Teresa Jordan

N E W S R E L E A S E S

October, 2008 Events:

Women Write the Range, a conversation with Laura Pritchett and Teresa Jordan, Friday, October 3, 2008, Boulder, Colorado

12:15 - 1:15 pm, Outdoor Pavilion, Millennium Hotel, 1345 Twenty-Eighth Street
This event is part of Western Literature Week, presented by the Center for the American West in collaboration with the Western Literature Association Conference.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.centerwest.org/events/index.php

Teresa Jordan reads from How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road, Thursday, October 16, 2008, Denver, Colorado

5:30 - 6:30, St. Cajetan's Student Center , Auraria Higher Education Campus in downtown Denver
Presented by the Women Write West Symposium.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.copper-nickel.org/10/

Chekhov’s Shorts, Wednesday October 22, 2008, Salt Lake City, Utah

6:00 pm, 4th Floor Special Collections, Salt Lake City Main Library, 210 East 400 South, Salt Lake
Teresa Jordan has the honor of kicking off the Salt Lake Book Festival as part of this new Salt Lake Public Library series, based on the popular NPR series, Great American Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story. The event will be followed by the Utah Book Awards Ceremony at 7:00. Free and open to the public.
For more information, visit http://www.utahhumanities.org/bookfestival2008program.htm

Join Teresa Jordan at the Kanzeon Zen Center, Thursday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m., for a presentation from her work-in-progress, How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road. The evening is part of Arts Month 2008 and is free for members; $25 suggested donation for others. For more information, contact: The Kanzeon Zen Center, 1274 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, UT. Telephone: 801-328-8414.

Western States Tour -- April 4 – 20, 2008
Teresa Jordan will present a series of lectures, readings and workshops in Utah, Wyoming and Nevada during the first three weeks of April 2008. Events are as follows:

April 4, 2008, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
“Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish”, Keynote Address for Intermountain Graduate Conference. Those not registered for the conference may attend the luncheon and lecture for $10 by contacting Sarah Sisson (sarah.sisson@usu.edu) or Curtis Newbold (curtis.newbold@usu.edu) before April 1.
Time: 12:00-1:30.
Place: Taggart Student Center East Ballroom

April 9, 2008, Western Wyoming Community College, Rock Springs, Wyoming
Talk: Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Free and open to the public.
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: Western Wyoming Community College, Room 1302.
For more information, contact Jennifer Sorenson: jsorense@wwcc.wy.edu

April 10, 2008, Riverton, Wyoming, Central Wyoming College
Talk: Creating the Illustrated Journal
Time: 1:30
Place: Robert A. Peck Arts Center Gallery, CWC
For more information, contact Coralina Daly, cdaly@cwc.edu

April 10, 2008, Riverton, Wyoming, Central Wyoming College
Talk: Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Free and open to the public.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: The Little Theater, CWC
For more information, contact Coralina Daly, cdaly@cwc.edu

April 11, 2008, Cody, Wyoming
Talk: Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Free and open to the public.
Time: 3:00
Place: Park County Library, 1257 Sheridan Avenue
For more information, contact Marge Buchholz, 307-527-8821

April 11, 2008, Powell, Wyoming
Talk: Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Free and open to the public.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Place: Powell Branch Library, 217 E 3rd St.--Clark Street entrance
For more information, contact Janet Meury, 307-754-8829.

April 16, 2008, Eureka, Nevada
Talk: How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road. The event is free and open to the public.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: Eureka Opera House
For more information, contact Wally Cuchine, (775) 237-6006

April 17, 2008, Winnemucca, Nevada
Workshop: Creating the Illustrated Journal
Time: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Place: Humboldt County Library, 85 East Fifth Street
For more information, contact Katie Doyle Donovan (775) 625-1921

April 17, 2008, Winnemucca, Nevada
Talk: Learning the Language: The Extraterrestrial Taxista and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish. Free and open to the public.
Time: 7:00
Place: The Martin Hotel, 94 W Railroad St.
Events sponsored by Nevada Arts Council’s Tumblewords and Great Basin Arts and Entertainment
For more information, contact Katie Doyle Donovan (775) 625-1921

April 18, 2008: Fallon, Nevada
Talk: How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road. The event is free and open to the public.
Time: Reception, 6:00; Talk, 7:00 p.m.
Place: Oats Park Art Center, 151 E. Park Street
Event sponsored by Nevada Arts Council’s Tumblewords Program and Churchill Arts Council
For more information, contact Kirk Robertson, (702) 423-1440,

April 19 , 2008: Elko, Nevada
Talk: How to Train a Goldfish and Other Stories from the Open Road
Time, April 19, 2008, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public
Place: Western Folklife Center, 501 Railroad Street
For more information, contact Tamara Kubacki, (775) 738-7508

April 19 – 20, 2008: Elko, Nevada
Workshop: Writing Family Stories
Time: April 19, 2008: 1:00 p.m. – 5.00 p.m; April 20, 2008, 9 a.m. – noon
Place: Western Folklife Center, 501 Railroad Street
For more information, contact Tamara Kubacki, (775) 738-7508

Teresa Jordan awarded residency at Soapstone,a retreat for women writers, in March, 2008.

Located in Oregon's coast range,Soapstone offers two women at a time private writing studios and the opportunity for uninteruppted work in a secluded place. Each year, Soapstone awards approximately thirty residencies, drawn from 300 to 400 applications.

Having just returned from two months in Argentina, Teresa will use her time at Soapstone to work on her book-in-progress, Learning the Language and Other Midlife Adventures in Spanish.

Teresa Jordan to teach "Writing the Contemporary Essay," a six-week class, Summer, 2007.

In the hands of such writers as David Sedaris, Joan Didion, Oliver Sacks and Frances Mayes, the contemporary essay has evolved into one of our most popular literary forms by using compelling aspects of literary craft such as vivid prose, character development and storytelling to explore the burning questions of the day. It is a form appropriate to virtually any subject from memoir to medicine, from sports to spirituality, from cooking to camping. Whether your writing is a private pursuit or you intend to publish, experience with the essay can help you hone your writing and guide you deeper in your exploration.

Each week, class will focus on a different aspect of craft, using targeted writing exercises and studying examples in literature to see how great authors have responded to similar challenges. As a teacher, Teresa's goal is to help you improve during the class; even more important, she wants to develop your ability to grow on your own, long after the class has ended. Toward this end, the class will focus on the three skills that have formed the foundation of good writing practice throughout history: reading well, writing well, and critiquing well.

The class will be intimate and personalized, limited to no more than ten people. All levels of experience are welcome. Because of the small class size, two sections are available.

DETAILS

Section 1: Monday, July 16 - August 20, 2007; 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Section 2: Wednesday, July 18 - August 22, 2007; 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

Location: To Be Decided (near the University of Utah in Salt Lake City)

Fee: $300

Call Teresa for more information or email her at tj@teresajordan.com.

Teresa Jordan to give talk on "Learning the Language" as part of the Spring Lecture Series at the Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, New Mexico, on Thursday, April 19, 2007, at 7 p.m.

Since at least the Tower of Babel, the world's peoples have encountered each other across the barrier of language. Depending on the success of their communication -- and sometimes in spite of it -- they inevitably engage each other in some combination of thievery, politics, war, trade, marriage, and the sharing of knowledge.

Teresa recently returned from a two-month Spanish immersion course in Argentina and began volunteering in Salt Lake City's Latino community. These very personal experiences have given her new insight into the frontier -- that place where one language encounters another -- from the Lewis and Clark Expedition to current day Iraq. In this talk she weaves personal anecdotes with meditations about history, culture, and the role of language in human endeavor.

As part of her work with the Roswell Museum, she will also teach a series of workshops, including "Creating the Illustrated Journal" for high school students on Friday morning, February 20; "Writing from Personal Experience" for students at New Mexico Military Institute on Friday afternnoon, February 20; and "Writing from Personal Experience" for adults, all day on Saturday, February 21. For more information, contact the Roswell Museum and Art Center at (506) 624-6744. It is located at 100 West Eleventh Street, Roswell, NM 88201.

Teresa Jordan awarded residency at Ucross Foundation for February, 2007.

The Ucross Foundation was founded in 1981 and is located on a historic 22,000 acre ranch in northeast Wyoming near the town of Buffalo. As noted on its website, "the foundation accepted its first residents in 1983 and today is an internationally known working retreat for over 60 artists and writers annually, hosting painters, poets, sculptors, writers, photographers, filmmakers and others from across the United States and around the world." Teresa will use her time there to write a book proposal.

Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, 518 Commercial Street, Elko, Nevada, January 8– February 3, 2007.

Come join the Wild Women opening reception and sale February 2nd from 5 to 8 p.m. in Duncan LittleCreek Gallery, next to Capriolas in downtown Elko. A month-long gallery show of all the artists' work will hang downstairs January 8 - Februrary 3. Upstairs, each woman will display additional wares for sale Friday, February 2, noon - 8 p.m. and Saturday, February 3, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. To benefit the Western Folklife Center, each of the Wild Women has contributed a unique item for the silent auction at the Elko Convention Center.

Teresa Jordan will teach a two-day workshop, “Writing the Family Encyclopedia,” through the University of Utah Lifelong Learning Program, in Sandy, Utah on June 10 and June 17, 2006.

You can learn more about the workshop and register online.

Teresa Jordan will premier "The Bird Men of Kyrgyzstan," as part of the Deep West Video Project at the 2006 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, February 3 - 4, 2006.This short film portrays falconers and eagle hunters Teresa met when she attended the At Shabysh festival in northern Kyrgyzstan in November 2005. View: High Speed Connection or Dial Up

Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Northeastern Nevada Museum, Elko, Nevada, January 4 – February 5, 2006. Meet the artists at a reception on Friday, February 3, 2006 from 4 to 8 p.m. when they will display and sell additional one-of-a-kind artworks.

This year’s theme, "Wild Women Telling Tales," will feature a display of collaborative art journals created by the Wild Women. This year-long project required each artist to choose a topic and format for her journal, define the boundaries and send it on to the others for their contributions. Every month, each member received a journal and created an entry to go with its theme until each journal had traveled to all the eleven participating artists. The journaling artists are Jill Altmann, Jimmie Benedict, Susan Glaser Church, Kathleen Curtis, Kathleen Durham, Mary Lee Fulkerson, Teresa Jordan, Kristen Frantzen Orr, Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, Gail Rappa and Sidne Teske.

Artists participating in the museum show include Jimmie Benedict, pieced, quilted and embroidered clothing; Susan Glaser Church, metal sculpture; Kathleen Durham, stories in cloth and clay; Teresa Jordan, paintings and monoprints; Kristen Frantzen Orr, artglass beads and jewelry; Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, clay; Gail Rappa, jewelry; and Sidne Teske, pastel paintings. Guests this year are September Vhay, painter; Patty Fox, painter; Sparky Kramer, guitar maker; and Claudia Knous, felt maker. Once again the group will have a raffle during the three day sale, to continue to sponsor the Wild Women Emerging Artist Award in conjunction with the Nevada Museum Of Art and The National Scholastic Arts Awards.

Northeastern Nevada Museum, 1515 Idaho St, Elko NV 89801, (775) 738-3418.

Teresa Jordan will present the lecture “30,000 Years of the Horse in Art” in several villages on the banks of Lake Issyk-kul in Kyrgyzstan in November, 2005, as part of the At Chabysh festival, a gathering of nomadic tribes celebrating the culture of the horse with traditional horse races and mounted games, music and storytelling. The festival is a reinvigoration of the sorts of gatherings that took place for hundreds, even thousands of years until they were forbidden during the Soviet period.

Teresa has been invited as part of a cultural exchange organized by Vista 360†, a group from Jackson, Wyoming dedicated to building relationships among mountain and horse cultures around the world. The primary goals of the At Shabysh festival are to provide an opportunity for the nomadic tribes to celebrate horse culture and to build support for the preservation of the Old Kyrgyz Horse, an ancient breed adapted to the high mountains. The Soviets worked to eliminate the breed and developed a “New Kyrgyz Horse,” cross-breeding chiefly with Thoroughbred stock. The Old Kyrgyz horse survives now only in a few isolated herds in remote mountain villages.

Members of the exchange include Candra Day, Vista 360† Director; the musical group New Frontier, consisting of Hal Cannon, Ron Kane, and Linda Svendson; Oona Doherty, videographer; Melinda Kornblum. Melody Lin, Lorna Miller and Nancy Resor, horsewomen; Anne Muller, photographer; Arial Muller, visual artist; and Ben Read, journalist.

Teresa Jordan to exhibit with Wild Women Artists at Wilbur May Museum in Reno, Nevada, October 28 - December 28, 2005. The Wild Women, a group of artists from California, Nevada and Utah working in a wide variety of media, will present their work at the annual 'Blowout' three-day sale at Wilbur D. May Museum in Reno October 28, 29 and 30. Accompanying the sale, there will be a smaller exhibit in the May Gallery from October 28th through December 28th.

Artists participating in the museum show include Jimmie Benedict, pieced, quilted and embroidered clothing; Susan Glaser Church, metal sculpture; Kathleen Durham, stories in cloth and clay; Teresa Jordan, paintings and monoprints; Kristen Frantzen Orr, artglass beads and jewelry; Barbara Glynn Prodaniuk, clay; Gail Rappa, jewelry; and Sidne Teske, pastel paintings. Special guest artists this year include Linda and Carolyn Dufurrena, photographer and author respectively; Claudia Knous, felt maker; Randall Kramer guitar maker; September Vhay, painter; and Linda Hussa author and poet. Lisa Vaccarro and Therese Genion, the 2005 Wild Women Emerging Artist Scholarship Award winners, will also be included in the gallery exhibit.

Once again the group will have a raffle during the three day sale, to continue to sponsor the Wild Women Emerging Artist Award in conjunction with the Nevada Museum Of Art and The National Scholastic Arts Awards.

The Wilbur D. May Center at Rancho San Rafael Regional Park
1595 West North Sierra Street, Reno, Nevada, (775) 785-5961

Teresa Jordan will travel to Mongolia August 28 – September 11, 2005 as part of Sagebrush to Steppe, a cultural exchange sponsored by the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. This trip represents the second half of the exchange, which brought Mongolian herders and musicians to the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada in 2003.

The group will spend a week in the capital city of Ulaan Baatar and a week on horseback in the countryside. The musicians will perform in venues as varied as the American Ambassador’s residence and the Genghis Kahn Irish Pub in UB, and in informal gatherings around yak dung fires far from town. Along the way they will reunite with members of the 2003 exchange including Tseyengiin Tserendorj, a celebrated scholar of folk music and composer of Mongolian praise songs; his son Soyol-Erdene, “Soyoloo,” a singer and virtuoso morin khoor (horsehead fiddle) player; Tseden Darinyam, “Daria,” a huumi or throat singer; and Badasuren Bayaksaikhan, a master craftsman who made the horse-head fiddle that Yo Yo Ma used on the Silk Road tour. They will meet up with the fifth member of the 2003 exchange, horseman and singer Densma Tsend-Ayush, “Tseje,” at his camp a couple of hundred miles west of the capital to ride horseback for five days across Mongolian Steppe.

The group includes Charlie Seeman, director of the Western Folklife Center; Hal Cannon, Founding Director of the WFC and National Public Radio producer; ranchers and musicians Stephanie Davis, Ron Kane, Bruce Stanger, Gail Steiger and Ken Jones; Linda Svendson and Kent Madin of Boojum Expeditions in Bozeman, Montana who have organized the trip; and board members and supporters of the Western Folklife Center including Mary Anne Mott, Agnieszka Winkler, Gary Crowe, Kent Nelson, Judy Clapp, Dave Stanley, and Nancy Jones.

Teresa Jordan will join Doen Sensei to teach a workshop on Zen, Creativity, and Writing, at the Kanzeon Zen Center, 1274 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday August 6 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Doen Sensei, Vice Abbott of the Kanzeon Zen Center, will focus on writing as a "Way," a practice of self refinement and understanding through a particular art form that becomes a method for forgetting the self and expressing one's true nature. Teresa will discuss the practice of writing and the various roles it can play in living an engaged and creative life. She will guide participants in exercises designed to explore how language, memory, observation and contemplation can trigger the creative process and enrich our lives.

For more information and to register visit www.zencenterutah.org, call 801-328-8414, Kanzeon Zen Center International, 1274 East South Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84102, or email office@zencenterutah.org.

Chickens from the Dark Side on exhibit at the Kanzeon Zen Center, July 29 - August 21, 2005.
Teresa Jordan's monotypes and etchings will fill the Kanzeon Zendo as part of Kanzeon Arts Month. The opening reception is Friday, July 29 from 6 – 9 pm, and the work will be on view until August 21, Monday - Friday, 10 am to 4 pm. To download a flyer, click here. For a schedule of other Kanzeon Arts Month events, click here. If you can't make the exhibit, you can view some of the work online.

Teresa Jordan to guest host Radio West on KUER FM 90, Thursday, July 7, for a discussion about "Saving our children from Nature Deficit Disorder." Kids today have little hands-on contact with the natural world. Many learn in school about global warming and acid rain, but have never seen a bunny hop through the woods. Jordan talks to childhood development author Richard Louv about his new book "Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder."

Regularly hosted by Doug Fabrizio, Radio West is KUER's award-winning local program that features conversations with authors, politicians, artists and others. Listeners are encouraged to join the conversation by calling (801) 585-WEST or via e-mail, radiowest@kuer.org. Tune in weekdays 11 a.m for the live show and at 7 pm for a rebroadcast, or listen online anytime.

KUER broadcasts in Salt Lake County at 90.1 and can be heard throughout the state of Utah and into surrounding states by way of one of the most extensive translator systems in the country. Click here to learn how you can tune into KUER in your community.

Teresa Jordan to guest host Radio West on KUER FM 90, Thursday, April 21 for a discussion of Utah Zen. Jordan talks to Zen teacher Daniel Doen Silberberg Sensei. He's the Vice-Abbott of the Kanzeon Zen Center here in Salt Lake, the main temple for Kanzeon International. Why is one of the largest centers for Zen Buddhism outside of Japan located in Utah? Is Zen changing our state? Is Utah changing Zen?

Teresa Jordan named Guest Editor for special literary editions of the Gilcrease Journal.
The Gilcrease Journal, the publication of the The Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a glossy, four-color, perfect-bound publication that has garnered many awards, including three-time recognition as the Best Publication of the American Association of Museums. The Gilcrease Museum houses the most extensive collection of Western American art in the world and these special issues – Spring/Summer 2004 and Fall/Winter 2004 -- will pair literary works with traditional and contemporary Western art and artifacts.