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Art resources for kids Our thanks go to the kids and teacher Carly Walters from the Amorita Charter School in OK, who someone tripped over the SCCA site and suggested that we add this link.
(Hmmm, maybe this has something to do with all those Oklahoma truck drivers zipping between the Marcellus wells.)
Simple Gifts This time around, May 11, they held elementary school workshops and assemblies, with an evening family concert in the school auditorium. These women are superb, wonderfully versatile instrumentalists, a folk-based act taking traditional tunes and re-imagining them in unique ways that still hold true to the original. Their repertoire includes all of Europe and the Mediterranean – for starters. They also presented some of their own tunes, which have the same ageless quality and solid traditionalism. Many, many thanks to Barb Murray, our music chair, for organizing the wholly delightful shebang. |
Looking Forward to New
Local Arts in 2012 The Sullivan County Council on the Arts (SCCA) is an umbrella organization working to foster and preserve the artistic and cultural lives of the residents of Sullivan County, a rural community of small towns, hemlock forests and serenity in the heart of the Endless Mountains. Check out our activities page to see what we're up to. And our members page to help support the arts in Sullivan County. For a pdf copy of our 2012 brochure, click here We have set up an Archives page which holds links to all our theater scripts, past calendar listings and, over time, various writeups that expand on what we plan, and what we have in mind. Please visit it here.
Looking Ahead
"Hills and Valleys" You can read the second annual edition of "Hills and Valleys," our magazine of student literary/visual arts, here. It includes all the winners and runners up of our Literary Awards for high school-level students, and all the Youth Art Award winners from kindergarten on up through high school. Both groups of awards are open to Sullivan County School District students, home schoolers and Red Rock Job Corps Center residents. Amy McGee was named first prize winner in theLiterary Awards. Her contributions - "Reaching," a tragic short story; "Another Night of Work," a reminiscence about her farm duties in a cow barn; a carefully considered essay on love and hate; a reminiscence on the city of Charlotte; and a poem on the death of her father - were unanimously chosen for the top prize by Judges Connie Hatch, Barbara Murray and Linda White. McGee, a home schooler, placed second last year. Second prize went to last year's top winner, Megan Kiner, for two poems, one historical ("Battle Cry") and one personal ("The Inner Unreached Being - or the Soul"), plus "Torture," a deeply felt, fictionalized examination of a current social problem. Sara Urner took third place with "Fading Voice," a poem dealing with current teen reality, and a short story, "Omnipresence of the Soul," told by an adult daughter contemplating memories of her mother. Forth place was gained by Devin Strickland for two short stories - a science fiction piece called "Reapers" and "Part of the World," recalling hikes with an uncle - plus a descriptive poem, "A Desert Day." Heather Geist took Honorable Mention with "Listen," a long poem on the art and personal value of hearing both sound and silence. Runners-up included Megan Avery, MacKenna Bagley, Brianna Baumunk, Kaiti Beinlich, Thomas Blasi, Nicole Burt, Sarah Carl, C.J. Charleston, Shaina Durham, Heather Fitzgerald, Eli Henninger, Addie Jordan, Samuel Reeser, Trey Richlin, Donnie Smith and Nick Weinhardt. The cash award to the top four winners have been supported, in part, by a generous donation from Chesapeake Energy.
For the third year running, Alyssa McDonald received our annual Choice of Show Award at the high school art show May 2. Her oil, titled "Michelle," captivated judges Vi Barker, Karen Black and Mary Ellen Minnier. Te Arts Council buys the winning work, has it framed and hung on permanent exhibit in the high school corridor. Alyssa has now earned more for her artwork before graduation than many artists do in their lifetime. And deserved it, for sure.
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