PIVOT POINTS  |  Notes and Acknowledgments

Exhibition Tour

Boyden Gallery
St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary City, MD, October - November 2003

Gelb Gallery
Phillips Academy Andover, MA, February 2004

Galería ICPNA Miraflores
Lima, Peru, July 2004

Gallery II and Space Gallery
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, October - November 2004

Anderson Gallery
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, January - March 2005

Contemporary [Art] Galleries + Museum at the Fine & Performing Arts Center
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, April 2005

Acknowledgments:

Both the exhibition and catalog have been made possible through the generous support of:

Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University
Boyden Gallery, St. Mary's College
Galería ICPNA Miraflores
Gelb Gallery. Phillips Academy Andover
The Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University
The School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University
Western Carolina University
Western Michigan University
The Virginia Commission for the Arts

The artists and poets would like to acknowledge with special thanks the people behind the scenes who helped make this exhibition and catalog possible, especially: Susan Glasser, Director, Boyden Gallery; St. Mary's College, St. Mary City, MD; Elaine Crivelli, Chair, Art Department, Phillips Academy Andover, Andover, MA; Fernando Torres Quirós, Director Cultural and Pedro Pablo Alayza Tijero, Sub-Director Cultural, Galería ICPNA Miraflores, Lima, Peru; Jacquelyn Ruttinger, Director of Exhibitions, Gallery II and Space Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Ted Potter, Director, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Martin DeWitt, Founding Director, Contemporary [Art] Galleries + Museum at the Fine & Performing Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC; Richard Toscan, Dean, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University; Mary Flinn, Executive Director, New Virginia Review, Inc; Richard Roth, Chair, Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University; Steven L. Jones, artist and art critic; J. Randy Marshall, poet and editor; John Fralin, Fralin Associates Fine Art Services; Rick Michaels, Main Art and Frame; Javier Tapia, Associate Professor, Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University; Heather M. Harvey, Senior, Painting and Printmaking Department, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Translations by Eugenia Muñoz, Associate Professor in Virginia Commonwealth University's School of World Studies; assistance provided by Greg Donovan, Poet and Associate Professor, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Technical Assistance Provided By:

CD recording: Jeff Lodge, Online Editor / Blackbird, and Graduate Programs Coordinator, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University.

DVD recording: Pam Turner, Associate Professor, Kinetic Imaging, 3D Digital and Experimental Animation, Virginia Commonwealth University and Matt Flowers, Studio Technician, Kinetic Imaging, 3D Digital and Experimental Animation, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Pivot Points Design on Blackbird: Michael Keller, Online Editor / Blackbird, and Technology Coordinator, English Department, Virginia Commonwealth University.

Photo of Victor Kord by Betty Kord.
Photo of Joshua Poteat by Allison Titus.
Photo of Victor Kord and Josef Albers by Mei-Lou Foo.
Slides of Sally Bowring's paintings by Matthew Phillips.

This arts event is made possible in part by the credits:

Larry Levis's "Caravaggio: Swirl and Vortex" is from The Widening Spell of the Leaves, by Larry Levis, ©1991. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. "Two Trees" was published in Elegy, in 1997. Reprinted by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press. The poem also appeared in a limited edition broadside by David Freed. Special thanks to Dave Smith for his gift of kindness by allowing us to include his poems "The Clam-Rake Room" and "Warren's Flowers" in the Pivot Points catalog and exhibition. Gregory Donovan's "Breathing in the Cool" was published in The GSU Review, Fall 1998, page 6. "Belle Isle" was published in 64 Magazine, May 2000, page 45. Elizabeth Seydel Morgan's "Without A Philosophy" originally appeared in The Southern Review. Louisiana State University Press will publish the poem in a collection by the same title. "The Adamsons' Peacocks" appeared in Parties, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1988, second edition, 2000. Laura-Gray Street's "Disposable Goods" originally appeared in The Yalobusha Review, Summer 2002. "Potters' Field" appeared in The Notre Dame Review, Spring 2000. Joshua Poteat's "People Who’d Kill Me (Spain, 1939)" was part of a group of poems that won the 1998 Emory University/Lullwater Review Prize in Poetry. Special thanks to the editors and to judge Nicole Cooley. "Nocturne: For the Aviaries" was published in The Greensboro Review, the Fall, 2002 issue. Special thanks to editor Dan Albergotti and to the University of Arizona's Poetry Center for a residency during which this and other poems were written.

Thanks to the VCCA and the Virginia Commission for the Arts for the support of time and funding.

Acknowledgments for the Galería ICPNA Miraflores:

Consejo Directivo:
Germán Krüger Espantoso, Presidente
Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán Boza, Primer Vice-Presidente
Ana C. de Díaz, Segunda Vice-Presidenta
Roberto Hoyle McCallum, Tesorero
Christian Eidson Aubri, Secretario
Venancio Shinki Huamán, Vocal
Illa Rocconi de Quintanilla, Vocal
Lynn W. Roche, Miembro nato

Director General
Percy A. Canales Manzanilla

Directora Académica
Gail Brown Lottz

Sub-director Académico
Leonardo Mercado Leiva

Director Cultural
Fernando Torres Quirós

Sub-director Cultural
Pedro Pablo Alayza Tijero

From the Exhibition:
Montage:
Roger A. Cáceres, Edgard Ccorahua