{"id":24711,"date":"2017-08-30T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24711"},"modified":"2017-08-30T05:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T10:11:07","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-art-design-building-opens-with-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-on-september-12th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/08\/30\/austin-peay-state-university-art-design-building-opens-with-ribbon-cutting-ceremony-on-september-12th\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University Art + Design Building opens with ribbon cutting ceremony on September 12th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – After decades of rumors, speculations and wild hopes, a visual arts building is finally opening on the Austin Peay State University campus.<\/p>\n

At 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017, the University will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Art + Design Building, followed by the dedication of a donor wall and six rooms named after donors, a reception and a building tour.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University’s new Art and Design Building<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI really do believe it is one of the best programmed art buildings I\u2019ve ever seen, and I was an arts and sciences dean, so I\u2019ve been in that field for a long time,\u201d Dr. Alisa White, APSU president, said. \u201cThe Art and Design faculty programmed something that will really serve our students, that really sets up apart.\u201d<\/p>\n

The $21.3 million, 46,000-square-foot building features faculty office space, general purpose classrooms, a multifunction room, art studios, a photographic studio, a general art gallery and a student gallery.<\/p>\n

During Tuesday\u2019s ceremony, several areas will be named in honor of Judge Sam and Dee Boaz, June Love Heydel, Tom Malone and Charlsie Malone Halliburton, Marlon and Linda Crow, Barbara Beach, Jim and Dottie Mann and US Bank, honoring retired vice president Joyce Taylor Norris.<\/p>\n

\"Austin<\/a>

Austin Peay State University’s new Art and Design Building<\/p><\/div>\n

The APSU Department of Art + Design was previously housed in the University\u2019s Trahern Building, and as far back as the early 1990s, students and faculty talked about getting a new building. An undergraduate named Barry Jones heard these rumors, and he hoped the new facility would open before he graduated in 1995.<\/p>\n

Two decades later, on a hot September morning in 2015, Jones\u2014now an art professor and chair of that department\u2014stood under a tent for the building\u2019s ground-breaking ceremony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Department of Art and Design places a very high value on student engagement and undergraduate research,\u201d he said that day. \u201cIn art, this means having a place to wonder, a place to experiment and a safe place to fail and succeed. Our new building will provide this.\u201d<\/p>\n

For information on the department or the ribbon-cutting ceremony, contact Jones at jonesb@apsu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – After decades of rumors, speculations and wild hopes, a visual arts building is finally opening on the Austin Peay State University campus. At 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 12th, 2017, the University will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Art + Design Building, followed by the dedication of a donor wall and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[22711,23,30835,28472,26815,11642,262,30839,30837,825,12314,24434,3879,30840,30836,30838,11041,19826,7179,7373,1556],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6qz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24712,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24711\/revisions\/24712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}