Founder's Day - April 4
Lily Theresa Touma Pilgrim (1928-2017), born on April 4, 1928, established The Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation in January, 2016. The Foundation celebrates Founder's Day, April 4, each year, and this year the public is invited to Mrs. Pilgrim's apartment, 712, our Office, at 1420 N. Street, NW, Washington, DC. For more information, please call Peter Stebbins, Director at 802-528-9185 or find our contact form on this website.
Image: Vibrant public art wraps of Earle Pilgrim's oil on luon painting, Untitled, 1959, oil, reproduced on traffic signal boxes by Clean Slate Group, 2019, AROW Arts in the Right of Way, Traffic Control Box Beautification, Art Wraps for Historic Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC, with Georgia Avenue Thrive and District Bridges, for It's a Small World After All, a series of public programs at Petworth Library exploring public records and community. Traffic signal boxes, surrounding winterscape yielding to spring, with sprouting daffodil bulbs and new grass; a white "ghost" bike, typically placed at the site of a fatal bicycle accident to honor the deceased cyclist; political posters. Petworth location, commemorating the Aswad Touma presence as MENA American homeowners and shopkeepers on Georgia Avenue; and, through Barbadian American artist Earle Pilgrim's artwork, Georgia Avenue's historic ties to the Caribbean American community. It's a small world, after all. Sankofa!
Image: Vibrant public art wraps of Earle Pilgrim's oil on luon painting, Untitled, 1959, oil, reproduced on traffic signal boxes by Clean Slate Group, 2019, AROW Arts in the Right of Way, Traffic Control Box Beautification, Art Wraps for Historic Georgia Avenue, Washington, DC, with Georgia Avenue Thrive and District Bridges, for It's a Small World After All, a series of public programs at Petworth Library exploring public records and community. Traffic signal boxes, surrounding winterscape yielding to spring, with sprouting daffodil bulbs and new grass; a white "ghost" bike, typically placed at the site of a fatal bicycle accident to honor the deceased cyclist; political posters. Petworth location, commemorating the Aswad Touma presence as MENA American homeowners and shopkeepers on Georgia Avenue; and, through Barbadian American artist Earle Pilgrim's artwork, Georgia Avenue's historic ties to the Caribbean American community. It's a small world, after all. Sankofa!
NB: "Neither bankers nor women are very happy about the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and Regulation B (the implementing arm of the Federal Reserve) which finally became the law of the land, and the first federal law to directly address the issue of credit discrimination against women. It is not surprising, considering that the controversial law is the result of hard battles and difficult compromises about an enormous and complex problem. The mandate of the law is clear: Creditors may no longer discriminate against women on the basis of sex or marital status. If they do so, they can be sued for damages, and the costs to a creditor can be astronomical. Suit may be brought in an individual action or a class action-and there is no limitation on the amount of actual damages that may be recovered. Punitive damages, moreover, may also be awarded: up to $10,000 in an individual action, and the lesser of $500,000 or one percent of the creditor's net worth in a class action. So the law has clout. What is more, state laws that are inconsistent are preempted by the federal law (with certain exceptions, eg, state property laws and laws relating to the disposition of decedents' estates)." L. Pilgrim, A Banker's Primer on Credit Discrimination Against Women, Banking Law Journal, 1977.