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Fine Arts at the Homestead – 2024 Event 1 of 4
January 28 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Poetry & Music from 1-3 pm, then an Open House from 3-5 pm! (If you purchase admission to this event, the open house is free)
This is event #1 of our Fine Arts at the Homestead series. $10 Admission at the door. You may also purchase a Combo Ticket for $35 and come to all four events. Purchase a combo ticket at this event, or by mailing a SASE along with your check, to James Millikin Homestead, 125 N. Pine St., Decatur, IL 62522.
This is event #1 of our Fine Arts at the Homestead series. $10 Admission at the door. You may also purchase a Combo Ticket for $35 and come to all four events. Purchase a combo ticket at this event, or by mailing a SASE along with your check, to James Millikin Homestead, 125 N. Pine St., Decatur, IL 62522.
About Dr. Braniger:
Dr. Carmella J. Braniger is a Professor of English at Millikin University, where she teaches creative writing and literature. She has published several narrative poems, over fifty micropoems, and more than a dozen poetry sequences. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sycamore Review; MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry; Modern English Tanka; Altas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka; Ribbons; Chrysanthemums; red lights; Magnapoet; and Eucalypt. Her chapbook, No One May Follow, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2009. She recently served as the Distinguished Warren F. Hardy Professor of English during which she spent two years researching narrative testimony and poetry of witness as genres for processing and sharing our traumatic pasts and writing a new book of poems entitled Lax of Lilies.
Dr. Carmella J. Braniger is a Professor of English at Millikin University, where she teaches creative writing and literature. She has published several narrative poems, over fifty micropoems, and more than a dozen poetry sequences. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Sycamore Review; MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry; Modern English Tanka; Altas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka; Ribbons; Chrysanthemums; red lights; Magnapoet; and Eucalypt. Her chapbook, No One May Follow, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2009. She recently served as the Distinguished Warren F. Hardy Professor of English during which she spent two years researching narrative testimony and poetry of witness as genres for processing and sharing our traumatic pasts and writing a new book of poems entitled Lax of Lilies.
About the Millikin Clarinet Ensemble:
Bradley Rossbach is a sophomore music education major. His college goals are to learn as much about all kinds of music as he can, experience many different styles of performing, and practice teaching in and out of the classroom. In the future, he hopes to create a band program that inspires a passion in his students for many kinds of music.
Bradley Rossbach is a sophomore music education major. His college goals are to learn as much about all kinds of music as he can, experience many different styles of performing, and practice teaching in and out of the classroom. In the future, he hopes to create a band program that inspires a passion in his students for many kinds of music.
Julia Funck is a junior clarinet performance major. She performs in a variety of ensembles including the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, Eidolan Woodwind Quintet, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and singing in the University Choir. Julia has earned multiple achievements such as being selected for the National Music Festival, winning the School of Music Concerto/Aria Competition, and becoming a finalist in the Hollis Prize competition.
Victor Lawton II is a senior clarinet performance major, where he studies clarinet with Dr. David Cook and composition with Dr. Jeremy Brunk and Dr. Ralph Lewis. Victor has performed with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Eidolan Woodwind Quintet, Jazz Band I, and numerous chamber ensembles. In 2021 and 2023, he was selected as a winner of the School of Music Concerto/Aria Competition where he performed as a soloist with the Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra.
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