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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 21, 2011 – The Antioch Review and the Antioch College Writing Institute will host a special reading by 2010 National Book Award winner Jaimy Gordon, beginning at 7 p.m., Tuesday, January 17, in McGregor Hall on the College’s campus. The event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited.

In addition to a reading from Gordon’s latest novel, Lord of Misrule, the event will include a book signing and question and answer session.

Gordon, a 1966 graduate of Antioch College, is the author of four novels. In addition to the National Book Award for Fiction, Lord of Misrule was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; it also won the Tony Ryan Award for the year’s best book about horse racing and was longlisted for the Indie Booksellers Choice Award for 2011. Published on November 15, 2010 and now in its third printing, Lord of Misrule is a national bestseller with more than 45,000 hardcover copies in print.

Gordon’s previous novels include Bogeywoman, She Drove Without Stopping, and Shamp of the City-Solo. She has been a Fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College, and has also won an Academy-Institute Award for her fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Gordon currently teaches at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and in the Prague Summer Program for Writers.

From the publisher: Lord of Misrule
At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts are all struggling to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters — scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain — through a year and four races at Indian Mound Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.

Horseman Tommy Hansel has a scheme to rescue his failing stable: He'll ship four unknown but ready horses to Indian Mound Downs, run them in cheap claiming races at long odds, and then gut out fast before anyone notices. The problem is, at this rundown riverfront half-mile racetrack in the Northern Panhandle, everybody notices — veteran groom Medicine Ed, Kidstuff the blacksmith, old lady "gyp" Deucey Gifford, stall superintendent Suitcase Smithers, eventually even the ruled-off "racetrack financier" Two-Tie and the ominous leading trainer, Joe Dale Bigg. But no one bothers to factor in Tommy Hansel's go-fer girlfriend, Maggie Koderer. Like the beautiful, used-up, tragic horses she comes to love, Maggie has just enough heart to wire everyone's flagging hopes back to the source of all luck.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Jolls
Assistant Director of Communications
phone: 937-768-3343
jjolls@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 17, 2011 – Antioch College will host a solo exhibition by paper crafter Nikki McClure beginning Friday, December 2, in the College’s Herndon Gallery. An opening reception featuring an artist talk will be held from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. An artist workshop, presented in collaboration with the Writing Institute, will follow on Saturday, December 3, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Workshop seating is limited and participants are required to register in advance by e-mailing Sara Black at sblack@antiochcollege.org.

The exhibition, Nikki McClure: Cutting Her Own Path, 1996-2011, premiered this fall at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon. Cutting Her Own Path showcases McClure’s unique papercut artwork alongside her popular and better-known calendars, books, and other recent projects.

Based in Olympia, Washington, McClure has spent fifteen years creating compelling narratives by cutting into black paper with an X-Acto knife. Her delicate and sculptural “carved paintings” connect personal experiences to collective memory through a celebration of current and traditional models of self-sufficiency, resourcefulness and participation in community.

McClure describes her work process as the creation of an image through the removal of paper. “What is left is all connected,” she explains, “fragile, yet strong, like the world I am depicting.”

She created her first papercut for a self-published book, Apple (1996), and produced her first hand-bound calendar in 1998. Her iconic style of papercut has resonated with a diverse audience and has been featured on snowboards, Patagonia t-shirts, record covers, magazine illustrations, greeting cards, movies, tote bags, Microsoft advertisements, non-profit logos, strangers’ tattoos and even the storm drains in Olympia, Washington.

In addition to a calendar print run of 17,000, McClure’s books have been published by Sasquatch Books and Chronicle Books. She also is the writer/illustrator of four children’s books published by Abrams Books, including The New York Times bestseller All in a Day (2009) by Cynthia Rylant.

Nikki McClure: Cutting Her Own Path, 1996-2011 can be viewed 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through February 15 in the Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Sara Black at sblack@antiochollege.org.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Jolls
Assistant Director of Communications
phone: 937-768-3343
jjolls@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 17, 2011 – Antioch College will host a solo exhibition by paper crafter Nikki McClure beginning Friday, December 2, in the College’s Herndon Gallery. An opening reception featuring an artist talk will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday evening. An artist workshop will follow on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Workshop seating is limited and participants are required to register in advance by e-mailing Sara Black at sblack@antiochcollege.org.

The exhibition, Nikki McClure: Cutting Her Own Path, 1996-2011, premiered this fall at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon. Cutting Her Own Path showcases McClure’s unique papercut artwork alongside her popular and better-known calendars, books, and other recent projects.

Based in Olympia, Washington, McClure has spent fifteen years creating compelling narratives by cutting into black paper with an X-Acto knife. Her delicate and sculptural “carved paintings” connect personal experiences to collective memory through a celebration of current and traditional models of self-sufficiency, resourcefulness and participation in community.

McClure describes her work process as the creation of an image through the removal of paper. “What is left is all connected,” she explains, “fragile, yet strong, like the world I am depicting.”

She created her first papercut for a self-published book, Apple (1996), and produced her first hand-bound calendar in 1998. Her iconic style of papercut has resonated with a diverse audience and has been featured on snowboards, Patagonia t-shirts, record covers, magazine illustrations, greeting cards, movies, tote bags, Microsoft advertisements, non-profit logos, strangers’ tattoos and even the storm drains in Olympia, Washington.

In addition to a calendar print run of 17,000, McClure’s books have been published by Sasquatch Books and Chronicle Books. She also is the writer/illustrator of four children’s books published by Abrams Books, including The New York Times bestseller All in a Day (2009) by Cynthia Rylant.

Nikki McClure: Cutting Her Own Path, 1996-2011 can be viewed 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday through February 15 in the Herndon Gallery on the Antioch College campus.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Sara Black at sblack@antiochollege.org.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Jennifer Jolls
Assistant Director of Communications
phone: 937-768-3343
jjolls@antiochcollege.org

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – November 3, 2011 – Antioch College moved closer to instituting a formal community governance process with the establishment of a Council of Conveners, Community Life Dean Louise Smith announced.

Comprised of students, staff and administrators, the council is a representative body that will be charged with working on various communitywide policies and issues, such as the campus smoking policy.

“The Council of Conveners is the next step in formalizing governance structures that have been in process since we first gathered at the start of the year,” Smith said.

Students, staff, and faculty have long participated in the College's governance. Historically, there have been two major councils: One deals with administrative policy, and the other with the quality of campus and community life.

Because of the small size of the campus community, the Community Life office adopted a small group model of community governance to give Antioch College’s newest generation of students a major say in redefining the structures for shared governance on campus.

Representative conveners are elected by small community groups that include students, faculty, staff and college administrators. Representatives were chosen at the November 2 Community Meeting.

Elected Conveners

• Guy Matthews, student
• Nargees Jumahan, student
• Jenn Wheeler, student
• Kaleigh Harris, student
• Jennifer Jolls, assistant director of communications

Ex Officio

• Louise Smith, dean of community life
• Randle Charles, Resident life manager
• Community Life assistants: Eva Erickson, Frey Acton, Eros, Sara Brooks

The Council will meet soon to define its charge and processes. More information about the Council of Conveners will be available at the November 16 Community Meeting.

About Antioch College
Antioch College is a private, independent nonprofit liberal arts college in Yellow Springs, Ohio. The College curriculum puts equal emphasis on rigorous liberal arts learning, work (cooperative education), and community engagement. Students will complete individualized majors based on one or more of 11 concentrations, a language minor, and six full-time work experiences off campus. The institution, originally founded in 1850, is authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents to grant Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Chief Communications Officer
phone: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org