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A News and Tribune Publication
FEB. 19, 2015 — Issue 53
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Local sculptor brings Black History Month exhibit to Southern Indiana
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FC Winter Guard places first at Nashville
DERBY DINNER Featuring 'Bonnie and Clyde' musical
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Exhibit highlights Black History Month
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Ed Hamilton's work is currently on display at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Albany in honor of Black History Month. Hamilton, whose work reflects and pays tribune to iconic images and incidents in AfricanAmerican history, is part of the church’s Art in the Parlor series. Staff photo by Tyler Stewart
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Renowned sculptor Ed Hamilton is exhibiting his works at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Albany in connection with Black History Month. Yet another reason why SoIn rocks. Hamilton, a Louisville resident, likely could have displayed his important Afro-centric art anywhere in the area, yet he chose a church in
Southern Indiana. Small-scale versions of some of his large installations, along with some of his earlier liturgical and religious works, fill the parlor of the church’s Parish House, Jenna Esarey writes in today’s cover story. The Rev. Rick Kautz invited Hamilton to take part in the church’s Art in the Parlor series for Black History Month in February.
Hamilton has also won awards, being named Black Achiever in 1990, winning the Distinguished Achiever Award in 1999, the Arthur M. Walters Champion of Diversity Award given at the Louisville Urban League’s Diversity Soiree in 2005, the Urban League Diversity Award and the Best of Louisville Magazine 2005 Reader’s Choice Award for Visual Artist. And you can get a close-up look at his work at St. Paul’s. What a treat. And I urge you to walk a few blocks to the Carnegie Center for Art and History and check out “Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men & Women of the Underground Railroad.” It’s a first-class exhibit highlighting New Albany’s unique role in slaves’ passage to freedom. Soak in the history. — Jason Thomas is the editor of SoIn. He can be reached by phone at 812-206-2127 or email at jason. thomas@newsandtribune.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ScoopThomas.
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FC Winter Guard wins Nashville event
The Floyd Central High School Winter Guard competed at the Nashville WGI Regional Prelims and Finals last week, which is one of four Regionals held throughout the nation, according to a news release from Angela Bowman. The group finished in first place in Nashville and third throughout the nation in the Scholastic A class. It is only the guard’s second year to compete on a national level in the WGI organization, according to Bowman. The show is called “Luminous.” Guard director is Charles Williams, and assistants are Chris Dulin, Patrick Regan and Dustin Everitt. The group is competing in the Tri-State circuit and Floyd Central will be hosting a Tri-State circuit winter guard and winter percussion contest at noon on Saturday, Feb. 21. Guard members are: Emma Brown; Alleson Estar; Aubry Fonseca; Mary Freiberger; Hannah Fults; Hannah Gehm; Brianna Hall; Aron Hamilton; Becca Luhrsen; McKenna Meunier; Sydney Meunier; Emma Platt; Nicola Spaulding; Madi Wiley; Brittany Wright.
The Floyd Central Winter Guard finished in first place at the Nashville WGI Regional Prelims and Finals last week. PHOTOS BY Patti Hartog
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Bone-rattling comedy What: ‘Clacklebones!’
When: 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21 Cost: $10/door; register by calling 812-944-9600 Where: Culbertson Mansion (adults only) This ensemble will perform a collection of comedy sketches making fun of history through mildly inaccurate and completely inappropriate situations for an adult audience. This live comedy performance is guaranteed to make you laugh (probably), instantly curing all your temporary and chronic woes.
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A little bit of history
What: Historical lecture on Betsy Pennington When: 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24 Where: Elsa Strassweg Auditorium, New Albany-Floyd County Public Library, 180 W. Spring St., New Albany The Floyd County Historical Society will have its February meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 24. The program titled ”Betsy Pennington: Cherokee Captive and Indiana Grandmother,” will be presented by Mandy Dick. The meeting is free and open to the public.
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What: Chocolate Lover’s Weekend When: Saturday, Feb. 21, Sunday, Feb. 22 Where: Huber’s Winery, 19816 Huber Road, Borden Info: huberywinery.com Sample locally made chocolates paired with Huber wines. Music lineup (1 to 5 p.m.): Saturday, Feb. 21: Carl Stuck; Sunday, Feb. 22: Dean Heckel.
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Sculptor Ed Hamilton exhibit connects Southern By Jenna esarey newsroom@newsandtribune.com d Hamilton did not set out to make a career out of creating Afro-centric public art. It just worked out that way. “I didn’t choose it,” he said. “It chose me. “The public pieces just started coming to me. I started creating iconic images of famous incidents and people. One led to another.” Now, thanks to Hamilton, a larger-thanlife Abraham Lincoln sits on the bank of the Ohio River in Louisville. Cast in bronze, the figure attracts crowds of all ages. Some come to admire the artwork, others to contemplate the man, and children — mostly — to scramble up onto his lap. Farther down the river, on the Belvedere, another bronze sculpture stands: a figure of York, the enslaved black man who accompanied Lewis and Clark on the journey west. In Washington D.C. his “Spirit of Freedom” honors the black soldiers who fought in the Union Army during the Civil War. Standing 9-and-a-half-feet tall, the bronze sculpture features three infantry soldiers and a sailor. The back shows a family group as the soldier leaves for the war. Hamilton said he felt it was important to portray black figures in public art installations.
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Virginia for a statue of Booker T. Washington, an alumnus of the school. It was completed in 1984, and while the commissions didn’t start to pour in right away, the piece launched his foray into Afro-centric public art. Among his works are a Joe Louis Memorial in Detroit installed in 1987, The Amistad Memorial in New Haven, Conn., in 1992, and a bust of Medgar Evers in Baltimore in 1999. In addition to his Lincoln and York sculptures, Hamilton has several smaller pieces scattered around town, as well as a life-size frontier family sculpture in the lobby of the Frazier Historical Arms Museum in Louisville. Hamilton’s only permanent installation in Indiana is a cross and flames, mimicking the larger ones on the building’s tower, at Wall Street United Methodist Church in Jeffersonville. For his exhibit at St. Paul’s, Hamilton chose to showcase a variety of his work, spanning almost the entire course of his career. A processional cross, commissioned in 1973 by Louisville’s St. Augustine Catholic Church is included, portraying Jesus as a black man with unnaturally elongated arms and legs. The piece is also significant in its use of Jesus’ body itself as the cross. “In most processional crosses the figure is attached to a cross,” Hamilton said. “In this one, Jesus’ body is the cross.” Another religious piece, “Bound Jesus,” is one of a few non-bronze pieces Hamilton has
Black History MontH events
The Jeffersonville Township Public Library is offering a variety of programs scheduled to celebrate Black History Month. The month pays tribute to those generations of African-Americans who have struggled with adversity and recognizes their great contributions to civilization. The Jeffersonville branch is located at 211 E. Court Ave.; the Clarksville branch is at 1312 Eastern Blvd. Call 812-285-5630 with questions. african aMerican GenealoGy Thursday, Feb. 19 from 6 to 7:30 at the Jeffersonville branch • Celebrate Black History Month by learning tips and tricks for tracing your African-American heritage. Registration is required. african aMerican literature Book cluB Saturday, Feb. 21 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Jeffersonville branch • This book club meets monthly and is for adults who enjoy reading and discussing works by or about African-Americans. This month the book club will discuss “We Take This Man” by Candice Dow. tHe spiritual Wonders Feb. 23 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Jeffersonville branch • Join the library for a very special concert featuring The Spiritual Wonders, a Louisville-based group of a-cappella singers. This group has performed at the library many times in the past and will entertain once again with its inspirational music.
made and dates back to 1976. The cast plaster piece was created from a bent iron rod Hamilton happened upon at an art studio. “I stuck it into a piece of wood and started putting clay on it,” he said. “I was just putting the frustrations and feelings I was having at that time into the piece. I’m more tactile. When you paint you create one or two dimensions, but you can’t get around it.” Hamilton has created awards as well as sculptures. In 1980 he launched the Black Achievers Award. He created the first Isaac Murphy Award, given through the local NAACP, the Lift Award for the Cannan Community Development Corp., and the Annual Smith Award given to newspapers in the U.S. He has also won awards, being named Black Achiever in 1990, winning the Distinguished Achiever Award in 1999, the Arthur M. Walters Champion of Diversity Award given at the Louisville Urban League’s Diversity Soiree in 2005, the Urban League Diversity Award and the Best of Louisville Magazine 2005 Reader’s Choice Award for Visual Artist. The sculptor said he is pleased with the response his public works have received. “Sometimes it gets overwhelming,” he said. “I never thought it would be taken as well.”
froM top to BottoM: “Bound Jesus” is a religious piece created by ed Hamilton that is cast plaster. a smaller scale bronze “spirit of freedom” statue honors the black soldiers who fought in the union army during the civil War. the commissioned piece is on display in Washington d.c. a small-scale statue of abraham lincoln is covered with markers which help scale the piece as it’s enlarged to the larger-than-life statue currently in place on the waterfront in louisville.
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