Shiloh Museum Pod Cast

In October I gave a visual presentation  and talk at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History on the upcoming documentary graphic novel What Follows Is True...Crescent: The Baker Years. .  You can find an audio version of the talk at Shiloh Museum Podcasts under Places.  You can also access it at iTunesU by searching for Crescent Hotel.

Thanks to Shiloh Museum Collections Manager Carolyn Reno and Photo Archivist/Research Librarian Marie Demeroukas.

Crescent Hotel Magazine Feature

Recently our upcoming documentary graphic novel What Follows is True was mentioned in a fantastic article about the Crescent Hotel in the October issue of Joplin Metro Magazine by Kevin McClintock and photos by T. Rob Brown.  Thanks so much Kevin.  Click on the images below to read the article.  

Graphic Novel Lecture At Shiloh Museum

Join us today, Wednesday, 12 PM, October 17 at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History.  I'll be giving a visual presentation and talk on the upcoming documentary graphic novel What Follows Is True...Crescent: The Baker Years.  This book chronicles the Norman Baker years, the darkest years of the Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs,  Arkansas.  

The Shiloh Museum is located at 118 W. Johnson Ave. Springdale, AR 72764.  For more information contact the museum at 479-750-8165.   

Parallel Universes: Crescent Hotel Event

PARALLEL UNIVERSES:

where science and the supernatural meet

An Investigation

At the Crescent Hotel, Eureka Springs

August 24^th-26th
Presented by Keith Scales

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

FRIDAY AUGUST 24^th

• Talk:  The interface today; knowledge and the unknown
• Multi-media presentation
• Physics of the Future; nanobots and superpowers
• Speaker: quantum physicist/futurist         
• Does the Brain contain the Mind? OBEs (Out of body experiences) and NDEs  (Near death experiences) Speaker: psychoneurologist TBA
• Late Night Theatre

SATURDAY AUGUST 25^th

• The Limits of perception: intuition/clairvoyance/remote viewing
• Speakers: a psychic, a neuroscientist, a psychologist, TBA.
• Mind over matter: Telekinesis, teleportation and telepathy
• Speakers: mentalist, a quantum physicist, a paranormal investigator 
• Dogma, direct experience and direction in life. 
• Telepathy experiments – audience participation
• Mysterious Phenomena – auras, automatic writing, the placebo effect, etc 
• The Other World; astral plane/alternate realities/holographic multiverse
• Speaker TBA (Institute for Noetic Sciences)

 

Narrative Art Drawing Workshop at ESSA

Narrative Art Drawing Workshop  

at Eureka Springs School of the Arts

Monday, Aug. 6th - Friday, Aug. 10th 

       

This week-long class I'm teaching is designed to give an overview of basic drawing and the narrative art medium. We will work in industry sizes and specs, covering a wide variety of narrative approaches from documentary to slice of life stories. Students will work in a variety of media as well. Set-ups, timing, props, choice of shot, and character development are all emphasized.

This is a unique experience to be teaching a class in the town that is the setting for my upcoming documentary graphic novel What Follows Is True...Crescent: The Baker Years.  I will be discussing  the production of this book and showing examples as well.  For more information about ESSA, visit them on the web atessaart.org.  

Bringing Baker Back: Scales Plays Eureka Cancer 'Doctor' To The Hilt

Here is a recent article from newspaper the Lovely Citizen of Eureka Springs, AR featuring Keith Scales and his rendition of the notorious Baker Cancer Hospital administrator Norman Baker.  

From The Carroll County News

Novel focuses on Crescent, Baker

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

By Tina Parker, Carroll County News

EUREKA SPRINGS -- A documentary-style graphic novel that depicts the history of Crescent Hotel and its famous Dr. Baker is gaining some attention as it nears completion.

The novel, "What Follows Is True... Crescent: The Baker Years," tells the life of Norman Baker, the famed "doctor" who turned the Crescent Hotel into a cancer treatment facility in the 1930s.

Using paint and mixed media, illustrator Sean Fitzgibbon, alongside writer Kevin Brown, tell the story of the fraudulent doctor and his dark history in Eureka Springs. While the novel chronicles the life of Baker, the main focus is his time at the hotel.

Baker claimed to have the cure for cancer and lured several patients to the facility on promises of a treatment and healing waters.

"Baker's time in Eureka Springs are the darkest years for the Crescent Hotel," said Fitzgibbon.

Fitzgibbon and Brown first heard of Baker on a ghost tour provided by the Crescent Hotel, during which their fascination about Baker grew.

The next day, Fitzgibbon visited the Carnegie Library in Eureka Springs to find as much as he could about Baker.

"It didn't seem real, so I wanted to research it; come to find out it was real and it made me want to know more about him," explained Fitzgibbon. "Turns out, sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction."

After extensive research, Fitzgibbon and Brown began constructing the graphic novel, which took five years to compile. Though the novel it is not yet complete, the duo is planning for a Spring 2013 release of the book.

Despite the fact that Baker's time at the Crescent Hotel was short-lived, the stories of his time in Eureka Springs, and the lives he claimed, is that of large and storied legend.

The Fayetteville Public Library held an artist's reception on Thursday featuring a sneak peek at pages from Fitzgibbon's novel.

Fitzgibbon exhibits work in galleries and art centers throughout the United States, and he teaches at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Rogers.

In August, Fitzgibbon will teach a graphic illustration class at Eureka Springs School of the Arts.