Part of An Appalachian Summer Festival's programming, this ARTtalk will provide a retrospective on the Rosen family’s vision for sculpture at App State and the lasting impact of four decades of the Rosen Sculpture Competition. Speaker Hank Foreman has worked at Appalachian since 1993. In his 32 years at the university, he has held many leadership […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions! Jill Pelto will speak about Community Contours in the Southern Appalachian Mountains on June 5th during the First Friday Art Crawl. Climate change artist Jill Pelto is currently based in Bellingham, Washington. She grew up in Massachusetts, lived in Maine for a decade, and New Mexico briefly. Pelto […]
About Steady Daylight: Steady Daylight, the latest volume of poetry from Joseph Bathanti, returns to the place he grew up, the now-vanished neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. The speaker traipses fearlessly between real and imagined realms, in the face of often conflicted sensibilities, secrets, and silence. While the physical touchstones of the “old” East […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions Dear Body of Water, on display in Mayer Gallery December 5 through May 2, 2026. Gretchen Ernster Henderson is a body of water, an intermedia artist, and the Spence L. Wilson Distinguished Professor in Humanities at Rhodes College near the Mississippi River in Memphis, TN. Her fifth book, Life in […]
Welcoming New Arrivals in the High Country Pre-Conference Event Resettled is a documentary highlighting the challenges and opportunities faced by refugees in Clarkston, GA, often cited as one of the most diverse square miles in America. The film showcases the town's role in welcoming residents from over 150 nations, focusing on themes of integration, […]
An ARTtalk panel will begin at 5:00pm, followed by the presentation of awards. The audience is then invited upstairs to a DJ set from 7:00-8:00pm with Ty Murray/DJ Soularia. This year’s exhibition will be juried by Ty Murray, artivist and Director of Art & Communications at The Bottom, a nonprofit cultural organization in Knoxville, TN, […]
Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions contributing structure, on display in Gallery A through April 4, 2026. SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) is an artist currently based in Pine Plains, NY. They received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015), were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) […]
Join us for an ARTtalk by internationally recognized writer, visual researcher, and photo-based artist, Jake Eschelman as he discusses his creative research into the interspecies dialogue between bees and humans. Eschelman actively invites his audiences to imagine what the bees may tell—or ask of—us.About the artistJake Eshelman (b. 1989, USA) is a photo-based artist and visual […]
Join us for an evening celebration of the life of multi-talented musician, filmmaker, photographer, musicologist, anthropologist, and educator, John Cohen (1932 – 2019) in conjunction with the exhibition Image & Music: John Cohen on view at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts through December 13, 2025. Different Johns, a FRUITBAT/FOLKSCARE film directed by Robert […]