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Veteran film actor Jerry Winsett will lead a masterclass workshop, "Auditioning for the Camera," at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, at Austin Peay State University's Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theatre. Anyone in the community can watch the workshop for free.
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The retired APSU professor is hosting a companion exhibit in the halls of the APSU Art + Design Building, just beyond her own exhibit "humanature: new works by Susan Bryant."
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The discovery happened on Aug. 16, when a carpet installer working in a Music/Mass Communication Building TV studio found a playbill and ticket from a 1988 Austin Peay play. His actions quickly landed the "Arsenic and Old Lace" playbill in the hands of communication professor Dr. Tracy Nichols, who starred in the play 31 years ago.
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The exhibition features several bodies of work developed over recent years and is a celebration of Bryant's recent retirement from Austin Peay, where she spent the last 37 years as a professor of art.
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The Department of Art + Design at Austin Peay State University is excited to announce its 2019-20 season of exhibitions and visiting speakers. Generously supported by the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA), the Department of Art + Design can bring nationally and internationally recognized artists and thinkers to Clarksville with programming that is free and open to the public.
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Austin Peay student Michael Hunter used a 3D printer to create a tactile map of campus for students with low or no vision. "This map will assist a lot of our students, and I think it will bring a deeper understanding - even if you have regular vision, even if you have no disability at all - of what an individual has to do simply to go to one building from another," Disability Services Director Jamie McCrary said.
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The Community School of the Arts at Austin Peay State University spans all age groups and skill levels, and the offerings continue to grow. This semester the school is adding two dance classes - named Expressions Through Dance - that will embrace a learning environment for children with disabilities.
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On Aug. 14, Austin Peay State University President Alisa White honored several outstanding faculty members during an awards ceremony in the Mabry Concert Hall.
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Austin Peay's Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts recently received a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to expand the University's arts education partnership with the local school system.
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Dr. Minoa Uffelman collaborates with APSU's Distance Education office to have students engage with historians from institutions such as Cornell University.
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Michael Dickins, APSU director of galleries, is also a practicing interdisciplinary artist, and in 2018, his piece "Wailing Wall" received the Nashville Scene's Best Activist Art award.
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Zone 3, supported by the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is a nonprofit literary press at APSU dedicated to publishing and promoting the work of emerging writers.
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Izzy Melvin earned the right by winning Miss College Majorette of Tennessee at the Tennessee State Twirling Championships in April.
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Shanley is the writer behind the play "Doubt" and the movie, "Moonstruck," and he wrote and directed the Tom Hanks film "Joe Vs. the Volcano."
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Eligible applicants must show cultural diversity and be a member of an underserved population, including but not limited to multi-racial, LGBTQ, students with disabilities and non-traditional students.
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Later this week, two recent Austin Peay graduates, Khari Turner and Ashanté Kindle, will step through the doors of a prestigious art institute - the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution - in western New York.
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Ebony Walton recently won an American Advertising Award, or ADDY, and three Southern Student Graphic Design Show awards.
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