ARTS FEST 2016 Calendar & Event Descriptions
For more information, contact the Event Host associated with each event ~or~ Arts Fest Committee Chair: Benjamin Lowenkron (225) 216-­‐8184 or lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu MONDAY, 03/14 Breakfast Kickoff Bienvenue Student Center Cafeteria 9:00-­‐10:00am *Free breakfast provided for the first 100 students* Student Art Demos Bienvenue Student Center Cafeteria 9:00am-­‐NOON HOST(s): Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Danielle Burns – burnsd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8259 Come and watch our stellar art students as they craft pottery and silkscreen prints! You, too can joing in on the fun—bring a t-­‐shirt, tote bag, patch, whatever you desire, and transform it into a work of art via silkscreen printing! KELLY MUELLER FRAZIER ART BUILDING 11:30am-­‐2:00pm Lecture and Painting Demonstration HOST (s): Cyndy Giachetti – giachettic@mybrcc.edu (225) 216-­‐8185 Baton Rouge Community College is excited to have Kelly Mueller as a visiting artist on March 14th during Arts Fest 2016. Kelly Mueller’s current work layers moments of physical reality, memory, and childhood fantasy into textural tapestries drawn and painted on papered quilts. She is currently a member of The Front Gallery in New Orleans and Baton Rouge Gallery, LA, and has also exhibited with New Context/Kasia Kay Gallery in Chicago, in Scope Miami and New York. Her work has been shown throughout the United States, especially throughout the Midwest. She has also been invited to give numerous lectures throughout the nation including engagements at The Philadelphia Art Hotel, Millsaps College (Jackson, MS) and Michigan State University. Mueller looks to capture a momentary world, frozen and fleeting with each quilt she creates. With each solidified in its conflict, the quilt itself is a physical companion to an individual's thousand nightly passages into and out of consciousness. Using a projector, she traps text, imagery, instructional manuals, and maps, found patterns and momentary realizations in layers of acrylic and charcoal. As Mueller explains, "I enjoy getting lost in the maze of light and shadow, sometimes giving myself over to the ease of written directions, at other times allowing myself the absorption of pulling out and fretting over a singular form or object, working over it with line and color until it exists perfectly, individually, lost among the masses." Boto, 2013 Baton Rouge Gallery for Contemporary Art DEBANGANA BANERJEE & VINCENT CELLUCCI DUMAS CONFERENCE CENTER – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 6:00-­‐7:30pm Poetry Reading, Art Show, and Discussion HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Eric Elliott – elliotte@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8011 Debangana Banerjee was born and raised in Santiniketan, India. She received her BFA and MFA in printmaking from Visva-­‐Bharati University, Santiniketan, in 2005. She was a national scholar in India before joining the MFA program at Louisiana State University in 2007 (graduating in 2010). She also worked as a visual designer in the Communication across the Curriculum program at LSU. Debangana has participated in many solo and group exhibitions including exhibitions in Indian, Japan, Australia, England, Canada, and the United States. She has published several articles in leading Indian dailies and two of her artist’s books were published in art fairs in 1998 and 1999 in India. Six of her translated poems were published in Toad Suck Review, 2012. In 2014 Debangana had solo shows at Zosima Gallery and Bower Bird Gallery in San Marcos and a group show at People’s Gallery in Austin. Presently Debangana is a board member of San Marcos Area Arts Council. In March 2014 Finishing Line Press published Debangana’s first chapbook of poems come back river. Debanganga says: “My works are about my journey through life—memories of the past, experiences of the present and premonitions of the future—and how that journey, through its changing landscapes and human characters, generates images that I call inscapes. My subjects arise from very personal experiences and get fermented in my imagination to project an inner vision. I create deep intimate spaces, transitional moments of conscious and unconscious thoughts using both natural and personal imageries. In this endeavor, dark, solid and earthly colors and robust textures play a big role. I employ printmaking, painting, collage and poetry to express my mental state.” Vincent Cellucci is a poet and painter who has published numerous books of poetry—including the translation of Debangana’s poems in come back river. He recently pioneered an interactive poetry app that was displayed at TED x LSU on Saturday, March 5th, 2016. Vincent is also a painter, primarily working in oil. He currently works as the coordinator of the Communication Across the Curriculum Studio in LSU’s College of Art + Design. Vincent says: “Oil painting is a visual escape from my struggle with the precise language poetry requires. The multiple acts of producing paintings become oblations to the ineffable. My paintings do not express particular meanings but study time and response—of both creator and observer. They furnish haunting, in the Old Norse sense of “bringing home.” I used to title every painting p.s. infinity, but lately I’ve started renaming them for the collectors of my work. After years of observing my productions and offerings, I've developed a peculiar painting Personism, a creative apostrophe to particular owners. I address this apostrophe to the realm of their everyday lives-­‐-­‐ceasing omission and creating an "ethereal us", a concept I'm exploring in new work. Riffing on the popular New Orleans maxim “it is what it is,” my titles attend: “it is where it lives.” Painting doesn’t mull; it intrudes.” TUESDAY 03/15 NATHAN PIETRYKOWSKI FRAZIER ART BUILDING – ROOM 104 9:00am-­‐1:00pm Lecture & Printmaking Demonstration + Treasure Hunt HOST(S): Danielle Burns – burnsd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8259 Nathan Pietrykowski earned his MFA from Louisiana State University and BS in studio art from the University of Southern Indiana. Currently he resides in the deep south, where he is teaching at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. For the festival Nathan created Keep Searching which is a city wide treasure hunt that actively engages the Baton Rouge community with contemporary art through curiosity, discovery and play. The goals of the project are to foster a reexamination in how residents view Baton Rouge and introduce those who are typically not exposed to art to interact with it. He will also be demoing a multi-­‐color screen-­‐print with freebies for all the kids. “ART WORKS” CAREER ROUNDTABLE RECITAL HALL – GOVERNOR’S BUILDING 10:30-­‐11:45am Discussion Moderated by Renee Chatelain of The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Gerri Hobdy – hobdyg@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8401 “Art Works” at Arts Fest We believe that the arts exist for beauty itself, but they are also rooted to Louisiana’s creative industries and offer new opportunities to create unconventional solutions. With that in mind we are launching Art Works to enhance the value of careers in the arts by connecting students to the cultural economy ecosystem. Panelists representing arts and health and graphic arts have been invited to discuss current workforce opportunities and the innovative ways creative people can participate in growing our state’s economy. Renee Chatelain is a native of Baton Rouge and a graduate of Louisiana State University, holding both a B.A. Degree in History and a Juris Doctor. She is the President and CEO of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Her career as a dancer includes performing with the Eglevsky Ballet in New York, Delta Festival Ballet of New Orleans, Tampa Ballet, and American Dance Machine in New York. Renee has been a guest teacher for Iceland Dance Theater in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, at Hunter College in New York City, Southeastern Louisiana University, as well as several local dance companies in Baton Rouge. She serves on the Advisory Board of the American Mural Project, supporting internationally known visual artist Ellen Griesedieck, and was selected to participate in South Arts Dance Touring Initiative. She is a co-­‐founder of Mid-­‐City Dance Project, Inc. Most recently, she served as Executive Director at the Manship Theatre at Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, LA. Prior to her position at Manship Theatre, she founded the dance programs for two independent schools in Baton Rouge while serving on staff at both schools as a history teacher and community service director. Presently, she serves on the board of the Foundation for East Baton Rouge School System and Louisiana Dream Teachers. Renee is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association, The Baton Rouge Bar Association, and has been a panelist for the Lt. Governor's Cultural Economic Summit. She is a recipient of Baton Rouge Business Report’s Most Influential Women in Business, the Unsung Hero’s Award by Louisiana State University’s Office of Multi-­‐Cultural Affairs, and has been recognized by the Louisiana State Senate for her contribution to African Americans in Louisiana through the Arts. She has been awarded The President's Award by the Baton Rouge Bar Association, was a 2005 finalist for the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Angel Award, was recognized by the Louisiana Association for Non-­‐Profit Organization as a Louisiana Heroine, was a member the 2005 Leadership Class of the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, and has been inducted into the Redemptorist High School Hall of Fame. She has served as a panelist at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters in New York, at the inaugural Women in Dance Leadership Conference in 2015, and has served as a community coach for the City of Mandeville Louisiana, through the Louisiana Department of Culture and Tourism’s Creative Placemaking Initiative. Renee considers her passion project the creation and staging of The Fading Line: A Commemoration of the 1953 Baton Rouge Bus Boycott, and is grateful to all of those who played a role – past and present [cont’d on next page] George Bell is a health care executive with 30 years of progressive management experience in physician practice management, business development, and hospital administration. He worked for Baton Rouge General from 1999 until December 2015, where he served as Administrator, Baton Rouge General – Mid City. Prior to taking on that role, he served as Sr. Vice-­‐President, Physician and Community Relations and Arts in Medicine, Vice-­‐President of Physician Relations, and President of Baton Rouge General Physicians, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of General Health System which he grew from 14 physicians to 85+ physicians over 12 years. Before moving to Baton Rouge, Mr. Bell worked for OhioHealth, a multi-­‐hospital, not for profit health system based in Columbus, Ohio. While there, he worked as Regional Director of Practice Advantage, a management services organization, where he oversaw physician practice management and business development functions, including physician recruiting, practice mergers and acquisitions, and management consulting. He also worked for The Ohio State University Hospitals as Director of Business Development and Area Manager of MedOhio Physician Care Centers, a network of urgent care clinics located in and around the Greater Columbus Metropolitan area. Mr. Bell is a native of Thibodaux, LA, and is a Hall of Fame graduate of Nicholls State University with a B.A. degree in Political Science. He also attended The Ohio State University, where he studied graduate level courses in Public Policy and Management, and Wharton School of Business, Health Care CEO Talent Development Course. He recently became a Certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma in December 2015. In addition, Mr. Bell is a graduate of Greater Baton Rouge Area Chamber Leadership Program, Class of 2005 (the best class!), and was a member of the executive management team at Baton Rouge General that was presented the nation’s Top Leadership Team Award by HeathLeaders Magazine in 2004. Mendi Robinson began her career at Lamar Advertising in 1997, where she is currently the Creative Director at the corporate office. After designing billboards for several years, Mendi moved to her current position in the marketing department at Lamar. Her responsibilities include managing a team of designers who are responsible for Lamar’s brand, web presence, and all corporate and sales collateral. She hosts a bi-­‐annual conference for Lamar’s 100+ designers at their headquarters in Louisiana. She also created and manages Lamar’s National Creative Team, a group of 6 of Lamar’s top designers. A graduate from the Louisiana Art Institute, she is active in the Baton Rouge community as a member of the local Advertising Federation. She serves on the board of directors for The Boys and Girls Club on Baton Rouge and is Vice-­‐President of The Marichi Turner Foundation. She was elected to the Baton Rouge Business Report’s Forty Under 40 class in 2015. Nationally, she serves on the Ad Council Creative Steering Committee and is the Chairman of the OAAA Creative Committee. She had the privilege of serving as a judge for the 61st OBIE Awards. DR. JOE BURNS LOUISIANA BOARDROOM – LOUISIANA BUILDING 2:30-­‐3:45 Lecture: MUSIC AND THE LAW: COPYRIGHTS AND COPYWRONGS HOST(s): Ana Boone – boonea@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8568 In March of 2015, Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were ordered to pay the family of Marvin Gaye $7.3 million because the song “Blurred Lines” sounded too much like Gaye's “Got To Give It Up.” The verdict now stands as the largest amount awarded in a copyright infringement suit but certainly not the only one. Join Communication Professor and “Rock Show” host Joe Burns to hear about other high-­‐
profile music copyright cases plus a quick overview of what the law says you can and cannot do. What's on your iPod? Joe Burns, Ph.D. is a professor in the Languages and Communication Department at Southeastern Louisiana University where he teaches Ethics, Journalism, Web Design and Film. In addition to his teaching, Joe is the host of Rock School, a weekly radio program on Southeastern’s own 90.9 KSLU. The show is in its 8th year, runs in 15 affiliate markets and has won five International Communicator Awards. Joe regularly lectures and writes on music and the music industry. He is also a weekly newspaper columnist and for fun, he plays guitar in a faculty rock band named Impaired Faculties. Dr. Burns is a transplanted northerner from Cleveland, Ohio. He is the father of two and the husband of one. WENESDAY, 03/16 “ART WORKS: THE REAL ‘KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL’” ACADIAN CAMPUS – CAFETERIA LUNCH: 11am-­‐NOON LECTURE & DISCUSSION: NOON-­‐1:00pm HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Gerri Hobdy – hobdyg@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8401 Angela Saia ST – saiasta@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 359-­‐9237 Join Arts Fest at the Acadian campus for lunch on Wednesday, March 16th. The culinary arts students at BRCC Acadian will be serving a special lunch from 11am-­‐noon. Following lunch, join local culinary icon, Jim Urdiales for “Culinary Careers – The Real Kitchen Confidential,” the second career event for Art Works. ”.
Jim Urdiales is the Chef and Owner of Mestizo, a local Mexican Restaurant that offers traditional Mexican cuisine with a Louisiana flair, serving Baton Rouge since 1999. He is a third generation restaurateur and a graduate of Bishop Sullivan High School, he attended the Goldman Sach’s 10,000 Small Buisiness program at Delgado Community College and he also received his Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from Louisiana State University (LSU). [Cont’d on Next Page] BRCC Jazz Ensemble BIENVENUE STUDENT CENTER CAFETERIA 11:30am-­‐1:30pm Musical Performance HOST(s): Eric Baskin – baskine@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8568 Jose Taj – tajj@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8153 Join Arts Fest for a Jazz Lunch as the BRCC Jazz Ensemble, led by renowned musician, Eric Baskin brings all the hot notes and the cool grooves to the Bienvenue Student Center Cafeteria. DYLAN KRIEGER & VINCENT CELLUCCI DUMAS CONFERENCE CENTER – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 6:00-­‐7:30pm Re:ACTION! Poetry, Film & Mythology in Collaboration Discussion and Workshop HOST(s): Eric Elliott – elliotte@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8011 Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Re:ACTION!, a poetry collaboration based on big-­‐budget action movies (you know, the ones you love to hate and hate to love), catalogs and satirizes the scenes between good and evil we have watched evolve into an American mythology. In these lyrical and dramatic poems, myth is approached as common tropes rather than trivializing them by name-­‐dropping individual movies. These tropes are symptomatic of our escapist and violence-­‐saturated culture, and we hope to expose, in their literary presentation, action movies as culturally sanctioned coping mechanisms. Contemporary social issues present in the manuscript include our national preoccupations with war and addiction, xenophobic villainizing of the "other," the presence of a police state, over-­‐sexualized depictions of physical domination, and the persistence of reductive gender stereotypes in Hollywood blockbusters. This session will consist of introducing our project, reading poems, and hosting a collaborative writing workshop brainstorming the many action movie tropes remaining to be turned into poems. Dylan Krieger & Vincent Cellucci are partners in crime and poetry in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where they earned their MFAs in creative writing from LSU and now work in editing and teaching, respectively. Dylan's first book is forthcoming and Vincent's full-­‐length titles include An Easy Place/To Die (City Lit) and _A Ship on the Line (Unlikely Books). Find the authors at www.dylankrieger.com and www.vincentacellucci.com. THURSDAY, 03/17 GEREN HEURTIN LOUISIANA BOARDROOM – LOUISIANA BUILDING 9:00am-­‐10:15am Digital Photography Lecture HOST(s): Cyndy Giachetti – giachettic@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8185 Matt Morris – morrism@mybrcc.edu Geren Heurtin will be a visiting artist at BRCC Thursday March 17th at 9:00am in the Louisiana Board Room, on the Main Campus. She received her BFA from Louisiana State University and did her undergraduate work at Baton Rouge Community College. She currently teaches photography at 7 Elements Fine Art School in Baton Rouge. Her work deals primarily with the study of objects, loss, and memory. Though her work is mostly photographic, she also has a strong interest in sculpture and how objects can play specific roles in our lives. “ART WORKS” CAREER & OPPORTUNITY FAIR MAGNOLIA GALLERY – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 10:00am-­‐1:00pm Open Fair Featuring Local Arts Initiatives, Employers & Programs HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Lisa Hibner – hibnerl@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8244 Pearce Cinman -­‐-­‐ cinmanj@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8526 Christopher Brumfield – brunmfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 The Arts Fest Committee has partnered with the BRCC Career Center and the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge to set up a career and opportunity fair in the Magnolia Gallery on Thursday, March 17th. The fail will run from 10am until 1pm and will feature tables with information of artistic opportunities and programs. Tables include, but are not limited to: •
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Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge BRCC Career Center BRCC Graphic Arts / Printing EBR Public Library Forward Arts, Inc. Louisiana Economic Development (LED) LSU Geaux Teach LA Women’s Initiative Come see what the Arts have in store for YOU! Game On! BIENVENUE STUDENT CENTER CAFETERIA – GAMEROOM 12:00-­‐8:00pm Video Game, Board Game, Card Game and Role Playing Game (RPG) Open Event HOST(s): Josh Gremillion – gremilliong@mybrcc.edu ; There's a lot of creativity and artistic talent that goes into creating a good game, and whether it be a video game, board game, card game, or an old school pen & paper RPG -­‐ this event is meant to celebrate them all. We'll be having an open gaming event throughout Thursday, with demos of the Pathfinder RPG and a slew of board/card games. We'll also have some video game systems on hand for pick-­‐up games too -­‐ so no matter what your gaming passion may be, come on out and let's game on! WRITING NIGHTS LIVE!: UNCOVERING POETRY LOUISIANA BUILDING – ROOM 128A 6:30-­‐8:00pm Poetry Writing Workshop HOST(s): Zach Gasior – gasiorz@mybrcc.edu Carrie Causey – causeyc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8097 Baton Rouge Community College’s Liberal Arts Division is hosting Writing Nights Live, a free writing workshop series, from 6:30-­‐8 p.m. March 17, and 24 in BRCC’s Louisiana Building, room 128A, on the Mid City Campus, 201 Community College Drive. The first series focuses on developing poetry, and is open to experienced and inexperienced writers 16 and older. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with a larger community of writers and to learn from the college’s professional and creative writing faculty. For more information and registration, please visit the following site: http://doodle.com/poll/di8vi7ur42zwpcgx. MONDAY 03/21 DENNIS RITTER FRAZIER ART BUILDING 11:30am-­‐2:30pm Ceramics Demonstration & Workshop HOST(s): Cyndy Giachetti – giachettic@mybrcc.edu (225) 216-­‐8185 Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Dennis Ritter will be a visiting artist at BRCC Monday March 21st at 11:30am at the Frazier Art School as part of BRCC Arts Fest 2016. Dennis Ritter is a sculptor working primarily in the ceramic medium. He currently resides in Baton Rouge, LA. Dennis received his MFA from the NYSCC at Alfred University in 2015. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked as a teaching artist for The Claymobile Outreach Program in Philadelphia and was the Studio and Facilities Manager for The Clay Studio in Philadelphia. He received his BFA in Ceramics from the Tyler School of Art in 2012, where he received the Rudy Staffal Award for Excellence in Ceramics. Dennis has also been a resident at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and was awarded a Windgate Fellowship in Craft in conjunction with The Vermont Studio Center residency program. SARAH & CHRISTOPHER SHIPMAN: “THE GIFT OF THEFT” BLACK BOX THEATRE – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 12:00-­‐1:00pm Presentation & Performance HOST(s): Mollye DeLoach – deloachm@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8516 Danielle Vignes – vignesd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8681 When Pablo Picasso said “art is theft” he was in part referring to the need of the artist to feed off of the stories, ideas, experiences, and inspirations of others. What occurs when people communicate is a kind of everyday unspoken collaboration, but when we become conscious of the kind of emotional and intellectual crossfire that exists in that space we can see more clearly the gift of creativity it can afford. Sarah K. Jackson and Chris Shipman will share the story of their work together on Metaphysique D’Ephemera, an experimental play that has now been performed on three different stages across the country, and present a creative performance of recent work inspired by one another. Students will be invited to take a similar journey in an invigorating workshop that combines storytelling and performance. FORWARD ARTS “VERSE LAB”: “10 WORD STORIES BR” DUMAS CONFERENCE CENTER 6:00-­‐9:00pm Poetry Writing Workshop HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Eric Elliott – elliotte@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8011 Forward Arts, Inc. brings its poetry workshop series, “Verse Lab” to BRCC for a special workshop on “micropoems.” Recently, Forward Arts, Inc. and The Walls Project collaborated on an endeavor called, “10 Word Stories BR” where they challenged people to submit poems of no more than ten words about Baton Rouge. The entries were compiled and a series of poems was selected to be turned into murals around Baton Rouge—including one on BRCC’s campus. The other poems will be printed in an anthology—and this workshop gives you the chance to add your micropoem to the mix! The workshop will be led by Forward Arts, Inc. and Baton Rouge’s own poets, Donney Rose and Desiree Dallagiacomo. TUESDAY, 03/22 PUBLISHING & WRITING—WRITING WHERE WE KNOW: EXPLORING PLACE-­‐BASED WRITING DUMAS CONFERENCE CENTER – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 10:00am-­‐NOON Publishing & Writing Presentation, Discussion, and Workshop HOST(s): Rhett Poche – pocher@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8234 Danielle Vignes – vignesd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8681 Clarence Nero – neroc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8056 Dr. David Rutledge, Retained Instructor of English-­‐-­‐University of New Orleans Dave Rutledge is the editor of "Where We Know: New Orleans as Home" from Chin Music Press/ Broken Levee Books, as well as the author of a book on Vladimir Nabokov: "Nabokov's Permanent Mystery: The Expression of Metaphysics in His Work." He is also the author of the 2006 New Orleans anthology, Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans?," which is now out in paperback. http://chinmusicpress.com/ Juyanne James, Author of The Persimmon Trail and Other Stories, Chin Music Press http://store.chinmusicpress.com/product/the-­‐persimmon-­‐trail-­‐and-­‐other-­‐stories James has written a thoroughly eclectic, lyrical collection of stories that speaks to the African American tradition, depicting life in New Orleans and rural Louisiana. Juyanne James grew up on a farm in southeast Louisiana; she left at seventeen to join the US Navy. After holding a number of odd jobs (such as over-­‐the-­‐road truck driver), she returned to Louisiana to write and teach. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. James has been a teacher for ten years, including nine years at Our Lady of Holy Cross College in New Orleans. Her stories and essays have been published in journals such as The Louisville Review, Mythium, Bayou Magazine, and Eleven Eleven, and included in the anthologies New Stories from the South 2009 (Algonquin) and Something in the Water: 20 Louisiana Stories (Portals Press). She was also commissioned to write a story for Symphony Space’s Selected Shorts Project. James has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice Reggie Poche, Assistant Chairperson and Instructor of English-­‐-­‐University of New Orleans After receiving his B.A. in English from UNO, with University and Departmental Honors, Reggie moved northward, up Interstate 55, for graduate study at the University of Missouri—St. Louis. After receiving his M.F.A. in fiction writing, Reggie moved home to UNO, where he now teaches Freshman Composition, Technical Writing, New Orleans Literature, and Introduction to Fiction Writing. He also serves as faculty co-­‐advisor of Ellipsis, the university’s student-­‐produced literary magazine, which is entering its fortieth year of publication. His short stories have appeared in Zahir, Margin, Ginger Hill, River Styx, and other publications. His most recent work appears in the anthology Where We Know: New Orleans as Home, published by Chin Music Press, and he has a story forthcoming in the inaugural issue of Gris-­‐Gris, a journal of art and culture published by Nicholls State University. He is known to work on a novel, tentatively titled Grand Terre, and continues to fiddle with a story collection that began with his graduate thesis. In 2005, he won the Margery McKinney Short Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. Sarah DeBacher, Chairperson of Freshman English, Director of the Greater New Orleans Writing Project, and Retained Instructor of English-­‐-­‐University of New Orleans Sarah DeBacher received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNO in 2004, and her BA in English from the College of Wooster in Ohio in 1997. She taught at Tulane University before joining the full-­‐time faculty at UNO in 2005. Sarah now directs The Greater New Orleans Writing Project at UNO, a non-­‐profit arm of the National Writing Project whose mission is to improve writing and the teaching of writing through workshops and professional development partnerships. In 2013, she became the Chair of UNO's Freshman Writing Program. Sarah teaches writing, writing, and more writing (Freshman Writing, Fiction Writing, Creative Nonfiction Writing, and the Summer Writing Institute for teachers). Central to her teaching is her belief that students write best when they care about their subjects, when their instructors and peers express enthusiasm for their work and progress, and when course grading policies encourage risk-­‐taking. As a result, her writing students generate topics that interest them, enjoy regular and abundant feedback, and are evaluated by portfolio assessment and contract grades. Originally from Atlanta, Sarah moved to New Orleans to pursue singing and writing. Eighteen years later, she sings to her sons, writes when she can, teaches a lot, and works to rebuild her neighborhood in the Lower Ninth Ward. She is a contributing writer to her neighborhood association's website, and she populates the GNOWP Facebook page with teaching and writing tips. http://gnowp.org/ https://www.facebook.com/GNOWP STUDENT SPEECH, THEATRE, AND FILM SHOWCASE BLACK BOX THEATRE – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 12:00-­‐1:15pm Performance Showcase HOSTS: Danielle Vignes – vignesd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8681 Mollye DeLoach – deloachm@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8516 Join our talented speech, theatre, and film students as they showcase their work to the public. You will not believe how much talent can fit inside a single hour in the Black Box Theatre! THE WALLS PROJECT & FORWARD ARTS, INC., “10 WORD STORIES BR” MURAL INSTALLATION AND POETRY READING / OPEN MIC GENERATOR HOUSING UNIT – OUTSIDE THE GOVERNOR’S BUILDING 1:30-­‐5:30pm (Poetry Performance and Open Mic – 4:30-­‐5:30) Mural Installation and Poetry Performance HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Join us as we unveil one of The Walls Project and Forward Arts, Inc.’s “10 Word Stories BR” murals. The mural will be painted by a local artist and will feature one of the top selected poems from the 10 Word Stories BR joint venture between The Walls Project and Forward Arts, Inc. The unveiling will be accompanied by a poetry reading and an open mic. “SECONDLINE” : BRCC’S SECOND ANNUAL STUDENT TALENT SHOW MAGNOLIA THEATRE RECEPTION: 5-­‐6pm in the MAGNOLIA GALLERY TALENT SHOW: 6:00-­‐8:00pm PERFORMANCE HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Eric Elliott – elliotte@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8011 Gerri Hobdy – hobdyg@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8401 BRCC’s got talent—so come see it one display as students compete “SECONDLINE”—the 2nd annual BRCC Student Talent Show. Contestants will compete in two rounds to earn the title of Most Talented BRCC Bear—and to take home the trophy! The show will be judged by local artistic celebrities, and will feature a special “Half-­‐Time” performance by FRESH HEAT!’s Word Crew—a group performance poetry piece that will be touring the nation starting in April. WEDNESDAY, 3/23 MaPo KINNARD FRAZIER ART BUILDING 11:30-­‐1:30pm Photography Demonstration and Workshop HOST(s): Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Raised in Cleveland, Ohio MaPo Kinnord earned a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and a MFA from Ohio State University. From 1984 to 1992 taught ceramics and produced functional ceramics in Massachusetts and Berkeley California. Moving to Louisiana in 1995 she is now an associate professor of art at Xavier University of Louisiana. Maintaining a studio in New Orleans she continues to create ceramic sculpture and develop ceramic education projects. DONNEY ROSE BLACK BOX THEATRE – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 4:00-­‐5:00pm Poetry Performance Showcase HOST(s): Benjamin S. Lowenkron – lowenkronb@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8184 Eric Elliott – elliotte@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8011 Donney Rose, a Baton Rouge native and active member of the city’s poetry scene, has been performing spoken word and facilitating spoken word events for over a decade. He works as a teaching artist and marketing director for an arts-­‐based non-­‐profit, Forward Arts Inc. He is also the current Slam Master of the Eclectic Truth Poetry Slam. Donney has recorded three spoken word CDs and author of the chapbook, The Crying Buck (Next Left Press). His work has been featured on Button Poetry, All Def Digital, Atlanta Black Star.com and Blavity.com and in Nicholls State's Gris Gris literary journal.
STUDENT ART SHOW & RECEPTION MAGNOLIA GALLERY – MAGNOLIA BUILDING 5:00-­‐7:00pm Art Show and Reception HOST(s): Cyndy Giachetti – giachettic@mybrcc.edu (225) 216-­‐8185 Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Danielle Burns – burnsd@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8259 Come see works by the talent student artists at BRCC—and find out which piece takes home the blue ribbon! The show will be accompanied by a reception and refreshments will be served. MAGNOLIA STRINGS presents BACH DOUBLE CONCERTO, VIVALDI’S CONCERTO FOR “FOUR VIOLINS” & VIVALDI’S “FOUR SEASONS” RECITAL HALL – GOVERNOR’S BUILDINING 6:30-­‐8:00pm MUSICAL PERFORMANCE HOST(s): Mollye DeLoach – deloachm@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8516 Please join The Magnolia Strings for a wonderful evening of the best baroque music written for the Violin and chamber orchestra. Come experience masterpieces such as the Bach double concerto, Vivaldi concerto for Four Violins, and Vivaldi Four Seasons. THURSDAY 3/24 DEBORAH LILLIE FRAZIER ART BUILDING 11:30-­‐1:30pm Photography Demonstration and Workshop HOST(s): Christopher Brumfield – brumfieldc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8496 Deborah Lillie earned her BFA from Colorado State University in 1990, and her MFA from Louisiana State University in 1996. She taught at Loyola University New Orleans for two years before joining the faculty at Nicholls State University in 1998. At Nicholls, Deborah currently heads the photography program in the Department of Art, and also teaches with the department’s study abroad program. Deborah is highly active in the Society for Photographic Education, having hosted four regional conferences since 1998. Her artwork varies from being purely photographic to a mixed media combination of photography and found objects or other documents. Throughout all the work runs a strong attention to the object and the role of the individual. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. in various group and solo exhibitions. Currently, Lillie serves as co-­‐faculty adviser for the Nicholls Art Club and Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity. MID CITY JAZZ FESTIVAL MAGNOLIA THEATRE COMPETITION: 9:00am-­‐5:00pm RECEPTION: 5:00-­‐6:00pm PERFORMANCE: 6:00-­‐8:00pm Jazz Band Competition and Performance HOST(s): Charles Brooks – brooksc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8179 Baton Rouge will hold its first annual Mid-­‐City Jazz Festival later this month in the Magnolia Theater on Baton Rouge Community College’s Mid-­‐City campus. Dr. Charles Brooks, head of the BRCC’s audio engineering department, is hosting the event as a part of the school’s 10th annual Arts Festival. The event will kick off on March 24th at 9 a.m. and end by 5 p.m. It is open to all middle and high schools in the state. The festival will present high school and middle school jazz ensembles across the state with the opportunity to perform in front of professional musicians and educators in a friendly yet competitive environment. Judges for the festival include: Leroy Jones, legendary New Orleans jazz trumpeter; Michael Foster, of The Michael Foster Project; and Dr. Willis Delony, Virginia Martin Howard Professor of Piano and Professor of Jazz Studies at Louisiana State University. Judges will score bands and provide ensembles with feedback. Awards will be given out at 7 p.m. for Best Band and Best Soloist. Awards will be followed by a judges’ concert held in collaboration with professional jazz percussionist Dr. Charles Brooks. The concert is free and open to the public. Festival registration is also free and requires the following information be sent to Dr. Brooks at brooksc@mybrcc.edu by 5 p.m. on March 20th: school name and city, band director’s name, type of ensemble (high school, middle school, big band, combo, etc.), and a list of three prepared songs. WRITING NIGHTS LIVE: UNCOVERING POETRY LOUISIANA BUILDING – ROOM 128A 6:30-­‐8:00pm Poetry Writing Workshop HOST(s): Zach Gasior – gasiorz@mybrcc.edu Carrie Causey – causeyc@mybrcc.edu ; (225) 216-­‐8097 Baton Rouge Community College’s Liberal Arts Division is hosting Writing Nights Live, a free writing workshop series, from 6:30-­‐8 p.m. March 17, and 24 in BRCC’s Louisiana Building, room 128A, on the Mid City Campus, 201 Community College Drive. The first series focuses on developing poetry, and is open to experienced and inexperienced writers 16 and older. Participants will have the opportunity to share their work with a larger community of writers and to learn from the college’s professional and creative writing faculty. For more information and registration, please visit the following site: http://doodle.com/poll/di8vi7ur42zwpcgx.