July 2006 Page 8

> Daughter becomes Department Head
My eldest daughter, Shannon Bell-Price, was recently promoted to Senior Research Associate, Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC... she has been with that museum for almost seven years. See what their program is about here:
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/department.asp?dep=8

> Hillary Rodham Clinton portrait
Ginny Stanford is the artist who painted the portrait of Senator Clinton recently seen on TV being unveiled along with the full length image of her husband... both of which are now on display in the newly refurbished and open National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Ginny was born and raised on a farm near Joplin, and in the late 1980s was a client of Visual Art Access in San Francisco. That museum also collected her portrait of the author MFK Fisher, and a New York collector owns a large pencil portrait she made of yrs trly in 1988 at my office on Hayes Street.

> English Language BENEZIT dictionary
At last, there is the publication of the much-treasured Benezit Dictionary of Artists in the english language. The new issue is 14 volumes, 20,608 pages, 170,000 entries, costs a measley $1489 to own and can be obtained from the U.S. distributor out of Detroit, Omnigraphics, Inc. Of all possible international historical artist directories, this is the most definitive one, in my opinion.

> Adopt Art
Interesting new service... artists having works of art they wish to find homes for and collectors looking for art to display on a tight budget (sole cost is one-way shipping) might consider checking out www.fineartadoption.net

> Josh Nail - Springfield, MO artist
Young Josh is Carol Meredith's only son and youngest child... quite an accomplished visual and performing artist. His Reggae band, Jah Roots has been performing for quite awhile, and we are about to see them for our first time in person this weekend in Pittsburg, Kansas at Fox Town City Limits.
For more about him and their music group, see:
www.myspace.com/jahroots