The Tasman String Quartet was brought to Auburn in February and March of this year for a month long outreach residency under the auspices of the Breeden Eminent Scholar Chair, held by Dr. Howard Goldstein, professor in the Department of Music in the College of Liberal Arts. The residency was coordinated by Dr. Goldstein, the Department of Music, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts.
From elementary schools to university class rooms, public concerts to master classes, the Tasman String Quartet delighted, engaged, taught, and performed for thousands of people during their residency. Click here (PDF) to view a final report.
As a testament to their time here, Christopher Childs, College of Liberal Arts, produced, directed and edited "A Shared Experience". The video features a collaboration between the quartet and a drawing class led by Professor Barb Bondy - an experience that brought them to the cutting edge of artistic experience.
For more information about the Breeden Eminent Scholar, supported by an endowment from Dr. Daniel F. Breeden, visit our website.
Tasman Quartet: A Shared Experience from Christopher S. Childs on Vimeo.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Advancing Our Cultural Imprint
On June 25, 2009, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Alabama Museums Association and Alabama Humanities Foundation will sponsor a summit on the role of Alabama's cultural, arts and humanities organizations. Participants will discuss what the arts and humanities bring to civic life and the impact of current economic conditions on their viability and future.
Charles McCrary, president and CEO of Alabama Power Company and a member of the Auburn University Board of Trustees, will kick off the summit at 10 a.m. at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with a keynote address.
The summit will convene directors, staff and boards of Alabama museums, historical sites, performing arts centers, libraries and other institutions devoted to public education, culture and the arts and humanities. The interested public is invited to register and attend.
For more information, or to register, click here.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Alabama Student National Winner in Letters About Literature Contest
The Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Humanities Foundation are pleased to announce that Cori Anne Mazer, a student at Highlands School in Birmingham, has been named a 2009 Letters About Literature national winner. Miss Mazer is the first national winner from Alabama.
Letters About Literature is a reading-writing contest in which student readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic-explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. Letters are judged first at the state level. First-place winners from state competitions across the country are then submitted to the national contest, where six winners will be chosen to receive $10,000 reading promotion grants for their school or community library. Approximately 55,000 young readers from across the nation participated in this year's Letters About Literature initiative.
Mazer, a 6th grade student, wrote to Lois Lowry after reading The Giver. She has designated her school library as the recipient of the grant. "I've spent countless hours in that library, so I'm happy to be able to give something back," said Mazer.
On the state level, the program is sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. State and national judges include published authors, editors, publishers, librarians and teachers.
The Alabama Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Housed at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Center sponsors programs around the state on books and reading. For more information, please visit www.alabamabookcenter.org.
Miss Mazer's winning letter, after the jump.
Letters About Literature is a reading-writing contest in which student readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic-explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. Letters are judged first at the state level. First-place winners from state competitions across the country are then submitted to the national contest, where six winners will be chosen to receive $10,000 reading promotion grants for their school or community library. Approximately 55,000 young readers from across the nation participated in this year's Letters About Literature initiative.
Mazer, a 6th grade student, wrote to Lois Lowry after reading The Giver. She has designated her school library as the recipient of the grant. "I've spent countless hours in that library, so I'm happy to be able to give something back," said Mazer.
On the state level, the program is sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. State and national judges include published authors, editors, publishers, librarians and teachers.
The Alabama Center for the Book is a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Housed at the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Center sponsors programs around the state on books and reading. For more information, please visit www.alabamabookcenter.org.
Miss Mazer's winning letter, after the jump.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The Creek War and War of 1812 in the South: A Symposium
Join scholars from across the country to discuss the Creek War and War of 1812 in the South on Friday May 22 and Saturday May 23 at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. The symposium will continue Saturday afternoon at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in Dadeville.
More information about the symposium, including a schedule of events, can be found on the symposium site. A registration form can be found here (PDF).
This symposium is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Horsehoe Bend National Military Park, with funding from the National Park Service.
More information about the symposium, including a schedule of events, can be found on the symposium site. A registration form can be found here (PDF).
This symposium is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University and the Horsehoe Bend National Military Park, with funding from the National Park Service.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Don't miss the Alabama Book Festival!
Don't miss the fourth annual Alabama Book Festival! On Saturday, April 18, more than fifty novelists, poets, artists, illustrators, playwrights and children's writers will converge on the grounds of Old Alabama Town for the fourth annual state book festival. The festival is sponsored by the Alabama Center for the Book, an affiliate program of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Tasman String Quartet and Auburn Music Faculty Collaborative Concert
The Tasman String Quartet will perform with Auburn University Department of Music faculty in a collaborative concert on Monday, March 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Goodwin Music Building Recital Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
The Tasman String Quartet is composed of two violinists, Anna van der Zee and Jennifer Banks, violist Christiaan van der Zee and cellist Miranda Wilson. For Monday's concert, they will be accompanied by three assistant professors in the CLA's Department of Music: Michael Koon, baritone; David Odom, clarinet; and Jeremy Samolesky, piano.
The program includes Samuel Barber's "Dover Beach," Dimitri Shostakovich's "Piano Quintet, Op. 57" and Brahms' "Clarinet Quintet in B Minor, Op. 115."
Dr. Amalia Amaki returns for New Perspectives Lecture Series
The New Perspectives Lecture series continues on Tuesday, March 10th, with Dr. Amalia Amaki. "Hale Aspacio Woodruff, the Academy, and the Paul R. Jones Collection" focuses on the life and work of artist and educator Hale Aspacio Woodruff, who played a significant role in educating and advancing the work of generations of African American artists. Amaki will discuss his far-reaching influence and will also consider the connections between Woodruff's oeuvre and legacy and the Paul R. Jones Collection. Dr. Amaki will speak at 3 p.m. in the JCSM auditorium. The program is sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and the Alabama Humanities Foundation. The series is co-sponsored by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, the Access and Community Initiatives unit of the Office of Diversity of Multicultural Affairs, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Auburn University, and the Department of Art in the College of Liberal Arts.
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