Dear Friends,
I am excited to announce the annual launch of the Artemis Journal has gone virtual and the new date is Sunday, September 13. As some of you know, the special launch of the 2020 Artemis Journal on June 5, 2020 at the Roanoke Taubman Museum of Art had to be postponed due to the Coronavirus.
The keynote speaker, Jeanne Larsen, is a poet, translator, novelist, essayist, and sometimes short fiction writer. WHAT PENELOPE CHOOSES is her 19th book; she has published in the Artemis Journal fourteen times.
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Artemis Keynote speaker Jeanne Larsen in the Gallery surrounded by Gillespie Art |
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There is a 42-year history with Artemis and my mother as one of her pastels was on the first cover of Artemis in 1977. Jeri Rogers, Artemis founder & Editor said "I realized we had the perfect woman to inspire and give us credibility for our first journal. The amazing energy that revolved around this project was terrific! We brainstormed and imagined where else we could go and that is where the idea arose to donate her image to the city of Roanoke. Business leaders got on board and the idea took flight. The highlight being not only the image painted in downtown, but the inspiration that arose from her work and her appearance in Roanoke speaking about the importance of public art."
Ms. Rogers said "we will have come full circle from 1977 when our first cover featured your mother's work."
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2020 Artemis Journal Cover Artist Dorothy Gillespie |
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Foreword "Season of Women"
Artemis Journal, now 43 years old, celebrates the voices and visions of artists and writers from the Appalachian region of the Blue Ridge Mountains and beyond. Our journal is titled after the Greek moon goddess, Artemis, who presided over the hunt, protected the natural world and illuminated the darkness. Our mission is to provide an honored space for artists and writers to publish their contributions for cultural enrichment.
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Mother and Daughter
Teri Hoover
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January 16, 2020
by Jeri Rogers, Founder, Editor-in-chief
100 years ago, women gained the right to vote in the United States. As we celebrate this momentous event, we are honoring an artist who was also born 100 years ago and made an impact on the art scene here in our hometown, nationally and internally. Dorothy Gillespie, 1920-2012, supported our fledgling idea of starting a feminist literary and art journal by donating a beautiful pastel for our very first cover. The energy she brought to our journal and our hometown was contagious and along with the journal, the idea was born to create the very first mural in our downtown.
Gillespie, born in Roanoke Virginia, declared early her intention to become an artist. Ms. Gillespie’s career spanned seven decades, and she was always in the forefront of the American Art movement. Ms. Gillespie’s works have graced many institutions, museums, colleges, universities and public places. She was one of the first artist to offer her art to the world through displays in the lobbies of public institutions and governmental centers such as the Mayo Clinic, Epcot Center, Warren Wilson College, Fort Lauderdale Airport-Delta Terminal, Thalian Hall Center for the Performing Arts, Center-in-the-Square, Downtown Mural, Roanoke, Virginia.
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Ms. Rogers said, "I was introduced to Dorothy by a fellow artist, Lyn Yeatts. From that fortunate introduction I found myself traveling up to New York City to visit Dorothy at her downtown studio. I had a great time revisiting New York City, I had lived there after graduating from college for a couple of years and picking out the image with Dorothy that would grace our first Artemis cover." |
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Dorothy with her self-portrait in her Manhattan studio |
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Dorothy Gillespie self portrait |
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"This year’s 2020 Artemis cover will honor Dorothy with one of her images and collaborate with the Roanoke Taubman Museum of Art with a retrospective of Ms. Gillespie’s work, “
'Celestial Centennial: The Art and Legacy of Dorothy Gillespie,' Saturday, April 4-Sept 13, 2020."
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Roanoke Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, Virginia |
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Early in her career, Gillespie contributed to the women’s art movement through her work at Artist in Residence, Women’s Interart Center, New York, NY 1972 and her lecture series at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY 1977.
Gillespie is the subject of numerous reviews, critical essays, film and radio interviews and a book Dorothy Gillespie published by the Radford University Foundation Press.
Among her many honors, Gillespie received The Alice Baber Art Fund, Inc. Grant Award; a Doctor of Pedagogy, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY 1990; a Doctor of Fine Arts (Honoris Causa) Caldwell College, Caldwell, NY 1976; an Allied Professions Award,Virginia Society; The American Institute of Architects, Richmond, VA 1986; Distinguished Alumni Award, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD 1983; Outstanding Services Award, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, AR 1983; and, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Women’s Caucus for Art in 2001. The Gala 8 ”Distinguished Woman” Award at Birmingham Southern College in 1987 honoring women who have made lasting contributions to our society in the fields of endeavor ranging from the arts, medicine, philanthropy, journalism, government, sports, entertainment and business”.
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