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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Visual artist E.D. Taylor is happy to announce <I>These Walls were Built by Slaves</I>, a forthcoming work of performance art / ancestor veneration ceremony highlighting the ongoing issue of slavery worldwide. The performance, conceived by E.D., who will perform alongside actor Anna Register, will be part of the annual arts and technology festival Ingenuity Fest, happening this year in Cleveland, Ohio from September 24 through 26 in the under-structure of the Veterans' Memorial (Detroit-Superior) bridge on Cleveland's near west side. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">When E.D. was still a graduate student at Rhode Island School of Design, one of her teachers, Dennis Congdon told this story during a critique:</FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>One day in the spring of 1963 I was alongside my father at my grandfather's farm off the Old Post Road. We were working on a mortar-less stone wall, working to pile stones back on top that had tumbled down and to cut back the bittersweet vines that were taking over.<SPAN> </SPAN>It sticks in my mind that we were on the wall separating the Sheldon Lot from the Tractor Piece.<SPAN> </SPAN>These lots have been the Congdon Farm since the early 1700's when our forefather moved down from Providence.<SPAN> </SPAN>In South County my people are known as Swamp Yankees.<SPAN> </SPAN>Stone walls draw the perimeter of each lot on this rocky, boney land.<SPAN> </SPAN>To plow this ground the stone had to be hauled to the fence rows.<SPAN> </SPAN>But we were cutting hay and pasturing dairy cows at Grampa’s place at that time and were
working on the walls before we moved some heifers in.</FONT></FONT></I></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>Sweating in the sun my dad straightened up, dug out his bandana and as he wiped his brow, he looked off down across the fields and said,</FONT></FONT></I></P>
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<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in" class=MsoNormal><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>“Do you know who built these stone walls? ...</FONT></FONT></I></P>
<P style="TEXT-INDENT: 0.5in; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 1in" class=MsoNormal><I><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>White men never built these walls....Slaves</FONT></FONT></I></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><I>I have never forgotten that moment or the way it changed forever my view of home.<SPAN> </SPAN>Ever after I lived in a different New England than the land where Frost's stone wall connects and separates two neighbors</I>.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">In honor of that story, E.D. and Anna will continually build and dismantle a stone wall (over and over and over again) in a tiny, dark cell located deep under the Detroit-Superior bridge for the three days of Ingenuity Fest as a symbolic commentary on slavery. </FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B>E.D. Taylor</B>: discovered early in life a love of and a facility for drawing, painting and sculpture beginning with passionate, clandestine crayon scribblings on her mom’s freshly painted walls.<SPAN> </SPAN>In good time, she graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in painting and drawing; soon after, she was granted a generous assistantship package, enabling her to attend Rhode Island School of Design's printmaking program.<SPAN> </SPAN>Since earning a Master of Fine Arts from RISD, E.D.’s artwork has been seen in diverse venues, such as PIEROGI Gallery Brooklyn’s Flat Files and the <I>Who’s Your Patron</I> exhibit at the Warwick Museum of Art.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3><B>Anna Register:</B> enjoys an extensive theater and dance background with credits ranging from <I>The Wiz</I> at East Cleveland Theatre and Cain Park to <I>Beauty and the Beast</I> with Beck Center for the Arts and <I>Children of Eden</I> with Weathervane Playhouse.<SPAN> </SPAN>Education includes school work at Baldwin-Wallace College where she earns a Bachelor of Arts degree in July, 2010; and equally serious study at B-W Dance COncert and The Dance Studio, July 2010.<SPAN> </SPAN>She has trained with various Baldwin-Wallace Faculty in theater, music and dance.<SPAN> </SPAN>Anna’s skills include whistling, playing bass/violin, singing (mezzo-soprano range), tap, jazz, salsa, swing and belly dancing.<SPAN> </SPAN>Both Anna and E.D. hula hoop in their spare time.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><B>Acknowledgements:<SPAN> </SPAN></B>A heartfelt thank you goes to Dennis Condgon for eloquently writing of his experience and for permitting the use of his writing for <I>These Walls</I>.</FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; COLOR: silver"> </SPAN><FONT face="Times New Roman">Thanks to Landscape Stone Supply for the generous donation of 1,500 pounds of thin, natural wall stone. Thanks also to Ipix for the loan of two InSight surveillance cameras for recording this performance. The artists also gratefully acknowledge Glacéau’s donation of smartwater and vitaminwater zero.<SPAN> </SPAN>Thanks to James C. Swonger for his selfless donation of time, creativity and technical know-how and finally, to Ingenuity Fest’s panelists, board, staff and volunteers for facilitating this artwork.</FONT></FONT></P><A
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