David conrad fait un don a la Kiski School

Bon je ne savais pas trop où le mettre car c'ets ni une itw, ni des photos mais un aticle sur david paru le 21 Juin dans Indiana Gazette
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Actor donates art collection to Kiski school

En gros il est écrit qu'il fait don a la Kiski school sa collection d'oeuvre d'art d'une valeur de $300,000, 151 oeuvres: peintures, photos, gravures, sculptures,.... où environ 90% des artistes representé sont soit né, soit on grandit (ou vécu), soit vivent en Pennsylvanie

il déclare lui meme que d'autre personnes doivent les voir, donc quel meilleur endroit pour lui que la Kiski School et espere que cela donnera des idée a des garçons de se lancer dans l'art

N'est il pas genereux notre david, c'est pour ça qu'on l'aime

Oh merci pour l'article!
Aaaaah notre bon David qui est généreux!

qu'est-ce qu'il est génial notre David

t'as raison Van !!!!
Merci pour l'info !

la perfection incarnée ce david

hihi ça c'est sûr! mdr

mdr

yeah it's a pecferct men

Il est entré à l'Ecole Kiski qui est un Pensionnat Privé pour Garçons...

Citation :

Craig McPherson's "Braddock" is among David Conrad's gifts to the Kiski School.To television viewers, David Conrad is Jim Clancy, former firefighter and husband of Jennifer Love Hewitt, who plays the title role in the successful series "The Ghost Whisperer."

To local theatergoers, he's the energetic man who produced, directed and starred in a recent production of "Burn This," a play staged at the New Hazlett.

But at the Kiski School in Westmoreland County, the tall, lean Swissvale native and 1985 alumnus is the board member who notices every blank wall -- even those in stairwells -- and wanders around with a drill in his hand so he can hang art.

This spring, Mr. Conrad donated 151 artworks valued at $300,000 to his alma mater, a private boys boarding school with an enrollment of around 200. The 41-year-old actor's eclectic collection includes work by well-known local artists Robert Qualters and Kevin Kutz, photographs of Homestead by Charlee Brodsky, Japanese woodblock prints and a colorful quilt made by African Americans during the early 20th century.

"He just tried to find intellectually challenging art and put it up. Because of that, they ended up with something much better" than traditional landscapes, said Sam Berkovitz, owner of Concept Art Gallery in Regent Square.

Mr. Berkovitz is especially fond of Craig McPherson's dramatic mezzotints that show Braddock's Edgar Thomson mill and the Clairton coke works at night.

On a recent sunny day, Mr. Conrad led a reporter on a tour of the art that he gave to the school. He has been collecting for a decade and visits galleries in Pittsburgh, London, England and Milwaukee. He maintains a mental checklist of the school's blank walls because his love affair with art continues. He particularly likes large artworks.

"What this place cries out for is sculpture," he said, pointing to a lawn across from the Old Main building. He envisions the day when sculptures by Richard Serra or Mark di Suvero are placed on the grounds.

Inside the red-brick Swank Student Center, visitors will see the work of Colin Noonan, 28, whose oil painting "German Motor" is a kind of contemporary still-life of an old Volkswagen engine topped with a red mechanic's rag. Mr. Noonan paints in a Strip District garage where Mr. Conrad takes his car.

On the opposite wall, Fabrizio Gerbino's rendering of locks turned on their side is a painterly study in color. Mr. Gerbino, who is from Florence, Italy, paints in a studio in Stowe.

The architecture of the new student center, which was dedicated June 5, was partly inspired by the design of an Episcopal church on Bainbridge Island off the coast of Seattle, Mr. Conrad said. The building's back wall is practically all windows and the spacious great room rather like the nave of a church. On the other side of a 42-foot tall stone fireplace is a long, curved coffee bar and a large-screen television. In a first-floor hallway, visitors see a photograph by British artist David Dawkins, who captured painter Lucian Freud at work. The arresting image shows Freud painting Queen Elizabeth II, who is dressed in a blue suit.

The second-floor offices of the Swank Student Center are adorned by colorful gouaches on Japanese paper that depict irises. Displayed in simple Arts and Crafts-style wooden frames, these artworks served as ads for Yokohama Nursery Co., which supplied the Japanese cherry trees that grow on the Mall in Washington, D.C.

Besides this major donation, Mr. Conrad will commission art each year along with fellow alum Kris Rockwell. The commission is called Will's Gift in memory of William Turley, a Kiski math teacher who died in 1998.

"To me, he was about finding inspiration in places you thought there was none," Mr. Conrad said.

This year's recipient of the $5,000 commission is sculptor Alexi Morrissey.

By the end of next summer, the school will offer an audio tour of the art narrated by Mr. Conrad. Visitors will dial a number on their cell phones and press a number next to the art work to hear a description of it.

He hopes that the presence of the art collection at the school stimulates "artistic impulses from the heart and the gut." He likes hanging art in unlikely places, such as the Edouard Vuillard drawing of women reading in a salon that's beside a sink in a men's room.

A vividly colored quilt by African-American women, found in Allentown, Lehigh County, and made between 1910 and 1930, is displayed prominently in the student center.

"I think it's the finest thing in the collection," Mr. Conrad said, adding that he searched for an indigenous craft artwork that was "outside the academy."

On nearby walls are Leonard Baskin's dramatic black drawing of White Horse, a Snake Indian, and Kevin Kutz's "The Awakening of Spring." Kutz's whimsical rendering shows a woman with long blond hair resting in an old bed. It was painted on an old window frame, giving it added texture and impact.

One of Qualters' early paintings of a man picking apples in an orchard was inspired by the artist's first job. Mr. Conrad calls him "Pittsburgh's magical realist."

In the gymnasium, just inside a men's room door, is a black-and-white photograph of the original nine members of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. Next to a women's restroom is a photograph of a ballerina dancing on Heinz Field; next to the adjoining men's room is a picture of Roberto Clemente.

Inside the gymnasium building are two memorable pictures -- one of Honus Wagner's hands and another showing members of the Pittsburgh Steelers kneeling to pray in a Detroit locker room before taking the field to win Super Bowl XL.


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J' en ai pas trop le temps mais en gros David CONRAD a donné de sa propre collection il me semble... 151 tableaux évalués à 300 000 dollars à l'école Kiski, école si vous connaissez sa biographie que David a fréquenté...

Merci Melinda pour l'article!

c'est génial! merci beaucoup beaucoup pour l'article melinda!

oui c'est bien ça melinda

heu il me semble que j'avais deja mis l'info non ? ici le 22 juin https://ghost-whisperer.forumactif.com/la-vie-prive-de-david-conrad-f130/david-conrad-fait-un-don-a-la-kiski-school-t1126.htm

mais merci quand meme

oui mais je crois pas qu'il yavait pas tout l'article avec si?

ben si car j'avais mis le lien direct de l'article (pas copier collé, mais le lien menant à l'article en son entier)

ha dans ce cas il faudrait peut-être que tu le signales à Melinda?

ben oui j'espère qu'elle passera par ici, ou alors je lui envoi un MP c'est le mieux non ?
c'est surtout pour éviter les doublons, et que l'info date du 22 JUIN

oui envoie lui plutot un mp alors, et recherche la page où tu avais mis l'info non?

deja fais regarde mes 2 post precedent (ou 3)

ah oui pardon j'avais pas vu

pas grave je l'ai envoyé en MP pour fusionner les 2 topic et ainsi n'en faire qu'un (d'ou le terme "fusion" mdr)

oui mdr, d'où le terme fusion mdr mdr

Sev a écrit:

pas grave je l'ai envoyé en MP pour fusionner les 2 topic et ainsi n'en faire qu'un (d'ou le terme "fusion" mdr)

Alors par contre je le place dans les Evénements
car pour moi c'est quelque chose de très importants et un grand geste
Merci Sev pour le rappel

de rien pour le rappel,
ok pour le placer ici oui c'est un grand geste de sa part, il est si généreux