Stimulus Fall/Winter 2007 Issue: Alumna Feature
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Alumna Jane Crowe Develops Unique Photography Program for Youth Jane Crowe, 2002 graduate of the master's program at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work has developed a unique program for youth of Tennessee in the migrant and Appalachian communities. Click here to read more about this photography project for older siblings of Head Start students. > Learn About Jane Crowe's New Photography Youth Program (.pdf) |
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Growing Tennessee: Rural Youth Cultivate Common Ground Glenn Weyant, sound sculptor from Tucson, Arizona, joined Jane Crowe and her Tennessee photographers for a exhibition of music and photographs at the Knoxville Art Gallery. He met with the youth for music workshops as part of the exhibit-opening festivities. Weyant creates music from found objects. His collaboration with Crowe stemmed from a presentation of Weyant's Sonic Anta Project on National Public Radio. Weyant records sounds that he creates "playing" the border between Texas and Mexico as a musical instrument. Click here to read more about this collaboration. > Learn About Glenn Weyant (.pdf) |
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Rural Youth Cultivate Common Ground Photographs With the assistance of five professional photography instructors and numerous volunteers, over 20 youth from both migrant farm worker families and local Appalachian families have created photographic portraits of their familial and cultural traditions. The photographs have been shown at several venues throughout the region, including Milligan College, Starbucks Café in Johnson City, The Art Gallery of Knoxville, Lawson McGhee Library in Knoxville, and at Times Square in New York City. > View Photos Submitted By The Youth Initiative Participants |
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Video of Kids with Glenn Weyant and Jane Crowe “The photo project is about empowerment,” Glenn Weyant stated after a music workshop with the photographers in the Growing Tennessee Project. “All of us has an inner artist, an inner musician. Playing found objects allows us to bypass obstacles to expressing that musicianship. It gets to the core of the connections that exist between people and music, between people and art, between people and people, and between peoples and peoples. Of course there is a subtext here. It is a statement that is encouraging political dialogue. The idea is that we can address in this subtle way the issues of boundaries and divisions. Jane and her work puts a human face upon these issues.” Watch this video to see and hear Glenn and the students in action. > View The Video of Glenn Weyant And The Children In Action |
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Student Project Web Site hosted by the University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee hosts a web site on which the work of all the student photographers is featured. The children range in age from 11-16 and have taken dozens of photos of their families, community, and landscape. > Visit The Growing Tennessee: Rural Youth Cultivate Common Ground Web Site |
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Metro Pulse Article Reveals The Power of Expression The Metro Pulse Weekly Entertainment Guide's article on Jane Crowe's Growing Tennessee: Rural Youth Cultivate Common Ground program reveals how the power of artistic expression can shape young people's lives. For Zully Manzanares the story began with the migration of her grandmother to the United States from Mexico as a 24-year old widowed mother of nine. In the beginning life was filled with extensive traveling that would later help Zully discover her talent for photography as a teenager. > Read The Metro Pulse's Inspiring Article About Inspired Youth in Rural Tennessee |
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Glenn Weyant's SonicAnta Project A Brief Description Of The Work The word sonic means of or pertaining to sound and the word Anta is a Sanskrit meaning border or the end of a known territory. Join the two words together and you get the SonicAnta Project, a revolutionary exploration into the emotional power of and the political presence of the wall that divides the U.S. and Mexican border. Most people are familiar with the physical restraints, properties, and functions of the wall that separates our borders. However few people are able to grasp the emotional reality of the journey that migrant workers face as they cross our borders. > Visit The SonicAnta Project Web site > Download A Brief Description Of The Project (.pdf) |
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NPR Public Radio presentation of Glenn Weyant's work Follow along with this in depth discussion between the National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Glenn Weyant has he reveals the message behind the musical performance. Learn how Weyant created the music for the art project by putting contact microphones on a section of the wall near Nogales, Ariz., using a cello bow against metal on the wall, and more. > Read More About NPR's Coverage Of The SonicAnta Project |