News from the Society for Ritual Arts

New President-in-Waiting, Awards Chair, and Gatherings are planned!

We are excited to announce that Yeye Luisah Teish has taken up the incoming presidency of the Society for Ritual Arts . A Warm Welcome to Yeye Luisah Teish!

This will be an exciting year for the Society and for Coreopsis Journal as Yeye Teish brings her beauty, wisdom and and magic to our work. Among her many contributions, she will be heading the first gathering of Ritual Artist and Scholars Spring Festival, tentatively scheduled for April 2018.

The presidency of the Society is an 18-month term and is chosen by consensus of the Society Board of Directors and Advisors.

To see an interview and  view our gallery of Yeye Luisah’s art, please click here (with thanks to Jenna Ludwig).

Hallie Frazer to Chair the 2017/18 Society Awards Ceremony

Along with Yeye Luisah, long-time supporter and sacred theatre professional, Ms. Hallie Frazer, will Chair the 2017/18 Society Awards Ceremony, planned to be held at the Spring Festival, tentatively scheduled for April 2018.

Ms Frazer is remembered for her paper published in spring of 2016 “An Artistic Visualization of Christ’s Passage Through the Stations of the Cross as Viewed Through the Lens of 1965 Selma.”

To contact us, volunteer, or just keep abreast of the Spring Festival developments, please click here.

We are happy to announce that the Recipients of the Lost Chord Award are Margaret Davis and Kristoph Klover for many years of contribution to the music community.    To know more about the Honorees for Lost Chord Award click here.

The Eos Scholars Award, given to a promising scholar published in Coreopsis Journal, and chosen by the staff and editors for excellence in scholarship, for 2017/8 are:

Stacy Dulan, University of California at Berkeley for her paper “Dowry Death: A Social and Political Creation” Autumn 2016 Vol 5 #2

Pauline Evina-Stangl, R.N., P.H.N., Dominican University of California, for her paper “Sexual Myth and the Use of Condoms in African Culture” Vol 4 No. 2 Autumn 2015

To learn more about these promising scholars, please click here.

Your Editrix, Lezlie Kinyon, travelled with her Partner, Tom Bruce, and a group of friends to view the August 21st eclipse. For a bit about her adventures, click here.

Dr. Rodney Shackelford, Peer Reviewer for Coreopsis Journal, has had a very busy publishing schedule. Some recent articles are…

• Su J, Veillon D, Shackelford R, Cotelingam J, El-Osta H, Mills G, Munker R, Devarakonda S. Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Concomitant Presentation of Two Molecularly Distinct Entities. J La State Med Soc. 2017;169:68-70.
• Moiz Vora, Lubna A. Alattia, Junaid Ansari, Menchu Ong, James Cotelingam, Domenico Coppola, Rodney Shackelford. Nicotinamide PhosphoribosylTransferase a Reliable Marker of Progression in Cervical Dysplasia. Anticancer Research, in press.
• Rodney Shackelford, Jehan Abdulsattar, Eric Wei, James Cotelingam,  Domenico Coppola, Guillermo Herrera. Increased Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase and Cystathionine β-Synthase in Renal Oncocytomas, Renal Transitional Cell Carcinoma and Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma. Anticancer Research 2017;37:3423-3427.
• Rodney E.  Shackelford, Junaid M. Ansari, Eric X. Wei, Jonathan S. Alexander, James Cotelingam.Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase-Rearrangements in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Novel Applications in Diagnostics and Treatment. Pharmacogenomics. 2017;18:1179-1192.

Taffy Dugan, new to our staff, keeps a blog all about Pagan parenting, “The Spiral Mom” as a part of a larger project The Project: Sharing Our Spiritual Path With Our Children.

Ms. Dugan will be coordinating children and family activities at Society for Ritual Arts gatherings and is heading the development of a “swag shop” to help support SRA projects.

Editor, Jenna Farr Ludwig, has been travelling and we have all been enjoying reading about her adventures in Ireland. Her blog can be found here, along with some lovely photos of her trip.

Artist in Residence, Lauren Raine,  took a little time out of her busy schedule and shared her recent work with us, Lilith. She says, “Lilith was the “original wife” of Adam in the Bible and earlier Hebrew religion. This is a contemporary “re-telling” of that story, from the point of view of Lilith Herself. Written by Lauren Raine MFA, music by Joanna Brouk MFA.