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FEBRUARY 14, 2002
Shiloh hosts workshops
The Morris Museum of Art
and the faculty of the Fine
Arts Department of Augusta
State University have col
laborated to bring hands-on
afterschool art activities and
education tomiddle and high
school students at Shiloh
Comprehensive Community
Center beginning in Febru
ary. The program is funded
by a “Reach Out to Brink In”
grant from Augusta State
University (ASU).
ASU faculty Kristin
Casaletto, Jennifer Onofrio
and Jeremy Vaughan, along
with ASU art student Elsa
Hoonhout and Morris Mu
seum education assistant
Victoria Durrer will utilize
themuseum’s permanent col
lection toinspire workshops,
which will beheld after school
at the community center.
Nationally known artist
and Georgia native Benny
Andrews wiil lead one of the
workshops during his
weeklong stay as a visiting
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ASU hosts send
off for Wayne Hoey
* A Send Off Performance in honor of Wayne
‘Hoey of the local band All that Jazz will be
' performed by the Augusta State’s Student Jazz
: Ensemble and Jazz Band. Rob Foster, associate
- professor of music, will direct the concert sched
‘uled for Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 8 p.m. at
' the Maxwell Performing Arts Theatre. Admission
is free.
- Brenda Durant, executivedirector ofthe Greater
- Augusta Arts Council, will be the key speaker.
' The performance will be followed by areception at
-the Partridge Inn on Walton Way.
- Wayne Hoey, bandleader and saxophonist of All
that Jazz, wasraised in Lynn, Mass. He retired as
a musician in the U.S. Army after 20 years of
service. Through the Greater Augusta Arts Coun
cil, Hoey has participated in the Artsin the Heart
of Augusta and the Sunday Jazz Series at
Riverwalk. He is also busy teaching young saxo
' phonists through private and school clinics.
For more information contact the fine arts
department at Augusta State at 737-1453.
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artist at ASU in March.
Workshops will include
those on making group por
traits, face jugs and paint
ing images of the Augusta
community with Benny
Andrews.
All of the art workshop
activitiesare geared towards
collaboration and commu
nity building.
Activitieswillbe held once
a week for six weeks at
Shiloh. The program will
close at the Morris Museum
with a tour of the perma
nent collection, reception
and an exhibition of stu
dents’ work created during
the workshops. A video
about life in the community
created by the students dur
ing the program will also be
shown.
For more information,
please contact Ms. Durrer
at the Morris Museum at
706-724-7501 or Ms.
Casaletto at ASU at 706-
667-4888.
AUGUSTA FOCUS
Little Richard named to NAACP Hall of Fame
LOS ANGELES
Performing artist and rock
‘n’roll magnate Little Richard
will be inducted into the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People
(NAACP) Hall of Fame, join
ing a distinguished list of past
inductees, including Signey
Poitier, Smokey Robinson,
8.8. King and Nancy Wilson.
Little Richard’s induction will
take place at the 33 NAACP
Image Awards, which tapes
February 23, 2002 and airs
Friday, March 1 8 to 10 p.m.
(ET/PT) on FOX.
“Like many others who have
enjoyed Little Richard’s musi
cal genius and creative abili
ties for some time, I know I
speak on behalf of the entire
Association when Isay that we
are honored to make this in
duction,” said Kweisi Mfume,
NAACP president and CEO.
“Little Richard has
distingished himself as not
only an unparalleled musical
genius, but also as a unique
and innovative performing art
ist — fusing pure vocal talent
with exhilarating showman
ship. He is a welcome and
deserving addition to the
NAACP Image Awards Hall
of Fame.”
The NAACP Hall of Fame
Award is presented to indi
viduals or groups who have
consistently excelled in their
artistic endeavors through
out their professional career.
Moreover, inductees are also
individuals who have been
creative and innovative forces
in their respective fields.
Born Richard Wayne
Penniman in Macon, Ga., the
singing superstar who
brought us such rock ‘n’ roll
favorites as“ Tutti Fruitti”and
“Good Golly, Miss Molly,”
began his career in a local
church choir while still a
youngster. Although hisfirst
tworecordingsunderthe RCA
Records label gained little
notoriety, by 1968 hehad sold
ver 32 million records inter
nationally. In 1990, Little
Richard was honored with a
star on the world-renowned
Hollywood Walk of Fame and
soon afterward returned to
his hometown in Georgia for
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the unveiling of “Little Rich
ard Penniman Boulevard.” In
recognition of this contribu
tions to music history, Rich
ard was presented with the
American Music Awards’ dis
tinguished Award of Merit.
The NAACP Image Awards
are presented each year to
those who strive for the por
trayal of positive images and
meaningful opportunities for
African Americans in motion
pictures, television, literature
and recording. The theme of
this year’s Image Awards is
“People United.” Multi
award-winning producer/
writer Suzanne de Passe will
serve as executive producer
of the NAACP Image Awards
for a second year. Comedic
sensation and motion picture
actor Chris Tucker is also re
turning as the host of this
year’s ceremony.
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NAACP is the nation’s oldest
and largest civil rights organi
zation. Its half million adult
and youth members through
out the United States and the
world are the premier advo
cates for civil rights in their
communities and monitor
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