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Announcement DetailsCelebrating the French Broad River:
RiverLink’s 6th Annual Voices of the River Art and Poetry Contest
For preK-12thGraders of the French Broad Watershed
How Do You See Your River?
The 2013 entries will be on display at AB Tech's Holly Library at 340 Victoria Road in Asheville. It is open for public viewing from April 13th to the end of the month. Library hours include: Holly Library Hours Spring Semester 2013 Monday-Thursday, 7:30am- 8:00pm Friday, 7:30am- 5:00pm Saturday, 9:00am- 1:00pm The awards ceremony and reception will be on Saturday, April 13th at 2:00pm. All family and friends of the students participating are welcome to attend.
Our talented judges for 2013 include: Mel Chin Representative for the Fundred Dollar Bill Project Mel Chin is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin promotes “works of art” that have the ultimate effect of benefiting science, as in Revival Field, and also in the current Operation Paydirt which is engaging scientists, planners, and communities across the country to help end the threat of lead poisoning (see www.fundred.org). These projects are consistent with a conceptual philosophy, which emphasizes the practice of art to include sculpting and bridging the natural and social ecology.
Chin’s work was documented in the popular PBS program, Art of the 21st Century. Chin has received numerous awards and grants from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, Art Matters, Creative Capital, and the Penny McCall, Pollock/Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Rockefeller and Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundations, among others.
Kathryn Byer Kathryn Stripling Byer has published seven books of poetry, including Wildwood Flower, (LSU Press , 1992, Laughlin Selection of the Academy of American Poets for best second book of poetry by an American poet), Black Shawl, (LSU) and, most recently, Descent (LSU, 2012). She has taught in the UNCG MFA program, as well as serving as Poet in Residence at Western Carolina University. Her poetry, essays, and short fiction have appeared in journals ranging from The Atlantic Monthly to Appalachian Heritage. She was the 2007 recipient of the Hanes Award in Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and served as North Carolina's first woman Poet Laureate from 2005 till 2009. She lives in Cullowhee, NC, on a hillside overlooking the Tuckasegee River.
Cleaster Cotton Cleaster Cotton is a Contemporary Primitive/Outsider Artist and Photographer. She invented ALNUGE (Alphabets, Numbers, Geometrics,) a K-12+ STEM, core curriculum, arts activity, and lesson plan, which fosters creativity, academic excellence, innovation, and ingenuity. Cleaster is Founder of the South River Arts Alliance and SETSE (Self-Empowerment Through Self-Expression) Education Curriculum. Since 1998, she has taught thousands of children and has facilitated professional development workshops for hundreds of teachers. She feels, “When teachers have fun teaching, children have fun learning.” Cleaster is an Arts-in-Education (AIE) Creative Communications Specialist, a (2012) LEAF Board Member, and a Certified Teaching Artist who has served UNC Asheville, Asheville City Schools Foundation, the High Museum of Art, Westchester Arts Council, Georgia Council for the Arts, and the Museum Design of Atlanta
Jolene Mechanic Jolene Mechanic is the owner of Phil Mechanic Studios and the Co-Founder and Director of the Flood Gallery and Fine Arts Center. Holding a Bachelor of Arts in both Philosophy and Literature from UNCA, Jolene has made her mark in the Asheville community sitting on the board of directors at the Black Mountain College Museum as well as Green Opportunities (Asheville GO). You can find publications of her story in Bold Life, and Verve Magazine, as well as through a series of art lectures around Western North Carolina. Jolene was voted into the Mountain Xpress Top Ten list of Art-Related Events and People of 2011, and Asheville’s Unsung Hero in 2008. She received awards for outstanding community service and working with children and philosophy from UNCA. In 2007, Jolene was presented the RiverBusiness award by RiverLink.
Doc Klein Kevin "Doc' Klein is the creative force behind the local-based consulting firm Uncharted Territories Inc. (www.unchartedterritories.us), which focuses on helping communities and organizations experience an Amazing Year (one of their best years ever). He worked as professional photographer for several Ohio based newspapers and has been combining photography with poetry for many years. After surviving a rare heart-virus in 2009, he frequently engages his clients in creating poetry as part of his consulting work with the caveat that attending meetings that are boring or not relevant to promoting our work and the human spirit should be outlawed. He is also an active mountain climber and much of his artistic work draws from his experience in the mountains.
Maryanne Pappano Maryanne Pappano is a mixed media artist. She finds inspiration in found objects, surf, mountains, music, lyrics, and movement. Most known for her coastal surf art; she chose Asheville for the mountain segment of her arts career.
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