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Johns Creek considering street racing ordinance By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com
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Catalina Gomez-Beuth, new instructor at the Johns Creek Arts Center, stands with one of her portraits “Ensoñacion.” Consistently drawn to the color yellow, Gomez-Beuth prefers oil for its workable, soft quality and the way it captures underlying sketches, which breathe life into a painting.
Arts Center welcomes instructor Catalina Gomez-Beuth offers insight into immigrant experience with work By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — Only light sources mark the gray figures in Catalina Gomez-Beuth’s oil paintings, indicative of how she says race is perceived in her birthplace of Medellin, Colombia, where everyone “blends.” “I wanted to make a statement, ‘Okay, it’s not about this. It’s about the feelings of the people,’”
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said Gomez-Beuth, a new instructor at the Johns Creek Arts Center. Throughout her work, segmented into conceptually grounded series, Gomez-Beuth gives viewers a glimpse into her experience as an immigrant. Many of her paintings include butterflies, which she said are symbolic of immigration. Gomez-Beuth is working on a series titled “Beyond the Limits,” an expression of the right to dream, the American Dream. While she said race
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — An issue detected since early 2022 in Johns Creek, street racing will soon be targeted with a new city ordinance. Street racing isn’t limited to city streets and roadways, according to Police Chief Mark Mitchell. In his presentation to the Johns Creek City Council Aug. 22, Mitchell said these events can stem from private parking lot gatherings, where participants look at one another’s custom cars, play loud music and rev their engines. In an interview with Appen Media, Mitchell also described “intersection takeovers” where racers would block off an intersection, primarily on McGinnis Ferry Road, to perform donuts and burnouts while other drivers are traveling, posing a danger to those involved, passing drivers but also to spectators who might record these events.
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