"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind." Eugene Ionesco
Hello blog world and fellow art lovers!!! We have a special treat in store for you. We, the authors of this blog, are a group of public relations (PR) students at Florida A&M University (FAMU) who have been assigned to create a blog in relevance to a class project. Our class project requires us to plan and promote a fictitious event regarding the Kinsey African Art Exhibit. Although, the actual event is fictitious, the people and the art are real. Each week, we will be posting our thoughts, opinions and questions regarding the events being planned.
Description of PR Methods:
The Public Relations Methods course is a writing class and lab. In this class, we learn how to prepare the communication tools that PR professionals use for getting messages to the media to reach targeted publics and audiences. As a project, each student is expected to put together a media kit, create and maintain a blog and construct an online press room to promote the fictitious event we are assigned. Five textbooks are used as learning tools in this course. These books include: The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott, Public Relations Writing: Form and Style (8th Edition) by Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes, Strategic Writing: Multimedia Writing for PR Advertising, Sales and Marketing, and Business Communication by Charles Marsh, David W. Guth and Bonnie Poovey Short, Writing PR: A Multimedia Approach by Meta G. Carstarphen and Richard A. Wells, and The Associated Press Stylebook. We're also required to have a dictionary of our choice!
Meet the Authors: I am Cecilia S. Aiken, a senior public relations student from the beautiful city of Orlando, Fl. I am planning an event geared toward the Kinsey African Art Exhibit during Parent Weekend at FAMU. During Parent Weekend, parents and guardians are invited to the university to enjoy a short time of relaxation and companionship with their FAMU scholar. This particular year we have a special event planned featuring the Kinsey African Art Exhibit. Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are world renowned private art collectors who have generously selected 97 pieces of African art work for students and parents to educate their mind while observing the featured art work.
Hello, I am Savina Billups, a fourth year Public Relations student from Tampa, Fla. The event I will be planning is a Kinsey Art Exhibit: Valentine's Day Event. The event will be a tribute to Mr. Bernard Kinsey's wife, Shirley Kinsey, of 40 years. The event will also be a fundraiser for one of Mrs. Kinsey's favorite charities, college students with learning disabilities. My event will be an art auction on Valentines day 2010, which will include various works of art, by African American artists, displaying images of love . The special guests speakers will be Bernard and Shirley Kinsey.
I am Travis Francis, a senior Public Relations student from Palm Beach, Fl. The event that I will be planning is the Kinsey Art Exhibit: Opening Event. Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, graduates of FAMU, are bringing 97 pieces from their private collection to the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science in Tallahassee, Fl. Opening day for the exhibit will be Friday, Sept. 11, 2009 with a meet-and-greet with the Kinsey's taking place from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. There will also be a special live performance from legendary jazz legend B.B. King.
Greetings! I am Joy Williams, a fourth year public relations student from Tallahassee, Fl. The special event that I am planning is a gala to kickoff FAMU's homecoming week. The gala will be entitled "Embracing Our Culture: Home is Where the Art Is". This event is geared toward bringing in art lovers and people who appreciate the African American culture to view a traveling exhibit presented by Bernard and Shirley Kinsey. The Kinseys are both alumni of FAMU and are excited about sharing their private art collection with their alma matter and the African American community in Tallahassee. Anyone who is an alumni, student, faculty or plays any role in the FAMU community knows that FAMU homecoming is one of the biggest celebrations in and around Tallahassee, FL. For this reason, the gala will serve as a celebration of the exhibit and homecoming. The event will take place Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009 at the Mary Brogan Museum.
For all the art lovers...We would like to ask you this: Do you think that African American art is an exact representation of the African American culture?...Or do you think it's exaggerated?
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A famous American author, William Faulkner (1897-1962) once said, "The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, It moves again since it is life." Simply put, he means that art is created with a purpose to tell a story in history.
