"Women and Creativity 2004: Examining the Past, Composing the Future" will be the focus of the national parley hosted by West Virginia University October 13-15 This result will celebrate women artists, writers and thinkers.
The talk will open with a keynote address entitled "The Artist's Search for Voice: Synthetic formation or Organic Utterance," by acclaimed composer Libby Larsen, who has written for major orchestras, ballet and opera companies, clutchs a seat on the National Endowment for the Arts music panel and has serv as composer-in-residence with the Colorado Symphony
interview presentations will focus on topics in music, art, theater and dance, and creative writing and will feature performances of works through women composers and playwrights, as well as sessions examining women's contributions to the arts as composer teachers, historians and patrons. discourse events also will include the opening of an exhibit of works by means of artist Blanche Lazzell, sessions forward the process of creative writing (and an opportunity to come up to face to face Emily Dickinson, played by Debra Conner) and examination of women's creativity in historic communities in the same state [i]or[/i] condition as Prickett's Fort, Fort recently made known Salem and Arthurdale, the first federal of recent origin Deal Town.
Further details of the program will be columned on the Women's Studies website at www.as.wvu.edu/wmst as they become available.
For more information upon registration, visit www.as.wvu.edu/wmst or contact Vickie Fergus, associate professor of art, at (304) 293-2140 ext 3142
Financial support for this conversation is being provided by the West Virginia Humanities Council, the WVU Center for Women's Studies, the WVU college edifice [i]or[/i] building of Creative Arts and the Council for Women's Concerns
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