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Portsmouth Community Arts and Literary Festival ‘Alice All Around’ at Shawnee State University

            Shawnee State University’s Clark Memorial Library will present three events during the Scioto County Community Arts and Literary Festival “Alice All Around” beginning with Tim Burton’s version of the film “Alice in Wonderland” at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 27 in the Flohr Lecture Hall. Popcorn will be provided.

            Dr. Darren Harris-Fain, professor in English and Humanities, will be lecturing on “Carroll and His Contemporaries: The Literary Contexts of the Alice Books” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 4 in the library alcove. Refreshments will be provided.

            Maggie Taylor, author and illustrator of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” published by Modernbook Editions, 2008, will present “Images and Other Things … the evolution of imagery and creative process with the scanner and computer” at noon on Friday, Nov. 12 at the Howland Recital Hall in the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts. The presentation is part of the 2010-11 Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series.

            Taylor has been in numerous one-person exhibits throughout the United States and abroad and she has her work in many public and private collections including The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Museum of Photography, Seoul, Korea; and the Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, W.Va.

            Taylor’s work is featured in “Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams,” published by Adobe Press, 2005; “Solutions Beginning with A,” Modernbook Editions, 2007. She began using the computer to create her images in 1996 after 10 years as a still-life photographer. Taylor’s work will be displayed at the Southern Ohio Museum from Friday, Nov. 12 until Friday, Dec. 31.

            The public is invited to the university events free of charge. For more information, call Ann Marie Short at (740) 351-3462 or e-mail ashort@shawnee.edu.