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Doors of Hope Transition Ministries presents

A Summer Bounty

Saturday, August 9, 201410:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Overby Center, University of Mississippi in Oxford

SponsorsCity Grocery Restaurant Group

Irondale StudioLa Brasserie du Square

Mimosa Flowers, Gifts & Gourmet Sweet T’s BakeryWildrose Kennels

Cindy AuneJason Bouldin

Ron DaleLucius Lamar

Matt Long Harry Sneed

PatronsEmily and Don Newcomb

SustainersAnn and Dale Abadie

ContributorsBaptist Hospital

Dr. and Mrs. Cooper A. McIntoshOlin Corporation–Winchester Division

FriendsB&B Concrete Company Inc.

Lulu’sUniversity Sporting Goods

Vino Wholesale of MississippiJack Dunbar and Patsy Engelhard

Brenda and Bill WestDr. and Mrs. Frank G. Witherspoon

DonorsAlfa Insurance–Dawn Boutwell

Elliott Lumber Inc.Johnson’s FurnitureS. Allan AlexanderMaralyn B. BullionNan and Tom Davis

Marty DunbarGlenn and Paige Evans

Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hughes Jr.Mr. and Mrs. Devon Jones

Mr. and Mrs. William Lewis Jr.

Helen and Michael OverstreetDorothy and Jim ReidyLinda and Tim TatumPatty and Pat Tatum

Special ThanksHigh Point CoffeeNewk’s CateringVishwesh BhattJohn Currence

Ron DaleJohn T. Edge

Norm EasterbrookGeorge Brown and David Flautt

Melissa Hall

Jay HughesNatalie Hughes

Sherry, Chuck, CJ, and Luke JenkinsDorothy Laurenzo

Matt LongJanis Miller

Mary Lou OwensMichelle Reidy

Angie SicurezzaCathy and Mike Stewart

Jay TaylorMelanie Moore Thompson

Curtis WilkieUniversity of Mississippi:

Overby Center for Southern Journalism & Politics

Southern Foodways Alliance

Program Designer: Susan Bauer Lee

August 9, 2014 • A Summer Bounty • Doors of Hope • 1

Saturday, August 9, 2014

10:00 a.m. Welcome Sherry Williams-Jenkins Chair, Board of Directors Doors of Hope Transition Ministries

Norm Easterbrook Master of Ceremonies Illustrating A Summer Bounty Jason Bouldin

Decorative Cake Demonstration Jeff Taylor

Southern Garden Floral Demonstration Natalie Hughes

11:00 a.m. India-Meets-Mississippi Cooking Demonstration Vishwesh Bhatt

Noon Auction Vishwesh Bhatt’s Meal Jeff Taylor’s Cake Natalie Hughes’s Fresh Floral Arrangement Janis Miller’s Silk Floral Arrangement Jason Bouldin’s Painting Dinner for Six at Jason Bouldin’s Studio Vishwesh Bhatt, chef Tour and Dog Demonstration by Mike Stewart and Picnic for Twenty at Wildrose Kennels Stoneware Cups by Matt Long Still Life Sculpture by Ron Dale Floral Painting by Cindy Aune Plein Air Painting Lesson by Lucius Lamar Folding Wood Table by Harry Sneed Dinner for Six at La Brasserie du Square Jay Hughes, chef

LIMITATIONS Both dinners, the picnic, and the cake exclude home football weekends, Double Decker Arts Festival, blackout weekends, and graduation. The dinners, picnic, cake, and painting lesson must be scheduled before July 31, 2015.

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Presenters

Vishwesh Bhatt was born in Gujarat, India, and in 1992 moved with his family to Oxford, Mississippi. He learned to cook in his mother’s kitchen in India and Mississippi, was a part-time cook while in college in Kentucky, spent a year in Strasbourg, France, and attended Johnson and Wales in North Miami. He returned to Oxford to train under James Beard Award–winning chef John Currence and has been part of the City Grocery Restaurant Group for more than sixteen years. Bhatt was recently named as corporate chef to oversee kitchens at City Grocery, Snackbar, Big Bad Breakfast, Main Event Catering, and Lamar Lounge. Bhatt, whose unique cooking style reflects his childhood in India, his training in French cooking, and his love of the South, received a People’s Best New Chef nomination from Food & Wine in 2011 and has been recognized by the James Beard Foundation as a semifinalist for Best Chef South two years running.

Jason Bouldin, a native of Clarksdale, Mississippi, obtained his BA in art history from Harvard University and received his studio training directly from his father, portraitist Marshall Bouldin III. Since then, he has painted more than 200 com-missioned portraits , among them public commissions hang-ing throughout the United States and in England. Hundreds attended the unveiling of his portraits of civil rights leaders Medgar Evers and his wife, Myrlie Evers-Williams, at the Mississippi Museum of Art last summer. Bouldin was featured in the twentieth anniversary issue of Artist’s Magazine as one of twenty contemporary artists “on the rise” in America. He has received the Portrait Society of America’s Grand Prize at its International Portrait Competition; and his portraits have been selected nine times for the Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition in London. Although working primar-ily as a portraitist, he enjoys painting landscape and still life studies and has garnered prizes for works in those genres as well. He is also popular as a teacher of plein air classes, which he has presented at sites ranging from Piedmont Park in Atlanta to a cow pasture in Madison County, Mississippi.

“A Summer Bounty is a community service venture that showcases Oxford restaurants. As Oxford gains more recognition as the culinary citadel of Mississippi, it’s important to give back to those among us who struggle to feed themselves and who have neither a kitchen nor a home.”

—John T. Edge, Director, Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi

“I am a great supporter of the work of Doors of Hope Transition Ministries and am happy for Vish Bhatt, a great young chef who grew up in Oxford, to be giving a cooking demonstration to support Doors of Hope and its ministry for families in need.”

—John Currence, chef-owner of City Grocery Restaurant Group


Fresh Floral Arrangement by Natalie HughesNatalie Hughes worked at Cranston’s Flowers in Greenville, Mississippi, from 2003 to 2006 during high volume times and holidays. She had no formal training, only graphic design experiences. She then moved to Oxford in 2009 and began working part time at Mimosa Flowers, Gifts & Gourmet in 2010. In January of 2013 she purchased the business from the previous owner. She describes Mimosa as “that cute little shop, Not on the Square.” In addi-tion to exquisite flower arrangements and other floral items, she offers gifts in a variety of gifts from locally made pottery to candles, bath products, and Mississippi cheese straws. One of the talented designers in her shop is Janis Miller, who created a silk flower arrangement for the auction.

Decorated Cake by Jeff TaylorJeff Taylor and his wife, Kathleen, owners of Sweet T’s Bakery, are Oxford natives who in their early years worked with disad-vantaged youth. Their adventures with cakes began seventeen years ago when Kathleen began making birthday cakes for fam-ily and friends. When Ace of Cakes came on the air in 2006, it opened up the new world of power tools and baking for Jeff. Having built cabinets and custom furniture for years, he ap-plied his creative and artistic talents to cakes. In the two years since opening Sweet T’s Bakery, they have made many cakes—really, edible works of art. In addition to decorating fantastic cakes, Taylor is a fireman for the Oxford Fire Department. The demonstration cake will be served at intermission. The cake for auction will be designed and made to order for the winning bidder.

Master of CeremoniesNorm Easterbrook has been director of the Gertrude Castel-low Ford Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Mississippi since January 2004. He has worked in the theater world as a producer and an actor in film and on stage, behind the scenes in a variety of technical positions, and as director of two historic theaters in Georgia—the Imperial in Augusta and the Rylander in Americus—completing various phases of renovation and managing programming for each. Easterbrook has a BFA in acting from Ithaca College and an MA in dra-matic theory and criticism from Florida State University.


Auction

Vishwesh Bhatt’s Meal

• Fair Market Value: $100. Minimum Opening Bid: $55.

Jeff Taylor’s Cake


Natalie Hughes’s Fresh Floral Arrangement

• Fair Market Value: $150. Minimum Opening Bid: 55.

Janis Miller’s Silk Floral Arrangement


Jason Bouldin’s Painting

• Fair Market Value: $2,000. Minimum Opening Bid: $1,000.

Dinner for Six at Jason Bouldin’s StudioChef Vishwesh Bhatt will serve one of his famous India-Meets-Mississippi dinners at Jason Bouldin’s studio, and the artist will provide an artistic memento of the occasion. Wine for the dinner will be provided by Vino Wholesale of Mississippi, represented by George Brown of New Orleans and David Flautt of Oxford. Bouldin, with the help of only two master craftsmen, remodeled the house next door to his own as his ideal studio, complete with a kitchen and bedroom for guests, clients, and friends. The project was featured in the November 2008 issue of Artist’s Magazine, and photographs of the studio and the small-scale models Bouldin used to design it are available for viewing at www.artistsnetwork.com/the-artists-magazine/bouldin-studio.

• Fair Market Value: $1,200 Minimum Opening Bid: $850.

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Wildrose Kennels Tour, Dog Demonstration, and Picnic for TwentyMike Stewart, owner of Wildrose Kennels, will lead a tour of his beautiful 143-acre training grounds and facilities, give a dog demonstration, and with his wife, Cathy, serve a picnic featuring barbeque and trimmings. Wildrose Kennels, the largest and oldest breeding and training facility in North America specializing in British Labradors, is located near Oxford, with training facilities in Arkansas and Colorado. Stewart conducts retriever training workshops throughout the United States, instructing in his unique dog training methodology, “The Wildrose Way,” a gentle, positive way to develop versatile, sporting companions as well as adventure and diabetic alert dogs. Stewart has appeared in over seventy-five national television programs and has been featured in dozens of publications. Wildrose has been recognized twice by Garden & Gun magazine as “Best in the Sporting South” and was featured in Forbes Magazine, April 2009 edition, as one of six luxury, recession-proof businesses.

• Fair Market Value: $1,000. Minimum Opening Bid: $500.

Stoneware Cups by Matt LongMatt Long is offering four cups—juice glasses, stoneware, wood fired. “My passion for clay lies

within functional pottery,” he says. “I believe that pots have a nature of their own—a soul, a breath of reality, that is inherently guided by their maker. . . . Handmade pottery is a complete human expression, not an inter-pretation of usable objects that only address a stan-dard.” Long received two degrees in ceramics (MFA, Ohio University; BFA, Kansas City Art Institute) and taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville for six and a half years before moving to Oxford in 2005. He is currently associate professor of art and the graduate coordinator of art at the University of Mississippi. He has taught workshops and lectured at over forty uni-versities, colleges, and art centers. Featured in Ceramics Monthly and numerous other ceramic art publications, his work can be seen in many national and interna-tional shows, as well as at Red Lodge Clay Center in Red Lodge, Montana.



Still Life Sculpture by Ron DaleRon Dale works in two modes, one making useful pots—dinnerware, cups, pitchers, bowls, trays, and vases. For his other mode Dale uses clay and wood to create multidimensional sculptures. “My sculptural work has evolved out of the traditional vocabulary of the vessel,” he explains. “Combining architectural and furniture imagery, I am able to explore concepts of altered space and perspective, light and shadow, and the flattening of form while allowing for a more direct expression of ideas—ideas dealing with both social and personal issues.” Inspired by the Italian painter and printmaker Giorgio Morandi, Dale has recently created sculptures that are still life compositions of bottles and vessels in wooden frames of various sizes and shapes. After earning a BFA from Goddard College and an MFA at Louisiana State University, Dale taught at the University of Mississippi from 1980 until becoming professor emeritus in 2005. He has received numerous awards, and his work is in numerous private and public collections and has been shown in twenty-six solo exhibitions and nearly a hundred group-invitational exhibitions throughout the nation. Dale designed and built his family home and his studio (Irondale) in rural Lafayette County. Still Life # 10, the sculpture he donated to the auction, is polychromed wood and ceramic, 25 by 24 by 5.75 inches, made in 2011.

• Fair Market Value: $1,500. Minimum Opening Bid: $500.

Floral Painting by Cindy AuneCindy Aune, an Oxford artist, has become nationally known for her distinctive painting style. Her acrylic mixed media paintings are large floral and figurative abstracts in a loose, unstructured style. Instead of painting with brushes, she uses nontraditional tools—that is, she paints with her fingers or with paper towels. “I paint because I have to,” she says. “I have to feel and see the bright pigments, discover where the piece will take itself.” Aune grew up in Hattiesburg, received a BA from the University of Mississippi in 1978, and returned to Oxford with her husband and sons in 1989. She has worked as an engineering draftsman, produced hand-painted merchandise, painted and produced designer rugs, and worked in

wholesale marketing, selling art and general gift items that were shipped all over the country and into the Bahamas. In 2010 Aune began to paint fine art canvases using soft-bodied acrylic paint. Now she is listed on the Famous Oxonians website, a select list that recognizes local residents who have gained national recognition for their contributions to various fields.



Plein Air Painting Lesson by Lucius LamarLucius Lamar offers a two-hour painting lesson with materials included, giving the winning bidder instruction and a painting to keep. He is willing to have two students in the session, each receiving materials and having a painting to keep. Lamar grew up in Oxford, received a BFA at the University of Mississippi, studying fine art painting with Jere Allen. He also studied at Parsons School of Design in New York and Paris and received a second bachelor’s degree in environmental design at UCLA. Known for his landscapes, Lamar is also an accomplished portrait painter. Lamar divides his time between Taylor, Mississippi, and Palm Springs, California.


Folding Walnut Table by Harry SneedHarry Sneed, a fifth-generation Lafayette County resident, is the owner of Sneed’s Ace Hardware. As a young boy, he sat on a stool selling popcorn outside his father’s hardware store on the Oxford Square. Over the years since then, he not only ran the hardware store and moved it to a new location, but operated a locksmith and security business and served as president of the Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce, chair of the Economic Development Foundation, and president of the Rotary Club of Oxford. Sneed also finds time for woodworking, a hobby that gives him great pleasure and provides lovely gifts for family, friends, and others in the community. The walnut table he

made for the auction has the following dimensions: height 39 inches, length 48 inches, width 24 inches, folded height 3.5 inches. The table weighs 25 pounds.


Dinner for Six at La Brasserie du SquareJay Hughes grew up in the Cajun French town of Houma, Louisiana, served in the U.S. Army, and received a degree in business administration and economics from Nichols State University before moving to Oxford to attend law school in 1988. He has lived here ever since. A lawyer, contractor, entrepreneur, and man of endless energy, he was elected to the Oxford Board of Aldermen in the summer of 2013. Along the way he trained at Cordon Bleu in Paris and established a classic French bistro in his home. The winner of dinner at La Brasserie du Square will experience “An Evening in Paris,” a six-course French dinner and wine pairing for six in a classic bistro, without leaving Oxford.


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In the Words of Doors of Hope Clients“Doors of Hope showed me there is someone there.”

“The most important thing I learned was budgeting and writing down what’s coming in and going out.”

“Budgeting groceries has helped a lot learning to stretch our money.”

“Our case manager went beyond the call of duty.”

“I received help from Doors of Hope and now this is my chance to give back. I really appreci-ated it.” —former client donating items at a donation drive in July 2014

Ways to Help1. Cook a welcome meal for a new family.

2. Help stock the pantry for a family entering the program (usually around $40 to $50).

3. Organize a group of four to five people and clean a shelter unit before a new family enters the program.

4. Adopt a family at school time for supplies and needed clothing.

5. Adopt a family at Christmas.

6. Sponsor a birthday party for a child.

7. Help your church or other organizations become an annual contributor.

8. Make an annual donation or become a monthly donor of $10, $20, any amount you choose.

9. Pray for Doors of Hope clients, staff, board, and volunteers.

This year, since January 2014, we have housed seven families including nine adults and twelve children. Five of these families have moved into

independent housing.

Still Life #10 by Ron Dale

Doors of Hope Transition MinistriesDoors of Hope Transition Ministries (DOHTM) is a registered 501(c) (3) nonprofit organiza-tion founded in June 2011 to help homeless and at-risk homeless families in Lafayette County toward self-reliance and stability through a holistic, individualized approach that includes life-skills training, mentoring, and supportive housing.

DOHTM’s Self-Sufficiency Transitional Empowerment Program (STEP) is a structured program that seeks to preserve and strengthen the family unit so that members can become self-sufficient in the management of their family and finances. Families live in a furnished shelter unit, rent and utility free, while working and meeting regularly with a professional case manager who nurtures independence and prepares them to become self-sufficient contributing members of the community. The case manager assists the families in setting goals and learn-ing and practicing skills to help them gain self-sufficiency and permanent housing. DOHTM uses other established programs and services in the community to help meet the needs of the families. Families in DOHTM work a rigorous four- to six-month program where they are required to work, pay debts, and save money, as well as learn and practice skills to become self-sufficient.

This year Doors of Hope has received funds from United Way, Walmart, the Fiber Arts Festival, individual donors, businesses, and service groups. Five area churches pledge annual donations—Christ Presbyterian, First Presbyterian, Oxford-University Methodist, St. John the Evangelist Catholic, and St. Peter’s Episcopal. An anonymous donor generously continues to donate rent for two of the shelter units while Doors of Hope establishes funding within the community. Doors of Hope is sponsoring A Summer Bounty to raise funds for developing new programs and services to help families become self-sufficient.

Donations can be made to Doors of Hope Transition Ministries, 924 Van Buren Avenue, Oxford, MS 38655. For additional information about the program, visit www.doorsofhopeoxford.org.

Board of DirectorsSherry Williams-Jenkins, Chair

Suzanne Wilkin, Vice ChairAnn Kelly, Secretary

Eddie Aune, Treasurer

Ann Abadie Susan Shaw Marcia ColeBrian Simmons Andrew Grice Julie Walton

James Owens Brenda West

Case ManagerTammy Delcourt, LSW

Legal AdvisorDebbie Bell

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