Ken Hassell, associate professor in the art department, is currently thriving as a visiting artist at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia. Dr. Talmage Stanley, Director of Public Policy and Community Service program at E&H, invited Ken to discuss his role as a social photographer, activist artist and his scholarship in central Appalachia entitled A Life of Coal. Events include leading a course on Applied Civic Methodologies and a senior seminar on Place, Identity, Policy and Justice: The Politics of Community Building as well as a presentation in an evening forum open to the entire college and community.
Ken will also be installing an exhibition of his photographs, A Life of Coal, at Virginia Intermont College in Bristol, Tennessee. There will be a visiting artist program associated with the exhibit sometime in March.