These lovely people have agreed to help select work to make this show something really special!
Poetry and Prose: George Paris
Visual Art:
Glenda Taylor
Glenda Taylor is a professor at Washburn University. Find out more about Glenda here.
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Daniel Coburn
Daniel Coburn is a contemporary photographer whose visually arresting images have garnered national and international praise. Selections from his body of work have been featured in prestigious exhibitions at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art and the Chelsea Museum of Art in New York. In 2007, Coburn was a recipient of the Artist-In-Residence award at Rocky Mountain National Park. He published a photographic essay entitled Rediscovering Paradise which focused on the impact of an overwhelming human presence in the National Park. He was a recipient of the 2008 Kansas Mid-Career Artist Fellowship Award presented by the Kansas Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts. Coburn’s prints are held in many public and private collections including The Mulvane Museum of Art, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, The Mariana Kistler-Beach Museum of Art and the Moraine Park Museum. Daniel is co-author of a book entitled “Between Earth and Sky” which showcases his collection of photographs from the Midwest. His writings and photographs appear regularly in regional and national publications including Fraction Magazine and Photo-Eye Magazine. Coburn recieved his BFA with an emphasis in photography from Washburn University where he was the recipient of numerous honors including the prestigious Charles and Margaret Pollak Award. He is currently an instructor and graduate student studying photography at the University of New Mexico.
Dance:
Ellie Goudie-Averill, a 2007 MFA Dance Performance graduate of the University of Iowa, currently directs the Stone Depot Dance Lab (www.stonedepotdancelab.wordpress.com) and dances for McArthur Dance Project and Group Motion Dance Company in Philadelphia. Her choreography has been shown NYC, Philly and throughout the Midwest, and she was recently a selected artist for DNA’s RAW Material. Ellie has served as Visiting Assistant Professor of dance at Bucknell University and Artistic Coordinator of the UI Youth Ballet and is currently teaches technique at Temple University. She began her training at Ballet Midwest in Topeka, Kansas and holds a BFA in dance from the University of Kansas. Along with performing, choreographing, and improvising she loves teaching dance to people of all ages and jumping for joy!
Music: TBA
David Kitchner, a big Teddy Bear of a guy, was born in Philadelphia where his love of movies was hatched. A 2005 graduate of KU (Political Science with a Film minor), he worked production and hosted shows on KU’s student radio station KJHK while working as a resident assistant and desk manager for the Dept. of Student Housing. Like most college graduates, he had no idea what to do with his new found freedom. So he left to serve in the volunteer program, AmeriCorps, in Washington State where he headed a media program for an impoverished rural school and devoured Washington apples by the barrel. Upon returning to Kansas, he stumbled into the office of Gizmo Pictures and for 4 years worked as an editor, videographer and animator. David is now attending Chapman University for his MFA in film production with a concentration in cinematography.
