2013-523 Arts - Barbara Tyroler for Fall 2013 Arts Grant Agreement $1,000

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Thursday,July 28,2005 gr Gazette Community News PHOTOS Continued from A-1 University of Maryland,College Park,said z a lot of her pieces center on family,more specifically her daughter and her father. The piece entitled "In the Moonlit " Body, Samm," depicts Tyroler-Cooper looking at an art exhibit layered with an- other shot of her reading Chinese symbols. "It's about her dealing with a foreign cut- tune." Nicole DeWald,the arts coordinator for the Community Center, said she enjoys bringing in artists like Tyroler because they . often like to get involved by teaching " workshops. �y "One thing we do is try to have an ed- ucational focus," said DeWald of the art programs offered by the city's Recreation Department."We look for people who are willing to work with the public and be A community leaders." On Judy 20,Tyroler taught a children's workshop at the Greenbelt Aquatic and Fitness Center. "The children take these mirrors,which ail are panels of acrylic,"she said. "And one ' J partner has the mirror and the other has the camera." The water and the mirrors create uuuique self-portraits of the children. "The camera has a relationship with re- ality,"Tyroler said."People still think that when you take a picture of them it's really 5t them.They still fix their hair and say'oh =' , don't take my picture now.' The mirror . does that,too." Tyroler said she has applied fox anoth- er grant to do the underwater photo project with Greenbelt seniors. She hopes to do = �$ that in the fall. Her next show,"Irene Owsley and Bar- max ' bara Tyroler: Wide and Intimate Views," will be at Glen Echo Park from Sept.30 Nov. 13.The exhibit will showcase Tyrol- ' er's underwater photos and the landscape work of Owsley,another photographer. w Christopher Anderson/The Gazette E-mad Courtney A. Burns at This work by Barbara Tyroler is on display at an exhibition entitled churns @gazette.net. "Beijing Impressions"at the Greenbelt Community Center.