The Muhammad Ali | The Photographs of Sonia Katchian exhibition has been seen in four communities around the country already, including the Muhammad Ali Center, where they have said, “Sonia’s photographs of Muhammad show the gentler side of an incredibly complex, loving human being who just happened to be a boxer.” Pulitzer Prize winning journalist E.R. Shipp has said, “Your photographs are unusual — they show the human side of Ali!” Master photographer Kwaku Alston gasped when he saw The ALI Folioâ„¢, saying, “These are the best photographs of Muhammad Ali I’ve ever seen!” The testimonials keep coming in.

My name is Stephen Hayes and this is a quick introduction into my many faces. The son of Lender and Stephen, I was lucky at first to grow up with two parents to look up to, but due to drugs, in 1990 my mother decided to separate from my father. My father preferred to support his drug habit rather than his family. So we left and I began another stage of my life with my mother and older brother to look up to.My brother is someone I always looked up to. He was the motivation factor in my love of art. By watching my brother overtime making something out of nothing, I became motivated to creating, building, and drawing things. Art became a way of self-expression for me. My mother saw the potential I possessed. When other children were getting bicycles and toys for Christmas, she brought me a workbench and tools.

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This exhibition “Impressions from Monet’s Garden� by Walter Edmonds will be on display in the Lynda Moore Merrick Gallery at the Hayti Heritage Center starting October 15 through January 28, 2008. This exhibit will complement the exhibition “Landscapes of Impressionism� at the North Carolina Museum of Art which starts on October 21 through January 2008. Walter Edmonds was awarded a fellowship and residency at Monet’s Garden. The residency resulted in a body of large scale painting and intimate watercolor impressions of Monet’s Garden that capture the magnificence of nature’s bounty, highlighting vivid purple irises, and stunning black eyed susans, fields of poppies and water gardens. On Friday November 16, 2007 at 6-8pm, come and enjoy “Jazzy Friday� which includes live jazz music, refreshments, and an evening of reflections of Walter Edmonds’ “Impressions from Monet’s Garden�. This will be held at the Hayti Heritage located at 804 Old Fayetteville St. Durham This event is free and open to the public.

January 2007
Celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation at Hayti Heritage Center. Our holiday weekend celebration includes many lively performances, gospel concerts, and the annual Raise-A-Reader Book Fair.

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