$50,000 award aids Prison Story Project
FAYETTEVILLE -- A $50,000 fellowship awarded to an assistant professor of poetry at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville will support a story project with incarcerated men and women in Arkansas.
Geffrey Davis won a 2019 Whiting Public Engagement Fellowship, one of seven such awards this year from the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Whiting Foundation.
The grant will allow the Prison Story Project to bring staged readings of stories from Arkansas death-row inmates to juvenile detention centers and high schools, according to a UA announcement. Performances will be held in Garland, Hempstead, Miller, Phillips, Polk and Sebastian counties.
The project's website states that death-row inmates met for storytelling classes over a six-month period. Performances involve actors reading stories told from the perspectives of the incarcerated men. The first performance of On the Row took place in 2016.
Davis serves as writer-in-residence and educational advocacy director for the Prison Story Project, which began in 2012.
Street signs to get Razorbacks logo
FAYETTEVILLE -- City Council members on Tuesday voted to allow street signs with a Razorback logo at certain intersections on the campus of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
"We do not have a timeline established yet, but the city council's approval allows us to move forward with this project," UA spokesman Mark Rushing said in an email.
The council approved 20 intersections on or near the UA campus to have special signs, with the university paying for all costs. In November, Rushing said the university has estimated costs to be "just over $13,000."
Students first proposed having the special signage. UA Athletic Director Hunter Yurachek last year pledged that Razorback athletics would pay for the effort, Rushing has said.
Last year, he described a proposed design as having "a 'running Razorback' logo" over a red background on the left corner of the sign and, for the rest of the sign, white lettering on a dark background.
Metro on 03/24/2019