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Event Name:

Word Thursdays - Loyal Miles & Aubryn Nealis

Address:

94 Church Street
Treadwell, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Thu Oct 28 2010 at 7:00 PM
Ends:	Thu Oct 28 2010 at 9:00 PM

Hosting Organization:

Bright Hill Literary Center

Contact Name:

Bertha Rogers

Contact Email Address:

wordthur@stny.rr.com

Contact Phone Number:

607-829-5055

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Event Cost:

$3.00

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Event Description:

An itinerant Midwesterner, Loyal Miles is fond of telling folks back home that he likes his Brooklyn neighborhood because it's the one place in New York where he can really see the sky. Loyal has published fiction in Cottonwood Review and criticism in the Indiana Review, the latter of which was reprinted in a Harold Bloom guide, in some small way validating countless hours spent reading Bloom guides in library stacks as an English major. He has an MFA in fiction writing from Indiana University and is the director of development and marketing at Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a nonprofit that brings writers into public schools across New York City. Inspired in part by the poems of New York City children, Loyal recently began writing poetry. AUBRYNN NEALIS is currently teaching at Downsville Central School where she teaches art and is involved with student art exhibitions and the student literary publication CORE. Nealis earned a BFA at SUNY Oneonta, where her major interests were wire sculpture, printmaking, and two-dimensional design. From her work in literature as well as art history she developed a keen sense of the interconnectedness of the work of the writer and the visual artist. This developed into an ongoing force driving both her own work as well as her approach to art education. Her written work and her art are strongly influenced by the natural environment of her home in the rural landscape of the Northern Catskills. A recurring motif in her work is the often “unrealized” and “unappreciated” significance of the “commonplace” in our daily lives in this materialistic and technologically driven society. Nealis is presently completing a MFA in Art Education at Boston University while pursuing her teaching at Downsville and continuing her own poetic and artistic growth. She is deeply committed to the ideal that the most effective art educator is the teacher/artist.