Film actor Jerry Winsett to lead free ‘Auditioning for the Camera’ workshop at APSU
September 12, 2019
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, September 19th, 2019, at the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theatre veteran film actor Jerry Winsett will lead a masterclass workshop, “Auditioning for the Camera,” at 3:30pm. Anyone in the community can watch the workshop for free.
Jerry Winsett
Austin Peay State University’s Art + Design announces 2019-20 exhibition, visiting artist schedule
August 23, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) 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.
Recently retired Austin Peay State University professor Susan Bryant will exhibit “humanature” August 26th-September 20th at Heydel Hall. (APSU)
Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts receives grant to bolster efforts with local school teachers
August 12, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) 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.
Randy Barron, a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts teaching artist, led workshops last October as part of the CECA-CMCSS Partners in Education program. (APSU)
APSU Community School for the Arts offers writing class to veterans, families
April 12, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – After Ellen Taylor walked into the room, she nudged her desk slightly to face the center of the classroom. The move, whether conscious or unconscious, signaled something intrinsic to the class that was about to start.
Taylor was ready to share. Her classmates were ready to share.
Joe Shakeenab and Jeff Bagley, both 28-year Army veterans, discuss the stories they’re working on in Writing for Military and Families, a class offered at Austin Peay State University through the Community School of the Arts.
Austin Peay State University presents The Pajama Game, featuring several guest artists
April 3, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, April 11th, 2019 the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance will present “The Pajama Game,” directed by Dr. Christopher Bailey and sponsored by the APSU the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.
Austin Peay State University Art + Design hosting 51st Juried Student Art Exhibition
April 2, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Art + Design is celebrating the end of the 2018-19 academic year with the 51st Annual Juried Student Exhibition.
The professionally juried exhibition opened in The New Gallery on April 1st and runs through April 24th, 2019.
APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts Announces 2019 Ovation Award winners
March 5, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University President Alisa White and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA, or “seek-ah”) invite the entire community to the 2019 Ovation Awards, a family-friendly celebration of the arts.
Billy Renkl is winner of this year’s Individual Artist Award.
APSU Art+Design welcomes Smithsonian Award-winning graphic designer Gail Anderson to campus
February 19, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Department of Art+Design, with support from the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome Gail Anderson, graphic designer and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian, 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, to campus this week.
Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, will take place at 6:00pm on Thursday, February 21st, in room 120 of the Austin Peay State University Art + Design building.
APSU’s CECA announces 2018-2019 Tennessee Artist Fellow
February 7, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – The Austin Peay State University (APSU) Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) recently announce that Bryce McCloud, of Nashville Tennessee, is the 2018-19 recipient of the Tennessee Artist Fellowship.
The CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship was created to celebrate contemporary art and to support the continued creative work of exceptional Tennessee artists.
Bryce McCloud received this year’s Tennessee Artist Fellowship from the Austin Peay State University Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts.
Austin Peay CECA sponsors arts experiences, including a trip to see ‘Charlotte’s Web,’ for local schoolchildren
February 6, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Anticipation rippled through the Barkers Mill Elementary third, fourth and fifth graders as they witnessed Fern pondering what to name her piglet.
Some students giggled and leaned toward each other’s ears, whispering. Other students shifted forward in their seats at the Roxy Regional Theatre and whispered – a bit more loudly – at the stage.
APSU CECA sponsors trip to see “Charlotte’s Web” at the Roxy Regional Theatre.
