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Jennifer Juniper
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Visual Resources Curator and Art Historian at UNC at Chapel Hill. Stage Manager. Sewist. Soccer fan.

Profile: Me in an NC Courage Pride hat
Header: Interactive mist word-generator, curiosity, from Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "Atmospheric Memory," 2021
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Saw this new @nccourage.com merch and accepted the craft challenge. Cross stitch, southernness, and soccer. Cross stitch by me. Let’s go Courage!

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NC Courage t-shirt with a printed cross stitch pattern featuring floral borders and the words Bless Their Heart. The original NC Courage printed cross stitch t-shirt and me wearing the one I cross stitched on. Me standing in front of the Wake Med soccer pitch and wearing my cross-stitched version of the NC Courage printed cross stitch t-shirt.
October 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Next Redbird Theater Co. show coming up! Revolution will be happening in Oxford, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham, NC. Tickets go on sale soon.

Fun and hijinks during a birthday celebration with best friends, new friends, and a lot of candy and Miller High Life.

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Three pink-frosted chocolate cupcakes with lit candles, but one of them has been toppled over (the candle is still lit!). Text says Revolution an edgy new comedy by Brett Neveu.
July 15, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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On the east bank of the Rhone in Lyon stands the Tony Bertand Aquatic center, built in 1965 to designs by Alexandre Audouze-Tabourin. An Olympic folly, complete with 4 enormous “torch” towers, part of mayor Louis Pradel’s quest to being the 1968 Summer Games to the city (Mexico City got the bid).
On the far bank of a river stands a concrete complex consisting of 2 Olympic-size swimming pools with four torchiere towers and a shade porch in the center. The 4 “Olympic torch” towers in white painted concrete along the river Rhone. Two of the torch towers flanking a triangular projecting shade area at the center of the pool complex.
June 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I only had to land in Lyon to immediately see the structurally flamboyant work of Santiago Calatrava in the Lyon-Saint Exupery Airport Station (1994). Very insect-like. And the bollards were all gabion cages. Looking forward to more new-to-me architecture!
Concrete and glass architecture with two “wings” supported by steel beams. Looks like a side of a massive butterfly. Concrete and glass architecture with two “wings” supported by steel beams. Looks like a massive butterly. Slightly more head on view with a suspended pedestrian bridge coming out the back (so maybe more like a dragonfly). Underside of the concrete arches suspended over the train shed of the station. Like a spine and rib cage. Gabion cage bollards. Steel mesh filled with re-used construction debris, strong and sustainable.
June 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Dominant! 2X champions of TST7v7, US Women!
Jumbotron with Heather O’Reilly accepting a giant check for one million dollars. Jumbotron with Heather O’Reilly being interviewed about winning the championship. The US Women raise a large colorful beaded aoccer ball-shaped trophy in front of a tournament bracket board.
June 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Excited for the TsT7v7 Women’s Championship match! US Women and Bumpy Pitch Women warming up. Second pic is Olivia Thomas 33 (#gdtbath ), Carli Lloyd 10 and (#uswnt ), and Casey Loyd 27 (both).
US Women (navy uniforms) and Bumpy Pitch Women (cream and maroon uniforms) warming up on the pitch for the championship match. Carli Lloyd, Olivia Thomas, and Casey Loyd in mavy uniforms wait in line to practice shots, watched by cameramen and coaches in black.
June 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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Conflicted about the next TST7v7 Women’s semi. Reunion City Dallas (my hometown!) vs. US Women (#uswnt #gdtbath). Here’s to a good game!
Me, smiling, in front of a big electronic sign that says Reunion City Dallas with the team logo.
June 8, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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First TST7v7 Women’s semi between Bumpy Pitch FC and Ultrain. Rooting for Zerboni and Bumpy Pitch (#forthelove). Yuki Nagasato with the kickoff!
A women’s soccer team in cream striped jerseys listening to their coach before the start of a game A woman soccer player about to start the game with a kickoff on the TST center pitch logo.
June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Starting a bit later than planned, but IS Women are warming up for the TST7v7 quarterfinal. Carli Lloyd on the ball.

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Women soccer players in dark blue uniforms warming up on a green soccer pitch.
June 8, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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If you want an exhibition that will make you gasp, go see “Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan” at the @ackland_art_museum

40 pieces are stunning and play with tradition and contemporary art and craft practice. Open through August.

Art info in alt text

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White ceramic sculpture covered in thin swirls of clay. Hattori Makiko, Wandering, 2012 White ceramic sculpture made of thin sheets of clay in slightly overlapping layers. Tanaka Tomomi, Dream Flight, 2019 White ceramic plate with sculpted pine branches covering the surface. Hosono Hitomi, Pine Tree Pool, 2019 Matte black ceramic sculpture swirling like fabric in wind or the petals of a rose falling apart. Fujino Sachiko, Transformation: Black 2018
June 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Making the most of a rainy holiday to put up my new bathroom mirror. The light fixture went up two weeks ago, but the wall had to be spackled and painted first. I kept a piece of the original 1969 woven wallpaper.
Bathroom with a new mirror and two-lamp light fixture, to go with the mid-mod blue sink and soap rests. New mirror and light fixture next to the translucent glass wall cabinet. Old light fixture/medicine cabinet which was rusting inside. Framed piece of the original woven multicolor striped wallpaper from 1969 that was behind the medicine cabinet. Stripes are white, yellow, green, and blue.
May 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Finished! FLW meets Finley Fabric’s Looking Glass (pattern by Laura Vehige). March balloon accent pieces on the front repeated larger in the backing. Pieced and bound by me and longarmed by Carrie Hauser of Lovebug Longarming. Fabrics by Cloud9 based on Wright’s designs.

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Folded quilt with bright multi-colored blocks arranged like four-pane windows with white sashing, a pale blue and gray backing, on a gold sofa. Detail of the quilt showing the bubble circular quilting all over the surface, echoing the circles in the smaller square accent blocks. Quilt backing in pale blue and gray based on Frank Lloyd Wright’s March Balloons.
May 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Cross stitch finish: Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Saguaro Forms and Cactus Flowers” from a Heartland House Designs kit. The design was an unused Liberty mag. cover from 1927 that was made into a glass mural at the Arizona Biltmore Resort.

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Cross stitch on evenweave of a Frank Lloyd Wright design of cactus and blossoms in geometric greens, oranges, yellows, reds, and blues.
May 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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And three more that are not cats: made by Debbie Sommer, detail of buggy quilting, Lorraine Stenoish, and Diana S Fox. More info in alt text.

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Quilt of a red beetle with flowers on his wings and a red border. “Jasper” by Debbie Sommer, quilted by Carla Hamm. Detail of Jasper quilt with a freehand beetle. Quilt with a black female figure framed in blue with a white border. “Ode to Matisse” by Lorraine Stenoish, quilted by Wendy Fuller, hand turned and applique. Quilt of a bunch of fried eggs with yellow and orange yolks. “Who Broke the Yolk?” By Diana S Fox, fused and thread painted.
May 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Favorite quilts from the Southeast Sewing and Quilt Expo. First, the cats: made by Mel Dugosh, Robyn Gragg, Rhonda Settle, and Ruth Anne Yax. More info in alt text.

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Quilt of a back cat in a laundry basket with blue accents. “Wash and Dry” by Mel Dugosh, hand-turned applique Quilt with a black and grey cat head in a swirling symmetrical black and white pattern. “The Wizard of Paws” by Robyn Gragg. Quilt pf a black and white cat with green tie and background and black frame. “Dowager Queen Pixie” by Rhonda Settle Quilt pf an orange, black, and white cat on a black limb with green background, inspired by Charley Harper. “Cat on a Limb” by Ruth Anne Yax, pieced
May 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Yes! Thank you for asking! We are almost sold out for Chapel Hill.
Poster for RedBird Theater Company production of Eureka Day. Performance dates and locations are: May 9 and 10, 2025 at East Chapel Hill High School, May 16 and 17, 2025 at the Whitted Building in Hillsborough, and May 24, 2025 at the City Hall Auditorium of Oxford
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Finishing the night at the Biscuits & Banjos Festival with Don Vappie & Jazz Creole at the Durham Armory.

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Don Vappie and Jazz Creole performing at the Durham Armory.
April 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Part Two: The Carolina Chocolate Drops (all of them), with Sule Greg Wilson and Demeanor. At one point, five bones players were jamming.

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Carolina Chocolate Drops performing at DPAC. The “other drops” performing at DPAC. All of the Carolina Chocolate Drops performing at DPAC. Five bones players having a time performing at DPAC.
April 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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First half of the Biscuits & Banjos concert: new Dangerfield and Demeanor, Niwel Tsumbu, Rhiannon Giddens’ Old Time Revue, and Rhiannon and her sister Lalenja.

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New Dangerfield and Demeanor performing at DPAC. Niwel Tsumbu performng at DPAC. Rhiannon Giddens’ Old Time Revue performing at DPAC. Rhiannon Giddens and her sister Lalenja performing at DPAC.
April 27, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Mychal Threets (y’all know him), my @uncsils.bsky.social colleague Tressie McMillan Cottom, and Durham community librarian talking libraries as sanctuaries for black stories.

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Mychal Threets, Sara Stephens, and Tressie McMillan Cottom
April 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Amethyst Kiah “rockin’ it out” at the Blackbird stage at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival.

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Amethyst Kiah playing guitar. Amethyst Kiah playing banjo.
April 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Just caught the end of Hubby Jenkins ser at the Blackbird stage of the Biscuits and Banjos Festival (another free venue, which will livestream the big show tonight).

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Hubby Jenkins playing banjo. Hubby Jenkins playing banjo.
April 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Black Voices in Country Music with Alice Randall, Rissi Palmer, and Rhiannon Giddens at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival. Free programming under the ATC water tower all day on this perfect weather day.
Alice Randall, Rissi Palmer, Rhiannon Giddens
April 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Taj Mahal with Layla McCall and a late cameo by Rhiannon Giddens. Great start to the Biscuits and Banjos Festival!

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Taj Mahal and Laula McCall performing with her band. Taj Mahal and his many instruments, including a tiny banjo. Layla McCall and Rhiannon Giddens Taj Mahal, Layla McCall, and Rhiannon Giddens.
April 26, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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The many instruments and faces of Dom Flemons at the Biscuits and Banjos Festival.

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Dom Flemons playing harmonica and bones. Dom Flemons with a dobro. Dom Flemons with the biggest banjo around. Dom Flemons with a custom banjo from Jamaica.
April 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM