APSU: Showcasing graduating artists
The Austin Peay State University Department of Art has scheduled several student art exhibitions for the Spring 2009 semester.
Austin Peay State University senior art students, pictured recently in the Trahern Building, will present several art shows and exhibits this spring on campus. Members of the class are (from left) Kristi Kerstetter, Morgan Conwell, April Stilwell, Caroline Tuzeneu, Colleen O’Neill, Sara Neuhart, Nicholas Schulman, Katie Whitfield, Ryan Sample and professor of art Gregg Schlanger. Photo by Melony Shemberger, APSU Public Relations and Marketing
Students enrolled in the Senior Exhibition class, taught by Professor of Art Gregg Schlanger, must present their work in a public setting to earn their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees. Nine students are enrolled this spring in the course. [Read more]
Dr. Bruce Barry to discuss “Freedom of Speech”
The Felix G. Woodward Library at Austin Peay State University, the APSU chapter of the American Association of University Professors, the APSU Faculty Senate and Phi Kappa Phi will present a Library Athenaeum presentation, titled “Freedom of Speech on a University Campus and in the Workplace.”
Dr. Bruce Barry will conduct the presentation at 2 p.m., Tuesday, March 31, in the Woodward Library. Barry is the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Professor of Management and a Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University.
Barry’s presentation will address restrictions on freedom of speech and other civil liberties faced by adults at work, the law’s lack of protection for basic civil liberties in workplaces and the complexity of free speech rights on university campuses. Barry’s talk will also deal with related aspects of free expression inside organizations and develop an argument that more expansive rights to free speech in workplaces and universities need not conflict with the pursuit of organizational goals. [Read more]
Roxy stages Shakespeare’s “Macbeth”
William Shakespeare”s MacBeth steps onto the Roxy Regional Theatre stage tonight for a three week run, with performances slated for March 6,7,11,12,13 at 8 p.m. and March 14 at 2 p.m.
This theatre classic depicts the anatomy of the relationship between ambition and corruption. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s most bloody and fear-filled tragedies. Often regarded as archetypal, the play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. Based loosely on the historical account of King Macbeth of Scotland many superstitions are centered on the belief the play is “cursed,” referring to it instead as “The Scottish play”. [Read more]
Madame Butterfly: Broadcast Live in HD
Patricia Racette as Cio Cio San in madame Butterfly. (Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)
The Met Live in HD continues to captivate a worldwide audience, bringing live, high definition productions of the world’s greatest opera to millions of worldwide viewers. The series continues with Puccini’s hauntingly beautiful love story, Madama Butterfly, which will be screened at several Nashville venues on Saturday, March 7 at 12 noon (CST).
Opry Mills Stadium 20 Plus IMAX, 570 Opry Mills Drive and Green Hills Stadium 16, 3815 Greenhills Village Drive, both in Nashville, will screen the live broadcast. In addition, for those who will miss the Saturday showing, Green Hills will screen encore showings on March 18 at 7 p.m. and March 18 at 1 p.m. Running time is three hours and 21 minutes, with two intermissions.
Patricia Racette returns to the title role of Anthony Minghella’s stunning production, a new classic of the Met repertory, opposite Marcello Giordani. Conducting is Patrick Summers, with production by Anthony Minghella, Patricia Racette and Marcello Giordani. [Read more]
Art Walk, Open House hosted by DAC
DAC Gallery
The Downtown Artists Cooperative will host its monthly Art Walk on Thursday, March 5 with an open house at DAC from 5-8 p.m.
ARTifacts, 124 Strawberry Alley, will feature Kate Johnson, Elizabeth Klein and Jo Rhodes.
Kate Johnson has always loved art, but has not always been an artist. After graduating from West Point in 2000, she served five years in the Army as a member of the Signal Corps spending most of her Army time at Ft Campbell with the 101st Airorne division. Specializing in wall murals and portrait art, Kate has carved a niche for herself in the Clarksville community. She can create paintings/murals on canvas so you can take the art with you where ever you may go! [Read more]
Youth Art showing honors young artists
Students from twenty-schools from the Clarksville-Montgomery County School System will be participating in the 2009 Youth Art Month exhibit.
A reception honoring the young artists will be held March 8 at the Clarksville Montgomery County Public Library, where their art will be displayed.
The program offers many students a chance to further develop their interest in the creative arts and receive recognition for the efforts.
The art teachers invite the public to attend this free event. The exhibit starts this Friday and runs through April 3. An opening reception on Sunday, March 8, will run from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Celebrate V-Day with APSU showing of “The Vagina Monologues”
Austin Peay State University Women’s Studies Program and the student organization Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance present a production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues” in commemoration of V-Day. The cost of admission is $5 and all proceeds will be donated to the Sexual Assault Center, Legal Aid of Middle Tennessee, Magdalene House and Safehouse.
The production will take place at 7 p.m., March 3-4 in the Clement Auditorium on the campus of APSU.
In addition, APSU’s Clothesline and Handprint Projects V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of playwright Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues,” and other artistic works. In 2008, volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world produced more than 4,000 V-Day events.
The V-Day movement has raised more $60 million and educated millions about violence against women and the efforts to end it. These efforts include crafting international educational media and PSA campaigns, launching the Karama program in the Middle East, opening shelters and funding more than 6,000 community-based antiviolence programs and safe houses in the Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq.
For more information, contact the APSU Women’s Studies Program, (931) 221-6314, or visit www.vday.org.
Trio Verlaine to be showcased in Community Concert Series
The Clarksville Community Concert Association will present Trio Verlaine in concert on Friday, March 6 at 7:30 p.m. in conjunction with the Mid-South Flute Festival being held at Austin Peay State University.
Trio Verlaine will perform a classical concert with flute, harp and viola on Friday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. Trio Verlaine will perform a classical concert with flute, harp and viola.
The members of Trio Verlaine are drawn together by friendship and a strong desire to further this unusual instrumental combination first dreamed of by Debussy. Members are Heidi Krutzen, principal harp CBC Radio Orchestra and Vancouver Opera, David Harding, professor of viola and chamber music, UBC, and Lorna McGhee, former co-principal flute BBC Symphony Orchestra, London. [Read more]
APSU presents reading by Paul Guest
The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at APSU invites you to the Paul Guest Poetry Reading on Tuesday, February 24th, at 4:00 pm, in the Morgan University Center, room 303. A reception will follow the reading.
Paul Guest is the author of three collections of poems, most recently, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge (Ecco, Nov 2008). He is also the author of The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, winner of the 2002 New Issues Prize, and Notes for My Body Double, winner of the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize.
Guest was awarded the Whiting Writers’ Award in 2007 for his first book of poems. In 2010, Ecco (an imprint of HarperCollins) will publish his memoir, One More Theory About Happiness. He is a visiting professor of English at the University of West Georgia.
APSU’s Sharon Mabry releases new CD
Sharon Mabry, mezzo-soprano and professor of music at Austin Peay State University, is a featured soloist on a new CD. The CD was published by Naxos, one of the leading classical music labels, and is distributed internationally.
Titled “Lincoln Portraits,” this CD—Mabry’s eighth thus far—has been issued by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln.
The CD includes orchestral works by Charles Ives, Ernst Bacon, Elliot Gould, George McKay, Vincent Persichetti, Paul Turok and Roy Harris. Mabry is the soloist for the Roy Harris “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight,” with the subtitle “A Canticle of Lamentation.” [Read more]
