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YOUR Independent Community Newspaper THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2016
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Memories of home and family for Artis Lane
Treat time, in safety
Artist speaks at banquet, tours East Side By Mary Beth Corcoran mary@chathamvoice.com
Artist and sculptress Artis Lane, 89, returned to her roots in Chatham-Kent to be the featured guest speaker at the 77th Annual Rotary Club of Chatham Banquet at the Bradley Centre Friday night. Introduced by Rotary president Alysson Storey, Lane spoke interview style with Rotarian Chris Prince, telling stories of her beginnings in Chatham that included singing with her two siblings as the Shreve Sisters on CFCO Radio. From a young age, Lane and her family knew she was a talented artist, doing portraits at the age of seven. The great, great niece of Mary Ann Shadd (Carey), an activist in Underground Railroad refugee communities in Upper Canada in the 1950s and in pursuing rights
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Brander Myers, 2, shows off his dinosaur costume while collecting treats and safety advice at the Chatham-Kent Children’s Safety Village Saturday. See story on page 2.
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for Blacks and women, Lane talked about doing a sculpture of Rosa Parks, the Black Detroit women who refused to sit at the back of the bus, and Dr. Martin Luther King. She also was commissioned to sculpt U.S. President Barack Obama, Sojourner Truth (an abolitionist and human rights activist) and her work can be seen in the Royal Ontario Museum, the Smithsonian and the California African American Museum. At the Rotary banquet, Lane talked about the many influential people she met and did works of, such as Miles Davis, Oprah Winfrey, Cary Grant (who was the influence behind her last cigarette), Diahann Carroll and Quincy Jones. Storey, who is a fan of Lane and her work, took the artist on a tour of the area Saturday.
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