Joey castle biography
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Artist Joe Castle
Congratulations to Joe Castle for earning his place as a Finalist in the Boynes Emerging Artist Award 7th Edition!
Who are you?
I was raised in Philadelphia, PA and studied history and English at the University of Colorado. After graduation I studied with Myron Barnstone at the Barnstone Studio. At the Barnstone Studio I studied classical drawing, painting and sculptor. In 1999 I was awarded a one man show at the studio and after its success it became clear that I needed to start my own career. Since then, I have been a professional artist.
What inspired you to utilize sculpture as a medium?
Sculpture allows me to tell stories in an immediate, personal and visceral way. I am also inspired by the method to make a bronze sculpture. The many stages provide me to always be learning which keeps me curious and inspired to learn more.
How would you describe your work?
In addition to coming from a personal space, I attempt to make my work accessible to all who view and experience it. This series evokes a primordial vision and an archetypal story: the journey of the hero. Because I have framed it so broadly, what is personal becomes universal and the viewer is moved past language and participates in a direct and emotional way to the
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Calico Joe
2012 novel by John Grisham
Calico Joe is John Grisham's first baseballnovel. It was released on April 10, 2012.
The book's style mixes fact and fiction - introducing fictional players into well-known actual teams such as the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs and lets them interact with actual people such as Yogi Berra, while letting dramatic fictional baseball matches take place in actual stadiums.
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[edit]The author, John Grisham, once dreamed of a career as a professional baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals.[1] This, his first baseball novel, is about a beanball that ends the career of a promising player.[1] The novel is inspired by the real-life story of Ray Chapman, the only professional baseball player killed by a pitch.[2] The book was also inspired by some of Grisham's personal baseball experience, as noted in the foreword, when Grisham played baseball and developed a dislike of aggressive, bad-mannered pitchers. For example, at the age of 19, Grisham saw a ball fly by his face at about ninety miles per hour and quit the game, promptly and permanently.
The novel involves a near-fatal pitch thrown on August 24, 1973[3] and its implications 30 years later on both the
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