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American Press
5 days ago
- Sport
- American Press
Locals pick up wins in LHSFR first-go round
Cruz Melanson of Vinton had the second fastest time (8.57 seconds) during tie down roping first-go round on Thursday at the Louisiana High School Finals Rodeo. (Rodrick Anderson / American Press) Southwest Louisiana cowboys Cale Carpenter, Wyatt Sonnier and Cougar Racca picked up wins in the first-go round at the Louisiana High School Finals Rodeo on Thursday at Burton Coliseum. Carpenter (Jeff Davis Home School) won the first round of steer wrestling with a stunning sub-four-second time of 3.56 seconds. Sonnier (Welsh High School) teamed up with Teddie Austin Guynn to win the opening round of team roping at 7.64 seconds and just .15 seconds ahead of Stratton James and Gus Dorris. Sonnier and Guynn moved up to fourth place in the standings. In tie down roping, Racca (Bell City High School), the 2023 state champ, edged Cruz Melancon (Vinton) for the top time of the day at 8.41 seconds. Melancon posted a time of 8.57 seconds. The battle for the breakaway roping title remains tight after the first round. Kensley Mudge (Magnolia Bend Academy) and Jillian Fontenot (Beau Chene) still lead with 41 points each, and Caroline Fontenot (Beau Chene, 36.1) and Saige (Sulphur, 36) Martin and Faith Dubois (34.5) are not far behind. LHSFR first-go round winners Bareback riding – Ethan Parrott, Darbonne Woods Charter, 59 points. Barrel racing – Rylee Jo Maryman, University View Academy, 14.935 seconds. Breakaway roping – Abbie Savant, Home School, 2.29 seconds. Bull riding – Briggs Cooley, Christ Bridge, 75 points. Goat tying – Jamie Kile, Hicks HS, 7.70 seconds. Pole bending – Addison Rains, Magnolia Bend Academy, 20.769 seconds. Steer wrestling – Cale Carpenter, Jeff David Home School, 3.56 seconds. Team roping – Teddie Austin Guynn, Home School/Wyatt Sonnier, Welsh HS, 7.64 seconds. Tie down roping – Cougar Racca, Bell City HS, 8.41 seconds. Louisiana High School Finals Rodeo Standings after first-go round All-Around Cowboy 1, Braxton Guillot, La. Virtual Charter 114.4 2, Turbo Baxter, Slaughter Comm. 109.2 3, Cruz Melanson, Vinton 101.1 4, Jayden Nunez, S. Cameron 97.0 5, H.D. Willis, Home School 89.0 Rookie All-Around Cowboy 1, Cole Steib, Catholic-PC 87.9 2, Skinner Wilkinson, Home School 37.0 3, Cain Martin, Sulphur 34.4 All-Around Cowgirl 1, Abbey Anderson, Shepherd 229.7 2, Rylee Jo Maryman, Univ. View 205.1 3, Addison Rains, Magnolia Bend 188.0 Rookie All-Around Cowgirl 1, Addison Rains, Magnolia Bend 188.0 2, Kinley Walker, Home School 96.0 Bareback riding 1, *#Bryer Prince, Home School 93.2 2, Fisher Burnworth, Home School 46.1 3, Ethan Parrott, Darbonne Woods 28.0 Barrell racing 1, *Rylee Jo Maryman, Univ. View 91.0 2, Abbey Anderson, Shepherd 78.4 3, Ava Nunez, Bell City 65.4 4, Gemi Robinson, Magnolia Bend 62.8 5, Kynnedy Nunn, Welsh 47.5 Breakaway roping 1, Jillian Fontenot, Beau Chene 41.0 2, Kensley Mudge, Magnolia Bend 41.0 3, Caroline Fontenot, Beau Chene 36.1 4, Saige Martin, Sulphur 36.0 5, Faith Dubois, Home School 34.0 Bull riding 1, Ty Lavergne, DeQuincy 98.65 2, *Brennan Polito, Epic Charter 86.65 3, Carter Shaw, Magnolia Bend 56.5 4, Briggs Cooley, Christ Bridge 45.5 5, Luke Simon, Notre Dame 44.3 Goat tying 1, *Ella Kay, Barbe 102.0 2, Sage Raymond, Briarfield Acad. 82.2 3, Abbey Anderson, Sheperd 78.3 4, Abbie Savant, Home School 73.5 5, Rylee Jo Maryman, Univ. View 73.1 Pole bending 1, *Kodi Miller, Simpson 100.7 2, Gemi Robinson, Magnolia Bend 84.1 3, Addison Rains, Magnolia Bend 73.0 4, Kenzie King, Jeff Davis Home School 62.4 5, Abbey Anderson, Sheperd 46.0 Saddle bronc riding 1, *#Wyatt Lavergne, DeQuincy 89.0 2, Zach Reeves 64.0 3, Austin James, Rosepine 54.0 4, Brant Schexnider, Kaplan 8.0 Steer wrestling 1, Turbo Baxter, Slaughter 95.2 2, William Gunter, Sulphur 68.3 3, Kyler Landry, Ascension Cath. 67.0 4, Noah Weeks, Magnolia Bend 45.0 5, Jayden Nunez, S. Cameron 44.0 Team roping 1, *Kayson Lasyone, Magnolia Bend 130.4 Cole Steib, Catholic-PC 2, Carter Perry, Cedar Creek 116.0 H.D. Willis, Home School 3, Carter Huffman, Jena 108.8 Andrew Paul, Jena 4, Teddie Austin Guynn, Home School 76.0 Wyatt Sonnier, Welsh 5, Grant Engel, Jeff Davis Home School 74.0 Skinner Wilkinson, Home School Tie down roping 1, Braxton Guillot, La. Virtual Ch. 96.4 2, Cruz Melanson, Carol Acad. 81.1 3, Carter Primeaux, Erath 64.2 4, Gentry Silver, Bell City 59.3 5, Cougar Racca, Bell City 59.0 *Defending state champ #2025 state champion
Scroll.in
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Scroll.in
Jyoti Bhatt: The Gandhian whose expressive artwork is an archive of India
Jyoti Bhatt was born in Gujarat's Bhavnagar on March 12, 1934 – the fourth anniversary of the Dandi March led by Mohandas Gandhi. This coincidence always felt meaningful to him. Bhatt's father was deeply influenced by Gandhi. That association may have shaped the outlook of the printmaker, photographer and teacher indirectly – and sometimes more directly, such as his decision to always wear khadi. Bhatt, now 91, was especially struck by Gandhi's advice to writers to use language so simple that even unlettered farmhands engaged in agricultural tasks could understand it. Bhatt says that he has always tried to follow this principle, especially in his writing. The nonagenarian's prolific artistic career and philosophies are being showcased at an exhibition titled Through the Line & the Lens at Gallery Latitude 28 in New Delhi. It has been curated by artist Rekha Rodwittiya. This is the largest retrospective in recent years of the art and practice of Jyotindra Manshankar Bhatt, popularly known as Jyoti Bhatt. The exhibition offers a new reading of the enduring influence of Bhatt on an entire generation of post-independence visual art practitioners. Also on display are his personal writings in diaries and letters. Bhatt's lifelong vocation to document India's living traditions, rural artistic practices and vernacular art forms has contributed significantly to preserving India's visual heritage, says curator Rodwittiya. 'Bhatt understood that rural social practices were not going to remain intact and unimpaired from the changing economic and socio-political situations that India was encountering,' she said. 'His travels brought him into contact with folk traditions, where art was practiced as part of the everyday occurrences of the lives of the people in rural India.' While this could be viewed as a process of archiving and documenting, Bhatt's keen creative approach makes them works of art in their own right, as well as a tool for preservation of the memory and a belief system he saw as slowly vanishing. In 1967, Bhatt began using the camera to replace his sketchbook during travels, allowing him to record images immediately. Led by curiosity and experimentation, Bhatt used opportunities to explore new techniques, processes, and even technology. Image making through the camera began as an act of documentation and a cerebral exercise, but gradually evolved into a medium of expressing emotions. A Gandhian at heart, he approached his work with empathy and humanism. His documentation of living traditions was far deeper than a mere record of events and scenes. Bhatt's practice straddled various disciplines. As an artist, he created a unique pictorial language that permeated many media in an era of seminal change within Indian contemporary art. He was educated at Bhavnagar's Home School, where the teaching philosophy was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore. 'The environment was liberal, even progressive, for its time,' Bhatt recalled. 'Music, dance and the arts were given as much importance as subjects like mathematics or science.' Since he was not particularly strong in academics, his interests grew naturally towards the arts. This led him to the newly established Faculty of Fine Arts at the MS University of Baroda in 1950. Here, Bhatt assisted his teachers, first NS Bendre and later KG Subramanyan, on their personal mural projects. 'Those experiences were formative and gave me confidence in my own ability to handle collaborative and large-scale work,' Bhatt said. Attending events such as a fresco workshop at the Banasthali Vidyapith in Rajasthan in 1953 and his exposure to mandana, a traditional form of rangoli, gave Bhatt a familiarity with the form and a curiosity about it that later lead to his photo-documentation of similar living traditions in rural and tribal India. He was exposed to printmaking during his college years. An exhibition of Krishna Reddy's prints left a deep impression on him. Later, in 1964, when he received a Fulbright Scholarship, he studied the subject at the Pratt Institute in New York. Bhatt began teaching at his alma mater in 1959. With limited resources and minimal access to information, it was a challenge for a teacher to open up the minds of young students. 'Looking back, I think I was playing a pretend game, like the ones young children play, by simply imitating how my teachers shared their knowledge of art,' he said. 'Even then, and perhaps always, I preferred not to advise students on what they should do. Instead, I tried to make them aware of various possibilities, often drawn from the past.' Situating India's rural and tribal traditions within contemporary processes, as well as viewing Indian creative expressions in the context of Western and larger global discourses made Bhatt a unique bridge transcending the two worlds. While his work remained deeply rooted in the ethos of India's history and heritage, it examined critically the dichotomies and ironies of Independent India. At a time when most artists of his generation were aligning themselves with positions that reflected either Western or Eastern influences within their vocabulary, Bhatt did not conform. 'He deliberately becomes a tightrope-walker and juxtaposes his need to view both these territories as historical ancestries that accommodate him,' said Rodwittiya. Positioned at the cusp between tradition and modernity, his work referenced cubistic attitudes and pop culture before arriving at the deeply rooted Indian folk characteristics. It reflects the socio-political environment and harmony and discord of Indian society. His engagement with the complexities of modern India can be seen in his pictorial narratives, where image and text are often of equal importance to the cohesiveness of the image. His work is still relevant, asserted Bhavna Kakar, the founder of Latitude 28. 'Bhatt's practice is foundational to many conversations that today's younger artists are engaging with – whether it's around identity, craft, documentation, or politics.'
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Tricoci University of Beauty Culture Announces 2025 High School Scholarship Winners
CHICAGO, May 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Tricoci University of Beauty Culture is proud to announce the winners of its annual TUBC High School Scholarship, awarded to outstanding recent or soon-to-be high school graduates who have demonstrated a strong passion for the beauty industry. Each recipient will receive a $3,500 scholarship to help fund their education at Tricoci University, bringing them one step closer to becoming a licensed beauty professional. The 2025 TUBC High School Scholarship winners are: Lila Willoughby – Mitchell High School Essence McIntyre – Art In Motion Misty Avalo – Dunbar High School Jatziri Hidalgo – Senn High School Hayah Rasul – Malcolm X High School Neysa Von Bergen – Marian Central Catholic High School Ari Callaway – East Aurora High School Quinnlee Bair – Home School Rachel Morris – Columbus East High School Katy Gonzalez – Waukegan High School Emmi Hasselbacher – Eureka High School Carlee Brown – Cuba High School Juliana Collins – Boylan Catholic High School Brook Sheppard – Home School "We are thrilled to recognize these talented students who represent the future of the beauty industry," said Krissy Crandell, Manager of High School & Community Outreach. "Each winner has shown extraordinary drive and creativity, and we're honored to support them as they pursue their passion for beauty." This scholarship is part of Tricoci Forward, the university's new initiative designed to inspire and engage high school students exploring the world of beauty. Tricoci Forward offers a supportive entry point for young creatives to discover the career possibilities the beauty industry has to offer—from haircare and skincare to nails, wellness, and entrepreneurship. As part of this initiative, Tricoci University is also launching its first-ever Next Gen Beauty Camp, a three-day experience for high school juniors and seniors with a passion for beauty. Participants will receive training and mentorship from industry professionals and have the opportunity to showcase their work in a culminating showcase. Applications are now open through May 9th, 2025 at 11:59pm CST. Apply now! For more information about Tricoci University of Beauty Culture and its programs, please visit or connect with us on social media: Instagram: @tricociuniversity Facebook: @TricociUniversity, TikTok: @tricociuniversity and YouTube: @TricociU. About Tricoci University of Beauty CultureTricoci University of Beauty Culture is a premier beauty education provider with 15 campuses throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Tricoci University is focused on producing salon-ready graduates who are prepared for successful careers in the beauty industry. Founded by international beauty industry leader Mario Tricoci, Tricoci University is developing a new type of beauty professional by using innovative teaching methods, an interactive learning platform, and upscale facilities. All guest services are provided by students under the supervision of licensed instructors. For more information about Tricoci University of Beauty Culture please visit View original content: SOURCE Tricoci University of Beauty Culture
