21.Which artist is noted for distinctive layering techniques
A.Laura Rich
B.Barbara Walker
C.Jo Gray
D.James Russell
22.If you want to visit an exhibition in mid-April 2025,which one will be open
A.In Between Horizons
B.Being Here
C.Spring Exhibition
D.Undersea
23.What is the primary purpose of this text
A.To advertise a sale of artwork
B.To share the artists'personal life stories.
C.To compare different artists'painting styles.
D.To inform readers about upcoming art exhibitions.
Jim Curry lights the furnace (of his portable blacksmith's shop in the parking lot of Christ
Episcopal Church in Guilford,Connecticut.The furnace glows orange and lets off a low roar.It'll get up
to 2,000 degrees,hot enough to soften the metal of a tray of disassembled shotgun parts.
A crowd is watching,and Curry picks out a 9-year-old named Oliver to help him.Oliver swings
cautiously at first,flakes of red-hot metal falling around his feet.He reshapes it into a trowel you could
use to plant flowers in a garden."It was exciting,"Oliver says."I love the fact that you can take metal
that's random and shape it into something useful."
Curry is a co-founder of Swords to Plowshares Northeast,the organization putting on this event,
which helps police departments manage their gun buyback programs and repurpose the items into
gardening tools.Curry says he was inspired by a Mennonite group in Colorado that reforged
useless items into garden tools.Those doing the repurposing are often prisoners,volunteer blacksmiths
or eager participants.The finished tools are donated to community gardens and agricultural high schools
and the harvested vegetables donated to soup kitchens and homeless shelters,according to the group's
website.
Mary Ann Osborne first volunteered with Swords to Plowshares when a family member fell victim
to violence.She helps collect items through police buybacks."You see the items lying there and then
you see them get broken down,”she says.“And then you see people hammer(捶打)them,and then you
see people digging their gardens and something grows.You actually see the transformation."She says
the hammer and forge are powerful symbols and the negative forces can be reshaped into something
positive and peaceful.
Curry wears a cross around his neck."It's made out of pieces of an AK-47,"he says."But God
takes that element and then God's love breaks it apart,reshapes it,then transforms it into the sign of
greatest hope-the cross.And that's why I wear it."
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