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Governor's
Emergency
Relief
Fund
www.servealabama.gov
For
those wishing to help Alabamians with unmet recovery needs
that unfold in the wake of the recent tornado outbreak
across the state.
The State Council on the Arts will be
taking up a special collection at the May 17th
"Celebration of the Arts Awards" program at the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival for the Governor's
Emergency Relief Fund.
NOTE:
Artists, arts organization staff and anyone aware of
needs, damage and disasters in the arts community in
Alabama, please contact the Arts Council at: staff@arts.alabama.gov
or call 334-242-4076, ext. 248.
Grants
Awarded at December's Council Meeting (please
click
here)
2011
CELEBRATION
OF THE ARTS AWARDS & GALA
The
evening included performances honoring each award
recipient
.
Jim
Inscoe, Elmore Inscoe, Rebecca Luker (Alabama
Distinguished Arts Award recipient) & Dr. Henry Panion,
III (Governor's Arts Award recipient). Photo by Andy
Meadows.
The
2011 Award recipients are:
Joe
McInnes,
Montgomery
Jonnie Dee Little Lifetime
Achievement Award
Rebecca
Luker, Birmingham/New
York
Alabama’s Distinguished Artist Award
Dale
Kennington,
Dothan
Governor's Arts Award
Dr.
Henry Panion, III,
Birmingham
Governor's Arts Award
Sena
Jeter Naslund,
Birmingham/Louisville
Governor's Arts Award
Joyce
Cauthen,
Birmingham
Governor's Arts Award
James
Bryan, Mentone
The Alabama Folk Heritage Award
Former
First Lady Patsy Riley,
Montgomery/Ashland
Special Council Award
For
information about the award recipients
click
here
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The
Alabama State Council on the Arts is pleased to announce
that Youssef Biaz, from Auburn High School, placed top in
the nation Friday evening, April 29 for the Poetry Out
Loud National Poetry Recitation Contest in Washington D.C.
On the first day of the two-day competition Youssef placed
in the top 3 of the semi-finals, competing against central
states and Puerto Rico. At the finals on the second day,
competing as one of the top 9 finalists, he placed once
again in the top 3, and as we watched from Alabama by
UStream, he delivered his final poem, Filling Station by
Elizabeth Bishop, which solicited audience response for
every line. This poem took him to first place. For this
honor he receives a scholarship award of $20,000, and his
school library receives a $1,000 stipend for the purchase
of poetry books. Youssef was accompanied in Washington, by
his teacher, Davis Thompson, his parents and sisters, and
Donna Russell from the Alabama Alliance for Arts in
Education.
Converging
on Washington, DC, April 28-29, 2011 to compete in the
nation’s largest youth poetry recitation competition, 53
high school student competitors from across the country
advanced from a field of more than 365,000 students who
tested their skills in poetry recitation in more than
2,000 schools nationwide.
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To read
about Youssef Biaz winning the National Poetry Out Loud
Competition, please click
here.
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To Learn more
about the National Poetry Out Loud Competition,
click
here.
THREE
ALABAMA ARTISTS CREATE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR KEEPSAKE BIRTH
CERTIFICATES. Art was commissioned from these artists:
Bethanne Hill, Woodie Long and Cyd
Moore. Funds
raised will provide for programs protecting children from
abuse and neglect. To learn more about this project, click
here.
To
view these colorful images, visit: www.adph.org/vitalrecords
and click on keepsake birth
certificates.
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Alabama Masters: Artists
and Their Work was produced
in conjunction with the Alabama
Year of the Arts, an initiative of the Alabama
Bureau of Tourism and Travel and the Alabama
State Council on the Arts.
For
teachers using the Alabama Masters book in lesson plans, please click
here.
Alabama Masters: Artists
and Their Work features
forty-two artists and is a partnership publication between the
Alabama State Council on the Arts and six major art museums in
the state. The full color paperback features an essay and images
of each artist’s work, with the goal of honoring the
individual artists and highlighting museum collections. The
selection of artists was based on guidelines determined by
the museum directors. Al Head, executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts
and Gail C. Andrews,
the R. Hugh Daniel Director of the Birmingham Museum of Art,
contributed essays. Georgine
Clarke,
visual arts program manager at the Alabama State Council on the
Arts, coordinated the publication.
The National Endowment for the Arts has
funded a series of projects throughout the country under the
broad heading of American Masterpieces, and this publication is
Alabama’s contribution. It is a major step toward
compiling the state’s visual arts history, cultural fabric,
and national contributions of its artists.
The
six participating museums are Birmingham
Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Jule Collins Smith
Museum of Art at Auburn University, Mobile Museum of Art,
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, and Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan. Featured master artists range
from turn-of-the-last-century painters John
Kelly Fitzpatrick, Anne Goldthwaite, Louise Lyons Heustis, John
Roderick Dempster MacKenzie, and Clara
Weaver Parrish to contemporary artists Kerry
James Marshall, Frank Fleming, William Christenberry, and Dale
Kennington.
The
book is available for a $25 donation to the Alabama
Craft Council, 201 Monroe Street, Suite 110, Montgomery, AL
36104-3721. For additional info, contact Georgine Clarke at georgine.clarke@arts.alabama.gov
Links:
http://www.800alabama.com/
http://www.arts.alabama.gov
http://www.arts.endow.gov/
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ALABAMA
AL DIA: A Report On Hispanic Cultures. For more
information about this
report, click
here
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Educational
Resources Available. For more
information, click
here
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