by Tia Calvin | Sep 4, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
A new exhibit in Lipscomb’s Hutchenson gallery was announced this past week to kick off the fall season. The new exhibit titled, “Animators After Dark” features a more dramatic side of the industry experts with works from Tom Bancroft, Tim Hodge, John Pomeroy, and Scott Sava. These local legends have created some of your favorite films and shows including Veggie Tales, The Lion King, Tom & Jerry, and more. But when the animating ends, these artists go home “after dark” to create their own work. This allows them to express themselves in other mediums without the pressure of deadlines or storyboarding. “This exhibition showcases what Bancroft, Hodge, Pomeroy, and Sava create in their free moments of artistic exploration. With some of the pieces, you will be able to see a clear parallel to the work that these artists create in their “day job”. For example, Bancroft’s pieces still feature his famous Disney characters and Sava’s pieces feature vibrant illustrations of pop culture characters. But, some of the pieces are a stark contrast to the artists’ animation work,” said Mia Jaye Thomas, program coordinator for the Hutcheson Art Gallery. While serving as adjunct professors in the animation department, the four professionals featured in the gallery have helped shape the next generation of students at Lipscomb. Through this gallery, the animators hope to showcase the side projects that they work on when they want to explore their own stories. Ultimately, the illustrations, paintings, and sketches are also a chance to inspire their students to create. “We hope that students and faculty come to see this exhibition (and all of our exhibitions)...
by Mckenzi Harris | Jul 6, 2019 | Arts and Entertainment, News Slider
“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” written by Ernie Nolan, is this season’s Nashville Children’s Theatre “Snuggery” show and is being performed at Lipscomb University in the black box theater. This is not the first year Lipscomb has hosted the NCT, but it is the first time the university have hosted the Snuggery, as well as the first time NCT has done a Snuggery show. The performance is geared toward kids 5-and-under, but is most certainly enjoyable for the parents as well. The show is comprised of two characters: Glimmer and Sparkle. The two are star-catchers and spend the entirety of the show searching for “Little Star.” The cast starts the show by inviting the young audience members as well as the adults to become star-catchers with them by giving them star-catcher kits and taking them through an interactive training that includes: dancing, singing, searching for stars and learning to be star-catchers. An interactive theater is a new concept and a fun way to get away from a screen for 45 minutes, said Eric D. Pasto-Crosby (who portrays Glimmer). “I personally love how different it can be,” he said. “I thoroughly enjoy that (children’s reactions0 part, having to loop that in as we go through. You could easily go on autopilot, but they don’t allow you to.” The dynamic between the two-person cast creates a new energy in the theater, according to Pasto-Crosby: “We go through all the ranges. We get sad, happy and it’s a full art, they experience with you…. It’s the same energy each time, but different dynamic” The actors are wonderful at including the whole audience in the...
by Hunter Patterson | Mar 30, 2012 | News Slider
Stories are designed to transport readers to faraway places, be it Narnia or banks of the Mississippi River. But this weekend, the stories have come to Lipscomb while the university hosts the Southern Literary Festival. Running through Sunday, the festival includes several workshops and readings by notable authors such as Mark Jarman, Mark Richard and Kathy Rhodes. While this is the 76th year for the festival, it is the first time that Lipscomb or the city of Nashville is hosting the event. The festival was started because most smaller schools, colleges and universities of the South did not have the resources to bring in the greatest artists of the region. The festival got its start when those schools and universities began to pool their resources. English professor and president of the Southern Literary Festival Dr. Dana Carpenter said that the university is “incredibly excited” to be hosting the event for the first time. “It’s an insane amount of work,” Carpenter said in regards to planning the festival. “I’ve got notes from the last eight years, and for the last two years, I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about what needs to be done.” And all of Carpenter’s hard work is about to pay off. Representatives from 36 member schools arrived on campus this weekend, the largest number of participants in the festival’s history. While schools all across the South will attend the festival, Carpenter urges students, as well as the public, to take advantage of the events. For more information and a full schedule, visit the Southern Literary Festival’s...
by Danielle Boyd | Feb 24, 2012 | News Slider
Bringing together youth and communities has always been a dream for Phyllis Hildreth, the founder of Falcon Feather Fibers. “Our goal was to bring persons in the community, whether they were youth, seniors, or employees at the medical school down the street at Meharry,” she said. “They could sit, refresh and engage in the arts.” The art studio was located on Jefferson Street in the center of colleges and universities where individuals or groups could freely come and go to work on various projects. The communal space was a place where wisdom was shared through the traditional form of quilting, knitting and crocheting—an activity that has been long passed down through the ancestry of slavery. As Hildreth began to reminisce, she asked, “Where do you often find that calm subtle wisdom?” “If I say the front porch, it doesn’t matter whether you are talking about a front porch in Appalachia or just down the street here in Tennessee,” Hildreth said. “We know that’s where the elders were to be found. And you could find them there sitting, and they usually weren’t sitting there idle, their hands were going with something, whether it was crocheting, quilting, or shelling peas. You would just pick up the peas and start working too.” In the hopes of bringing youth and communities together, Hildreth created an art studio that would mimic the front porch or kitchen table, a place where individuals could collectively come together to work on arts and crafts. “It was important to me that people could come into a creative space that would provide examples, inspiration and opportunity,” Hildreth said. Partnering...
