Reservations are being accepted or the "Evening of Excellence" to be held at Lipscomb University Nov. 3 at 7 p.m., when the prestigious Avalon Awards for Creative Excellence will be presented.
Tickets are $35 per person, and reservations may be made by calling 615.386.7653.
Entertainer Pat Boone, artist Anna Jaap, writer Mark Jarman and musician Jerome Reed will be honored during the event.
Boone graduated from David Lipscomb High School in 1952 and attended the university before leaving to focus on his burgeoning singing career. He went on to graduate from Columbia University in 1958 while becoming one of the nation's most popular recording artists. He is also an author and has had popular television and movie roles.
Jaap earned her bachelor of arts degree from Lipscomb in 1988 and immediately established herself as a working studio artist. She has had more than a dozen solo exhibitions and has earned numerous commissions and awards. She is best known for her exploration of the centuries-old technique of the monotype, hand-pulling lively and evocative images from original oil paintings done directly on glass.
Jarman, professor of English at Vanderbilt University, has written six books of poetry, for which he has received the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, three NEA grants and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His book, Questions for Ecclesiastes, won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Award in poetry.
Reed, professor of music at Lipscomb, is an internationally recognized pianist. He holds the D.M.A. from the Catholic University of America where he studied with Bela Nagy. Reed is particularly noted for his performances of Charles Ives' challenging Concord Sonata, with which he combines narration and images in a unique presentation designed to be accessible to the broadest audience.
Twenty-two previous recipients have been honored since the Avalon Awards were established in 1995. Last year's recipients included portraitist Michael Shane Neal, author Patricia McKissack, and architect Seab Tuck.