MC’s ‘Western Stoneware’ documentary earns awardRelease Date:
February 13, 2008
MONMOUTH, Ill. — What happens in Vegas will help put Monmouth College’s communications department on the map.
“Western Stoneware: The Molding of a Company,” a documentary produced in 2007 by MC communications lecturer Chris Goble and three of his students, has received national recognition from the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA). The organization will honor the documentary with the Award of Excellence in the faculty documentary competition as part of the Festival of the Media Arts during the BEA’s national convention in Las Vegas in April.
According to the organization, Award of Excellence winners feature “superior quality work, parallel in idea to research accepted for publication in a refereed journal.”
“This means that our work is being recognized alongside the work of faculty at larger institutions with documentary film programs,” explained Goble. “This is a great accomplishment to get this kind of recognition on a national stage.”
The documentary, which highlights the history of pottery in western Illinois and the development of Monmouth-based Western Stoneware, was created as a project for Goble’s Advanced Video Production class. The three students who contributed to the program were Holly Butz of Des Plaines, Louise Murphy of Northern Ireland and Traci Ratliff of Sterling.
“I’ve grown up with pottery,” Butz told a reporter when the film premiered. “We have a kiln at home. I grew up with Western Stoneware pottery. That was our fancy dishes.”
Last fall, the documentary was accepted as an entry in the first annual Keokuk Independent Film Festival.
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by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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