University of the Cumberlands
Department of Art
James Baker Hall Exhibition
| A former Kentucky Poet Laureate, and the author of many books of poetry and fiction, James Baker Hall is equally well known as a photographer. His photographs have been shown in New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Buffalo, and elsewhere, and reproduced in APERTURE, POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY ANNUAL, THE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY, and U.S. CAMERA,among other books and periodicals. He has published three books of photographs, ORPHAN IN THE ATTIC, A SPRING-FED POND, and TOBACCO HARVEST: AN ELEGY. He has won numberous awards as a photographer, including a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, and first prize in "Photo-Vision 73." He has taught photography at MIT, the University of Connecticut, and the Visual Studies Workshop. From 1973 until his recent retirement, he was Director of Creative Writing at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. |
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Opening Reception of James Baker Hall Exhibition |
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James Baker Hall and Ginny Arnett:
Member of the Patriot Arts League and President of the Appalachian Artists Guild |
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James Baker Hall and art student Jared Tackett. Jared is a senior who plans to attend architecture school after completing his studies at the University of the Cumberlands. |
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James Baker Hall and Julie Wheeler |
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James Baker Hall signs a poetry book for communication arts professor Marianne Worthington at the opening reception. |
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James Baker Hall talks with art majors Kelly Seifert (left) and Becky Nantz (right). |
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James Baker Hall and his assistant Sarah Wiley |
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James Baker Hall discusses his work with art students. |
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James Baker Hall talks to the college community about his life and his work as an artist and a poet. |