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BUFFALO RIVER PROJECT
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Buffalo as the country’s first National River, Lucky Star Farm is planning to contribute works created by artists in the Artists in Residence program. “The Lucky Star Revue” will take place in the amphitheater at Buffalo Point on June 10, 2022 to coincide with the Park Service’s Arts Weekend.
Below is a listing of artists and their projects:
Alison Moore - Historical fiction performance “A Ghost Returns to Rush” on the ghost town of Rush in 1893.
Kelly and Donna Mulhollan (Still on the Hill) - Musical/Multimedia performance on the birds of the Ozarks entitled “Words for Birds.”
Don House - Essays and images on residents of the Ozark Plateau.
Cate McCoy - Visual textile artist working in topography of the area.
Sabine Schmidt - Words and images on Valissa Piety, a slave owned by the Villines family in Boxley Valley.
Bruce “SunPie” Barnes - Musician and former park ranger on the Buffalo River. Performance with zydeco band “Sunpie and the Sunspots.”
Shane Lief - Scholar, musician and linguist focusing on Native American ceremonial rituals.
Several of these presentations will be recorded and broadcast on Ozark Highlands Radio.
Alison Moore earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in 1990 and was an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing in the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Arizona from 1994-1999. From 1998 until COVID, she toured nationally with a public outreach multi-media program she created with musician Phil Lancaster called “Riders on the Orphan Train” for the National Orphan Train Complex Museum and Research Center. From 1990-1992 she served as administrative director for the non-profit ArtsReach in Tucson, a Native American literacy project.
She is the author of four books, a historical novel, Riders on the Orphan Train (Roadworthy Press, 2012), a collection of short fiction, The Middle of Elsewhere (Phoenix International/University of Arkansas Press 2006), a novel, Synonym for Love (Penguin/Plume 1996), and a collection of short stories, Small Spaces between Emergencies (Mercury House, 1992) one of the Notable Books of 1993 chosen by The American Library Association. Her short fiction has appeared in the North American Review, Story, Nimrod, The Examined Life Journal, the Four Way Reader, and Ms. She received two National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowships in 1993 and 2010. In 2004 she received the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for Fiction and in 2007, a Dobie/Paisano Fellowhip from the Texas Institute of Letters. She is the current Artist in Residence at Lucky Star Farm in the Ozarks of Arkansas where she is completing a memoir.
www.ridersontheorphantrain.org
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