 |
|
| In This Week's Issue |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Search Southwest Senior |
|
| To Advertise |
|
| About Us |
|
| To Advertise |
|
| Read Our Publications |
 |
 |
 |
|
| Selected Article |
Ellie Fenton
Southwest Senior
|  Three gifted El Paso women – a poet and two well-known painters – have created a gem of a book entitled “Yes, We Are Still Dancing,” and donated it to our community. Poet Jacquelyn Stroud Spier and artists Susan Amstater and Connie Dillman have produced a book of poems and paintings celebrating their lives as young women, wives, mothers and grandmothers in the El Paso Rio Grande Borderland.
These talented artists have dedicated the book to “our precious grandchildren who inspire us and keep us dancing.”
In an extraordinary show of generosity the three gifted their book and all of the original art illustrating it to the Frontera Women’s Foundation.
The Foundation has published several thousand books which will be unveiled to the public on May 20 at a special reception at the El Paso Museum of Art from 5- 7 p.m.
The reception will feature hors d’oeuvres by the Culinary Arts Program of the El Paso Community College and music by the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra, dancing by Juarez Youth Dancers and a reading by Jacquelyn Stroud Spier.
The original art work for the book will be available for sale and the proceeds will go to an endowment fund meant for programs that help underserved kids pursue the arts.
Funds from sales of the books will help fund programs designed to expand opportunities for women, girls and their families residing along the U.S./Mexico border.
The Frontera Women’s Foundation is dedicated to fostering positive social and economic change through education, economic empowerment and improved health and safety in border communities.
In keeping with the book’s celebration of life on the border, the poems are in both English and Spanish. The Frontera Women’s Foundation commissioned Blanca Brashear, Ph.D., retired professor of Spanish Literature to translate the poems into Spanish. Brashear worked closely with Spier, ensuring a beautiful and accurate translation that is as moving as the original poem in English.
The reception is limited to 400 guests and reservations are required.
Anyone wishing to attend should contact the Frontera Women’s Foundation at 532-1098 or visit their Web site, fronterawomensfoundation.com
Comments or questions about this story? E-mail swsenior@elpasoinc.com
|
|
|
| return to front page
|
|
|
