Morris Museum Service Project--Women's Week 2004

This service project involved selecting literary works by Southern women writers to complement paiintings by Southern women artists.

On Sunday afternoon, these English Club members read their selections in front of the paintings and helped the docents discuss the paintings in light of these literary works.

L-R Front Row:

Amanda Wescom--Art Work: Nell Choate Jones'sGeorgia Red Clay; Readings: "Southern Song" by Margaret Walker, Excerpt "Livvie" by Eudora Welty, & Excerpt from "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker

Ivy Brown--Art Work: Bessie Nickens's Dinner in the Cotton Patch; Reading: Excerpt from Praying for Sheetrock by Melissa Fay Greene

Miriam Hilburn--Art Work: Virgiinia Derryberry's Consummation; Reading: "For My People" by Margaret Walker

L-R Back Row:

Michael Fleary--Secretary of the English Club 2004

Kathy Newton--Art Work: Anne Taylor Nash's Nude-Reclining Female; Readings: "A Woman Is Not a Potted Plant" by Alice Walker and Excerpt from "The Storm" by Kate Chopin

A Special Thanks goes to Kathy Newton for chairing this project.