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Cherokee Strip Days, kite flying record, Great Land Run are on tap - Enid News & Eagle Posted: 06 Sep 2009 04:58 PM PDT

Published: September 07, 2009 10:24 pm          Cherokee Strip Days, kite flying record, Great Land Run are on tap By Joe Malan, Staff Writer A slew of events is set for Enid and Garfield County this week as the Garfield County Fair and Cherokee Strip Days get under way. The Garfield County Fair begins Wednesday, and judging for many exhibits, including fine arts, photography, art and painting, begin Thursday. Judging will also occur Thursday for household arts, sewing, knitting, crocheting and other crafts. Animal judging will begin Friday at 8 a.m. with swine judging, followed by weigh-in for sheep, steers and goats. On Saturday, judging of heifers and prospect and market steers will be at 8 a.m., followed by the sheep and goats shows. The final day of the fair is Sunday. Exhibits will be open for viewing from noon to 4 p.m. Occurring in conjunction with the Garfield County Fair is the Cherokee Strip Days celebration, which runs from Thursday through Saturday. The celebration begins Thursday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. with a luncheon on the courthouse Square, provided by Sisters Cupboard. Enter-tainment will be provided by KOFM/KGWA. After the luncheon, Enid will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for number of kites flown simultaneously. That event will occur behind Autry Tech-nology Center, 1201 W. Willow. Officials originally had planned to easily best the record, which had been set last year in Germany with 967 kites. However, on July 30 that record was smashed when children from the Gaza Strip got more than 3,700 kites in the air at the same time. "We recognize that this new record in Gaza makes our attempt more difficult, but as Oklahomans, we don't give up easily," said event coordinator Stanley Hicks in a statement. "We have put in an order for more kites, we have expanded our parking area and we have enlarged our kite flying grid to accommodate more flyers." The kite event will begin at 1 p.m. Kites may be bought for $5 before the event or people may bring their own. Early Saturday morning, runners will take to the streets of Enid for the Continental Resources Great Land Run. There is a 10K run and a 5Kwalk/run and proceeds from the event will buy updated technology for local schools. Both runs begin at 7:30 a.m., and registration is at 6 a.m. Participants may register in advance at www.greatland run.com. The pre-registration fee is $20 for adults and $15 for children 11 and younger. Following the run is the annual Cherokee Strip Days parade, which starts at 10:30 a.m. downtown. The theme of this year's event is "Stake Your Claim – Enid, Okla-homa!" Following the parade and throughout the day there will be art and craft booths, food, pony rides and music. There also will be a gunfight at 12:30 p.m. on the southwest side of the courthouse lawn, and another will follow later in the afternoon.

Detroit museum shows off rare, early photographs - MSN Entertainment Posted: 31 Aug 2009 12:12 PM PDT DETROIT (AP) -- Sir John Herschel made important contributions to the nascent field of photography more than a century and a half ago, inventing a chemical process that allowed an image to be fixed onto photosensitive paper. So it's fitting that the first work attendees will see at a new photo exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts is an 1867 portrait of the British scientist. "People still feel that because a photograph's made with a machine, a camera, it's not like painting, it's not like sculpture," said museum associate curator Nancy Barr, who put together the exhibition. "It started out on an unsure footing. But people like (Julia Margaret) Cameron pushed for it to be an art, and other people did as well." It was Cameron who took the famous Herschel portrait that kicks off the exhibit in Detroit that opens Wednesday. She was a friend of the astronomer and chemist and requested he pose with his hair freshly washed but uncombed and him staring off-camera. She hoped to create a slightly unruly look that played up Herschel's intellectual genius. Cameron also used a long exposure time and left the lens out of focus to produce a soft, hazy effect. "(Photography) was kind of an upper-class hobby for some," Barr said. "But (Cameron) took it very seriously. She got involved in exhibitions. She sold her work. She really felt photography was a new art form." More than half a century after Cameron created her most notable works, Walker Evans emerged on the scene, and his work is given its own wall at the exhibit. Evans, a St. Louis native and self-proclaimed "maverick outsider," was the first photographer to have a solo exhibition at a major U.S. institution — the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit museum said. On display in Detroit are some of Evans' works that depict commonplace subjects such as crumbling buildings, advertisements and workers. One of his best-known images and more rare photos in the collection, "The Breakfast Room, Belle Grove Plantation, Louisiana" depicts the decayed interior of a plantation home. The exhibition is organized chronologically and presents views of the many uses of early photography, including scientific and artistic study, documentation, portraits, landscape and still life. The images span the early 1840s to the 1940s. Other highlights include classic works by photographic greats Ansel Adams, Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand and Edward Weston. The exhibition is free with museum admission and also includes a few extras. Visitors can stop by the museum's art studio for a cyanotype (blueprint) workshop, where they will be able to create their own blue, ultraviolet-light-de veloped images. They also will be given the opportunity to gaze through a stereoviewer (think of it as a 19th century View-Master) and see a rare daguerreotype stereoview. And in a first for a photographic exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts, attendees will be invited to fill out a comment card and give a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on what they've seen. "We've never done this. It's kind of an experiment," Barr said. "There's a certain component who really don't feel that photography's legitimate as an art form. ... Some people may struggle with it." ——— On the Net: Detroit Institute of Arts: http://www.dia.org Detroit Institute of Arts photography blog site: http://www.diaphotography.wordpress.com

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