Jim Hawkins
Jim Hawkins Smyrna Emerging Literature: Playwriting By: Gail Obenreder “Theatre is a collaborative art, and a play truly lives when the director, actors, designers, crew and audience engage with the script.” A decade ago, Jim Hawkins decided to become a playwright after a 25-year career as a Methodist minister. Though he was a published nonfiction […]Read More
Gail Husch
Gail Husch Wilmington Emerging Visual Arts: Crafts By: Gail Obenreder “I am drawn to the foolish, the eccentric, the extreme, to those characters who remind us, as Robert Burns did, that we might not see ourselves as others see us.” Forty years ago, Gail Husch played with a lump of clay and turned it into […]Read More
Jeff Knoettner
Jeff Knoettner Wilmington Established Jazz: Performance By: Gail Obenreder “My prayer is to always use my gifts to shine an ever-bright light over the atmosphere and diffuse darkness.” It’s no surprise that Jeff Knoettner chose music – or that it chose him. “My father played trumpet, and I grew up listening to big bands and […]Read More