
man's hand.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font
color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif">Laurel
has created banners for Community Bill of Rights & the
Ohio
chapter of the Sierra Club's Ready For !00. Twice she has
marched in
Columbus's Doo Dah parade with her banner exposing GMO health
related
issues.</font></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><font
color="#1c1c1c"><font face="Arial Black, sans-serif">Most
recently she mass produced what she calls a Bandaner - 'a
bandana that is a banner', pushing for the Green New Deal. She
also
created a dandelion garden flag with a painted image from
local
Columbus artist Pilgrim Kambitsch, that discourages people
from using
pesticides. </font></font>
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