Clarksville’s Customs House Museum June 2019 Exhibits and Activities
May 20, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in May at the Museum are: Remembering D-Day: 75th Anniversary, Batter Up! Celebrating America’s Pastime, Here Comes the Bride, Annual Staff Art Show, Bold Strokes: The Art of Sandy Spain and Flying High.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Clarksville’s Customs House Museum May 2019 Exhibits and Activities
April 29, 2019
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
Some of the events in May at the Museum are:The Infamous Captain Weems, Remembering D-Day: 75th Anniversary, Sharon Rusch Shaver: The Way I See It, Here Comes the Bride, Annual Staff Art and Flying High.
Customs House Museum and Cultural Center
Clarksville’s First Thursday Art Walk to be held May 2nd, 2019
April 28, 2019
Clarksville, TN – Produced by The Downtown Clarksville Association, First Thursday Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour spanning a 5-block radius that combines visual art, live music, engaging events and more in the heart of Downtown Clarksville.
With 10+ venues, bars and businesses participating each month, the First Thursday Art Walk in Clarksville is the ultimate opportunity to savor and support local creative talent.
First Thursday Art Walk in Downtown Clarksville
Wilma Newton contributes generous gift to new APSU Military Family Resource Center
January 16, 2019
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – Work will soon begin converting a former car dealership building into Austin Peay State University’s new Military Family Resource Center, thanks to a generous contribution from alumna Wilma Newton (’73) in honor of her late parents.
A rendering of the APSU Military Family Resource Center with the proposed Newton name.
APSU unveils POW/MIA chair at Fortera Stadium
November 25, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, November 17th, 2018 during the Austin Peay State University (APSU) Military Appreciation Football Game, the University officially dedicated a POW-MIA chair in the stadium.
As excitement continues to build around Austin Peay’s football program and fans fill the stands at Fortera Stadium, one seat near the American flag will always remain empty.
On Saturday, November 17th, 2018 during the Austin Peay State University Military Appreciation Football Game, the University officially dedicated a POW-MIA chair in Fortera Stadium.
“Fortnite” animator Kaye Vassey visits with APSU Art Students
October 25, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – “Fortnite” lead technical animator Kaye Vassey’s art origin story involves her grandfather’s tractor doodles and, of course, Bob Ross. “My grandfather was a World War II Marine Corps vet – full on Marine Corps tattoo on the arm, the South Pacific war horror stories, the whole thing,” Vassey recalled to an animation class at Austin Peay State University.
“But what he really wanted – his family were plumbers, so he became a plumber – was to be an artist.
Kaye Vassey, lead technical animator of Epic Games’ “Fortnite,” speaks to an Austin Peay animation class on Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018.
APSU Department of Theatre and Dance to present Arthur Miller’s ‘All My Sons’
September 26, 2018
Austin Peay State University (APSU)
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, October 4th, 2018 the Austin Peay State University Department of Theatre and Dance will open its 2018-19 season with “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. The production will run through Sunday, October 7th.
Show times are 7:30pm Thursday-Saturday, with matinee performances 2:00pm on Saturday and Sunday. All performances are at the Margaret Fort Trahern Laboratory Theatre.
APSU’s Woodward Library Society hosts 10th Annual Society Social event
April 5, 2018
Clarksville, TN – On Saturday, April 21st, 2018, Austin Peay State University’s Woodward Library Society will host its 10th Annual Society Social dinner event.
The Society Social, a fundraising and friend-raising dinner event, will begin at 5:30pm at F&M Bank’s Franklin Room in downtown Clarksville. A social hour will be followed by a dinner catered by Nicolleta’s Catering.
APSU Felix G. Woodward Library
Clarksville’s First Thursday Art Walk to be held April 5th, 2018
April 2, 2018
Clarksville, TN – Produced by The Downtown Clarksville Association, First Thursday Art Walk is a free, self-guided tour spanning a 5-block radius that combines visual art, live music, engaging events and more in the heart of Downtown Clarksville.
With 10+ venues, bars and businesses participating each month, the First Thursday Art Walk in Clarksville is the ultimate opportunity to savor and support local creative talent.
First Thursday Art Walk in downtown Clarksville
APSU French professor Sorenson is Tennessee’s Foreign Language Teacher of the Year
December 20, 2017
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University Professor of French literature Dr. Karen D. Sorenson has been named this year’s Jacqueline Elliott Award for Service in Higher Education recipient by the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association (TFLTA).
TFLTA presents this award annually to a foreign language educator at the post-secondary level for outstanding service to the profession.
APSU Professor of French literature Dr. Karen D. Sorenson.
