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Size | 4 items (0.5 linear feet) |
Abstract | Phil Blank is an artist, musician, and librarian. His work has been featured in art galleries local to the Chapel Hill, N.C., area, and in the Carrboro Citizen newspaper. Blank also plays accordion, tenor banjo, and tsimbl in the klezmer music group Gmish. The collection consists of four journals featuring writings, drawings, and paintings by Phil Blank. Journals contain personal reflections and portraits of people, places, and events, with particular attention to domestic life and southern food, landscapes, and music, including blues and klezmer musicians. The journals depict Chapel Hill, N.C., and Carrboro, N.C., as well as Asheville, N.C., Natchez, Miss., Longport, N.J., Paris, France, and Turin, Italy, among other locations. Also of note are images of the 2011 Southern Foodways Alliance meeting in Oxford, Miss., and the 2011 Occupy Chapel Hill protest. |
Creator | Blank, Phil. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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Phil Blank is an artist, musician, and librarian formerly based in Carrboro, N.C. As of 2019, he and his family reside in Philadelphia, Pa. His work has been featured in art galleries local to the Chapel Hill, N.C., area, and in the Carrboro Citizen newspaper. Blank also plays accordion, tenor banjo, and tsimbl in a klezmer music group Gmish.
Back to TopThe collection consists of four journals featuring writings, drawings, and paintings by Phil Blank. Journals contain personal reflections and portraits of people, places, and events, with particular attention to domestic life and southern food, landscapes, and music, including blues and klezmer musicians. The journals depict Chapel Hill, N.C., and Carrboro, N.C., as well as Asheville, N.C., Natchez, Miss., Longport, N.J., Paris, France, and Turin, Italy, among other locations. Also of note are images of the 2011 Southern Foodways Alliance meeting in Oxford, Miss., and the 2011 Occupy Chapel Hill protest.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Journal, 2008-2009Mostly illustrations of food, music, and street scenes created during travel to France and Italy. Locations identified include Asheville, N.C., Carrboro, N.C., Eunica, La., Paris, France, and Turin, Italy. |
Folder 2 |
Journal, 2009Primarily illustrations of people and landscapes. Contents include illustrated writings about Allen Ginsberg and klezmer music. |
Folder 3 |
Journal, 2009-2010Includes illustrations of food and portraits of Phil Blank's wife April McGregor and Ari Weinzweig of Zingerman's Deli. Locations identified include Asheville, N.C., Carrboro, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and Vardamon, Miss. |
Folder 4 |
Journal, circa 2011-2012Includes portraits of Phil Blank's wife April McGregor, relating to domestic life and cooking. Also features images of blues and klezmer musicians, events surrounding the 2011 Southern Foodways Alliance meeting in Oxford, Miss., and the 2011 Occupy Chapel Hill protest. Locations identified include Berkeley, Calif., Carrboro, N.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., Hillsborough, N.C., Longport, N.J., Natchez, Miss., and Oxford, Miss. |