“Antioch Is My Home” Community Art Festival
For more information about the project, visit: http://art.saveantioch.org
Press release:
Antioch College will host a Community Art Festival around the theme “Antioch Is My Home” from April 13 through April 26. “The theme is a sentiment that is echoed across the Antioch community. I wanted to develop a positive project that would create solidarity and build the momentum of the efforts to save Antioch,” says Marjorie Jensen, a recent Antioch College graduate who is coordinating the festival.
This multi-faceted festival will include an exhibition in the Reed Gallery (in the upstairs of the Visual Arts building) that opens on April 13 and runs through April 26; video screenings and musical performances in Kelly Hall on April 17 at 8pm; dance performances in Antioch’s South Gym on April 23 at 8pm; theater performances and readings of various writing styles in the Antioch Area Theater on April 24 at 8pm. There will also be a variety of installation pieces set up around campus throughout the duration of the festival.
Art contributions featured in this festival are from all stakeholders in the Save Antioch Movement: Antioch students, staff, faculty, alumni, Yellow Springs community members, and friends of the college. The “Antioch Is My Home” project has been developed through a process that has involved members from all of these constituencies.
A few examples of the multi-generational submissions include readings by a current Antioch theater student, Zoe Julich, from a play entitled “Choice of Pastry,” written by an alumna, Robin Rice Lichtig. Alumnus Michael Casselli is planning on creating “footprints,” or visual representations, of buildings that he associates with his Antioch home that have been torn down on campus. Colette Palamar, Antioch professor of Ecology and Director of the Herndon Gallery, is lending her painting entitled “Family” to the exhibit.
The submission deadline is April 12. Festival submissions will be documented in a printed publication that includes a CD/DVD. The submissions will also be available online. For more information about the project, visit: http://art.saveantioch.org.
The “Antioch Is My Home” Community Art Festival is supported by the Antioch College Action Network (ACAN). ACAN is an independent collective of autonomous alumni, students, faculty, staff, and friends of Antioch College and villagers of Yellow Springs. ACAN is a grassroots movement working collaboratively for a continuous and sustainable future for Antioch College.