Dyslexic In America

Angie Le Mar (born 27 October 1965) is a British comedian, Born in Lewisham, London of Jamaican parentage, she grew up

with 4 older brothers. She attended Lewisham Bridge School, Lewisham Girls School, Blackhealth Bluecoat School and Vauxhall College. Her experience at school was difficult, and it was not until she completed her education that she was diagnosed as being dyslexic. Aged ten, Le Mar appeared in a school play called “In on the Island” at the Albany Empire and then attended the Lewisham Drama Club, inspired by her primary school teacher Mr Woodgate. She then Joined Second Wave Women’s Drama group, where she performed “Net Full of Holes” also at the Albany Empire and was inspired by workshop facilitator Cathy Kilcoyne.

Le Mar attended the Barbara Speake Stage School, and Afro Sax drama club run by Larrington Walker, Ellen Thomas and Treva Etienne. Le Mar set up her own theatre company with two fellow actresses called the Bemarrow Sisters, which ran for seven years. Productions included “A Slice of Life” directed by Decima Francis, “Gloria” directed by Trevor Laird and “This way Up” written by Peggy Bennette-Hume. She was the first Black British performer to appear at Harlem’s Apollo Theatre and had the first ever sell out show by a female black comedian in London’s West End.[1] Her TV appearances include the BBC’s The Real McCoy and Channel 4’s Get Up, Stand Up, and presented The Saturday Morning Show on Choice FM. She was also a commentator on Grumpy Old Women in 2005.

Born August 6, 1928

Died February 22, 1987

Andy Warhol found an outlet for his sense of creativity not in writing essays about the past, but in creating the art of the future.  He used his gift and paints to give 20^th Century Americans an insight into themselves that 100 intellectuals could never have done.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of “work,” because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don’t always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

Warhol moved in some of the most illuminated circles the art world has ever known.  Still, he often felt on the outside of things, still remembering the sense from his childhood that he was somehow different.

I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

In fact he was different, and millions of his fans around the world will be forever grateful that he was.

I never understood why when you died, you didn’t just vanish. Everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn’t be there. I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’

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Started in 1981 literally right out of college from UC Santa Barbara and he moved to New York City to open up a modeling agency for some very … let’s

call them interesting people. he got into the industry for all the wrong reasons and he failed a couple of times miserably. Then he went back to L.A., borrowed $10,000 from his grandfather and he opened up an agency in his studio apartment. The Network, the world’s largest modeling agency, it’s clear that Paul has nothing to prove to the game. Paul has managed star models, names like Kimora Lee Simmons, Naomi Campbell, Janice Dickinson and Stephanie Seymour, but he continues to evolve and search for a new fresh face every single day.

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Born: December 11, 1961

The son of one chef, the younger brother of another, Marco White grew up in circumstances limited by money but expanded by great food.  After years of

difficulty learning, he left high school without graduating and began his training as a chef at the famous Hotel St. George in North Yorkshire.  At the tender age of 16 he joined the staff Le Gavroche as an apprentice to the pastry chef.  He opened his own restaurant in 1987 and received his first Michelin star the same year.  Two more stars quickly followed, making him at 33 the youngest chef to have ever earned 3 Michelin stars.  After retiring from cooking in 1999, White turned his attention to several restaurants he owned with others and then, a few years later, to television.  In 2007 he starred as the head chef of Britain’s Hell’s Kitchen.  The following year he hosted The Chopping Block.

So, how does a dyslexic boy growing up in council housing and leaving school at age 15, accomplish all this?  The answer is clear.

Like many people with a handicap, I compensated elsewhere. When I had difficulty with spelling and reading, I concentrated on mathematics and sports. However back in class, I found traditional teaching methods such as standing up and reading aloud in class pure torture. Dyslexia gave me a different way of looking at things. A compulsion to dissect ideas and concepts from every possible angle has stayed with me.

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Ignacio Gomez was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California. His father was an immigrant from

Piedras Negras, Mexico and his mother from Zacatecas, Mexico. A graduate of Roosevelt High School. He then studied commercial art at Los Angeles Trade Technical College. He worked at McDonnell Douglas to save money to enter Art Center College of Design which is now in Pasadena. Ignacio was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1966. While in the Army he painted four murals at Fort Ord, California and four at Fort Hood, Texas. After an Honorable Discharge as a Specialist Five from the U.S. Army in 1968, he returned to Art Center. While in school, he entered a contest in which two of his paintings were accepted and printed in the New York Times, which then led to having representation in New York. Ignacio received his BA from Art Center College of Design in 1970.

Ignacio has taught at Art Center College of Design and Otis Parsons School of Fine Arts. He has also lectured at California State College, the San Diego Art Directors Club, the Denver Art Directors Club, UCLA, and various high Schools and junior high schools in the barrios of East Los Angeles and the surrounding communities. In 1990 he was invited to speak before some of this nations’s Latino College students at a conference held at Harvard University. In May of 1995 he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on behalf of the youth in the community by the Salesian Boys and Girls Club.

His works have been shown in New York, Europe, Japan and Mexico. Many of his original paintings have become part of permanent corporate art collections, such as “Escape from Sobibor”, which is now hanging in the Chrysler Corporate Headquarters. “The Astronomers”, which is now in the private collections of the Keck Foundation. He has been recognized in numerous publications such as “ENCUENTROS, Hombre a Hombre” where he was featured as a roll model for the youth, by the California Department of Education, Communication Arts, Idea Magazine and Pop-eye Magazine both from Japan and Caminos Magazine.

In 1991, the Boy Scouts of America commissioned Ignacio to paint a cover for a magazine and poster honoring the soldiers returning form the Gulf War. He has been painting covers and editorial art for the Boy Scouts Magazines for the past 25 years.
Ignacio has worked on various motion picture posters and advertising campaigns. He painted a mural depicting Hispanic movie stars in Hollywood at the headquarters and theater of NOSOTROS, located in Hollywood. He is well known for the painting of Edward James Olmos as the pachuco in “Zoot Suit” a play by Luis Valdez. KCET-TV commissioned Ignacio to paint a portrait of Leonard Strauss, founder of Thrifty Drug Stores and Book of Knowledge Stores, for his 80th birthday. He painted the poster for the series “Chicano! A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement” which aired on PBS.

In 1993, he created the “Creo” Award, a 17 inch, bronze statue for TELACU. Some of the recipients of this award have been the U.S. Secretary of Education, Honorable Richard W. Riley, Lieutenant Governor Cruz M. Bustamante, Mayor of Los Angeles, Richard J. Riordan.
He has painted many portraits of César Chávez, one with Robert Kennedy breaking bread, was presented to the Robert Kennedy family at the César Chávez and Robert Kennedy Legacy Exhibit. A print of a portrait depicting César’s life was presented to Governor Grey Davis with the Chávez Family’s signatures in commemoration of the signing of the César E. Chávez State Holiday. In the past three years, he has painted over 40 portraits for a series of calendars on top Latino entertainers, such as Edward James Olmos, Ricardo Montalban, Cristina, Jimmy Smits and Anthony Quinn to name a few. He painted the portrait of Eugene Obregon, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient to commemorate the dedication of the freeway interchange in his name, in downtown Los Angeles. He also painted four Latino Congressional Medal of Honor recipients for a historical play about their bravery, it was called “Veteranos, A Legacy of Valor” written by Enrique Castillo.

Ignacio is part of the Edward James Olmos Latino Book and Family Festival team which emphasizes books, cultural pride and computer technology for the 21st Century. He is also on the Board of Directors for the Edward James Olmos Educational Center in Montebello.

His vast collection of posters aiming towards the youth in the community, to strive for the highest in education, have become a positive enforcement to many Latino students. Many of Ignacio’s posters are now in the Smithsonian Archives. He has been featured on television and radio.

Ignacio’s wife, Imelda, born in Aguascalientes, Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, is also an artist and an elementary school computer teacher. They have four children, Greg, a graduate of Harvard University, Deanna, a graduate of California State University at Northridge, Dario, a graduate of University of Colorado, Boulder, and Elysa, a graduate of UCLA.

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