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.
Fraternity alumni endow new scholarship at APSU
January 26, 2018
Clarksville, TN – Forty years before Leonard Hamilton became Florida State University’s winningest head basketball coach, he was a young graduate assistant on the coaching staff at Austin Peay State University.
Prior to his arrival, he’d been initiated into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, and while on campus, Hamilton encouraged a group of motivated young men to establish a chapter at Austin Peay.
Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity/Theta Beta Endowed Scholarship at APSU.
APSU alumnus Cory Schantz to perform Guest Artist Recital on February 8th
January 25, 2018
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University Music Department will present baritone Cory Schantz in a Guest Artist Recital on Thursday, February 8th, 2018 at 7:30pm in the George and Sharon Mabry Concert Hall.
The concert, which is free and open to the public, will include songs and arias by Mozart, Korngold and Ibert, as well as a new song cycle, “Songs of Experience,” by American composer, Daren Hagen. He will conclude the program with well-known selections from “The Man of La Mancha.”
Cory Schantz to perform February 8th at Austin Peay State University.
Austin Peay State University’s Amanda Walker appointed to Tennessee Regional Planning Commission
January 25, 2018
Clarksville, TN – Amanda Walker, director of career services at Austin Peay State University, was recently appointed to the State of Tennessee Regional Planning Commission for the Clarksville-Montgomery County Region.
Walker was nominated by Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan and was confirmed by the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Office.
Amanda Walker, APSU Director of Career Services.
APSU volunteers package 8,000 meals for those in need in honor of Martin Luther King Day of Service 2018
January 24, 2018
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University’s Diversity Committee, in cooperation with the APSU Center for Service-Learning & Community Engagement, partnered with Rise Against Hunger, an international hunger relief non-profit organization, to package and distribute thousands of meals for distribution to those in need on January 19th, in honor of APSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Volunteers at Austin Peay State University package meals in honor of APSU’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
Spring 2018 AP Day for prospective APSU students is February 3rd
January 23, 2018
Clarksville, TN – High school students interested in knowing more about attending Austin Peay State University are encouraged to visit campus during Spring 2018 AP Day on Saturday, February 3rd.
During AP Day, prospective students can tour campus, meet with academic departments and student organizations and hear from important offices such as admissions, housing and financial aid.
Spring 2018 AP Day is set for February 3rd.
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
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is January 17th, 2017
January 15, 2018
Clarksville, TN – The next meeting of the Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018 at the Bone & Joint Center, 980 Professional Park Drive, right across the street from Tennova Healthcare. This is just off Dunlop Lane and Holiday Drive and only a few minutes east of Governor’s Square mall.
The meeting begins at 7:00 pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed.
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next program will be held Wednesday, Janaury 17th.
CMCSS appoints Donna Gagliardi Assistant Principal for Minglewood Elementary and Ringgold Elementary
January 14, 2018
Montgomery County, TN – The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System has announced that Donna Gagliardi, a 19-year teaching veteran and academic coach, has been named as assistant principal serving both Minglewood Elementary School and Ringgold Elementary School.
Minglewood Elementary and Ringgold Elementary Assistant Principal Donna Gagliardi.
