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‘Like a Canyon’: Speaking With Megan Bee
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In September of 2017 Athens-based musician Megan Bee released her second solo album, entitled ‘Like a Canyon.’ Inspired by everything from Bee’s multitude of explorations across the country as a traveling farmhand to her own, intricate interpersonal contemplation, the album is continuing to garner acclaim, having taken home both the Best Americana Album and Best Singer-Songwriter Album titles from the Ohio… Read More
‘Blood, Brains, and Lobotomies’ Coming to SEO History Center April 19
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A Madness So Discreet is a young adult historical fiction novel set in the late 1800s that follows the story of Grace Mae, a young woman who has been raped by her father, a well-established Boston politician, and unwillingly admitted to an insane asylum. In the book, which was written by Ohio-based author Mindy McGinnis,… Read More
‘The Devil We Know’: Speaking with Attorney Harry Deitlzer
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Some 73 years ago the DuPont Corporation introduced Teflon to the American marketplace, changing the face of the contemporary American kitchen. Teflon contains the highly toxic chemical C8, which impacts everything from the liver to one’s hormones to one’s lipid metabolism. The Devil We Know is a documentary by Stephanie Soechtig and Jeremy Seifert which… Read More
Confronting Birth, Death, and Growth: Speaking With Director Amy Jenkins
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Instructions On Parting is a sprawling example of cinéma vérité as told from behind the camera of director Amy Jenkins over the course of a 10-year period. The film is a pragmatic yet elegiac ode to the essential and achingly human conundrum of death and birth, and their powerful capacity to put into motion necessary… Read More
AIFVF Opens With Regionally Focused “Farmsteaders” April 9
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Farmsteaders is a meditative look at contemporary rural America, told through the lens of a love story that takes place on Gallipolis’ Laurel Valley Creamery. The film, directed by Shaena Mallett, will open up the 2018 Athens International Film and Video Festival on Monday, April 12 at 7 p.m. It will be shown again on Sunday,… Read More
45th Annual Athens International Film and Video Festival Set for April 9-15
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The 45th annual Athens International Film and Video Festival (AIFVF) will take place April 9-15, with the dozens upon dozens of screenings taking place at the Athena Cinema on Court Street, and a number of affiliated celebratory events taking place throughout the city of Athens. The festival is a little bit like a major holiday for… Read More
Examining the Art All Around Us: Speaking with Photographer Pam DeCamp
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Pam DeCamp is a seasoned photographer who is based out of Southeast Ohio. Although she took a bit of a break from professional photography when she decided to go back to school and become a nurse, she never stopped taking pictures, and she started her artistic work again in 2009. WOUB’s Emily Votaw spoke to… Read More
8th Annual World Music and Dance Diversity Concert Set for April 6
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For the past eight years the annual World Music and Dance Festival has been bringing international culture to Ohio University’s Athens campus. The event, which takes place in spring semester towards the end of March, is organized by Zelma Badu-Younge (professor of African, modern, and jazz dance techniques, choreography, dance ethnography, and world culture) and… Read More
One Man, 3,000 Pounds of Clay, and Five Screens: Speaking With Artist Erik Zohn
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Erik Zohn is a third year Ohio University School of Art and Design MFA Ceramics candidate. For his thesis project, he chose to expand on a peculiar brand of isolation performance that he crafted on a small scale last year. This time around, he descended into a 3,000 pound clay pod of his own making,… Read More
Where Social Justice and Art Meet: Speaking With Artist Traci Molloy
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Traci Molloy is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist who graduated with a MFA degree in printmaking from Ohio University in 1995. In the years since her graduation, Molloy has bene featured in over 175 national exhibitions, and her thought provoking collaborations with adolescents have been profiled in two books, Empowering Children Through Art and Expression: Culturally… Read More
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