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proud celebration of the positive connections between the Eugene Police Department (EPD) and the community.
<br />The goals of the artwork are as follows:
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<br />Goal 1) Celebrate and affirm the spirit of service for EPD staff, volunteers and officers.
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<br />Concepts supporting this goal will serve as positive daily affirmations for officers and staff who have
<br />dedicated themselves to protect and serve. These reminders will provide an ideal to reach for every day as
<br />people enter and exit the grounds.
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<br />Goal 2) Support the people who are served by EPD.
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<br />Concepts achieving this goal will support people who need the services of EPD after experiencing something
<br />very difficult or, at times, horrible. The artwork should provide positive reminders of care and affirmations of
<br />strength while helping create a welcoming, trusting, dignified environment.
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<br />The committee is composed of Sergeant Angie San Miguel, Officer Dale Dawson, Dimitri Von Klein (photographer),
<br />Joe Moore (Public Art Committee member), Charly Prichard (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art chief preparatory),
<br />Mike Penwell (City of Eugene design and construction manager), Kari Turner (PIVOT architect), and Isaac Marquez
<br />(City of Eugene public art manager).
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<br />The Art Committee encourages everyone to share this opportunity with artists who might be interested. To apply,
<br />contact City of Eugene Public Art Manager Isaac Marquez at 541-682-2057 or isaac.r.marquez@ci.eugene.or.us.
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<br />Best-Selling Writer and National Book Award Winner at Eugene Public Library
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<br />On Saturday, Oct. 22, at 2 p.m.,the Downtown Eugene Public Library will host a free talk by National Book Award-
<br />winning writer, M.T. Anderson.
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<br />An astonishingly inventive writer for all ages, Anderson creates thought-provoking novels, literary short stories,
<br />picture books, adventure tales, and more. His page-turners inspire and challenge readers’ beliefs about individual
<br />rights and the human spirit. Also, he's funny.
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<br />Anderson’s most recent best sellers are the novels “The Astonishing Life of Octavian
<br />Nothing, Traitor to the Nation,” Volume 1 and Volume 2. He was honored with a
<br />National Book Award for Volume 1, which was also a Printz Honor Book and a Boston
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<br />Globe – Horn Book Winner.The novel was listed among the best books of the year by
<br />The New York Times Book Review, Amazon.com, and Publishers Weekly.
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<br />A gripping tale told in the form of diary entries, letters, newspaper clippings, scientific
<br />papers, and more, the “Octavian Nothing” series “fascinates, appalls, condemns, and
<br />enthralls” (New York Times Book Review). It takes place in Revolutionary-era Boston,
<br />where an African boy is raised in luxury and given a classical education by a group of
<br />philosophers. But Octavian’s life changes drastically when he discovers that, in fact, he
<br />is not an honored guest, but a captive subject in an experiment regarding Africans’
<br />intellectual abilities – and that while American patriots are beginning to fight for their
<br />own liberty, most Africans in the colonies are enslaved under horrific conditions.
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<br />Although the specifics are fictional, the novels are based on in-depth research and reveal much about the actual
<br />circumstances, organizations, and moral questions of the period – as well as their continuing reverberations in
<br />today’s conflicts over power, class, racism, citizenship, patriotism, and freedom.
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<br />Anderson’s sharply satirical “Feed,” set in the not-too-distant future, will grab the attention of anyone who has
<br />wondered about the ultimate implications of Internet marketing. The title refers to a constant stream of customized
<br />ads sent directly into every teen’s brain, thanks to chip implants that make independent thought nearly impossible.
<br />This story of a few youths who try to break free in order to experience life directly is both chilling and touching.
<br />Like Anderson’s best-known books, this talk is for teens and adults. Books for purchase and signing will be available
<br />at the talk courtesy of the UO Duck Store.
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<br />For more information, contact the Eugene Public Library at 541-682-8316 or www.eugene-or.gov/library.
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<br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER PAGE 2
<br />October 13, 2011
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