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Helen Phillips (other)
Helen Phillips may refer to: * Helen Phillips (soprano) (1919–2005), American dramatic lyric soprano * Helen Phillips (artist) (1913–1995), American sculptor, printmaker, and graphic artist * Helen Phillips (novelist) (born 1981), American novelist * Helen Plummer Phillips (1850–1929) Australian educator, missionary and philanthropist {{hndis, Phillips, Helen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Phillips (soprano)
Helen L. Phillips (8 December 1919 – 27 July 2005) was an American dramatic lyric soprano who broke through racial barriers as a concert singer and—almost in passing—on the opera stage. Biography She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a Baptist minister, the Rev. James Phillips. She attended Sumner High School in St. Louis and Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri, and did graduate studies in music and in sociology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. At the age of 14 she was one of the soloists at the dedication of the Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis. She was the first black singer to perform with the Metropolitan Opera chorus (seven years before Marian Anderson's debut) —later saying she just "slipped in". Her agent had been told to send his best soprano as an extra for five performances of Mascagni's ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' in 1947 — and though the stage manager was momentarily non-plussed by her race, did nothing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Phillips (artist)
Helen Elizabeth Phillips, also known as Helen Phillips Hayter (March 3, 1913 – January 23, 1995 ) was an American sculptor, printmaker, and graphic artist active in San Francisco, New York, and Paris. Early life and education Helen Elizabeth Phillips was born on March 3, 1913, in Fresno, California. From 1932 to 1936, she studied at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) in San Francisco with Ralph Stackpole and Gottardo Piazzoni. In 1936, Phillips won the school's Phelan Travelling Fellowship, a competitive scholarship with which she funded a year of study in Paris. From 1936, Phillips associated with Atelier 17, an experimental and collaborative intaglio printmaking workshop operating in the heart of Montparnasse. During World War II, Phillips returned to the United States and began working within the emerging literary and artistic circles of the New York School. Work Phillips executed sculptures in bronze, stone and wood and produced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Phillips (novelist)
Helen Phillips (born 1981) is an American novelist. She is a winner of the Story Prize. Biography She was born in Colorado. When she was a child, she was affected by alopecia, and by the age of 11, she had lost all of her hair. She graduated from Yale University in 2004, and received her Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from Brooklyn College (CUNY) in 2007. She moved to Brooklyn with a position as associate professor at Brooklyn College with her husband, the artist Adam Douglas Thompson, and their children. Her debut was the story collection ''And Yet They Were Happy.'' It was named a notable collection by The Story Prize. In 2013, she wrote a children's adventure novel. She followed with her first adult novel, ''The Beautiful Bureaucrat.'' Awards and recognition *Finalist in the 2009 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contes* Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, 2009 *Iowa Review Nonfiction Award. *DIAGRAM Innovative Fiction Award, (da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |