If you go
› What: Cam Busch Endowed Arts for Health Lecture Series, featuring Minton Sparks.› When: 6 p.m. today, May 12.› Where: Hunter Museum of American Art, 10 Bluff View.› Admission: $50.› Phone: 423-495-4438.› Website: www.huntermuseum.org.› Online: Read a Q&A with Minton Sparks.
Q&A
Read a Q&A with Minton Sparks.
Minton Sparks, founder of the Nashville Writing and Performance Institute and a decorated poet, playwright and author, will be the guest speaker for the 16th annual Cam Busch Endowed Arts for Health Lecture, scheduled tonight, May 12, at the Hunter Museum of American Art.
She will be joined by guitarist John Jackson for the speaking engagement, which will include some of her stories set to music. Sparks is a speaker/songwriter who established herself as Nashville’s first non-singing country singer with the 2001 release of “Middlin’ Sisters.”
The first recipient of the Spoken Word Award at the Conference on Southern Literature, the Tennessee native has performed in the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center, appeared at the Old Towne School of Folk Music and served as teller-in-residence at the Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival. She has been featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” BBC’s “Bob Harris Show” and public radio’s “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour.”
The Cam Busch Endowed Arts for Health Lecture Series is part of CHI Memorial’s Arts Medicine Program, which uses art to enhance healing.
“This lecture series is designed to educate our community about the benefits of using different forms of art in health care,” explains Busch, local artist, nationally recognized art therapist and registered nurse. “The arts enhance healing and provide a vehicle for the expression of feelings and emotions.”
The $50 tickets include heavy hors d’oeuvres, a host bar and entry into the Hunter galleries.