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Making Art in Alabama 11 by Billie F ALABAMAARTS Volume XVI In this Issue Number 2 Alabama Arts in the Millenium: FALL 2000 Past, Present and Future, Volume 2 The Past as Challenge to the Future 2 Al Head The Arts in Alabama: A Millennial Timeline 3 compiled by Joey Brackner and ASCA staff Digging through 1000 years of the arts in Alabama Working Women—Making Art in Alabama 11 by Billie F. Goodloe Twelve of Alabama’s women artists are celebrated in a new show: “Voices Rising: Alabama’s Women at the Millennium” “America Creates for the Millennium” in Talladega 14 by Jan Jenner Talladega is selected as a Millennium Community by the White House to “Honor the Past-Imagine the Future” The New Urbanism: Can Alabama Grow Smart? 20 by Philip Morris How will we answer the challenge of urban growth in the new millennium? T.S. Stribling, Alabama’s First Winner 25 of the Pulitzer Prize in Letters by William Smith Florence’s native son made his reputation by dealing with the injustices of life in the South, but he also alienated many in his home town. Exhibition Schedule: 27 Alabama Artist’s Gallery On the cover: Huntsville artist Mary Ann Pope’s work is featured in the exhibit “Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium,” now in Washington, D.C. The exhibit will travel to Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery, Mobile, Dothan, Gasden, and Auburn in Library of Congress Card No. 74628447 2001 and 2002. Down in the Dismals, 1995, 84" x 50", oil on canvas, diptych. FALL 2000 • ALABAMAARTS • 1 The Past as Challenge to the Future by Al Head In the last issue of Alabama observations, which are well-stated While a reflection on the Arts, we attempted to highlight some and accurate. past creates a sense of pride, it is the of the most significant achievements The individual artists future that holds our challenge and in the arts in our state’s history. We selected all seem to have opportunity for continued greatness. used the results of a survey as the a very strong Alabama We must build on our past, by basis for the achievements and identity. The thing I find stimulating creative people to move people to be featured, with the troubling about this is that to new arenas of work and achieve- understanding that important there are very good Alabama ment. We must ask ourselves, “In omissions would certainly be brought artists who do not have a one hundred years, how will we be to our attention. We have heard strong Alabama, or even remembered? What will our list from from a number of you and are still Southern identity. A good 2000 forward look like?” receiving input. Your responses are example of this is artist In Alabama we have come a appreciated and quite interesting. Roger Brown, a hugely long way, but still have much ground Neil Brantly, an artist from successful international to cover in our desire to improve the Montgomery, and Phillip Preston, artist. He is known as a quality of life for all our population. the director of programming with Chicago School artist, but is Our look at the past tells us that the Opelika Art Association, both a native of Alabama. our achievements in the arts come pointed out that Roger Brown, who We will continue to collect from great diversity of background was a prominent artist from east other suggestions or perspectives and and expression. From the Afro blues Alabama, should certainly have been will attempt to add to our list all singer to the Anglo classical dancer, mentioned in our “most significant” during this year. our accomplishments come in differ- list. I agree. Neal also mentioned the ent shapes, sounds, words and colors. Speaking of adding to a list, you importance of Kelly Fitzpatrick, a It is to be hoped that we are learning will find a timeline in this issue of popular artist from the 1920’s to celebrate our diversity and to Alabama Arts that begins with the through the 1940’s and a driving appreciate the rich texture that our year 1000, and continues forward to force behind the formation of differences bring to the past and the present; it is a tabulation of some Montgomery Museum of Art and the future. of the important art milestones Alabama Art League. Part of Neal’s throughout these ten centuries. The As you travel through the letter is as follows: line covers Paleo-Indian culture, to timeline presented in this issue, and Kelly Fitzpatrick should the first Mardi Gras in Mobile, to read the features that highlight be on your list. He was a the publication of significant literary current activities in the arts in first-rate artist who captured works. The line is comprehensive, Alabama, allow yourself to be Alabama life during the yet, admittedly, it is not complete. reminded of the immense contribu- period he lived in. His works Again we would welcome your tion made by the arts to our great are strong, colorful and suggestions and additions. state. Artists and the arts do more to vibrant. The truth of his art, reflect the true personality of our As part of this exercise to in recording Alabama life, state than does any other single compile lists of people, events, was so clear that the public element in our environment. The achievements and dates in history, embraced him and his work. health of our artistic resources says a we are again reminded of Alabama’s President and Mrs. Roosevelt great deal about the health of our rich cultural heritage. In the visual, selected one of his paintings state and the character of our people. performing and literary fields, our to hang in the White House. state can claim artists who have Al Head is the Executive Neal shares his thoughts accomplished great things. Director of the Alabama State about Roger Brown with these Council on the Arts. 2 • ALABAMAARTS • FALL 2000 OF ALABAMA’S ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT In our celebration of this millennial year, the staff of the Alabama State Council on the Arts decided that a long look back over the past one thousand years, with the purpose of tracing our Astate’s artistic andTIMELINE cultural development, would prove instructive to the staff and, we hope, to you, our reader. As we worked on developing a timeline of significant events, it evolved that the exercise was not only a learning experience, it was a joyful and rewarding undertaking. As the list grew longer, we found that our feeling of pride in our state’s accomplishments increased exponentially. We were delighted, and amazed, to learn just how much Alabamians have contributed to the arts in all categories—visual, literary and performing. We offer the following milestones, which we in no way claim to be a comprehensive listing, for your examination and comment. We believe you will share our pride in the cultural history of Alabama. Circa 1000 A.D.: Large permanent towns are established along Alabama’s rivers. The inhabitants of such towns as those at Moundville construct enormous earthworks around a central plaza and share a distinctive assemblage of artistic motifs, including crosses, sun circles, hands, and serpents. 1539-1543: Hernando de Soto’s expedition to North America greatly impacts indigenous people in Alabama and sets in motion a process of cultural interaction between Indians and Old World Cultures. Four separate narrative accounts by survivors of this adventure are subsequently written, offering the only eyewitness accounts of the zenith of pre-Columbian Indian civilization in the South. 1702: Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville establishes Mobile as a French settlement. 1703: The first Mardi Gras is celebrated in Mobile. 1791: Naturalist William Bartram publishes Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida: The Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek. This collection of drawings and journal entries from a 1771- 1775 expedition gives the world an early detailed description of the southeastern United States. Alabama State Council on the Arts 1819: Alabama becomes the 22nd state admitted into the Union. Mardi Gras in Mobile 1830: Joseph Thoits Moore, a portrait artist, moves to Montgomery from Ohio and quickly becomes the City’s most prolific painter. Moore painted more than 400 portraits before his death, from yellow fever, in 1854. 1830: The Forks of Cypress plantation house in Florence is built for James Jackson. 1831: The process of removal of Southeastern Alabama Indian groups begins. By 1838, most Alabama Indians have been forced to move to Oklahoma. 1831: The University of Alabama is established in Tuscaloosa, offering a focal point for cultural activities. The University environment gives birth to the “Tuscaloosa Bards,” including, among others, W.R. Smith, A.B. Meek, Henry W. Hubbard and Jeremiah Clemens. 1832: A gold rush in eastern Alabama brings a rush of settlers into the new state. 1833: A meteorite storm lights up the skies over Alabama, and inspires the Basil Hall subsequent song and legend. 1820s drawing of two Creek Indians 1837: Early iron foundries in Mobile begin to make decorative ironwork for which the city will become known. FALL 2000 • ALABAMAARTS • 3 1838-1861 1838: Phillip Henry Gosse, an English schoolteacher, begins an eight-month visit to Dallas County, Alabama. He later publishes Letters from Alabama, an account of his stay with descriptions of flora, fauna and social customs of the time. 1839: Members of the Herd family from Scotland are the first to mine marble and to fashion tombstones from the Sylacauga deposit. Other stone cutting shops soon take advantage of this resource. 1841: Professor Frederick A.P.
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