Creative Rural Urban Alliances Webinar
Mar
16
2015
Last week, we shared information about Art of the Rural collaborations that address both rural and urban communities alongside staff from the Rural Policy Research Institute and M12… [continue reading]
Notes From The Field: “Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard” and the Don Wahle Collection
Dec
10
2012
By Jennifer Joy Jameson, Notes From The Field series Editor The interesting part about any ethnographic study is putting the pieces together, stepping in and out of a culture or history that may or may not be your own in order to share it with others. [continue reading]
What’s Up With Those Southern Beasts?
Sep
27
2012
By Dudley Cocke, Artistic Director of Roadside Theater Storytelling is a partnership between the person telling the story and the person receiving the story; each depends on the other. This exchange is not designed to be passive, unless the purpose is propaganda. “The purpose of art is to [continue reading]
AWOL: Bringing New Stories To the Screen
Jul
11
2012
Photograph by Irit Reinheimer AWOL is a love story. It is a rural love story,
and a lesbian love story, and a story about the choices that young people in
this country have – and don’t have.
These lines accompany the [continue reading]
Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture: "It All Turns On Affection"
Apr
24
2012
On Monday night Wendell Berry delivered “It All Turns on Affection,” the 2012 Jefferson Lecture at the Kennedy Center. Each year the National Endowment for the Humanities offers this lectureship, “the highest honor the federal government bestows for distinguished intellectual and public achievement in the humanities.” Mr. Berry’s [continue reading]
To The New Year 2012
Jan
2
2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty from Sabbaths, 2005VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
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