Press Release #2

News Release
For Women's History Month Exhibit and Program, March - May 1998

University of Oregon Library and Center for the Study of Women in Society Welcome Betty LaDuke and Tee Corinne on May 1

Note: Betty LaDuke had a conflict and was unable to participate.

As part of the events accompanying "Feminist Voices and Visions from the Pacific Northwest", an exhibit currently on display in the lobby of Knight Library, the University of Oregon Library and the Center for the Study of Women in Society are pleased to welcome Betty LaDuke, an artist and photographer living in Ashland, Oregon and Tee Corinne, a photographer, artist and writer who also lives in southern Oregon on Friday, May 1 at 4:00 pm in the Knight Library Special Collections Reading Room. Both women have contributed to CALYX, a journal of art and literature by women and will talk about their experiences as contributors.

Betty La Duke has been a contributor to CALYX since 1978. Her artwork and photography have been greatly influenced by her travels in many countries, including Mexico, India, Haiti, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Eritrea, and Ethiopia, reflecting the traditions and lifestyles of the peoples she encountered in her travels. Several of her paintings and photography have been featured in CALYX, including two covers: "Nicaraguan Sketch" (1983) and "Pachamama and the Magic Leaves" (1986). Her prose has also been featured in CALYX; one is called "Stirring a Ruckus" (1987), and was written following the rediscovery of an article from the Ashland Daily Tidings (February 4, 1968) entitled "Ashland Artist Stirs a Ruckus". The subject of the article was censorship of her painting "No Exit", which was on display at the Capitol Coffee Shop in Salem, along with the works of several other southern Oregon artists. In 1996 her art was the subject of two videotapes produced by Southern Oregon University: Africa, Between Myth and Reality: The Paintings and Etchings of Betty LaDuke and Betty LaDuke: An Artist's Journey from the Bronx to Timbuktu. She is the author of Women Against Hunger: A Sketchbook Journey (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1987) and Women artists: Multi-cultural Visions (Trenton NJ: Red Sea Press, 1992).

Tee Corinne has been a contributor to CALYX since 1986. She is the author of Labia Flowers: A Coloring Book (Naiad Press, 1981), The Southern Oregon Women Writers' Group, Gourmet Eating Society and Chorus Picture Book: Drawings (Pearlchild, 1982), Family: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family (Gallerie Publications, 1990), Courting Pleasure: A Collection (Banned Books, 1994), People, Places, and Things: Drawings (1997), The Sex Lives of Daffodils: Growing Up as an Artist Who Also Writes (Pearlchild, 1997), and Wild Lesbian Roses: Essays on Art, Rural Living, and Creativity, 1986-1995 (Pearlchild, 1997).

A listing of both women's contributions to CALYX is available from the Index to CALYX.

"Feminist Voices and Visions" is an exhibit focused on women's publishing in Oregon. Located in the lobby of Knight Library, the exhibit is actually two related exhibits in one: one exhibit is about Abigail Scott Duniway, Oregon's tireless campaigner for women's suffrage in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the other exhibit is about CALYX, a journal of feminist art and literature founded in Oregon in 1976 and published in Corvallis. The exhibits opened on March 9 and will run through May 29.

The public is invited to attend. A final event, focusing on Abigail Scott Duniway, is scheduled for later in May. For more information, please contact Linda Long, 346-1906 or Colleen Bell, 346-1817.