Green Bay in the Super Bowl?

While it is true that the Seattle Seahawks will be playing the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII, another  NFL team's hometown will be making a short appearance in the biggest American Football event of the year. In 60 seconds, Coca Cola will be showing a commercial called "Going All the Way." Being filmed near Ashwaubenon High School, the commercial will be about a football player named Adrian who accidentally gets a ball thrown to him and runs for a touchdown. Instead of stopping and celebrating in the endzone, Adrian decides to keep running through the streets of Green Bay until he reaches the legendary home of the Packers, Lambeau Field. Once he enters the historic stadium, Adrian is rewarded with a special surprise from one of the Packers' official faculty members.

http://www.businessinsider.com/coca-colas-green-bay-super-bowl-2014-ad-2014-1

Disabled Boy Intrigued by Art

Obi Christenson, is an eight year old boy from Onalaska, Wisconsin. One year ago, Obi started feeling pain coming from his left hip area. After visiting the doctor, x-rays showed nothing to be wrong with Obi and plans of going on a family trip earlier were kept. Months later while on the trip, Obi's family noticed that their son was not taking part in regular activities, but instead sitting on a lawn chair. When they decided to bring him back to the hospital for x-rays doctors noticed a "visceral tumor" located behind his heart, wrapped around his spinal cord, and down his left kidney. After going through extensive amounts of  chemotherapy and more appointments set for next month, Obi is unable to participate in the typical childhood activities he once enjoyed doing. Instead, he has found a new hobby that has brought him just as much enjoyment as before. And that is drawing pictures of of the food, superheroes, and pet cat in his life. These exquisite drawings have landed Obi on the short list to design art for tissue boxes in a nation-wide contest.

http://www.crookstontimes.com/article/20140120/NEWS/140129973/1001/NEWS/?tag=1

Stealing and Selling From the Blind

Gilbert Jackson, a 67 year old blind man who resides in Florida, is the owner of a few exquisite and valuable art pieces. One of those works is an art piece by Op artist Victor Vasarely, which is reportedly worth somewhere in the vicinity of $30,000- $35,000 alone. Jackson's caretaker, Maureen Stuteville, is accused of stealing that particular art piece, along with others and then selling them off to local antique galleries. As soon as Jackson noticed the piece had been put out of place, his friends found receipts from a local antique gallery tracing to Stuteville's name. The owner of the gallery stated that the woman came in regularly, trying to receive as much money from the paintings as she could. She told the owner that the money was to pay off for her mouth cancer treatments and to put her father in a retirement home.

http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2014/01/10/blind-collectors-caregiver-sold-his-art/

A High School's Passion for Art

Over the past few months the Housatonic Valley Regional High School has been strongly determined to reach a specific goal. That particular goal is to raise enough funds to pay for a student art gallery. Over the past several years, the high school has developed an array of classes that has helped the students engage in art topics. The art gallery development is being designed to expand the involvement of art through the student body even more. In order to accomplish this task, the school is looking for $10,000 to meet the financial expenses. If the plan follows through, students will be given the opportunity to create their own artworks and masterpieces. The pieces would be placed on display for the public to see, but they will not be open for sale.  
http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2014/01/01/news/doc52c459a06979d662588199.txt?viewmode=default