The Clarion November 10, 1992 Page 5
MUSIC & ART
Ann Rowles, a visiting art lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill, describes
the design and construction of one of her collosal wire sculptures.
Murray helps students
build for their future
by Debbie Duncan
Clarion Staff Writer
As an art teacher here at Brevard
College for 30 years, Tim Murray
enjoys helping ait students build their
portfolios for future Iransfers.
Using his knowledge that he has
gained from his Bachelor of Arts Degree
and Master of Arts in Creative Arts
from University of North Carolina -
Chapel Hill, he teaches students in the
courses of sculpture, basic drawing, and
ceramics.
On top of his classes, Murray does
commissioned works for Brevard
College and architects. He is also a
member of the Arts Council Board of
Trustees for the Asheville Art Museum.
Murray has been involved in art
since he was about four years old. He
remarked “I was the kid in the seventh
grade that did the murals on the wall.”
Art was not the only thing he studied.
He worked for two years to learn how to
become an electrical draftsman, then he
went to Mars Hill for a year for
engineering.
He used to compete in art
competitions and has won countless art
awards but, he does not compete
anymore. “I really don’t think they’re a
way of telling you anything,” said
Murray.
(See Murray on Page 9)
UNC art lecturer Ann Rowles
visits Brevard art students
Special To Clarion
From BC News Bureau
Ann Rowles, a visiting art lecturer
at UNC-Chapel Hill, described the
design and construction of one of her
colossal wire sculptures to a class of
Brevard College sculpture students last
week.
Rowles showed her work last
month in Brevard College’s Sims Art
Center, and closed with a slide show and
a critique of students sculptors. Rowles’
work is currently on display, along with
the work of 120 other sculptures, at the
Broadway Arts Building in Asheville
through Nov. 15.
Brevard College hosts
poets and writers series
by Debbie Duncan
Clarion Staff Writer
There is a new program out for
students and the community to learn
about and meet a few of the new up-and-
coming authors of the area. It’s called
Poets and Writers at Brevard. It is a set
of seven lectures being held either at
Brevard College in McLarty-Goodson
Classroom Building in room 118,
Dunham Auditorium, or at the
Transylvania County Library here in
Brevard.
Writers from North Carolina and
other nearby states are brought in, and
these writers talk about their life, what
influenced their literature and then read a
portion of their works. Then there is a
question-and-answer session.
Students can receive Life and
Culture credit by going to one of these
lecture programs each semester. The
presentations are on Nov. 19 with Tony
Abbott at MG 118, Dec. 10 with Emily
Wilson at the Transylvania County
Library, Jan. 21 with Wilma Dykeman
at Dunham Auditorium, Feb. 19 with
Jaki Shelton-Green at the Transylvania
County Library, March 25 with Nancy
Simpson in MG 118, and April 15 with
Stephen Smith at the Transylvania
County Library.
Funds were donated for this
program by the North Carolina
Humanities Council, Brevard College
James A. Jones Library, Poet Sally
Nixon, and Transylvania County
Library’s Friends of the Library.
Mike McCabe, director of Brevard
College’s library said that “We would
like to have some students” show up. If
you are further interested, go the the
library for more information.
Abbott to read poetry
at BC on Nov. 19
Tony Abbott, Chairman of the
English Department at Davidson
University and a Pulitzer Prize nominee,
will read from and discuss the themes
behind his poetry on Thursday, Nov. 19,
at 7 p.m. on the Brevard College
campus. The program, which will be
held in Room 118 of the McLarty-
Goodson Classroom Building, is the
second in the Poets and Writers at
Brevard 1992-93 series, co-sponsored by
the Transylvania County Library and
Brevard College. The event, which will
be moderated by UNC-Asheville
Assistant Professor of Literature David
B. Hopes, is free of charge and open to
the public.
Abbott received his A.B. in
English, magna cum laude, from
Princeton University in 1957, his A.M.
from Harvard University in 1960, and
his Ph.D. in 1962, also from Harvard
University. He is a former president of
both the North Carolina Writers’
Network and the Charlotte Writers’
Club, and has won the Thomas H.
McDill Award from the North Carolina
Poetry Society three times. His poems
have appeared in numerous magazines
and journals, including New England
Review, Southern Poetry Review, St.
Andrews Review, Pembroke, Tar River
Poetry, and Anglican Theological
Review. In 1989, his collection of
poems, “The Girl in the Yellow
Raincoat,” was published by St.
Andrews Press and was nominated for
the Pulitzer Prize.
Abbot’s program at Brevard College
is titled, “Poetry, the Mid-Life Crisis,
and the Business of Living.” Abbott
considers himself a “mid-life crisis
poet,” who began writing in his thirties
(See Abbott on Page 12)