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AETN “Charles Banks Wilson, Portrait of an American Artist,” a 2006 production of the Arkansas Educational Television Network, recently received an Emmy in the best cultural documentary category in the 2007 annual awards competition of the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Larry Foley, a University of Arkansas professor in the Lemke Department of Journalism, wrote and produced the film. This is Foley’s second Emmy Award and his fifth nomination. The program is uniquely illustrated with 16mm film footage as a backdrop to the artist's life today. “When Mr. Wilson told us he had reels of old film in his attic that he'd never seen before, we knew we had struck an archival gold mine,” said Carole Adornetto, AETN director of production and the program’s executive producer. “True to our hopes, the early days of this amazing artist showed how his art matured as he did. It is a television producer's dream to find old film that richly documents his story.” Photographers included Journalism Professor Dale Carpenter, along with Jim Borden and Matt Wolfe. Music professor James Greeson composed the original music score. “Charles Banks Wilson, Portrait of an American Artist” details the life of an 89-year-old Fayetteville man who received the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arkansas Arts Council’s Governor’s Arts Awards. The film covers Wilson’s earliest days as a teenaged boy as he painted his first portrait of humorist Will Rogers, to some of his most recent works, including a portrait of folk musician Woody Guthrie. The film highlights Wilson’s lifelong work painting what he calls “pureblood Indians” – Native Americans who trace their ancestry back to a single tribe. He also painted portraits of the famous and the poignant circumstances of common people. Wilson began the most expansive work of his career in 1970 when he was commissioned to paint four historical murals for the Oklahoma Capitol’s rotunda. Each mural is 13-feet tall and 27-feet wide. The NATAS Mid-America chapter, which includes television markets primarily in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri, was chartered in 1962 and began honoring outstanding achievement in this region with local Emmy awards in 1976. The organization’s mission is to encourage excellence in the television community. The Arkansas Educational Television Network, http://www.aetn.org, provides lifelong learning opportunities, improves and enhances Arkansans’ lives and celebrates the unique culture of Arkansas through its programming and services. AETN’s analog and digital transmitters and numerous cable system connections give it statewide reach.  Have a comment? Please e-mail us. ŠThe Voice 2007 Revised 01/13/2008 03:16:20 PM — http://www.uamont.edu/Organizations/TheVoice/5_12/foley.htm |
