Keeping Alive With Living Thoughts

19th Annual Conference

The 1999 conference featured a diverse group of humanities scholars and instructors from around the state. We were pleased to have offered an excellent program of diverse presenters and participants who examined our theme from several different and exciting approaches.

Friday's Speaker, Andrienne Wilson

Andrienne Wilson has just recently signed with Arabesque Recordings and is currently touring to support the release of her first internationally marketed CD, "She's Dangerous". With performances that actually give the listener a warm, evocative, and sensuous voice to listen to, Ms. Wilson also remembers the vocal stylings, and criterion, of the greats of old. The future direction of jazz, and creativity are clear - and the great music to accomplish that is right here. According to Ms. Wilson, "The new music should never be a shadow of the past, but a thoughtful evolution."
Ms. Wilson also teaches Jazz Ensembles, Arranging, Voice and Flute at Seattle Central Community College, where she has developed a ground-breaking curriculum to coordinate vocal and instrumental jazz. Her book "The Art Of Chartmaking" is in the testing stages at the college and should be ready for publication this fall.

Saturday's Speaker, Craig Hickman

Craig Hickman  lives in Eugene Oregon, where he is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of Oregon. He is author of Kid Pix, a graphics application for children, published by Broderbund Software of Novato California. Kid Pix has won practically every award it qualified for, including the Software Publishers Association¹s award for the best user interface of any program in 1991. Kid Pix is available in about a dozen languages and is sold around the world.
In addition to software development Craig Hickman is an active artist. He has been an exhibiting photographer for many years and was a founding member of Blue Sky Gallery in Portland. Work from his artist?s books Signal to Noise and Dry Reading has been shown widely and regularly mentioned in texts on digital technology and the arts. In 1998 he was honored as Computer Graphics Pioneer by SIGGRAPH, the international computer graphics organization.

Conference Sessions (just a few examples)

Dr. William Krieger
"Music: Enriching Our Educational and Personal Lives"


Poetry Reading (open mike)


Michael Shurgot 
"Teaching Hamlet's Mousetrap: An Interaction"