W e e k l y COLTON COURIER
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March 29, 2018
THIS WEEK How two Colton small businesses make a positive impact on their customers Gloria’s Cor ner A3
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ured they could help bring out the Even though their priority is to smiles in people, while helping make a profit, these two small on’t be surprised if you promote their party supply store businesses recognize the rewards of giving back to others. see Bob the Minion or Smile Time Jumpers and Slides. Mickey Mouse waving at you while driving through 9th A few blocks away at IB Music “We wanted to come out here on Valley Boulevard, Victor and put a smile on people’s Street in downtown Colton. Suarez is providing lessons to res- faces,” said Scott Salazar. Scott and Monique Salazar, idents willing to learn and invest “People were honking and waving at the characters. It’s great to along with their four children, fig- in instruments. see people laughing and smiling By Anthony Victoria
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Scott and Monique Salazar, along with their four children, are helping bring out the smiles in people, while helping promote their party supply store Smile Time Jumpers and Slides by allowing residents to take photos with Disney characters.
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The Ibarra family says it understands the impact music programs have on children’s growth. They’ve focused many of their efforts around providing resources to families. Community, cont. on pg. 2
GT resident Randy Lauw’s fir st exhibit explores anguish and redemption
Staff Report
andy Lauw, fine art senior at La Sierra University will showcase in his first exhibit a collection of self-portrait pieces exploring life’s cyclical process through anguish and redemption.
Lauw’s exhibit “Nemesis” will be open Monday, April 2 Thursday, April 12 at La Sierra University’s Brandstater Gallery with an artist’s reception and talk at 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 8.
The exhibit features 21 pieces of artwork varying from relief prints, ceramic sculptures, to mixed media sculptures, as well as two sound installations. It was influenced by Adrián Villar Rojas, a contemporary artist whose work challenges the institutional authority of art museums, and Trenton Doyle Hancock, another contemporary
artist known for his use of selfportraiture in his fantastical narrative. In his artist’s statement, Lauw explains that “Nemesis,” which is “composed of partial and complete self-portraits, seeks to immerse viewers into fabricated grief, self-antagonizing, disarray, and liberation.”
“I spent my underclassman days creating work about monsters based off of human traits, a tale of two brothers in a retro-futuristic world, and a plane of existence called the Ethereal—where knowledge converges and those who enter depart in madness,” said Lauw, describing the three worlds he created that inspired most of his earlier art. As he further developed these unrelated stories, Lauw began to recognize their shared roots in his own cognition. Artist, cont. on pg. 2
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Randy Lauw, a fine art senior at La Sierra University, will showcase a collection of self portrait pieces exploring life’s cyclical process through anguish and redemption.