UNT art professor wins national award

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A professor at the University of North Texas received an award from the National Art Education Association this weekend.

D. Jack Davis, an art professor and former dean of the College Of Visual Arts and Design, received the Distinguished Service Within the Profession Award at the association’s national convention in Baltimore.

Davis has been teaching at UNT since 1971. He previously taught at Texas Tech University, the University of Minnesota, Wayland Baptist University, Baylor University and the Waco school district.

For more information, visit www.naea-reston.org.

— Rachel Mehlhaff

New book spotlights women’s music fests

Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics and Women’s Music was written by University of North Texas professor Eileen M. Hayes.

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A professor at the University of North Texas has written a book spotlighting women’s music festivals.

Eileen M. Hayes, chairwoman of the UNT College of Music’s Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology, wrote Songs in Black and Lavender: Race, Sexual Politics and Women’s Music, which was recently published by the University of Illinois Press.

Hayes conducted research at eight music festivals for women, focusing on black women’s involvement.

“She argues that the women’s music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period,” according to her publisher’s website.

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Hayes has taught in the music college since 2002. She served as book review editor for Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture and was co-editor of Black Women and Music: More than the Blues.

— Rachel Mehlhaff

Local quilter makes international show

A Denton-area quilter was selected to take her quilt to Paducah, Ky., where it will be entered in an international contest.

Naomi Adams was named a semifinalist for the American Quilter’s Society’s 26th annual quilt show and contest, which will begin Tuesday.

Adams’ quilt, Vines, is one of more than 300 quilts that will be judged during the show.

This is the third consecutive year Adams’ work has been selected.

The show will run through Saturday at the Paducah Expo Center. Quilters can win between $5,000 and $20,000.

For more information, visit www.americanquilter.com.

— Rachel Mehlhaff

UNT Press publishes biography of scholar

Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography by Manuel F. Medrano has been published by the University of North Texas Press.

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The University of North Texas Press recently published a book about a man who is known for his advancement of Mexican-American studies.

Americo Paredes: In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography is a book by Manuel F. Medrano that shares the life of man who was a pioneer in Chicano studies.

His interest in the topic began when he was growing up on the U.S.-Mexico border. His dissertation challenged traditional narratives of Texas Rangers.

Medrano conducted a series of interviews with Paredes, his family and colleagues over a five-year period before Paredes died in 1999.

Paredes co-founded the Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas in 1970.

Medrano, a history professor at the University of Texas at Brownsville, co-authored Charro Days in Brownsville and Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands.

— Rachel Mehlhaff