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Geoff Gehman ’80, The Morning Call arts writer and novelist/memoirist, will discuss his career 12:15 p.m. today for the Arts Career Exploration Series.
The presentation is the third in a series of informal discussions designed to introduce students to the spectrum of non-performance careers in the arts. Free pizza and drinks are provided during the talks, which take place 12:15 p.m. every other Tuesday in Williams Center for the Arts room 108.
A native of New Rochelle, N.Y., Gehman earned an A.B. with a major in psychology and English minor. For 20 years he has been an arts writer for The Morning Call in Allentown, Pa. His beats include music, theater, and visual arts. His specialties include reviews, issue-oriented stories, and long profiles; rock and roll, outdoor sculpture, and performance art; and, of course, the Williams Center.
Gehman wrote Down But Not Quite Out in Hollow-weird (Scarecrow Press, 1998), a biography-in-letters of Eric Knight, screenwriter for Spencer Tracy and Frank Capra and author of the novel Lassie Come-Home. He also wrote Everything Happens on the Road to Ramshackle Hall, a family pilgrimage through the 1920s to 1950s in his ancestral village in County Clare, Ireland. He’s writing a memoir of living on the South Fork of Long Island, circa 1967-1972, before the “Hollywood hordes” invaded the Hamptons.
Jamie Balliet, director of marketing at the State Theatre Center for the Arts in Easton, opened the 2004-05 Arts Career Exploration Series Sept. 14. It continued Sept. 27 with a talk by arts-in-education consultant, dancer, and choreographer Barbara Pearson.
Morning Call arts writer and novelist/memoirist Geoff Gehman ’80 returns to campus to give a lecture for the Arts Career Exploration Series.