Fine Arts Festival Featuring Motlow Students
Title
Fine Arts Festival Featuring Motlow Students
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Newspaper article detailing a fine arts festival featuring Motlow students and faculty.
Date
May 5, 1972
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English
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Fine Arts Festival Plans Music Programs
Musical programs representing a variety of forms will be featured both days of the Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival, scheduled Saturday and Sunday of next week.
The musical programs will be held from 1 to 3 PM May 13 and 2 to 4 PM May 14 in the auditorium at South Jackson Elementary School. No admission will be charged Mrs. Wendell Norman is in charge of these events.
The Fine Arts Festival, in its third year, will be held on the grounds of South Jackson School across from the Fine Arts Center, sponsor of the festival.
Admission to the festival is 50 cents, with children under 12 to be admitted free. Exhibits will be open from 9 AM until 9PM May 13 and from noon until 4 PM May 14.
The music programs are being offered this year in addition to the regular sidewalk showings of arts and crafts.
The program on May 13 will open with a presentation of folk music by Mrs. Wendal Norman of Tullahoma, vocalist. She will sing early American, early European and spiritual folk songs to her own accompaniment on the autoharp.
Next will be a presentation of popular music by a quartet of Motlow College students backed by an instrumental ensemble. The quartet is composed of Miss Della Crutchfeild and Miss Pam Cooley of Tullahoma and Wendell McDonald and William Thomson, Fayetteville.
A presentation of folk music with dulcimer accompaniment will feature Joel A. Neely of Tullahoma. A graduate of David Lipscomb College, he presently is working toward a master’s degree in mathematics with a specialty in computer science at Middle Tennesee State University. He also teaches computer science at Motlow College.
Mr. Neely graduated from Tullahoma High School, where he was a member of the choir, band and chorus. He was elected for two years as a member of the All-State Chorus while at THS, was voted “most talented in dramatics” by his classmates and won the “actor of the year” award at THS for his performance in “The Glass Menagerie.”
He also was a member of junior high, high school and college bands, playing the trumpet and french horn.
Barbara, Tuthill will wind up Saturday’s program with a presentation of modern folk music of her own accompaniment on the autoharp. She is a junior at Tullahoma High School, where she is a member of the band and chorus.
Sunday’s program will feature the singing of Broadway, sacred and Renaissance music by the Motlow College chorus under the direction of Orville Moffitt, Chairman of the humanities division at Motlow.
The Motlow presentation will feature two soloists- Mrs. Theodore Austin of Tullahoma and Mrs. Greta Gipson of Decherd- in a singing of art songs.
They will be followed by a piano ensemble made up of Mike Cunningham of Manchester and Rebecca Hodge, Suzanne Oliver and Mrs. Annette Gregory of Tullahoma, all students at Motlow College.
The musical programs will end with a concert by the Tullahoma Kiwanis Community Band under the direction of Ralph James. The band made up of people of all ages, from housewives to professional men to junior high students, will play march-type music- including arrangements by John Phillip Sousa and by Bob Carter of Tullahoma- and novelty numbers. Richard Williams is the manager of the band.
Artists exhibiting at the festival will show artwork in four categories. They are painting- oils, acrylics, water colors and mixed media; crafts - textiles, ceramics, mosaics, and enamels; sculpture - relief and three-dimensional and graphics.
Only original artwork done since 1968 will be eligible for judging, which will begin at 11 AM May 13. Prizes will be awarded in each category and first, second and third-place winners will receive ribbons.
Dr. Lee Boylan professor of art history at Memphis State University and mother of D. E. Boylan of Tullahoma, will be the judge. She has won numerous awards for her artwork in national shows and is particularly accomplished in silver design.
Each artist exhibiting at the festival has been asked to donate one item to the Fine Arts Center. These pieces of art will be given away during the festival.
In festival musicale- The Motlow College Chorus, under the direction of Orvil Moffitt, at right in the third row, will present selections of Broadway, sacred and Renaissance magic during a musical program May 14 at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival.
In arts festival - Joel A. Neely of Tullahoma will be featured in a musical program Saturday of next week as part of the third annual Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival. He will sing folk songs in his own accompaniment on the dulcimer.
Musical programs representing a variety of forms will be featured both days of the Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival, scheduled Saturday and Sunday of next week.
The musical programs will be held from 1 to 3 PM May 13 and 2 to 4 PM May 14 in the auditorium at South Jackson Elementary School. No admission will be charged Mrs. Wendell Norman is in charge of these events.
The Fine Arts Festival, in its third year, will be held on the grounds of South Jackson School across from the Fine Arts Center, sponsor of the festival.
Admission to the festival is 50 cents, with children under 12 to be admitted free. Exhibits will be open from 9 AM until 9PM May 13 and from noon until 4 PM May 14.
The music programs are being offered this year in addition to the regular sidewalk showings of arts and crafts.
The program on May 13 will open with a presentation of folk music by Mrs. Wendal Norman of Tullahoma, vocalist. She will sing early American, early European and spiritual folk songs to her own accompaniment on the autoharp.
Next will be a presentation of popular music by a quartet of Motlow College students backed by an instrumental ensemble. The quartet is composed of Miss Della Crutchfeild and Miss Pam Cooley of Tullahoma and Wendell McDonald and William Thomson, Fayetteville.
A presentation of folk music with dulcimer accompaniment will feature Joel A. Neely of Tullahoma. A graduate of David Lipscomb College, he presently is working toward a master’s degree in mathematics with a specialty in computer science at Middle Tennesee State University. He also teaches computer science at Motlow College.
Mr. Neely graduated from Tullahoma High School, where he was a member of the choir, band and chorus. He was elected for two years as a member of the All-State Chorus while at THS, was voted “most talented in dramatics” by his classmates and won the “actor of the year” award at THS for his performance in “The Glass Menagerie.”
He also was a member of junior high, high school and college bands, playing the trumpet and french horn.
Barbara, Tuthill will wind up Saturday’s program with a presentation of modern folk music of her own accompaniment on the autoharp. She is a junior at Tullahoma High School, where she is a member of the band and chorus.
Sunday’s program will feature the singing of Broadway, sacred and Renaissance music by the Motlow College chorus under the direction of Orville Moffitt, Chairman of the humanities division at Motlow.
The Motlow presentation will feature two soloists- Mrs. Theodore Austin of Tullahoma and Mrs. Greta Gipson of Decherd- in a singing of art songs.
They will be followed by a piano ensemble made up of Mike Cunningham of Manchester and Rebecca Hodge, Suzanne Oliver and Mrs. Annette Gregory of Tullahoma, all students at Motlow College.
The musical programs will end with a concert by the Tullahoma Kiwanis Community Band under the direction of Ralph James. The band made up of people of all ages, from housewives to professional men to junior high students, will play march-type music- including arrangements by John Phillip Sousa and by Bob Carter of Tullahoma- and novelty numbers. Richard Williams is the manager of the band.
Artists exhibiting at the festival will show artwork in four categories. They are painting- oils, acrylics, water colors and mixed media; crafts - textiles, ceramics, mosaics, and enamels; sculpture - relief and three-dimensional and graphics.
Only original artwork done since 1968 will be eligible for judging, which will begin at 11 AM May 13. Prizes will be awarded in each category and first, second and third-place winners will receive ribbons.
Dr. Lee Boylan professor of art history at Memphis State University and mother of D. E. Boylan of Tullahoma, will be the judge. She has won numerous awards for her artwork in national shows and is particularly accomplished in silver design.
Each artist exhibiting at the festival has been asked to donate one item to the Fine Arts Center. These pieces of art will be given away during the festival.
In festival musicale- The Motlow College Chorus, under the direction of Orvil Moffitt, at right in the third row, will present selections of Broadway, sacred and Renaissance magic during a musical program May 14 at the Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival.
In arts festival - Joel A. Neely of Tullahoma will be featured in a musical program Saturday of next week as part of the third annual Tullahoma Fine Arts Festival. He will sing folk songs in his own accompaniment on the dulcimer.
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“Fine Arts Festival Featuring Motlow Students,” Motlow State Community College Archives, accessed May 6, 2024, https://msccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/48.
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