Zivic

Despite the economic thrust, Zivic compared the mailing to a recent television ad from the Republican National Committee taking aim at Tennessee Senate candidate Rep. Harold Ford Jr., who could become the first African-American to be elected to the Senate from the South since Reconstruction.

TN-SEN: GOP Flyer Urges Vote "To Preserve Your Way Of Life" 2009

In earlier decades, some white leaders used similar language in opposing civil rights for blacks, though Zivic was reluctant to draw a direct connection to fights over desegregation.

TN-SEN: GOP Flyer Urges Vote "To Preserve Your Way Of Life" 2009

They came to see Fritzie Zivic, the welterweight contender from Pittsburgh who made an appearance for the Celtics.

Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

They came to see Fritzie Zivic, the welterweight contender from Pittsburgh who made an appearance for the Celtics.

Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

They came to see Fritzie Zivic, the welterweight contender from Pittsburgh who made an appearance for the Celtics.

Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007

Zivic's famous coal pieces spring from something like Michelangelo's impulse to take a slab of marble and chip away everything that doesn't look like the

Forbes.com: News Richard Nalley 2011

"I have a personal desire to save America from itself," declares Jim Zivic, 50, an artist and furniture maker whose work is rooted in the kind of sooty, just-clinging-on postindustrial landscape inhabited by rss

Forbes.com: News Richard Nalley 2011

"I'm playing around with stacked leather," answers Zivic.

Forbes.com: News Richard Nalley 2011

Zivic, who works out of a converted chicken coop in deeply rural Jefferson, New York, is an accomplished draftsman, fine art painter, welder, sculptor, and perforce coal polisher.

Forbes.com: News Richard Nalley 2011

Zivic's work demands that we resee what is right in front of our faces and, where appropriate, sit on it.

Forbes.com: News Richard Nalley 2011