Art competitions were part of the early 20th-century Olympics, with winners receiving gold, silver, and bronze medals for work inspired by sport. Today, athletes and sports are subjects for movies, music, literature, and more. Keystone Edition Arts asks writers and artists about the creative side of sports. Keystone Edition Arts - Playing Around: Sports and the Arts!
Resources
Scranton Films - Scranton's Championship Season
ArtScene Interviews
- Marjorie Maddox
- Bill Chickhillo
- Adam Thompson with The Gallery at Penn College
- Hank O’Neal - Part 1and Part 2
Panelists
Poet and Professor of English and Creative Writing at the Lock Haven Campus of Commonwealth University
Professor of English and Creative Writing at Commonwealth University (Lock Haven campus), Marjorie Maddox has published 13 collections of poetry—includingTransplant, Transport, Transubstantiation (Yellowglen Prize);Begin with a Question (Paraclete, International Book Award Winner), andHeart Speaks, Is Spoken For (Shanti Arts), an ekphrastic collaboration with photographer Karen Elias. In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind, based on paintings by her daughter Anna Lee Hafer (www.hafer.work) + works by other artists, is forthcoming on Mother’s Day 2023 (Shanti Arts).
In addition, she has published the short story collectionWhat She Was Saying (Fomite) and 4 children’s and YA books—includingInside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems with Insider Exercises(Finalist International Book Awards),A Crossing of Zebras: Animal Packs in Poetry;I’m Feeling Blue, Too! (a 2021 NCTE Notable Poetry Book), andRules of the Game: Baseball Poems.
She is assistant editor of Presence; has published 650+ stories, essays, and poems in journals and anthologies; and is the great grandniece of Branch Rickey, the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who helped break the color barrier by signing Jackie Robinson to Major League Baseball. She has twice served as visiting author for the Little League World series and twice read at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. Co-editor with Jerry Wemple of the PSU Press anthologiesCommon Wealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (2005) and Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (forthcoming 2025), she gives readings and workshops around the world.
Daniel Haxall, Ph.D. is Professor of Art History at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. A former fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Institute for the Arts and Humanities, he earned his doctorate from the Pennsylvania State University. Haxall publishes widely on diverse topics in contemporary art, including abstract expressionism, collage, African American Art, the African diaspora, and intersections of art and sport.
Haxall previously taught at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Penn State University, and currently serves on the Collections Committee for the Allentown Art Museum. He has curated exhibitions for the Allentown Art Museum and Marlin and Regina Miller Gallery at Kutztown University. He has authored more than two dozen essays, book chapters, and exhibition catalogs, and edited Picturing the Beautiful Game: A History of Soccer in Visual Culture and Art (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018).
Dr. Brian E. Hodge is a keyboardist, conductor, composer/arranger, marching band drill writer, and educator. He is currently the Director of Bands at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania and chief arranger for the San Bernardino Symphony Orchestra of California. Prior to this, Brian was the Interim Director of Instrumental Music at Rhodes College, Assistant Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Arizona, the Director of Bands at Sullivan North High School in Kingsport, TN, and the Music Director for Theater Bristol in Bristol, TN.
He has a wide range of experiences in music and education, having worked with musicians ranging from beginners to professionals as a teacher, conductor, musical arranger/composer, and collaborative artist. He holds memberships in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Service Fraternity, the College Band Director National Association, the National Association for Music Educators, Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, and is an honorary member of the Omega chapter of Tau Beta Sigma at the University of Arizona.