This Week at APSU: ‘Five Savory Dishes’ has world debut at Austin Peay State University
November 19, 2019
Clarksville, TN – From Thursday, November 21st-Sunday, November. 24th, 2019, the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) will present “Five Savory Dishes” – a world premiere evening of one-act plays written Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright John Patrick Shanley.
Inaugural Film Genre Festival brings sci-fi classics to APSU
September 26, 2017
Clarksville, TN – For five weeks in September and October, aliens, robots and a bleak, dystopian future will cast a shadow over Austin Peay State University’s Art and Design Building as the Department of Languages and Literature and the Film Studies minor present the inaugural Film Genre Festival.
On each Tuesday beginning September 26th and lasting through October 31st, a different film will be shown at 5:00pm in the Art and Design Building, room 120. All screenings are free and include an introduction from the Austin Peay professor who selected the film.
Austin Peay Professor of English literature and Coordinator of the Film Studies Minor, Dr. Jill Franks.
Austin Peay State University Art + Design welcome Nato Thompson for artist lecture on September 20th
September 18, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, along with the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA), will present Nato Thompson, author, curator and artistic director of Creative Time, at 6:00pm on September 20th, 2017 for an artist lecture in the Art + Design Building’s Heydel Hall.
Austin Peay State University assistant professor Vincent completes residency program at Dublin’s Black Church Print Studio
September 11, 2017
Clarksville, TN – As the final stages of construction on Austin Peay State University’s new Art and Design Building were completed this summer, and with his campus studio unavailable, assistant professor Patrick Vincent had to look elsewhere to apply his printmaking.
“A lot of other disciplines of art can be done with less equipment, but printmaking requires a lot of machinery — some of it very old — and I didn’t have a space this summer, so I guess I had to fly to another country just to get a studio,” Vincent joked.
APSU assistant professor Patrick Vincent
Austin Peay State University Art + Design Building opens with ribbon cutting ceremony on September 12th
August 30, 2017
Clarksville, TN – After decades of rumors, speculations and wild hopes, a visual arts building is finally opening on the Austin Peay State University campus.
At 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017, the University will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Art + Design Building, followed by the dedication of a donor wall and six rooms named after donors, a reception and a building tour.
Austin Peay State University’s new Art and Design Building
Fiction, poetry and film on display during Austin Peay State University’s Zone 3 Fall 2017 Reading Series
August 22, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Zone 3, the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts’ literary journal, welcomes a diverse group of writers, filmmakers and creative minds for its Fall 2017 Zone 3 Reading Series.
Steven Sherrill will travel to campus on September 19th, at 4:00pm to give a reading of his fiction.
New Gallery at APSU launches inaugural exhibition
August 5, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The New Gallery, with support from the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, will present Jamey Grimes: Eclipse, to kick off the department’s 2017-18 exhibition season.
The New Gallery is the new exhibition space in the University’s new Art + Design Building.
Jamey Grimes
APSU construction sites off-limits to Pokémon Go players, general public
July 15, 2016
Clarksville, TN – Pokémon Go, the new GPS-based augmented reality game, has brought dozens of new visitors to the Austin Peay State University campus this week, but many of these individuals are putting themselves at risk by entering closed-off construction sites.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
APSU hosting topping out ceremony for Art and Design Building on June 27th
June 24, 2016
Clarksville, TN – At 9:00am on Monday, June 27th, the community is invited to a topping out ceremony at the construction site for Austin Peay State University’s new Art and Design Building.
Topping out ceremonies traditional occur when the last steel beam is attached to a building during its construction.
The campus of Austin Peay State University. (APSU)
