All That Jazz
The VVC library
is fortunate to host an exhibit of jazz
history from
the personal collection of local jazz
historian Paul Starks. The exhibit is taken from Mr.
Starks’ extensive collection of over
4,000 jazz LP’s, photographs, newspaper
clippings, and other memorabilia. Besides
being an avid collector, Paul also started
a Jazz to You program in 2005
to increase the community’s awareness
and appreciation of both jazz and classical
music. He currently
serves as Volunteer Coordinator of Music
at the Victor
Valley Museum & Art Gallery.
His civic generosity extends to numerous
community
projects including the organization of a
program known as Parade of Pianos. The program
accepts donations of musical instruments
for students who have an interest in music
but have no instruments in the home. Paul
not only collects the instruments, but refurbishes
and delivers them at his own expense. (*The
exhibit is located in the display cabinets
on the main floor of the library.)
Printmaking
Exhibit
The
library is pleased to present a new
exhibit featuring the printmaking
works
of Carmen Teal,
an adjunct art instructor at VVC. The
exhibit illustrates a variety
of printmaking techniques
including woodcut, lithograph, monotype,
aquatint, and Chine-colle.
Highlighting the exhibit are
works that document Carmen’s visits
with the Gaumbiano Indians who reside in
the remote
foothills of the Colombian Andes in an area
known a Guambia. In Carmen’s words, “the
images emanate from my pleasant and
vivid memories of times shared with
the Indians
of the Guambia
region, from exchanges that took place
in their homes and places of business,
at a
village
elementary school, a market place, in
a park, a town square,
a cemetery, and their agricultural fields.”
