{"id":16198,"date":"2016-10-10T14:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T18:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=16198"},"modified":"2016-11-16T12:02:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:02:23","slug":"sybil-baker-awarded-prestigious-artist-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/sybil-baker-awarded-prestigious-artist-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sybil Baker awarded prestigious Artist Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16199\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"16199\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/sybil-baker-awarded-prestigious-artist-fellowship\/bakersybil-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"851,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D70&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1224697469&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;44&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bakersybil-2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-681x1024.jpg\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16199 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sybil Baker Headshot\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-580x872.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-610x917.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2-266x400.jpg 266w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/BakerSybil-2.jpg 851w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>UC Foundation Associate Professor of English, Sybil Baker, is one of 11 Tennessee artists awarded an <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/tnartscommission.org\/news\/introducing-fy2017-individual-artist-fellowship-awards\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Individual Artist Fellowship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from the Tennessee Arts Commission for 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The fellowships support \u201coutstanding professional artists\u201d in the categories of Craft, Dance, Literary Arts, Media, Music, Theater, and Visual Art.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An exploration of Chattanooga, race, wanderers, and refugees (to name a few), Baker\u2019s soon to be released nonfiction work <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sybilbaker.net\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration Essays<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> will benefit the most from her recent award. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This collection of essays, set to be published in January of 2017 through <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crpress.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">C&amp;R Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, began when Baker was awarded a 2014 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/chatter\/story\/2016\/oct\/01\/past-makework-grant-recipients-where-are-th\/388312\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MakeWork Grant<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to fund her projects as she set out to interview and publish Chattanooga\u2019s unheard voices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/immigration_orig.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" data-attachment-id=\"16200\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/sybil-baker-awarded-prestigious-artist-fellowship\/immigration_orig\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/immigration_orig.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"517,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/immigration_orig-129x200.jpg 129w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/immigration_orig-259x400.jpg 259w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/10\/immigration_orig.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe project quickly became overwhelming&#8211;I soon found that there are so many people in Chattanooga whose stories deserve to be told and listened to. Where was I to begin?\u201d says Baker.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As Baker met with refugees through Chattanooga\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgerefugees.org\/about-us.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bridge Refugee Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, her project grew beyond the Chattanooga region and became intertwined with her own personal experiences as a Southerner and the influence of her time abroad as an English teacher for twelve years in South Korea as well as her visiting professorship in North Cyprus last year. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile they [the essays] vary in form and style, all of them revisit and return to my own obsessions and questions in this collection: race, immigration, refugees, expatriation, gentrification, family, and the myth of the American Dream,\u201d Baker explains.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">C&amp;R Press describes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Immigration Essays <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with, \u201cBaker excavates her past as well as Chattanooga\u2019s to try and understand the ghosts that haunt her and the city she inhabits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Baker isn\u2019t teaching creative writing and humanities courses on Campus, she might be working as Fiction Editor for <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkenboat.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Drunken Boat<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or frequenting the Yale Writer\u2019s Conference to teach. She is also the author of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Talismans,<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Life Plan<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Into this World.<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Thursday, October 13 at 6 P.M. Baker will lead the Hunter Museum of American Art\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huntermuseum.org\/events\/2016\/10\/13\/art-issues-gentrification\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Art+Issues talk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u201cGentrification: localized colonization or urban uplift?\u201d which is free and open to the Chattanooga community. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Foundation Associate Professor of English, Sybil Baker, is one of 11 Tennessee artists awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission for 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/sybil-baker-awarded-prestigious-artist-fellowship\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":858,"featured_media":16208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_slider":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_featurette":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,61,98,7712,8244],"tags":[55,7350,278,202,48215,48214,953],"class_list":{"0":"post-16198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-academics","8":"category-college-of-arts-sciences","9":"category-english","10":"category-faculty-and-staff","11":"category-honors-and-awards","12":"tag-college-of-arts-and-sciences","13":"tag-department-of-english","14":"tag-faculty","15":"tag-faculty-achievement","16":"tag-individual-artist-fellowship","17":"tag-sybil-baker","18":"tag-tennessee-arts-commission","19":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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