DR. ANN DALY | Learning from Isadora: How to Lead a Legendary Life
arts consultant / austin, texas
Ann Daly (www.anndaly.com) is a coach, consultant, and author based in Austin, Texas. As a coach, Dr. Daly helps artists and creative professionals get clear about what they want and how to get it. As a consultant, she works with organizations that are shaping the future of the arts, helping them to think through the best strategies to turn their vision into reality. A former professor at The University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Daly is the author of three books on the arts, including the award-winning Done into Dance: Isadora Duncan in America.  Ann will re-examine Isadora's creative life from today's perspective and explain the dancer's six simple strategies for leading a legendary life.

JAMES FOX | Photoshop: Just Another Tool for the Artist  
photographer / fredericksburg, texas
James Fox (www.jamesfox.com) has been a photographic artist since the early 1970’s. Jim has studied fine art printing with John Sexton who was Ansel Adams's assistant and instructor at the Ansel Adams Workshop for many years.  He began his professional life as a musician and music educator.

"After a few years of teaching I became a school principal. Soon after becoming a principal I began making images on weekends and evening, during school vacations, and on frequent backpack trips to the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico and Colorado. Soon it became my passion to capture images and make them into art. My passion for art was so overwhelming that I left the teaching profession in 1991 and began chasing light."

 

 

DR. PAUL TUCKER | Poetry Interlude
hot springs, arkansas
An Arts Encounter poetry feature with Dr. Paul Tucker. Neurologist and poet, Dr. Tucker is one of the founders (along with Benini) of a weekly poetry performance in Hot Springs, Arkansas that has met every week at the Poet's Loft since 1989. Dr. Tucker's life-long interest in poetry began in childhood with an illustrated copy of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam with translations by Edward Fitzgerald. “There were many translations, but only Fitzgerald’s work has the beautiful words and rhythm, which made it a famous piece of work. My older brother and I used to compete to see who could memorize most versions, although we never memorized all of this book.” Dr. Tucker has assembled 74 poems into a work titled “In That One Moment” that he plans to publish in the near future.

 

THOMAS MICHAEL RILEY | Musical Interlude
singer/songwriter / texas hill country

An ARTS Encounters favorite in 2005, Thomas Michael Riley is well-known and loved by country music fans throughout the Texas Hill Country. Honored as the Hill Country Entertainer of the Year in 2002 and 2004, Thomas delights young and old with his own brand of colorful Texas Americana music. In addition to performing his original tunes, you’ll find his songs on several CDs of Texas legend, Gary P. Nunn. Thomas' accomplishments include CMAA Winner for Best New Song of the Year, Texas Music Magazine Finalist for “Best in Texas”, two-time "Hill Country Entertainer of the Year”, and writer of three Texas Music Chart top ten hits. You can find more information at www.thomasmichaelriley.com.
"A truly gifted singer/ songwriter. Thomas Michael Riley is one of Texas music's best." -Gary P. Nunn