Whetstone Evening Planned for April 27

Fairmont State University's Whetstone student art and literary journal presents "A Conversation with the Featured Artists: Rick Campbell and Winter Dawn Morin" from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, April 27, in Wallman Hall's Tower Room.

Campbell and Morin are the featured writer and visual artist, respectively, in this year's issue of Whetstone.

Campbell has published two books of poetry and a third, Dixmont, is forthcoming from Pittsburgh's Autumn House Press in 2008. Campbell is the director of Anhinga Press, which has a 30-year record of publishing poetry and, under his direction over the last 15 years, has been publishing multiple collections each year and gaining more and more prestige as a small press.

Morin is a painter, sculptor and multi-media artist who has made her living as an artist her entire adult life. Her work is often inspired by Southwestern Native American culture, and her sculptures of Native American figures are in the Smithsonian Native American Museum. Originally from Minnesota and later a resident of Colorado, Morin came to West Virginia for a few years and owned Art & Soul, a gallery and collective in downtown Fairmont. While in Fairmont, she also started the annual "Brassiere Bazaar" to benefit local breast cancer patients; the benefit invites artists to create art pieces from bras" which are then modeled at the benefit and sold in a silent auction. At last year's benefit, more than 50 bras were created and modeled or displayed and sold. Morin currently lives in Dallas.

Campbell and Morin will talk about their art and how to make a living as an artist and with artists.