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ARTbheéatv Popuiar quilt exhibition returns The Lucy Craft Laney Mu seum of Black History, 1116 Phillips Street of Augusta, will presentits annual Quilt Exhi bition for the month of No vember. An opening recep tion will be held on Sunday, November4,2ool, from3tos p.m. The quilt exhibit began in 1991 under the leadership of Mrs. Hertha Blount and Mrs. Theresa White. The exhibi tion consists of old and new quilts and due ,to past suc cesses, it has become an an nual event. The old quilts bring back memories of women gather ing around abigwooden frame with a large sheet of pieced togetherscraps of cloth. Some ofthe clothes were bits of feed sacks, flour sacks and corn sacks. Others were bits of fabric left over from a newly cut made dress or other gar ments. All of these made a wonderful array of colored patchwork. The women would work late hours in the eve Register for Computer Assisted Arts and History Program The Lucy Craft Laney Mu seum of Black History will start its Computer Assisted Arts and History Program on Tuesday, October9,2ool. The program will take placein the Children’s Center of the Mu seum and run every Tuesday through Thursday, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The focus of the program will be on developing basic computer skills and at the WJBF NewsCHANNEL 6 and the Augusta Museum of History announce tribute “A Tribute to Heroes Inter active Memorial is on display in the rotunda at The Au gusta Museum of History. Visitors will be able to write their thoughts and feelings about September 11,2001, the day that forever changed the United States. A dedication ceremony was held at the museum on October 3. Local dignitaries, representatives from WJBF NewsCHANNEL 6, area businesses and The American Red Cross started off the memorial by writing their thoughts on the wall. “A Tribute to Heroes” will be on display throughout the month of October during the museum’s regular business hours. Hurry to enter the Laney Homecoming Parade for Oct. 12 The Lucy Craft Laney Comprehensive High School will be hosting a Homecoming Parade on Friday, October 12, 2001, beginning at 3:30 p.m. The theme will be “One Shining Moment.” Entryfeeonly $lO. Line up will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the C.T. Walker field. Please note name of orga @Where shoppingisapleasure nings tocomplete each tedious task; however, it gave them time for wonderful fellowship. The result of their work also produced an heirloom to pass from generation to genera tion. This year, two special quilts willbe on exhibition. A“Peace Quilt” will be the result of a collaborative effort with the Morris Museum of Arts, The Gertrude Institute of Art and the Art Factory as part of the October celebration of Na tional Arts and Humanities Month. The second quilt will be of the history of the Au gusta Alumna Chapterof Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. If you are a quilt collector and would like to participate in the November quilt exhibi tion, please call the museum at(706)724-3576. The November 4 reception will be sponsored by the His toric Dent’s Undertaking Es tablishment and musicwill be providec. For further infor mation, please call 724-3576. same time improving the ba sicskills of reading, math and history. The art classes will consist of watercolors, pencils, clay and some crafts. In addition, character building and storytelling are included. Classes are available for children between the ages of 6-13. For registrationor more information, please call the museum at 724-3576. “The ‘A Tribute to Heroes’ Interactive Memorial is one way WJBF NewsCHANNEL 6 can help our community recover and heal from the tragic events on September 11, 2001,” commented Phil Lane, vice president and gen eral manager of WJBF NewsCHANNELSG. The public is welcome to leave their thoughts on the monument. Pictures, draw ings and poems may also be placed on the walls. “A Trib ute to Heroes Interactive Memorial is supported by WJBF NewsCHANNEL6 and the Giving Your Best Part ners, Georgia Bank and Trust, BP Amoco and Walton Reha bilitation Hospital. nization, contact person, address, phone number, type of entry (car, float or other) and entry fee (cash or a check made payable to Lucy C. Laney High School). Theaddressis 1339 Laney-Walker Blvd., Au gusta, Ga. 30901. 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Korby Marks, Shange, Kim Breen, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, and Leticia Benson is the first African-American collaborative novel. Although the idea for the project was developed by bud ding author, songwriter, en trepreneur, Sekou, When Butterflies Kiss was woven sequentially, chapter by chap ter, by 10 different up and coming African-American writers. The story, before it was written, was completely unknown. The first writer created a brother named Dane, whose greatest desire isto lie tangled in the sweet ness of a woman. His life is achaotic mix of testosterone charged competition and ro mantic fiascoes. He cold go on his way, dodging hisboys’ challengesand runningfrom commitment, for the enig matic nightmares that tor ment him at night. 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His decision, so brilliantly described by Sekou in the final chapter, puts a surprising new spin on the AUGUSTA FOCUS Wilmer Jennings Clark Atlanta University Art Galleries will feature 42 wood engravings, linocuts, lithographs, paintings and jewelry by a native West End Atlantan Wilmer Jennings (1910-1990) in the exhibition “Pressing On: The Graphic Art of Wilmer Jennings.” The exhibition is organized by Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and curated by Claude Elliot. A graduate of Morehouse College (class of 1934), Jennings excelled as a protégé of Hale Woodruff (one of the first college art professors in Georgia 1931- 1943), achieving a successful career in jewelry and printmaking. In 1935, President John Hope of Atlanta University assisted Jennings in securing a scholarship to study paintingatthe RISD. There,Jennings extended his curriculumtoinclude printmakingand metalsmithingin which discipline he won numerous awards, including the New England ManufacturingJewelers’ and Silversmiths’ Association bronze medal. Before relocating to New England, Jennings painted “The Dream,” a seven-panel mural in the entrance hall of his alma mater, Booker T, Washington High School, in Northwest Atlanta. Still intact today, the mural depicts the contributions of black labor to Southern economic development, a recurring theme in Jennings’ prints throughout his career. Areception wili be held for Jennings’ exhibit, running from October 7 - December 7, 2001, from 2 to 5 p.m. Mr. Elliot will host a slide lecture on Jennings’ works on October 7, at 3 p.m. Gallery Hours will be Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 12 to 4 p.m. The Galleries are located in Trevor Arnett Hall at the corners of James P. Brawley Drive and Greensferry Street, S\W. For more info, call (404) 880-6102/6644 o 1 visit the web site at www.cau.edu. search for love, fulfillment and personal redemption. Sekou’s journey toward be coming a writer began when his elementary school teacher required each of her students to write a poem. Entranced with his own creation, Sekou found himselfwith anew hobby and, in the eighth grade, de cided to write a novel. The OCTOBER 4, 2001 novel, envisioned as a suspense thriller with metaphysical over tones, grew incrementally while Sekou wasin high school. Despite majoring in Interna tional Relations at Morehouse College, after graduation, Sekou decided to own up to his love of writing and to try to shape it into a career. Sekou tried to eke out an existence as a freelance writer. In the meantime, a one-day tempassignmentat Time, Inc., eventually led to a long-term assignment as the assistant to oneof Time’s human resource directors. This was the begin ningof a six-year run at Time. Among the many positions he held was Letters Correspon dent for both Time and Life. During this time, he came up with the idea for creating the first African-American collabo rative novel — with a dose of eroticism through in for good measure. It was only amatter of months before Sekou was able to interest Silver Lion Press in the idea. That idea has now been realized in the formofthe novel When Butter flies Kiss. Sekou was one of the origi nal writers for blackfilm.com. Helivesin Brooklyn, where he is currently writing songs and fine-tuning his lifelong pro ject, If Dreams Could Kill, a metaphysically influenced novel of suspense. Sekou 1s also an avid collector of “bad date” stories, a hobby which, 1n no small part, contributed to the completion of When Butterflies Kiss. Formoreinformation about When Butterflies Kiss, contact John Brussel at 312-329-3902 or brusselj@ ruderfunn.com. 1B