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Kathryn Tucker Windham to speak at Samford

Posted on October 1, 2007 by | 1 comment

The beloved author and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham is scheduled to take part in a program at Samford University’s Library on October 20 according to this post on NewSouth’s blog.

A quick look at the university’s calendar does not mention the event, but it is important to note that it is scheduled to occur during their homecoming weekend, so more information may yet be released if it is to be open to the public.

Click here to view portions of Ms. Windham’s schedule for the next month as reported by NewSouth. Windham is scheduled to read from Alabama, One Big Front Porch, re-published in September by NewSouth Books with support from Alabama Southern Community College.

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Newkirk is 2007 UAB Visiting Artist, lectures Sept. 27

Posted on September 18, 2007 by | Leave a comment

Kori NewkirkKori Newkirk has been announced as the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Art and Art History’s 2007 Jack Drake Visiting Artist in a recent press release. The Bronx, NY native will deliver a lecture as part of his five-day visit to the university’s Southside campus. It will take place at 6 p.m. on September 27; it’s free and open to the public.

Click here for directions courtesy of our calendar.

Newkirk makes “multimedia paintings, sculptural installations and photographs that explore the formal properties of materials, the politics of identity and the artist’s personal history” according to the release. He’s known for using pomade and plastic pony beads, both used to style black hair, as well as for his use the color white, with its connotations of race and pristine environments.

Click here to learn more about work by Newkirk that was included in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2006 Biennial, including hearing from the artist himself via podcast.

He now lives in Los Angeles, having received his bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Art Institute of Chicago and his master of fine arts degree as a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of California at Irvine.

For more information, call the department at 205-934-4941.

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