Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts to Host Potter Stephen Driver Sept. 30
Steven Driver
The next installment of the Arkansas Folklife Web Series is set for 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30. Guest Stephen Driver will discuss Arkansas pottery traditions. This event is free and open to the public, and registration is required.
Driver is a potter and back-to-the-lander who has lived in Oark for over 40 years. He and his wife, fiber artist Louise Halsey, own and operate the Little Mulberry Gallery, named after the creek near their property. Driver is the recipient of the 2024 Arkansas Governor's Arts Awards, Individual Artist Award. He spent 20 years teaching pottery at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.
He has an M.F.A. from the University of Georgia and has written articles for Pottery Making Illustrated, The Log Book Wood Fire Journal, Ceramics Monthly and Studio Potter. Driver operates a large kiln on his property that he fires twice a year, filling it with his work and the work of other local potters who help keep the wood-fired kiln going long enough to complete a minimum of 1,000 pieces each firing.
Series host Lauren Willette and Driver will discuss his personal history as a potter, how he fires his pottery, his work in Asia and his pottery community.
Questions about the 2024 Arkansas Folklife Web Series may be directed to Willette at willette@uark.edu. Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts is a statewide program of the University of Arkansas Libraries dedicated to building cross-cultural understanding by documenting, presenting and sustaining Arkansas' living traditional arts and cultural heritage.
Contacts
Lauren Willette, folk arts fieldwork coordinator, Arkansas Folk and Traditional Arts
University Libraries
479-575-4664,
willette@uark.edu
Kelsey Lovewell Lippard, director of public relations
University Libraries
479-575-7311,
klovewel@uark.edu
Headlines
Researchers Publish Breakthrough Study on How New Genes Evolve
Biological scientists at the U of A propose a new model for understanding how new genes and novel functions can originate through recycling and innovation of “junk.”
GSIE Welcomes New Class of Distinguished Doctoral, Doctoral Academy Fellows
The Distinguished Doctoral and Doctoral Academy Fellowships are nationally competitive fellowships that will provide funding for 62 doctoral students to conduct impactful research and creative activity.
Ryan Fiddler Joins HESC's Human Nutrition and Dietetics Faculty
Fiddler, who has extensive experience in teaching nutrition-based classes, is joining U of A's human nutrition and dietetics program as a teaching associate professor.
Creative Writing M.F.A. Student Awarded Prestigious Grant for Medieval Studies Project
Lizzie Fox, a third-year M.F.A. student in literary translation, is pursuing a project translating plays written in the 10th century by Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, the first-known female playwright in Western tradition.
School of Law Welcomes Norman as New Faculty Member
Peter Norman, assistant professor, joined the clinical teaching faculty and will start a new transactional law clinic, which will provide legal assistance to Arkansas-based small businesses, cooperatives and non-profits.