By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Posted 4-1-08
Margaret Hawkins.
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The yin and yang of creative writing and entrepreneurship come together Wednesday, April 16, with “Margaret Hawkins and the Creative Writer.”
Hawkins – a writer, teacher, curator and critic who lives near Chicago – will speak at 4 p.m. in Room 130, Moore Nursing Building. The forum, part of UNCG’s Building Entrepreneurial Learning for Life (BELL) initiative, is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is not required.
While working at a corporate job in product development in the 1980s she began writing art criticism for the Chicago Sun-Times for which she had a long-running weekly column though 2007. Hawkins, who earned an MFA in Painting from UNCG, eventually left the corporate world and has since pursued an ever-evolving freelance career of writing, teaching and curating.
Hawkins is currently the Chicago correspondent for ARTnews and has written for WBEZ, Chicago’s NPR station, as well as for a number of other local, national and international publications. She has worked in business, taught studio art and art history, been an independent curator and currently teaches writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Lake Forest College.
Hawkins’ most recent curatorial effort is a mid-career exhibit of painting and drawing by Chuck Walker, which opened in Chicago at the Hyde Park Art Center in February of 2008. The Permanent Press will publish her first novel, “A Year of Cats and Dogs,” in 2009.
Begun in 2007, BELL initiatives are aimed at building entrepreneurial awareness and the application of entrepreneurial principles and resources for the transformation of academic units across campus. It is the cornerstone of UNCG’s response to the priorities and strategic directions that the UNCG Board of Governors has set for the university system in promoting economic development in the state that includes business, social, civic, cultural and academic pursuits.
For more information about the Entrepreneurial Innovation in the Arts initiative visit http://eia.uncg.edu.
