Friday, October 08, 2004
USI program looks into ‘Private Lives’
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The husband-and-wife team of Matthew Graham and Katie Waters will be featured in University of Southern Indiana’s RopeWalk Reading Series October 21, 2004. Graham, USI associate professor of English, and Waters, chair of the USI Department of Art, Music, and Theatre, will present “Private Lives: Landscapes of the Heart and Mind” at 7 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The program will combine Graham’s poetry and Waters’ paintings, which merge in a nostalgic evocation of the American Heartland. The pair originally presented “Private Lives” at Harlaxton College in England. Graham, who specializes in creative writing, is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Maryland State Arts Council First Book Award, two literary fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission, and a fellowship from the Vermont Arts Studio. He joined USI in 1984 and has published two collections of poetry: New World Architecture and 1946. Graham holds a B.A. from State University of New York-Binghamton, an M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and an M.F.A. from University of Iowa’s Writers Workshop. Co-director and co-founder of the USI RopeWalk Writers Retreat and the RopeWalk Writers Winter Retreat, Graham also serves as poetry editor of The Southern Indiana Review. Waters, who joined the University in 1981, teaches courses in drawing and painting in addition to conducting the Senior Art Seminar. She was named the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana’s 2004 Artist of the Year, and her work appears in numerous private and corporate collections. In 2000 she was the only artist from Southern Indiana selected for inclusion in the State of Indiana exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and in 2002 the new Indiana State Museum purchased three of her works for its Inaugural Exhibition and permanent collection. Waters is the recipient of two Indiana Arts Commission Master fellowships as well as a National Endowment for the Arts Midwest Fellowship. She holds an M.F.A. in painting from Ohio University and a B.S. in art education from University of Wisconsin-Madison. Readings in the RopeWalk series are free and open to the public. Each program begins at 7 p.m. on the USI campus and is followed by a book signing. The fall reading schedule also includes Kevin Brockmeier November 4 and Liam Callanan December 2. Presented by USI’s School of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, call 812/464-1953. RopeWalk Writers Retreat is an annual program of University of Southern Indiana. |
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