The Anniston Star ● Sunday, May 12, 2013 ● Page 6E
SUNDAY RECORD YOUR GUIDE TO PUBLIC RECORDS AND VITAL STATISTICS IN CALHOUN COUNTY DEATHS Callie Adams, Anniston Milton Nelson Aderholt, Jacksonville Myrtle Lee Quick Bailey, Villa Rica, Ga. Catherine L. Berry, Newnan, Ga. Erich F. Boecklbauer, Anniston Jewnerio Brown, Talladega Marion Hamilton Burrows, Sharpsburg, Ga. Mildred Ann “Millie” Butler, Danville, Ill. James A. Chandler, Jacksonville Helen Clifton, Munford Bill W. Crowe, Oxford Ruth Mask Dawkins, Cragford Beatrice “Betty” Dennis, Eastaboga Addie Dobbs, Cropwell Paul Richard Ferguson, Leesburg Herman L. Freeman, Anniston Jessie Franklin Godbey, Jacksonville Alma Jean Harrison, Lincoln Alton O’Neal Heard, Wedowee William “Bill” H. Henderson, Talladega Shelby Jean Holland, Georgia Barbara Sue Davis “Suzy” Howell, Oxford Maebell Jarrell, Heflin
Charles R. Jones Jr., Wadley Roy Kelley, Anniston Sarah Frances Kerr, Heflin Everett Lee Ledbetter, Oxford Anna R. Lee, Anniston Fay Christian Lewis, Glencoe Johnetta Lindsey, Jacksonville Jessie Lusk, Alexandria Newton “Mack” Hoyt McCormick Jr., Oxford Kimberly Sue McCoy, Jacksonville Janet Louise Medders Schatz, Woodland Michael G. Merrell, Ranburne Larry Wynn Miller, Oxford Katie Marie Newborn, Saks Sarah Joy Davis Nunn, Jacksonville Eunice Parmer, Woodland Gussie Patterson, Anniston Russell Ray Peterson, Five Points James “Jim” Andrew Prickett, Prickettville Eunice Prothro, Georgia Charles Reaves, Talladega Cody Allen Rollins, Oxford David R. Sailors, Munford Howard T. “Buddy” Sartain, Chattanooga, Tenn. Helen Fortune Carnes Showman, Iowa Jessie Earline Whitten, Centre
BANKRUPTCIES
MARRIAGE LICENSES
CATTLE SALE
A Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows the debtor to retain certain exempt property, but the debtor’s remaining property is gathered and sold by a trustee from which creditors will receive payment. It may also be used by businesses which wish to terminate their business.
• Adam Kyle Thornton of Eastaboga to Amy Ruth Harlin of Wedowee • James Lawrence Settle of Piedmont to Bobbie Lomax Green of Piedmont • Michael Thomas Reaves of Oxford to Chanda Dawn Brand of Oxford • William David Nelson of Anniston to Dana Michelle Woodrow of Eastaboga • Chase Logan Cotton of Anniston to Sunnie Roxanne Norris of Anniston • Robert Deloyd McCune of Jacksonville to Sherry Sorrell Delozier of Jacksonville • Bert Leroy Newsom of Anniston to Patricia Beal Reaves of Anniston • Donald O’neal Haywood Sr. of Ohatchee to Janet Pauline Sharp of Ohatchee • Scott Allan Morris of Piedmont to Shelby Anne Larson of Piedmont • Dominique Lajar Cosper of Anniston to Derricka Danielle McRath of Anniston • Nathaniel Ray Linn of Weaver to Mary Katlyn Snelling of Weaver • Steven Adam Winklepleck of Santa Clara, Calif., to Lorianne Nicole Watts of Santa Clara, Calif. • Emil Andreas Loeken of Jacksonville to Hayley Anne Freeman of Jacksonville • Joshua Ross Mosley of Ohatchee to Paula Danielle Eis of Ohatchee • Akil Kennard Pritchard of Anniston to Nichole Latrice Ledford of Anniston • Donald Hoyt Price of Anniston to Karen Shields Hensley of Birmingham • Jesse Cole Houston of Anniston to Rebecca Renee Seals of Anniston • Joseph Curtis Johnson of Ohatchee to Molly Erin Abercrombie of Gadsden
Here is the livestock market report for the Tuesday sale. Receipts for this week 345 compared to 455 last week. Receipts a year ago 483.
A Chapter 13 bankruptcy enables debtors, through court supervision and protection, to propose and carry out a repayment plan under which creditors are paid, in full or in part, in installments over a three-year period. During that time, debtors are prohibited from starting or continuing collection efforts. The following bankruptcies declared by Calhoun County residents were recorded by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Northern District of Alabama last week:
Chapter 7 • Benjamin L. Brown and Donna L. Brown, Glade Road West, Anniston • Horace O. Bramblett Jr., North 5th Avenue, Piedmont • Wallace E. Bush Jr., Noble Street, Anniston • William J. Ray and Cynthia E. Ray, Nease Street, Oxford • Marcia Yvonne Jackson, South Christine Avenue, Anniston • Larry M. McDowell, Carlisle Cutoff Road, Boaz • Leslie D. Cummings and Jessica K. Cummings, Main Street, Weaver
Chapter 13
• Terry Buse and Denise Buse, Angel Drive, Jacksonville • Rosa Hailstock, Brown Avenue, Anniston
RATE OF BANKRUPTCIES
FORECLOSURES
1212 1010
11 10 9
88 66 44 22 0
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• Jack W. Goggans and Julie R. Goggans, a parcel of land in section 20, township 15, range 8. • Latasha N. Heard, Shady Manor subdivision, 1st addition, block A, lot 4. • Dana T. Gardner and Phillip C. Gardner, Cider Ridge subdivision, phase 1 reassessment, block YI, lot 42YI. • Ashley Smith, Stoneybrook subdivision, 2nd addition, block 1, lot 26. • Bruce W. Large and Susan A. Large, Indian Oaks Estates, section 4, lot 166. • Shawn M. Movitz and Andrea P. Movitz, a parcel of land in section 33, township 16, range 8. • Linda H. Lankford, Felscher Farms subdivision, block C, lots 10 and 11. • Shawna J. Dear, Indian Oaks Estates, section 5, lot 192. For the latest in local news, visit www.AnnistonStar.com
FEEDER CLASSES:
Bulls and steers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 170.00 to 210.00; 300-400 lbs. 146.00 to 188.00; 400-500 lbs. 134.00 to 152.00; 500-600 lbs. 125.00 to 146.00; 600700 lbs. 105.00 to 138.00. Heifers (Medium and Large No. 1 and No. 2): 200-300 lbs. 152.00 to 187.00; 300-400 lbs. 143.00 to 165.00; 400-500 lbs. 133.00 to 147.00; 500-600 lbs. 123.00 to 139.00; 600700 lbs. 100.00 to 123.00.
SLAUGHTER CLASSES:
Cows: Breakers 80.00 to 87.50; Boners 88.00 to 93.00; Lean 75.00 to 79.00. Bulls: Normal Dressing 5458% 99.00 to 101.00.
WILLS PROBATED
• Betty Jean Sparks • Orez S. Workman • Myra P. Chastain • Violet Pentecost Nicholson • Mary M. Brand • Lonnie L. Wood DIVORCES • Joel A. Johnson • James Bearden and Jill Digeronimo • Thomas L. McMinn III • Shaina Joubran and Jeremy Todd Jou- • Martha C. McMinn bran • Margueritte F. Hartwell • Jessica Gipson and Brandon Gipson • Edward Grover Cleveland • Latashua Wallace and Kortney Wal- Harris Sr. lace INCORPORATIONS • Jesse Sears and Felicia Sears • Samira Clark and Mark Wayne Clark Teradol Investments Inc. • James D. Lewis and Theresa M. Lewis Disaster Recovery Ser• Peter L. Howell and Jennifer Lynn How- vices LLC ell Circle K Tack Feed & West• Amy Leann Bradley and Jonathan ern LLC Brandley OCCMED South LLC
LMConsulting LLC Adams, Turner & Miller The material inside the Sunday Record is LLC recorded by The Anniston Star from various Dissolved institutions and government offices. The public records are published as they Turner Installations Inc. appeared on the documents obtained by the newspaper. Direct questions and comments about Sunday Record to Isaac Godwin at AnnistonStar.com igodwin@annistonstar.com.
EDITOR’S NOTE
ARRESTS The people listed in this arrest report, whose names and charges are obtained from public records, are presumed innocent unless proven guilty in a court of law.
Anniston
The following felony arrests were reported by the Anniston Police Department (addresses not provided) during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Darryl Fernaind Davis Jr., 28: seconddegree domestic violence. • Matthew Joseph Pauley, 24: third-degree burglary. • Jason Sterling Williams, 38: third-degree burglary. • Willard Earl Hazle, 52: two counts of possession of a controlled substance. • Kimberly Key Spruiell, 45: two counts of
possession of a controlled substance. • Jennifer Layne Kelley, 34: breaking and entering a vehicle. • Caleb Shane Magee, 24: possession of a controlled substance. • Delbert Enrico Hill, 44: possession of a controlled substance. • Rebecca Dionne Hill, 42: possession of a controlled substance. • Antonio Devaris Swink, 20: third-degree burglary. • Richard Randy Smith, 39: fugitive from justice. • David Eugene Tadder, 57: hold for other agency.
ing the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Jonathan David Roper, 26, of Anniston: failure to appear in court, bond revocation. • Vincent Tyron Robinson, 23, of Piedmont: failure to appear in court. • James Brandon Spears, 27, of Anniston: probation violation/revocation. • Jennifer Lynn Blackburn, 30, of Anniston: failure to appear in court, order of arrest. • Ian Graham Green, 28, of Oxford: domestic violence. • Mary Vanessa Phillips, 41, of Wellington: domestic violence. • Mark Harrison Hill Sr., 42, of Gadsden: second-degree theft of property. • Judson Dirk Blackwood, 38, of Hokes Bluff: Calhoun County second-degree theft of property. The following felony arrests were reported • Sandra Gale Prater, 46, of Riverside: probaby the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office dur- tion violation.
• Samantha Louise Boyd, 35, of Anniston: three counts of probation violation. • Franklin Dwayne Pointer, 43, of Anniston: bond revocation. • Wesley Howard Hall, 52, of Ohatchee: parole violation. • Raheem Quinndaurus, 20, of Anniston: failure to appear in court. • Jeremiah Richard-Olivr Johnson, 31, of Ohatchee: two counts of probation revocation.
Pardon and Parole Board
The following felony arrests were reported by the Alabama Board of Pardons and Parole during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday. • Quentin Lamar Williams, 34, of Anniston: probation violation.
BLOTTER Crimes are listed by location. Anonymous tips may be called • Residence, 6300 block of Cedar Court: household items. in bag, jewelry. in to Crime Stoppers at 256-238-1414. A reward of up to • Residence, 2900 block of Moore Avenue: household items, • Parking lot, unspecified block of East 6th Street: stereo. $1,000 may be given. mini-bike. Calhoun County
Anniston
Thefts
The following property crimes were reported to the Annis- • Commercial location, 400 block of South Leighton Avenue: ton Police Department during the seven-day period ending scrap metal. • Residence, 1800 block of Abbott Avenue: go-cart, ladder. at 7 a.m. Thursday. (Recovered 05-05-2013) Burglaries • Residence, first block of High Street: ATV. • Residence, 1100 block of West 31st Street: shoes, cloth- • Residence, first block of East 24th Street: firearm. • Residence, 700 block of Tillman Avenue: silverware, clothing. • Public building, 1800 block of Halifax Avenue: copper wire, ing, boots. bags, tools. • Supermarket, 5500 block of McClellan Boulevard: beer • Residence, 1300 block of West 49th Street: television, and food. jewelry, jewelry box. • Commercial location, first block of East 4th Street: copper • Residence, 4300 block of Harrison Avenue: VCR, copper cable, welding leads. pipe, knife. • Commercial location, 100 block of National Drive: steel • Residence, 500 block of rosewood Drive: television, game valves, copper and plastic fittings. console. • Residence, 4300 block of Skyline Drive: game console. • Residence, 500 block of South Colvin Street: string trimmer, Auto-related thefts lawn edger, pole saw. • Residence, 400 block of Leighton Avenue: televisions, • Residence, 400 block of Leighton Avenue: firearm. jewelry, cosmetics. • Parking lot, 400 block of East 10th Street: laptop computer
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The following property crimes were reported to the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Office during the seven-day period ending at 7 a.m. Thursday.
Burglaries
• Residence, unspecified area of Ohatchee: gasoline container, string trimmer, laptop computer. • Residence, unspecified area of Anniston: firearms. • Residence, unspecified area of Anniston: jewelry, televisions, camera, jewelry.
Thefts • Residence, unspecified area of Anniston: cash, cell phone. • Residence, McClellan Road, Alexandria: medications, window.
Auto-related thefts • Residence, unspecified area of Anniston: navigation system.
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PROPERTY TRANSFERRED • Henry Taylor Green and Susan K. Green to William G. Cordle, Wildwood subdivision, lots 21 and 22, $10. • Jerry L. Leemaster to Terry Leemaster and Tina Leemaster, a parcel of land in sections 3/4, township 17, range 8, $10. • Housing & Urban Development to Lisa Vice, Green Hills subdivision, block B, lots 6 and 7, $32,040. • Cleo Hancock to Cleo Hancock, Carolyn Feltman and Amy Lynn Feltman, Ardsley Park, block 2, lot 1, $10. • Gladys Cruise-Estate to Richard Bowman and Arianah Stevenson, H.J. Kircus subdivision, block 3, lots 20 and 21, $10. • David G. Ficklen to Joel D. Ficklen, a parcel of land near 800 Mountain Street, Jacksonville, $10. • Jerry Burns to Melinda B. Roberts and Jeffrey D. Roberts, Greenbrier subdivision, 4th addition, block G, lot 4, $10. • Marlon G. Rich and Kelli Rich to Joseph W. Mathis and Tabitha A. Mathis, a parcel of land in section 1, township 13, range 7, $74,000. • Ricky Noell and Nancy Noell to George Calloway and Rosa Calloway, a parcel of land in section 34, township 16, range 7, $10. • J.D. Pruitt and Karin Ardith Pruitt to Lane Weatherbee and Katherine Weatherbee, Piedmont Land & Improvement Co., block 75, lots 5-9, $10. • Keats Reynolds and Alicia Reynolds to David A. Beegle and Jennifer U. Beegle, Waterford Valley subdivision, phase 2, block E, lot 8, $177,500. • Mary A. Green to Mary A. Green and Christopher L. Green, Jacksonville Mining & Manufacturing Co., block 385, $10. • Bank of America to Housing & Urban Development, Pine Hill Country Club, lot 3, $1.
• Housing & Urban Development to Timothy E. Pate, Deville Estates, 2nd addition, block B, lot 7, $24,900. • Timothy B. Holley and Rae Ann Holley to John Turnipseed Jr. and Mariel Turnipseed, a parcel of land in section 24, township 13, range 6, $10. • Jimmy D. Holley to John Turnipseed Jr. and Mariel Turnipseed, a parcel of land in section 24, township 13, range 6, $10. • Michael R. Lagessie to Todd Michael Lagessie, a parcel of land in section 2, township 13, range 8, $10. • Housing & Urban Development to Ohio Investments LLC, Cheaha Acres Estates, 2nd addition, block 4, lot 15, $34,954. • Regions Bank to Trudy L. Munford, R.J. Riddle subdivision, block 506, lot 5, $42,000. • George H. McKenzie-Estate to Dirk L. Hill and Amanda K. Hill, Meadowbrook subdivision, block 3, lot 15, $10. • Glenda Smith Foster to David Young, Deborah Young, Eric Wolf and Elizabeth Young, Boyd Vaughn’s re-subdivision, lots 7-9, $10. • Martha B. Kimbrough to Robert H. Kimbrough, H.E. Emersons subdivision, block B, lots 2 and 3, $57,080. • Samantha E. Noble to Samantha E. Noble and Edward A. Smith, Mohawk Estates, 2nd addition, lot 1, $10. • Linda D. Honaker and Arnold C. Honaker to Linda D. Honaker and Arnold C. Honaker, a parcel of land in sections 17/18, township 15, range 8, $10. • Jeanne M. Howard to Jeanne M. Howard, Jennifer McBride and Suzanne Howard, M.M. Hudgens subdivision, lot 14, $10. • James Brian Guthrie to Daniel Martin Guthrie, a parcel of land in section 3, township 15, range 7, $10. • Holmes Properties LLC to Commercial Development Authority of the City of Oxford, a parcel of land in section 29, township 16,
range 8, $1. • O.J. Newman and Lynda Newman to Mimar Properties LLC, a parcel of land at the intersection of Snow Street and Hale Street, Oxford, $1. • Paul Harris and Wanda Harris to Demetris L. Stripling, West Anniston Land & Development Co., block 99, lot 3, $4,000. • Fannie Mae to Tyler K. Laymon, a parcel of land in section 36, township 16, range 6, $88,000. • Jeanne M. Howard to Jeanne M. Howard, Jennifer McBride and Suzanne Howard, Pelham Heights, 1st addition, lot 37, $10. • Ruby D. Lacey to John Hutchins and Michelle Hutchins, Garrett’s Place, lots 5760, $105,000. • Christopher P. House and Kimberly A. House to Delaine Thrash, Whites Gap Estates, block B, lot 2, $10. • Charles W. Houston, Marie H. Payne, David Houston and Julie H. Elmer to Leonard A. McCauley Jr. and Tuyet Mai McCauley, Holly Hill, 2nd addition, bock 5, lot 6, $10. • Susan Denson and John Elvis Denson to Michael Millsap, a parcel of land in section in 30, township 16, range 9, $100. • Brad D. Almaroad and Jodi L. Almaroad to Bryan Marc Taylor and Laurel Albright Taylor, a parcel of land in section 8, township 14, range 8, $185,000. • TS Fairways LLC to Elizabeth M. Dear, Fairways at Cider Ridge, phase 2, block 1, lot 2, $149,000. • Roy Eugene Stemen and Janet M. Stemen to Diana Obed-Harris, Plainview subdivision, 3rd addition, block 5, lot 1, $67,800. • Jeremy Boling and Jennifer Page Boling to Patricia M. Page, Glade-View subdivision, section B, lot 27, $69,000. • Patricia S. Kulovitz to Michael J. Kulovitz, Jacksonville Mining & Manufacturing Co., block 322, lots 9 and 10, $10.
• Kevin Feheley to Hoyt Bowen, a parcel of land in section 18, township 15, range 8, $2,000. • Robert L. Cater and Cynthia S. Cater to Charles H. Rice and Lynn G. Rice, Sunset Heights, Fairway addition, block 1, lot 3, $10. • Jonathan Mark Brooks to Lamont Mayer Jr. and Laquisha Mayer, Stonehaven subdivision, block C, lot 4, $92,000. • Richard E. Evans and Marjorie Evans to Nathan W. Formby, Windwood Estates, 1st addition, lot 13, $10. • Kenneth Wayne Key-Estate to Johnny Earl Maxwell, a parcel of land in section 31, township 15, range 6; a parcel of land in section 6, township 16, range 6, $1. • JPMorgan Chase Bank to Housing & Urban Development, Dogwood Acres subdivision, lot 14. • Wells Fargo Financial to Bobby Woodrow, Joyview Heights subdivision, block D, lot 8, $16,000. • Emily Shay Bradley to Willard Leon Bradley III, a parcel of land in section 3, township 15, range 9, $0. • Deborah Ann Tipton and Latosha Shae Tipton to Nathan William Hartline, a parcel of land in section 36, township 15, range 7, $6,000. • Myrtice B. Daniel-Estate to George I. Crawford Jr. MD PC, a parcel of land in section 12, township 16, range 8, $90,000. • Frank J. Esposito and Constance V. Esposito to Shannon H. Thompson, Ravenwood Hills subdivision, lot 6, $104,900. • Jimmy C. Bentley-Estate and Brenda Headrick to Thomas A. Stamper, a parcel of land in section 7, township 16, range 9, $63,000. • Steven K. Pierce and Rebecca L. Pierce to Jackson Everett King III, Diana Hills, 5th addition, block 8, lot 1, $10.
RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS Here are food service establishments recently inspected by the Calhoun County Health Department, along with scores. A score of 100 indicates the inspector found no deficiencies. Potentially hazardous deficiencies (four- or five-point demerit items) are noted. These must be corrected immediately and inspectors say they are often corrected while the inspection is underway. Restaurants earning below 70 must raise their scores within seven days or face closure.
4-OR 5-POINT DEMERITS
• AmStar Stadium 12, 700 Quintard Drive, Oxford — 95, potentially hazardous food did not meet temperature requirements during hot holding. • La Cabana Mexican Cuisine, 622 U.S. 278 By Pass, E., Piedmont — 90, potentially hazardous food did not meet temperature requirements during cold holding.
NO MAJOR DEMERITS • 32 Degrees, A Yogurt Bar, 252 Oxford Exchange Blvd., Oxford — 100.
• Joe Muggs, 900 Quintard Drive, Oxford — 99. • Little Caesar’s Pizza, 420 Pelham Road, N., Jacksonville — 99. • Piedmont Texaco, 101 U.S. 278 By Pass, W., Piedmont — 98. • Taco Bell/KFC, 206 U.S. 278 By Pass, Piedmont — 96. • United House of Prayer, 2511 Noble St., Anniston — 96. • Vallarta, 151 Plaza Lane, Oxford — 98. • Wright Dairy, 241 Cane Creek Farm Road, Alexandria — 99.
The deeper meaning of the doodle BY WILLIAM HAGEMAN Chicago Tribune
Submitted photos
Mary Ann Sampson, a book artist from Ragland, was the juror at the 34th Annual MiniWorks Exhibition at JSU.
Small packages
Ragland artist proves little books take big talent BY ERIN WILLIAMS
North America from Italy in the ’30s, and Sampson, who credits it as the Special to The Star “stimulus” of her art, embraced the forConsider the dollar bill — palmmat as a child while growing up in North sized, rectangular, thin, limited color Carolina. scheme. When you put it in those terms, “My mother allowed us to put picit sounds rather primitive, but in it lies tures up all over the walls — anything the groundwork for greatness and a pal- we did in school,” she said. ate for creativity. Her first career was as a nurse, and At least that’s how the artists who she worked in her home state before participated in JSU’s 34th Annual Mini- moving with her husband to Fort Hood, Works Exhibition saw it. Each artist was Texas, where he was stationed as a doccharged with creating a work of art in tor during the Vietnam War. During any medium, but no bigger than 2.6 x 3.5 that time, she took art instruction from inches — the size of a dollar bill. an Austrian woman and “was serious “It’s a wonderful way to express about it,” but “we were so far away from yourself and not have to be so big,” says any kind of formal education [that] I exhibit juror and regional artist Mary couldn’t go anywhere.” Ann Sampson. The couple arrived in Birmingham in Encaustic drawing, laser-cut papers 1966, and Sampson began taking a class and more are included in the show, once a week at UAB with artist and uniwhich features artists from across the versity instructor Howard Goodson. country. Sampson worked as a printmaker “Everybody has their own style,” after receiving her Bachelor of Arts from Sampson said, explaining that writSamford in 1982. She was first inspired ers each have their own unique way of by books in the late ’80s after viewing expressing themselves. “Visual people a bookmaking exhibition at a college are that way also.” art conference. Some years later she As an artist who has created works was enthralled with a similar exhibit out of books as small as 1 or 2 inches, at the University of Alabama, and she Sampson, 71, knows a thing or two later took a workshop on book artistry about designing within dimensions. She in Rochester, N.Y., that was led by artist describes her process somewhat plainly Keith Smith. — “gather pages together and you “I really just like the intimacy of learn how to manipulate the pages as a book — the smallness of the way it flatwork,” she says — but it goes deeper comes together,” she says. “And you get than that. to use every medium in the world that Though she didn’t arrive as an artyou can possibly conceive of to go in to ist until the late ’80s, her talent can be the book.” traced back to a finger-painting cousin, Sampson folds, cuts, stitches and Ruth Faison Shaw. Shaw is credited with presses various forms, weights and bringing the child-friendly medium to colors of paper to produce books that
celebrate Southern life and culture but somehow exude a wordly feel. She operates her business, One Eyed Opera Company, out of a small bank building that she renovated in the mid-’80s in Ragland. Sampson has exhibited in Chicago, Syracuse, Germany and at her alma mater of Samford, where she was honored as a visiting artist in 2011. Her work was briefly derailed after the April 2011 tornadoes that came through the region, flooding her home and studio. “You can’t imagine how disruptive a tornado makes your life,” she said in reflection. Her roof was badly damaged, and the flooding that followed forced her to throw out some 200 art books from her collection with mold and mildew damage. As a result, she is now working with the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s “Creating A Living Legacy” program, which helps older artists catalog and preserve their bodies of work. Though she has no immediate exhibition plans, she’s always in the middle of creating a new work. “I work constantly on ideas ... and there’s always a use for it somewhere down the line,” she said. At the age of 71, Sampson says she is nowhere near finished creating new work. “My mind is good, and I have lots of things that I want to do,” she says. “I don’t see how anyone could quit anything. I enjoy investigating lots of things in life.” The 34th Annual MiniWorks exhibition will be on view through May 30. Visit jsu.edu/art for more information.
The doodle. We’ve all done it, whether during a classroom lecture or a meeting at work. At first glance, it’s a trivial waste of time. But upon closer examination, those squiggles, drawings of animals or sketches of the boss in a gorilla suit may have some value. Studies have shown that people benefit from doodling. And author Sunni Brown sees the doodle as a flash point in nothing less than a revolution in the way we learn. In fact, her new book, due out in the fall, is called “The Doodle Revolution: Unlock the Power to Think Differently.” “It is instinct,” she says of the use of visual language. “Just like there’s a linguistic grammar, there’s also a native visual language for all people. It’s very natural and flows out of all of us.” Brown explains that there is a “visual alphabet,” a set of 12 symbols that can be used to articulate any conceivable concept. She says that rather than talking about a complex topic, it might help to doodle it as a new way of expressing the idea. It’s a powerful tool that adults need to relearn, she says. Kids, it seems, have it right. Anita Wood, whose new book, “Doodle Your Day,” gives 8- to 12-year-olds a dayby-day forum for doodling, says that an inherent desire to create or doodle starts when children are handed their first crayon, “or even earlier when they are eating their mashed carrots and peas. My children liked to paint on their high-chair trays using their mushy Zwieback Toast.” She believes a child’s fascination with the colors and feel of the material, or food, they’re using helps get fingers doodling. “It’s getting lines on paper, scribbling at first and then developing into shapes and forms. That’s why it’s fun to take pencil, crayon or marker to not only paper, but blank walls, floors or even bare skin. It’s the beginning of creation.” Brown explains that doodling employs three learning modalities — visual, auditory and kinesthetic — and “dramatically enhances the experience of learning.” That notion was confirmed in a study published in 2009 in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. Psychologist Jackie Andrade found that people who doodle remember 29 percent more than those who do not. Andrade suggested that when people doodle, they don’t daydream. You can be looking directly at a teacher or speaker, appearing to hang on every word, but your mind is miles away. Doodling forces the brain to keep working. Wood adds that it can be helpful for problem-solving too. “Some of my best ideas have happened because I was just focused on my lines, squares or swirls at that moment. And because I wasn’t struggling and pushing my mind to concentrate on the thing that I needed to, the solution was suddenly there. Doodling is a helpful distraction.”