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October 31, 2008 Society Announces First James Goodrich Research AssistantshipThe State Historical Society of Missouri is pleased to announce the awarding of the first James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship in Missouri History. The Goodrich Assistantship is a memorial tribute to the historian, writer, and preservationist who served as executive director of the Society for 20 years, 1985-2004. Jim Goodrich also served the Columbia community as a city council member and active volunteer. Today, October 31, would have been his 69th birthday.Created when Jim retired from the Society, the Goodrich Assistantship has been built with tribute and memorial gifts. It is a fitting honor, as Jim began his four-decade relationship with the Society and the University as a graduate research assistant in Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Society's partner institution. During his career with the State Historical Society, Goodrich expanded the collection, preservation, and publication of historical records. He edited four books and 37 volumes of the Missouri Historical Review. He strengthened the Society's nationally significant art collection. He initiated an oral history program. He wrote dozens of articles and gave hundreds of talks, mostly based on primary sources from the Society's holdings. Roger E. Robinson, recipient of the first James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship in Missouri History, is a first year doctoral student in history at the University of Missouri. Robinson, a Little Rock, Arkansas native, earned the bachelor's in forestry from Colorado State University and the master's in international relations from Troy University. He recently retired with the rank of major after a 20-year career as an Air Force pilot and has enthusiastically begun the pursuit of a new career as historian and teacher. Robinson's work will focus on research for a book of George Caleb Bingham's letters and writings, which the Society will publish in 2011, the bicentennial of the artist's birth. Jim Goodrich was instrumental in obtaining a number of Bingham's portraits for the Society during his tenure. We believe Jim would be pleased that the first Goodrich Research Assistant is involved with this book project. posted @ 1:08 PM October 27, 2008 State Historical Society to Announce Inaugural Goodrich Research AssistantOn Friday, October 31, at 10:00 a.m., The State Historical Society of Missouri, in cooperation with the University of Missouri Department of History, will hold a press conference to announce the awarding of the first James W. Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship in Missouri History The Goodrich Graduate Research Assistantship honors Goodrich as an historian, writer, and preservationist who served as executive director of the Society for twenty years, 1985-2004. Through programs, publications, and collaborative activities, he helped Missourians understand their history. He also served the Columbia community as an active volunteer and city council member. posted @ 4:12 PM October 17, 2008 Missouri Folklore Society receives grant for African American StoriesThe Missouri Folklore Society (MFS) has received a $2,500 grant from the Missouri Humanities Council to support “African American Stories in Missouri: The Oral Tradition Today.” The program will be featured at the MFS annual meeting in Hannibal, November 6-8, 2008, and is co-sponsored by The State Historical Society of Missouri. Storytellers from Northeast Missouri, St. Louis, the Missouri Bootheel, and the Springfield and Kansas City areas will come together to discuss the significance of stories and storytellers in the cultural lives of African Americans, and the important role stories play in promoting learning and shared understanding. Gladys Coggswell, a master storyteller in the Missouri Folk Arts Program at the University of Missouri, will chair the African American stories program among several presenters who are also contributors to Coggswell’s forthcoming book, Stories from the Heart: Missouri’s African American Heritage, to be published by the University of Missouri Press early next year. The program presented at the Missouri Folklore Society’s annual meeting will be recorded and placed in the holdings of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, a joint repository of the University of Missouri and The State Historical Society of Missouri. The Missouri Folklore Society annual meeting will be held November 6-8, 2008, at the Quality Inn and Conference Center, 120 Lindsay Drive (Mark Twain Avenue), west of Hannibal. For more information, contact David Moore, Associate Director, Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia at (573) 882-6028. For more information about the Missouri Humanities Council grants program, call (314) 781-9660 or (800) 357-0909. The Council is the only statewide agency in Missouri devoted exclusively to humanities education for citizens of all ages, and has served as the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1971. About the Missouri Folklore Society The Missouri Folklore Society was organized in 1906 and seeks to encourage the collection, preservation, and study of folk arts and crafts of all ethnic groups throughout the state of Missouri, including customs, institutions, beliefs, signs, legends, language, literature, and musical arts. posted @ 8:48 AM October 08, 2008 Art Historian to give Thomas Hart Benton Presentations on MU CampusPennsylvania State University Curator of American Art Leo Mazow will give two talks discussing the work of Thomas Hart Benton on October 16 and 17 on the University of Missouri campus. Mazow is the author of several scholarly works on Benton and is visiting Columbia after finishing his most recent book manuscript on the role of sound in Benton’s art.
Thursday evening Mazow will present “Thomas Hart Benton: Painting the Sound” at 5:30 p.m. in Ellis Auditorium. This lecture will explore Benton’s interest in music and the spoken word, and how each relates to his artwork.
“Thomas Hart Benton at The State Historical Society of Missouri: A Conversation with Professor Leo Mazow” will take place at 10:30 a.m. on October 17 in the Society’s Main Gallery. Mazow will discuss the more than 300 Benton pieces held by the Society, focusing on the Year of Peril series and the artist’s drawings for the Limited Editions Club’s Mark Twain volumes. The Society will show rarely seen Benton works as part of Mazow’s talk, and visitors are invited to ask questions of the scholar.
Both presentations by Mazow are free and open to the public. posted @ 10:13 AM October 07, 2008 State Historical Society Staff meeting Thursday Oct. 9The Society’s regular, monthly staff meeting has been changed from Wednesday, October 8 to Thursday 9th at 8:00 a.m. We are closed during these meetings and therefore the Society will be closed from 8 to 9 a.m. Thursday instead of Wednesday We apologize for any inconvenience. posted @ 11:24 AM October 06, 2008 Cartoonist Tom Engelhardt to Discuss His Work at the State Historical SocietyFor thirty-five years Tom Engelhardt was the editorial cartoon voice of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and on October 18, 2008, at 2:00 p.m., he will share his experiences and knowledge with the public during a tour of the exhibit Engelhardt on Elections, on display in the Society’s Main Gallery. Born in St. Louis in 1930, Engelhardt aspired to be a cartoonist at an early age and admired the work of Post-Dispatch artist Daniel Fitzpatrick. Engelhardt attended various schools and universities, halting his formal education for a tour with the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. After his discharge he studied at Oxford University in England. He returned to the U.S. in the late 1950s, working freelance cartooning jobs and as part of a newspaper syndicate before landing at the Post-Dispatch in 1962. Engelhardt will present his work and talk about the artistic techniques used to create his cartoons, as well as the stories behind the images he drew during his tenure. “These cartoons teach us many wonderful lessons about our history,” said Joan Stack, curator of art collections at the State Historical Society. “We are fortunate to have this unique opportunity to discuss them with Mr. Engelhardt.” The tour of Engelhardt on Elections with Tom Engelhardt is free and open to the public. The Main Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. posted @ 10:54 AM |
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