Clarksville’s Customs House Museum to host Andy Warhol Polaroid exhibit beginning March 6th
February 19, 2014
Clarksville, TN – A rare exhibition of Andy Warhol’s photographic portraits will be held at the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center. Sessions with Andy: Warhol Photography from the University of South Carolina Upstate opens in the Kimbrough Gallery on March 6th.
Andy Warhol is best known for his Pop Art paintings of Campbell’s Soup cans and Marilyn Monroe.
Andy Warhol photo of Lauren Hutton.
New exhibit at APSU showcases antiquated photography process
January 31, 2014
Clarksville, TN – The photographs in Frances Scully Osterman’s new exhibit, “Nature’s Second Course,” straddle the line between the macabre and the sensual.
The images show people sleeping, but they were created using the antiquated wet-collodion photography process, giving the black and white photos a ghostly quality.
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Austin Peay State University Provost Lecture Series: Art professor to present session this week
April 16, 2013
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University art professor will present the next session of the Provost Lecture Series this week at APSU.
Paul Collins, gallery director and assistant professor of art, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, April 18th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. His lecture will be about the Living Gallery Program, an experimental approach in using arts exhibition programming to engage students.
The Living Gallery Program was developed with funds from APSU’s Summer Faculty Research Program grants. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University to exhibit newly donated folk art collection
March 7, 2013
Clarksville, TN – In a small storage room in the basement of Austin Peay State University’s Harned Hall, Marilyn Monroe is making things a bit awkward for President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie.
First off, the president and first lady are dressed formally, while Marilyn has opted to wear a red polka dot bikini. Then there’s that big smile of hers, which seems to mock the uncomfortable expression on Jackie’s face.
Two folk art sculptures that are part of the Crouch Folk Art Collection. (Photo by Beth Liggett/APSU)
APSU Provost Lecture Series to discuss protein secondary structure prediction
November 28, 2012
Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN – Protein secondary structure prediction from its amino acid sequence is a well studied computational problem in bioinformatics and data mining, and it is one that an Austin Peay State University computer science faculty member will discuss from his latest research as part of the next Provost Lecture Series at APSU.
Dr. Leong Lee, assistant professor in the APSU Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 29th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series to discuss Axis POWs
November 15, 2012
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University history faculty member whose research focuses on prisoners of war (POW) will talk about the Axis POWs held in the U.S. during World War II as part of the next Provost Lecture Series at APSU.
Dr. Antonio Thompson, associate professor of history, will present at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 15th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series to focus on volcanic eruption
November 6, 2012
Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University geologist whose expertise in volcanoes is well established in the field will share a three-dimensional analysis of the 1999 eruption of the Shishaldin Volcano in Alaska as part of the next Provost Lecture Series at APSU.
Dr. Lindsay Szramek, assistant professor of geosciences, will present “Three-Dimensional Analysis of Mafic Pumice from the 1999 sub-Plinian eruption of Shishaldin Volcano, Alaska” at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 8th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series to feature interpretations of ‘The Wizard of Oz’
November 1, 2012
Clarksville, TN – For historians, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” is a fairy tale that is much more than a children’s story. In fact, the tale carries varied perspectives of American culture and society at the turn of the century.
In 1964, Henry M. Littlefield argued that the “Wizard of Oz” was a populist parable where the Cowardly Lion represents William Jennings Bryan, The Tin Man symbolizes an industrialized worker, and the Scarecrow stands for the populist farmer. [Read more]
APSU Provost Lecture Series to feature video on Dorothy Dix Collection
October 16, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Video production about the comprehensive Dorothy Dix Collection at Austin Peay State University will be the next project presented at the Provost Lecture Series.
Kathy Heuston, associate professor of communication at APSU, and Inga Filippo, professor and instructional librarian at APSU, will share the video Heuston and her students created at 3:00pm, Thursday, October 18th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public.
All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series also can be viewed in real time via online streaming at www.ustream.tv/channel.apsu. The sessions also are recorded and can be viewed later on APSU’s iTunes public site. [Read more]
Austin Peay Downtown Gallery to present exhibition of new works by Paul Collins
October 4, 2012
Clarksville, TN – This month, the Austin Peay Downtown Gallery will present “Grow Where You’re Planted,” an exhibition of new works by APSU assistant professor of art Paul Collins.
The exhibit, which opens with a reception from 5:00pm-8:00pm on October 4th, will feature drawings and paintings inspired by the incredible rate of vegetative growth in the landscape of Middle Tennessee.
“Grow Where You’re Planted” exhibit by APSU assistant professor of art Paul Collins.
