APSU hosts College Art and Design Day February 10th
February 1, 2018
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design is hosting a College Art and Design Day on Saturday, February 10th, 2018 in the new Art + Design Building.
High school art students, as well as their art teachers and parents, are invited to participate in this daylong experience of college programs and careers in the visual arts.
Austin Peay State University’s Art + Design Building
Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design welcomes visiting artist Megan Geckler
January 27, 2018
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, will welcome internationally-known artist Megan Geckler to campus this semester.
Geckler, a site-specific installation artist based in Los Angeles, will be at Austin Peay for a week to install her newest piece specifically designed for the atrium of the new Art + Design building.
Internationally-known artist Megan Geckler to the APSU campus this semester.
The New Gallery at Austin Peay presents “John Douglas Powers: The Four Winds”
January 21, 2018
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, is continuing its exciting 2017-18 season with its newest exhibition, “John Douglas Powers: The Four Winds.”
Powers, who made a name for himself with large-scale, intricate and finely crafted kinetic sculptures, is coming to The New Gallery fresh off of a year-long Guggenheim Fellowship.
John Douglas Powers – The Four Winds
Award-winning textile artist Sonya Clark is the 2017-2018 Acuff Chair of Excellence
January 19, 2018
Clarksville, TN – Award-winning textile artist Sonya Clark will return to the campus of Austin Peay State University as the 2017-2018 Acuff Chair of Excellence. Clark was selected as this year’s Acuff Chair by the faculty of the APSU Department of Art + Design after an overwhelmingly positive response to her first APSU visit in March 2017 as part of the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) Visiting Artist Lecture series.
This spring, Clark will facilitate a course for APSU art students, titled “Measuring Histories,” which will be an in-depth extension of her featured PBS Art Assignment episode of the same name.
Sonya Clark
APSU receives donation to establish James T. and Dorothy Mann Wall of Legacy in Department of Art + Design
January 9, 2018
Clarksville, TN – When longtime Austin Peay State University art professor and acclaimed sculptor Olen Bryant died in July, Clarksville resident Jim Mann understood as well as anyone what both the University and the Clarksville community lost.
James T. and Dorothy Mann inside the APSU Department of Art + Design at the Wall of Legacy.
APSU Department of Art + Design welcomes Photo Duo Hillerband+Magsamen
November 5, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, along with the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA), will host Hillerbrand+Magsamen an artist lecture at 6:00pm on November 9th, 2017 in Heydel Hall (Art+Design building, Room 120).
Hillerbrand+Magsamen are interdisciplinary artists who create sculpture, installation, performance, video and photographic works to explore their relationships to each other and society.
Hillerband+Magsamen artist lecture to be held at APSU on November 9th.
New Gallery at Austin Peay State University presents Faculty Triennial exhibition
October 25, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Next month, Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, will present the Faculty Triennial, an exhibition celebrating the artwork of current Art + Design faculty.
This year has brought many celebrations to the Department of Art + Design. In August, the new Art + Design building opened its doors to students with new studio classrooms and new exhibition spaces.
Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery presents “Michi Meko: How Far We Haven’t Come”
October 5, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s The New Gallery, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts and the APSU Department of Art + Design, presents “Michi Meko: How Far We Haven’t Come,” as part of the 2017-18 exhibition season.
Michi Meko
Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design welcomes SWOON to campus
September 30, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, along with the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, will welcome classically trained visual artist and printmaker SWOON to campus at 6:00pm, October 4th, in Heydel Hall (Art + Design Building, Room 120) for an artist lecture.
Artist SWOON to give lecture at APSU’s Art + Design Building on October 4th.
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.
