Duston Spear

Duston Spear, a native of Virginia, is an artist and activist residing in New York City. She received a certificate from Parsons School of Design in 1976, a B.A. from New York University in 1989, and an M.A. from New York University in 1998. She served as a Falk Visiting Artist in the Department of Art at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the spring of 1996. Beginning in spring of 2002, she began work as an adjunct professor of fine arts at Pace University. Starting in spring of the following year, she began work as an adjunct professor for Higher Education for Women in Prison. She has taught painting at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, NY. Her work has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and the High Museum of Art, among others.

She is represented by Sara Tecchia Roma New York in Chelsea.

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Duston

Coordinates: 52°14′49″N 0°56′37″W / 52.2470°N 0.9437°W / 52.2470; -0.9437

Duston is a suburb of and civil parish in the borough of Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. It has been a settlement since at least Roman times.

The area is near the Sixfields leisure site, which includes a cinema and football stadium, supermarket and several restaurants and pubs. Blacks Leisure Group (owner of Blacks and Millets) is based on an industrial estate on Mansard Close.

From 1876 to 1995 Duston was home to St Crispin's Hospital, a county-owned and subsequently NHS mental hospital. During the First World War it was turned into Duston War Hospital for convalescent soldiers.

Schools in the area include Chiltern Primary School, Duston Eldean Primary School, The Duston School, Hopping Hill Primary School, Millway Primary School and St Luke's Church of England Primary School.

British Timken

British Timken was established in Chester Road, Aston, Birmingham in 1937 manufacturing tapered roller, parallel roller and ball bearings.