| March 28 - April 3, 2022 Newsletter
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CECA announces 2021-22 Tennessee Artist Fellow – Ashton LuddenThe Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) is pleased to announce that artist Ashton Ludden of Knoxville, Tennessee, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021-2022 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. Unlike other fellowships, nominations and applications from artists are not solicited. A committee of Austin Peay State University faculty compiles a list of outstanding artists from across the state and selects the fellowship recipient.
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Celebrated printmaker LaToya Hobbs to speak at Austin Peay in CECA Visiting Artist Speaker SeriesThe Department of Art + Design, with support from the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, is pleased to welcome celebrated printmaker LaToya Hobbs to continue 2021-22 CECA Visiting Artist Speaker Series season.
“This semester has been a busy one with visits by one world-class artist after another,” said Michael Dickins, chair of the Visiting Artist Speaker Committee. “LaToya Hobbs creates large-scale woodcuts that deal with figurative imagery that addresses the idea of beauty, cultural identity and womanhood as they relate to women of the African diaspora. Read more apsu.edu/news/march-2022-ceca-latoya-hobbs
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APSU creates Institute of Public Humanities to help bring humanities to life for the communityThe newly created Institute for Public Humanities at Austin Peay State University (APSU) recently took its first steps toward fostering a relationship between the university’s humanities studies and Middle Tennessee’s living history.
The institute – housed in the APSU College of Arts & Letters – will strive to bring people together for lectures, conversations, media, classes, and events meant to explore and deepen an understanding of the human landscape of Middle Tennessee. Read more clarksvilleonline.com
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GODSPELL weaves its magic at the Roxy Regional Theatre, April 8 - April 23GODSPELL, the international hit musical loosely based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, opens at the Roxy Regional Theatre on Friday, April 8, at 8:00pm. In keeping with the theatre's pay-what-you-can opening night tradition, all tickets not pre-sold at the regular price will go on sale at 7:30pm that evening for a $5 minimum donation. Go to roxyregionaltheatre.org for more information.
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Aneka Ingold: Transfiguration Through April 24
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