On November 10, Isabel Bacon accompanied our Foreign Language
Fulbright TA’s,
Gabriela Atan and Pilar Sanchis to the Southeast Coop. where they presented a
workshop to the Foreign Language teachers of the area. With Ms. Sanchis
the participants were involved in research based strategies of foreign language
instruction that could help students with their state tests. The audience
also visited Argentina with Ms. Atan, via modern technology, and got to sip
yerba mate tea like a real “gaucho.”
Isabel has also been collaborating with Dr. Marla Ramirez of our School of
Education in a series of workshops for English as Second Language Teachers of
the area offered with a grant Dr. Ramirez received for the year 2006-07.
Selected exhibits that Scott Lykens has participated in since
spring 2006:
Affaire d'Arte, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Earthy Treasure,
Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Michigan.
Mastery in Clay 2006, The Clay Studio,
Philadelphia Pennsylvania. New Work,
Louisiana College, Pineville Louisiana.
Empty Bowls, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit Michigan.
Introducing Scott Lykens, Solo
Show, University of Arkansas Monticello, LTC Gallery. La Mesa II, Sante Fe
Clay at Portland Oregon NCECA 2006-05-11. For the House and Garden,
Pewabic
Pottery, Detroit Michigan. 25 square inches, River Oaks Square Arts
Center,
Alexandria, Louisiana. 4th annual Empty Bowls, AFBN, Robinson Center Exhibition
Hall. Little Rock Arkansas. Art Educator Exhibition, Guachoya Center for
the
Arts, Lake Village, Arkansas. Tea Time; The Art of the Teapot, Kalamazoo
Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Mad Hatter’s Second Tea Party,
Armory
Arts Center, West Palm Beach, Florida. New Work, Solo Show, Stretch
Gallery,
Pineville North Carolina. Earthy Treasure, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit
Michigan
Exhibits that Scott curated or co-curated for UAM.
Regional K-12 Art Exhibition, Spencer Gallery, February 2006.
Introducing: Scott Lykens, LTC Gallery, December 2005
– January 2006. Teapot Invitational, LTC
Gallery, February 2006. Duet: Aaron
Calvert & Summer Burch, LTC Gallery, April 2006.
UAM First Annual National Juried Cup Show, LTC
Gallery, April – May, 2006. Jason Hackett:
Re-Inspired, LTC Gallery, June – August 2006. Selected Works from the
Spencer Collection, Spencer Gallery, March – April, June – August, December
2006. Drawing and Prints of American Regionalism, LTC & Spencer Gallery,
September 2006. Terry Williams: Wildlife Artist, LTC, October 2006.
Fifty Years of the American Landscape, LTC & Spencer Gallery, November 2006.
“The Exchange” a Site-Specific Installation by Kim Wilson, LTC Gallery, November
2005. Selected Works from the Spencer Collection, Spencer Gallery, October
- December 2005. 500 Years of Printmaking, Spencer Gallery, September
2005. Pulp Fiction: The work of Ted Barnes and Preston Gilchrist, LTC
Gallery, November 2005
Mars Hall (Gary Marshall) was invited to perform his poetry and
songs at the Pace Performance Festival, held in New Orleans, October 20 and 21st.
The theme was “Identity, Performance, and Community. Other schools invited
to perform were: Ithaca College, Xavier University, Georgia Southern University,
Louisiana State University, University of South Florida, Kutztown University,
University of North Texas, and Capital University.
Red Hawk (Bob Moore) has a poem, "Frail Little Engine of Sorrows"
in the Winter issue of Shenandoah.
This semester Diane Payne has had the following works published:
Fiction:
“Just Walk” http://www.ez6.sageofcon.com/ss/dpwalk.htm
“Retrievers” http://fac.hsu.edu/beggsm/ALF/2006/payne.htm
“Simple” http://www.971menu.com/2006/9/payne_diane_simple.html
“Wildflowers” http://www.ascentaspirations.ca/Wildflowers.htm
“Unplanned” http://peccarymagazine.5u.com/1unplanned2.html
“Jackie-O”
http://www.arabesquespress.org/journal/diane-payne-jackie-o-short-story-3035710
Poetry:
“Acrobatic Memory” and “In The Beginning I was a Tree” in Mon
u ment Anthology, Blueprints Review Summer 06
http://www.blueprintreview.de/monubios.htm
“Before the Phone Goes Dead” forthcoming in Language and Culture Review,
December 06
”Just a Word” http://www.southernhum.com/diane-payne/
Creative non-fiction:
“On Track,” “Bobby Sherman,” and “Techno Shopping” in Tales of the South
Anthology, December 06
Amazon Shorts is marketing Diane’s fiction story titled "Deep Trance" and
Fiction International accepted her creative nonfiction titled "Synaptic
Journey".
Allen Redmon
has an article currently under review entitled "The “Unfinished Business” of
Kill Bill: Cinematic Discourse In and Out of the Dark," in which he
discusses the ways that Tarantino attempts to initiate critical discussion over
the violence in his film.
Allen is also working on a paper for the National ACA/PCA conference in Boston
this coming April entitled “Elementary My Dear Watson”: Identification and
Competition in the Detective Films of the 1930’s and early 1940’s," in which he
discusses and accounts for the differences between the detective of the 30's and
the detective of the 40's.
Tom Richard
was recently in a two man show at Louisiana College in Pineville and has pieces
in “An Ornamental Affair” at Blue Moon Gallery in December. He also has
recently been selected to show work at the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for
Contemporary Art in Baton Rouge, La. The first week in December he will travel
to Little Rock to judge the Thea Foundation Arts Scholarship Program.
This past summer Kent Skinner was named conductor of the Arkansas
Choral Society. With this group, and members of the Arkansas Symphony
Orchestra, he will conduct a performance of Handel’ Messiah on December 7, 2006
at 7:30 PM in the Bible Church of Little Rock, located at 19111 Cantrell Road.
Kent will sing with and conduct the Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra on December
2, 2006 in Greeley, CO.
He will also perform as a member of the Chamber Singers, a professional choir
based in Colorado, in a performance of Beethoven’ Mass in C, on January 13,
2007, in Greeley, CO.
Ron Sitton
freelanced during the summer with articles about independent gubernatorial
candidate Rod Bryan (http://home.comcast.net/~sitron45/pf/bryan.html),
the Argenta Coffee Company (http://home.comcast.net/~sitron45/pf/coffee.html)
and The Arts Scene in North Little Rock (http://home.comcast.net/~sitron45/pf/scene.html).
He also took an active role in turning southerner.net into a blog, in addition
to maintaining the morgue for The Southerner magazine online and the Southern
Compendium of links.
Just prior to the semester, Sitton stepped into the Academic Appeals Committee
seat vacated by Bob Pryor.
Sitton took Michael Ford, editor-in-chief of The Voice, to St. Louis in October
for the annual Associated Collegiate Press/College Media Advisers National
College Media convention. Ford and other Voice staffers convinced Sitton of the
necessity of having a profile on facebook and myspace to keep up with the
communication tools incoming and current students have at their disposal.
During the election season, Sitton helped the Journalism Club bring Rod Bryan
and Green Party candidate Jim Lendall to campus for a debate, then helped the
Journalism Club bring governor-elect Mike Beebe to campus prior to election
weekend.
Sitton also helped Gary Marshall and Buren "Buck" DeFee start the Wandering
Weevil Wheels bicycle program, and currently runs the Web site for the group (http://www.uamont.edu/organizations/WeevilWheels/).
For a little fun, Sitton played harmonica and sang during this fall's "Mocha
Madness" on Halloween.
Mark Spencer
has a short novel, The Good Life, being published online in Admit Two
in January and March 2007. His recent short-story publications are “Last
Day” in Istanbul Literature Review, “Repo” in Blood Lotus and
Tattoo Highway, “The Death of Elvis,” “Why Big Foot Is a Recluse” and “The
Gentleman with the Dog” in Bewildering Stories, and “A Letter from Your
Best Former Lover” in Defenestration.
Mark was the guest speaker for the August meeting of the El Dorado Writers Club.
Mark, along with Gary Marshall and Diane Payne, read at the Art Center in Lake
Village in April.
Kate Stewart
served on a panel at the Tallahatchie RiverFest on September 22. She and
the other panelists discussed William Faulkner’s relationship to his birth
place, New Albany, Mississippi, and other points of interest in Northeast
Mississippi.
On November 7, she presented a book review of Matthew Pearl’s The Dante Club
for the Shepherd Center.
Kate attended the meeting of the Board of Trustees at Erskine College on October
26 and 27. At the meeting, she presided over the Academic/Enrollment
Committee, participated in the meetings of the Executive Committee, and made a
presentation to the full board.
Kay Walter
served on the French search committee which assisted in the hiring of a new
French professor.
Kay read part of her short story, “A Heady Tale” at Mocha Madness.
She presented a paper about Robert Browning at the annual conference of the
Arkansas Philological Association at the Arlington in Hot Springs.
She has made frequent visits to four area high school classrooms as a PATHWISE
mentor for English teachers.
On November 30 Kay will be a guest lecturer at Rison High School where she will
talk with students about Robert Browning.
On December 4 she will be a guest lecturer on Thomas Gray in an on-campus
British literature class.
Linda Webster
served as a member of the program and local arrangements committees for the 2006
Oral History Association Annual meeting held in Little Rock from October 26-29.
She chaired several panels for OHA including one designed by AETN to showcase
the WWII Arkansas Veterans Oral History Project.
She was one of five (5) authors who completed a revised edition of the Competent
Speaker, the National Communication Association (NCA) official assessment
document for public speaking which was presented officially to the organization
at the annual meeting in San Antonio on November 17. The in-house public
speaking text is now at the publishers and will be available for use in all UAM
public speaking classes for the spring, 2007 semester. All royalties and
other incomes generated by the text will be used to fund scholarships for speech
majors.
Mark Wegley's
essay "'A deception in real life': The Role of Popular Culture in H. P.
Lovecraft's Canonicity" has been accepted for presentation as part of a special
panel on Horror Literature to be held at the 28th Annual Meeting of the
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations on February
14-17, 2007. The panel will discuss the growing trend of genre fiction
crossing into the literary mainstream with a focus on the future identity
of horror literature and its authorship.
Events:
T UAM Marching Band will participate in the Monticello
Christmas parade on November 28 at 6:00 p.m.
T Fall choral concert to be held December 5, 7:30
p.m. at the Wood Avenue Presbyterian Church
T Christmas band concert will be December 7, 7
p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Auditorium
T December 8 – last day of classes;
FINALS: Dec. 11 - 15
T SAH Potluck will be held December 13, 12 noon
until……in the Writing Center
T Debbie Lynn Findley exhibit will be on display
in the Taylor Library Art Gallery beginning December 11