Elizabethville Library Arts Series
2007 Schedule
The Elizabethville Library Arts Series is dedicated to presenting arts and cultural programs for the enjoyment of the residents of northern Dauphin County. The series provides free programs each year that celebrate the various aspects of the arts. Both local and nationally recognized artists are featured.
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Tom Bailey
Author
Sunday, April 15, 3:00 p.m.
Elizabethville Area Library
Tom Bailey was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. He is the author of Cotton Song (2006), The Grace that Keeps this World (2005), A Short Story Writer's Companion (2001) and the editor of On Writing Short Stories (2000). Widely published in literary journals and magazines, including DoubleTake, his fiction has been reprinted in such anthologies as The Pushcart Prizes and New Stories From the South and cited in The Best American Short Stories. He is the recipient of a Newhouse Award from the John Gardner Foundation and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. |
The Elizabethville Library Arts Series is supported by the Friends of the Elizabethville Library
and made possible by the Carole & Pete DeSoto Endowment.
Benefactor: Jane C. Esterline
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Upcoming Arts Series Events
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Bryan Molloy
Artist
Sunday, October 14, 3:00 p.m.
Bryan Molloy graduated in 1999 from Massachusetts College of Art with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in the Illustration program. In 2004 he settled in Harrisburg, taking a position as gallery assistant for the Harrisburg Art Association. His paintings of Harrisburg landmarks and “scapes” can be seen in restaurants, shops and galleries in the Harrisburg area. Because of his admiration for John Singer-Sargent’s influence on Boston’s cultural history, Molloy’s painting style displays a remarkably impressionistic style. Molloy painted 13 kites for the recent Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts Kitefest, and has made donations of paintings to fundraisers for Habitat for Humanity and United Cerebral Palsy. |
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Ralph Schwalm
Local Performer
Sunday, October 14, 3:00 p.m.
Ralph Schwalm is a resident of Valley View and has performed often in his native Schuylkill County, appearing in numerous Moonlight Theatre Productions, including Under the Milk Wood and Bus Stop. In Dauphin County he has performed with Lykens Community Theatre in such productions as The Odd Couple and California Suite, as well as in numerous Fatal Fun interactive murder mystery productions. He has done everything from Children's Theater at Cedar Crest College in Allentown to Burlesque Shows in Olyphant. Schwalm performed Love Letters by A.R. Gurney with Kelli Eberlein as part of the Elizabethville Library Art Series in 2005 and most recently read a Christmas Carol at the Northern Dauphin Library in 2006. |
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Bob McLeod
Author & Illustrator
Sunday, November 11, 3:00 p.m.
Bob McLeod was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. He moved to NYC in 1973 and began work in the production department at Marvel Comics. He has since illustrated most of the major characters at Marvel and DC Comics, including penciling several issues of Star Wars, Spider-Man and Superman, and inking The Incredible Hulk, Wonder Woman, and Batman. In 1982, he co-created a very successful series called The New Mutants, a spinoff from Marvel's X-Men.
In 2006, he wrote and illustrated his first children's book, SuperHero ABC, an alphabet book of original superheroes which was published by HarperCollins. He has written two more children's books which he hopes to have published over the next two years, and he regularly visits elementary schools to talk to students.
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Arts Series Events earlier in 20007
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Pastor Charles H. Oldland III
Musician
Sunday, March 11
Charles H. Oldland III is a native of Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. His musical instruction began at age six when his mother, Emily Katharine Holland Oldland, started teaching him piano. In 1968 he entered Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, to study Church Music, earning his Bachelor of Music. Over the years he has directed several church festival choirs and the clergy choir of the Upper Dauphin Conference. He will be playing show tunes, ragtime and jazz during his performance.
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Sally K. Yates
Artist
Sunday, March 11
Sally Yates is a watercolor artist who captures the textures of old buildings, the play of light on a still life, or the freshness of a floral display. She is a graduate of Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, and worked in commercial art for many years. More recently her time has been devoted to painting watercolors and doing numerous commissions for private collectors. Mrs. Yates has won awards and has been part of juried shows, including at the Woodmere Art Museum, and for a number of years has taught with Upper Dublin Adult School as well as other institutions. She is a member of the Millersburg Area Art Association, Art Association of Harrisburg and others. |
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3-12-07 CR
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