Pinky Bass
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Pinky M. M. Bass is an American
photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope
, Alabama
, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art
, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art
in Atlanta, Huntsville Museum of Art
in Huntsville, Alabama, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
in Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art
in Mobile, Alabama, National Museum of Women in the Arts
(NMWA) in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art
and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina among others.
Well known for her work in pinhole photography, Bass has also been published in Aperture
#115, 1989 and #141, 1995 (SAF/NEA Fellowship Supplement), and Pinhole Journal and is in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation. Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera
across the United States
including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts
and University of Memphis and Space One Eleven. Known for her portable pop-up pinhole
cameras, The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole
she made out of a pop-up camper -- "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom". She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.
In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".
.
Bass' work was part of "The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography" curated by Diana H. Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Scott McMahon, Christopher Sims, Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang.
"The Enchanted Mishap", Explores the theme of chance accidents that produce surprising images, includes work by Pertti Saloheimo, Clint O'Connor and Pinky Bass. Pinhole Journal Vol 19 #1
In 2006 Bass' work was included in "(Id) An Exhibition of Self Portraiture" along with Dieter Appelt
, Judy Dater
, Nate Larson
, Robert Mapplethorpe
, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Constance Thalken and Bill Thoma.
Work by Bass was included in an exhibition called "Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium" by the Alabama State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
. This exhibition was made into a video presentation (also called Voices Rising) that ran on Alabama Public Television
,
Bass has had over 40 solo exhibitions, many of which traveled including, "BodyWorks" at the University of Montevallo
, Bloch Hall Gallery in Spring 2006.
In "On/of Paper" curated by Pieter Favier included artists from across the country illustrating the diversity of paper, a medium many art critics may overlook. Each artist featured used paper in some fashion to create their featured art. Bass showed a series of her hand-stitched photography at Space 301 in Mobile, Alabama
.
Bass was recently included in "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape" curated by Anne Arrasmith
and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven. This exhibition was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and included Clayton Colvin
, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, binx Newton, Arthur Price, John Trobaugh
, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard.
In late 2007, Bass' work was chosen by curator, Jon Coffelt
as the inaugural artist for the new book arts program at SPACE Gallery in New York, NY. Bass exhibited her "Cuerpos Santos Series" here., SPACE Gallery, New York, 2007. This was Bass first solo exhibition in New York, NY.
2009 Bass' work was chosen to be part of the exhibition "Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted" along with the work of Lee Isaacs
, Karen Graffeo
, Sara Garden Armstrong
, Janice Kluge
, Joel Seah, The Chadwick's, Mitchell Gaudet, Kahn and Selesnick
, Mona Hatoum
, Beatrice Coron, Kelly Grider, Laura Gilbert, among others. The exhibition was curated by Jon Coffelt
and Maddy Rosenberg
for Central Booking in Brooklyn, NY.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographer, known for her work in pinhole photography.
Bass, a resident of Fairhope
Fairhope, Alabama
Fairhope is a city in Baldwin County, Alabama, on a sloping plateau, along the cliffs and shoreline of Mobile Bay. The 2010 census lists the population of the city as 16,176....
, Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
, has exhibited at a number of museums including the Ashville Art Museum, Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham Museum of Art
Founded in 1951, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama today has one of the finest collections in the Southeast US, with more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing a numerous diverse cultures, including Asian, European, American,...
, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art
The High Museum of Art , located in Atlanta, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States and one of the most-visited art museums in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in Midtown, the city's arts district, the High is a division of the Woodruff Arts Center.-History:The Museum was...
in Atlanta, Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville Museum of Art
Huntsville Museum of Art is a museum located in Huntsville, Alabama. It was originally established by city Ordinance No. 70-134, on August 13, 1970, which established the Museum Board of the City of Huntsville. The museum held its first exhibition in 1973 and moved to its first permanent facility...
in Huntsville, Alabama, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, featuring several art collections. For seventy years, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has been a showcase for the visual arts in Central Alabama...
in Montgomery, Alabama, Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile Museum of Art
The Mobile Museum of Art is an art museum located in Mobile, Alabama. It features extensive art collections from the Southern United States, the Americas, Europe, and non-western art...
in Mobile, Alabama, National Museum of Women in the Arts
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The National Museum of Women in the Arts , located in Washington, D.C. is the only museum solely dedicated to celebrating women’s achievements in the visual, performing, and literary arts. NMWA was incorporated in 1981 by Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay...
(NMWA) in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...
and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art , located at 750 Marguerite Drive in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a gallery designed to involve audiences in the art of our time...
in Winston-Salem, North Carolina among others.
Well known for her work in pinhole photography, Bass has also been published in Aperture
Aperture
In optics, an aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture of an optical system is the opening that determines the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimated the admitted rays are,...
#115, 1989 and #141, 1995 (SAF/NEA Fellowship Supplement), and Pinhole Journal and is in the collections of the Polaroid Corporation. Bass has taught numerous workshops in pinhole camera
Pinhole camera
A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture – effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box...
across the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
including EMRYS Foundation, Penland School of Crafts
Penland School of Crafts
The Penland School of Crafts is a center for craft education located in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, about 50 miles from Asheville....
and University of Memphis and Space One Eleven. Known for her portable pop-up pinhole
Pinhole
Pinhole may refer to:* Pinhole , a rock band from Liverpool, England, later to become The Dead 60s* Pinhole , a song by Japanese rock band Ogre You Asshole* Pinhole camera, a camera that uses a pinhole to form an image instead of a lens...
cameras, The first of these cameras was a giant pinhole
Pinhole
Pinhole may refer to:* Pinhole , a rock band from Liverpool, England, later to become The Dead 60s* Pinhole , a song by Japanese rock band Ogre You Asshole* Pinhole camera, a camera that uses a pinhole to form an image instead of a lens...
she made out of a pop-up camper -- "Pinky's Portable Pop-up Pinhole Camera and Darkroom". She made this piece for the "Itinerant Photography Project" in 1989.
In March 1997, Bass was honored by the Georgia Commission on Women for "Georgia Women in the Visual Arts".
Work
"For Donna'" Barrister's Gallery curated by Deborah Luster featured works by Pinky Bass, Ruth Marten, Danna Moore, Laura Noland-Harter, Donna Service, Barrister's Gallery, New OrleansNew Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
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Bass' work was part of "The Lensless View: Contemporary Pinhole Photography" curated by Diana H. Bloomfield along with work by Rebecca Sexton Larson, Scott McMahon, Christopher Sims, Sarah Van Keuren and Sam Wang.
"The Enchanted Mishap", Explores the theme of chance accidents that produce surprising images, includes work by Pertti Saloheimo, Clint O'Connor and Pinky Bass. Pinhole Journal Vol 19 #1
In 2006 Bass' work was included in "(Id) An Exhibition of Self Portraiture" along with Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt
Dieter Appelt is a photographer whose work ranges from photography, film and video to performance art that typically involves sculpture of his own construction.-External links:...
, Judy Dater
Judy Dater
Judy Dater is an American photographer and feminist. She is perhaps best known for her 1974 photograph, Imogen and Twinka, featuring an elderly Imogen Cunningham, one of America's first women photographers, encountering a nymph in the woods of Yosemite. The nymph is the model Twinka Thiebaud.Dater...
, Nate Larson
Nate Larson
Nate Larson is a Baltimore-based artist and photographer known for examining the role of belief in contemporary American culture. He teaches at MICA , and since 2010, he has been a board member of the Society for Photographic Education.- Sources :* * *...
, Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Constance Thalken and Bill Thoma.
Work by Bass was included in an exhibition called "Voices Rising: Alabama Women at the Millennium" by the Alabama State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts is a museum located in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, featuring several art collections. For seventy years, the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts has been a showcase for the visual arts in Central Alabama...
. This exhibition was made into a video presentation (also called Voices Rising) that ran on Alabama Public Television
Alabama Public Television
Alabama Public Television is a state network of Public Broadcasting Service member non-commercial educational Public television stations serving the US state of Alabama. The television stations are licensed by the Alabama Educational Television Commission, which was created by the Alabama state...
,
Bass has had over 40 solo exhibitions, many of which traveled including, "BodyWorks" at the University of Montevallo
University of Montevallo
The University of Montevallo is a four-year public university located in Montevallo, Alabama, USA. Founded in 1896, it is Alabama's only public liberal arts college and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. Programs are offered through the Michael E...
, Bloch Hall Gallery in Spring 2006.
In "On/of Paper" curated by Pieter Favier included artists from across the country illustrating the diversity of paper, a medium many art critics may overlook. Each artist featured used paper in some fashion to create their featured art. Bass showed a series of her hand-stitched photography at Space 301 in Mobile, Alabama
Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...
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Bass was recently included in "Politics, Politics: Nice Artists Explore the Political Landscape" curated by Anne Arrasmith
Anne Arrasmith
Anne Arrasmith is an American artist and curator who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. She co-founded and operates along with Peter Prinz the not-for-profit Space One Eleven. Arrasmith was a student of Edith Frohock while at University of Alabama at Birmingham.She and Peter Prinz founded...
and Peter Prinz of Space One Eleven. This exhibition was funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and included Clayton Colvin
Clayton Colvin
Clayton Colvin is an American artist and Curator of Contemporary Art who lives and works in Birmingham, Alabama. He received a BA in Art History from New York University in 1999 and an MA Ed. Art Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2003...
, Peggy Dobbins, Randy Gachet, binx Newton, Arthur Price, John Trobaugh
John Trobaugh
John Trobaugh in Lansing, Michigan is an American artist specializing in photography and based in Birmingham, Alabama. Trobaugh received his BFA in 1996 with honors from University of Alabama at Birmingham and went on to study photography at the School of Visual Arts...
, Paul Ware, and Stan Woodard.
In late 2007, Bass' work was chosen by curator, Jon Coffelt
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
as the inaugural artist for the new book arts program at SPACE Gallery in New York, NY. Bass exhibited her "Cuerpos Santos Series" here., SPACE Gallery, New York, 2007. This was Bass first solo exhibition in New York, NY.
2009 Bass' work was chosen to be part of the exhibition "Anthropology: Revisited, Reinvented, Reinterpreted" along with the work of Lee Isaacs
Lee Isaacs
Lee Isaacs is an American photographer, living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.Isaacs studied pinhole photography with Pinky Bass. He has worked both with commercial and art photography. He works with photography seminars and teaches classes and workshops across the US.He has involved himself...
, Karen Graffeo
Karen Graffeo
Karen Graffeo is an American artist based in Birmingham, Alabama. While specializing in photography, Graffeo is also a choreographer and installation artist. Early in her photography career, she worked as Jerry Uelsmann's assistant and model...
, Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong
Sara Garden Armstrong is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Armstrong creates sculptures, paintings, drawings from miniature to wall size, artist's books, multimedia artworks involving computers sound and light, and constructs permanent installations in atrium spaces...
, Janice Kluge
Janice Kluge
Janice Kluge is an American artist who specializes in large and small scale sculpture. She hold a BFA with honors from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and an MFA for the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kluge is Professor Emeritus of sculpture and drawing at the University of Alabama...
, Joel Seah, The Chadwick's, Mitchell Gaudet, Kahn and Selesnick
Kahn and Selesnick
Kahn & Selesnick, Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick, both born 1964, are a collaborative artist team who work primarily in the fields of photography and installation art. They specialize in fictitious histories set in both the past and future...
, Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum
Mona Hatoum is a video artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London.- Lebanon :...
, Beatrice Coron, Kelly Grider, Laura Gilbert, among others. The exhibition was curated by Jon Coffelt
Jon Coffelt
Johnny Lee Coffelt born is an American artist who lives and works in Manhattan in the Financial District of New York City. Coffelt paints, sculpts, sews, makes book arts and curates art exhibitions.-Background:...
and Maddy Rosenberg
Maddy Rosenberg
Madeline Rosenberg is an American artist who divides her time between Brooklyn and Europe. She has an active exhibition and freelance curatorial career and is now the director of Central Booking in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. Rosenberg received a BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from Bard...
for Central Booking in Brooklyn, NY.
Awards
- Residency, Oregon College of Art & CraftOregon College of Art & CraftOregon College of Art & Craft is a college in Portland, Oregon, United States that grants Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees and certificates in book arts, ceramics, drawing and painting, fibers, metals, photography and wood. The college also offers an Artist-in-Residence program and provides...
, Portland, OregonPortland, OregonPortland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
2004 - Residency, Western Carolina UniversityWestern Carolina UniversityWestern Carolina University is a coeducational public university located in Cullowhee, North Carolina, United States. The university is a constituent campus of the University of North Carolina system....
, Cullowee, NC 2000 - Resen Ceramic Colony Residency (Catalog Photographer), Republic of Macedonia 1997
- Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship 1995
- International Print Exhibition Award, Print Club, Philadelphia, PA 1990
- Site Sculpture Grant "Big Box Camera", Arts Festival of Atlanta, GA 1990
- Alabama Fellowship Grant, Alabama State Council on the Arts 1991
- North Carolina Visual Arts Project Grant 1992
- North Carolina Visual Artistic Fellowship Grant 1993
- Interdisciplinary Grant (Regional Artist Project) for "The Itinerant Photographer" 1989
- Artist Residency, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY 1988
Books
- of Complexes: Photographing in Mexico, Birmingham, Ala.: Space One Eleven, 1996. Includes Pinky/MM Bass; exhibition catalogue; text in English and Spanish; first edition; paperback, 24 pages, 28 cm. The Women in Photography International Archive (now within Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale UniversityYale UniversityYale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
) has a copy (as noted in "Publications centered on single photographers: Books A–C." - "How to make a PinHole Camera" on pages 15 and 23 from The Book of Alternative Processes by James Christopher, Delmar Press, Albany, NY, 2001, Dewey, 771. ISBN, 0766820777
- "The Polaroid Book" by Barbara Hitchcock, Steve Crist, Taschen, 2005 Hardback - 400 pages - ISBN 3-8228-3072-0
- "Pinhole Photography: Rediscovering a Historic Technique", E. Renner, 1995, 288pp
- "Sleep: Bedtime Reading," 1998 by Roger Gorman and Robert Peacock, Universe Publishing, 96pp SBN-13: 9780789301123 ISBN 0-7893-0112-1
- "Red Bluff Review" by Sonny Brewer, 1995.
Film
- "Coat of Many Colors," directed by Michelle Forman and Carolyn Hales, 2001 documentary for television featured Pinky Bass as herself.
- "Memento Mori: Positive/Negative" contains black and white images, Alabama Public Television.
- "Working Proof" is a Butoh performance by Pinky Bass filmed by Doug Boulos at Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AlabamaBirmingham, AlabamaBirmingham is the largest city in Alabama. The city is the county seat of Jefferson County. According to the 2010 United States Census, Birmingham had a population of 212,237. The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, in estimate by the U.S...
on 2-02-07
External links
- "Coat of Many Colors"
- Alabama Public Television
- University of Montevallo shows an example of her photography with hand-stitching.
- Pinhole Camera Homepage shows an example of Bass pinholePinholePinhole may refer to:* Pinhole , a rock band from Liverpool, England, later to become The Dead 60s* Pinhole , a song by Japanese rock band Ogre You Asshole* Pinhole camera, a camera that uses a pinhole to form an image instead of a lens...
cameraCameraA camera is a device that records and stores images. These images may be still photographs or moving images such as videos or movies. The term camera comes from the camera obscura , an early mechanism for projecting images...
work - The Light Factory shows en example of her hand-stitched sculpture
- Anna Lamar Switzer Center for Visual Arts Pensacola Junior College, "Pinhole Visions" PensacolaPensacola, FloridaPensacola is the westernmost city in the Florida Panhandle and the county seat of Escambia County, Florida, United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 56,255 and as of 2009, the estimated population was 53,752...
, FloridaFloridaFlorida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, 2006 - EMRYS Foundation, GreenvilleGreenville, South Carolina-Law and government:The city of Greenville adopted the Council-Manager form of municipal government in 1976.-History:The area was part of the Cherokee Nation's protected grounds after the Treaty of 1763, which ended the French and Indian War. No White man was allowed to enter, though some families...
, South CarolinaSouth CarolinaSouth Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
lists Bass pinholePinholePinhole may refer to:* Pinhole , a rock band from Liverpool, England, later to become The Dead 60s* Pinhole , a song by Japanese rock band Ogre You Asshole* Pinhole camera, a camera that uses a pinhole to form an image instead of a lens...
workshop - the Barristers Gallery New OrleansNew Orleans, LouisianaNew Orleans is a major United States port and the largest city and metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana. The New Orleans metropolitan area has a population of 1,235,650 as of 2009, the 46th largest in the USA. The New Orleans – Metairie – Bogalusa combined statistical area has a population...
, LouisianaLouisianaLouisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
2005 Group exhibition - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-SalemWinston-Salem, North CarolinaWinston-Salem is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina, with a 2010 population of 229,617. Winston-Salem is the county seat and largest city of Forsyth County and the fourth-largest city in the state. Winston-Salem is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and is home to...
, North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
2003 Group Exhibition - Creative Loafing CharlotteCharlotte, North CarolinaCharlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009...
, North CarolinaNorth CarolinaNorth Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...
2006 - "The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes'", Examples of Bass work on pg. 15
- Centers of activity for Artist's booksArtists books: centers of activity- Alabama :In 1985, University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama began to offer an MFA Program in the in the School of Library and Informational Studies. This program offers printing/publishing, bookbinding, papermaking, and the history of the book and "emphasizes the art and craft of making books...
- Georgia Southern University, (George-Anne) Southern Daily critic Vanessa Keber StatesboroStatesboro, GeorgiaStatesboro is a city in southeast Georgia, United States, and is the county seat and most populous city of Bulloch County. Statesboro has a population of 28,422 and the Statesboro, GA Micropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 70,217...
, GeorgiaGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
1999 - Number: Inc. #37, page 13 lists a Bass lecture at University of Memphis, MemphisMemphis, TennesseeMemphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....
, TennesseeTennesseeTennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...