{"id":28841,"date":"2015-11-03T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=28841"},"modified":"2015-11-02T20:44:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T01:44:36","slug":"brown-bag-panel-discussion-at-um-museum-kate-freeman-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/brown-bag-panel-discussion-at-um-museum-kate-freeman-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown Bag Panel Discussion at UM Museum- Kate Freeman Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BrownBagWEB\"<\/a>Kate Freeman Clark
\nBrown Bag Panel Discussion<\/p>\n

Thursday
\nNovember 5, 2015
\nnoon\u20131:00 p.m.<\/p>\n

UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MUSEUM<\/p>\n

Please join us for a brown bag panel discussing the life and work of the often overlooked artist, Kate Freeman Clark.<\/p>\n

PANELISTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bea Green<\/strong>
\nI have lived in Holly Springs almost all of my life and I am a founding member of Belles and Books Club which is a support group for the KFC Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

Many years ago, I was appointed by the court system as a Trustee for the KFC Gallery and was responsible for putting togerther the board and starting a more formal arrangement for taking care of the painting of Miss Kate. I am also a former student of hers.\"KateFreemanWEB\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Walter Webb<\/strong>
\nGraduate of University of Mississippi – BA in Journalism & Business Administration
\nExecutive Director of the Mississippi Press Association
\nEditor & Publisher, The South Reporter, Holly Springs – 21 years
\nCommunications Director, healthcare management company
\nOwner Webbgraphics, graphic design and web development firm
\nDirector, Kate Freeman Clark Art Gallery<\/p>\n

Jimmy Thomas<\/strong>\u00a0is the Center for the Study of Southern Culture\u2019s associate director for publications. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in English and philosophy and a master\u2019s degree in Southern Studies, both from the University of Mississippi. In 2003 he began work as managing editor of the 24-volume\u00a0New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture,<\/em>\u00a0including the\u00a0Art and Architecture<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Folk Art<\/em>volumes. Other publications include the forthcoming\u00a0Conversations with Barry Hannah<\/em>\u00a0and volumes in the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Series. In 2013 he guest-curated the exhibition\u00a0Independent Expression: Self-Taught Artists of the Late 20th Century<\/em>\u00a0for the University Museum.<\/p>\n

Carolyn J. Brown<\/strong>\u00a0is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She attended Duke University and then the University of North Carolina-Greensboro for her Master\u2019s and Ph.D.\u00a0A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty<\/em>\u00a0is her first book. It was selected by the Mississippi Library Commission to represent the state of Mississippi at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC in 2012, and won the Mississippi Library Association\u2019s Award for Nonfiction in 2013. She published her second biography,\u00a0Song of My Life: A Biography of Margaret Walker,<\/em>\u00a0in November 2014, which has just won the Mississippi Library Association\u2019s award for Juvenile Literature. Brown has published articles in several journals, includingNotes on Mississippi Writers, College Language Journal,<\/em>\u00a0the\u00a0Eudora Welty Review, Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Study the South<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Journal of Mississippi History.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas Dewey<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Thomas Dewey received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in spring 1976 and came to Ole Miss that fall. Over a 37 year span, he developed 13 lecture courses covering art history and architecture from Europe and the United States 19th<\/sup>-21st<\/sup>\u00a0centuries. That diversity produced 60 publications and 53 conference research papers. As archivist for the Southern Graphics Council, he developed a print study collection of more than 6,000 etchings, drypoints, woodcuts, silkscreens, etc.\u00a0\u00a0He also organized several contemporary print traveling exhibitions.\u00a0Dr. Dewey\u2019s\u00a0 manuscript titled \u201cA View from the South\/The Narrative Art of Boyd Saunders\u201d has been accepted by the University of South Carolina Press. He retired from the university in 2013.
\nAnnette Trefzer<\/strong>\u00a0is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She teaches classes on American Literature specializing in Southern literature and culture. She is the author of Disturbing Indians: The Archaeology of Southern Fiction, and coeditor with Ann J. Abadie of several volumes of critical essays on William Faulkner. Combing her expertise in literature and art, she is currently at work on a book on Eudora Welty\u2019s photography. Annette worked at the Academy Gallery in New Orleans from 1986-1992 (while she earned a PhD in English) and she opened Bozarts Gallery in Water Valley in 2008. Annette and her husband Mickey Howley own and operate this artist driven exhibition space with the goal of promoting local artists and fostering community appreciation of the visual arts.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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