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Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman

Nov. 7, 2025 – April 4, 2026
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

What we have, we owe to bees. Among the most prolific pollinators on the planet, bees helped create and maintain the biodiverse ecosystems that made it possible for humanity to take root and grow. Over millions of years, our shared evolution has grown increasingly intertwined. And today, human activity is impacting wild and domesticated bee populations in unprecedented ways.

Featured events

  • Margo Price
    Feb
    14
    Margo Price

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

    Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026
    7:30 p.m.

    For nearly a decade, Margo Price has created a lane where independent-minded, insurgent country music can exist and thrive alongside the mainstream. Now she’s back with an exquisite, timeless album that reconnects with her roots. At its core, Hard Headed Woman is about that furious instinct to never waver — especially when our values and future are so clearly on the line. It’s country music as only Price can make it: free of rules, cherishing tradition, hard headed but with a delicate beating heart.

  • Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance
    Feb
    20
    Ailey II: The Next Generation of Dance

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

    Friday, Feb. 20, 2026
    7:30 p.m.

    For over 50 years, Ailey II – The Next Generation of Dance – has merged the spirit and energy of the country’s finest early-career dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding and emerging choreographers. Founded by Alvin Ailey in 1974, this universally renowned company embodies his pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and community programs for all people.

  • “The Secret WWII Concentration Camp Diary of Odd Nansen” with Timothy Boyce
    Feb
    25
    “The Secret WWII Concentration Camp Diary of Odd Nansen” with Timothy Boyce

    Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies

    Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
    7 - 8:30 p.m.

    Hailed by The New Yorker as “among the most compelling documents to come out of the war,” From Day to Day is a World War II concentration camp diary — one of only a handful ever translated into English — secretly written by Odd Nansen, a Norwegian. This inspiring diary brilliantly illuminates Nansen’s daily struggle, not only to survive, but to preserve his sanity and maintain his humanity. Timothy Boyce practiced law for many years, most recently serving as the Managing Partner of the Charlotte, NC office of Dechert LLP, a global law firm.

  • Kira Rockwell
    Feb
    25
    Kira Rockwell

    Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series, Department of Theatre and Dance, College of Fine and Applied Arts

    Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026
    7 p.m.

    Kira Rockwell is an Atlanta-based playwright and educator, originally from the heart of Texas. She is an Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing with the Mass Cultural Council, a recipient of the Judith Royer Excellence in Playwriting Award, second-place recipient of the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, three-time finalist for the O’Neill NPC, runner-up for the Princess Grace Award, and more.

  • Boone Docs Film Festival
    Feb
    27
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    Boone Docs Film Festival

    Celebrating Life in Appalachia

    Feb. 27 - 28, 2026

    The fifth annual Boone Docs Film Festival, a showcase for short documentaries celebrating the people who live and work in Appalachia, returns in late February to Boone. All festival events will take place at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country, located at 559 West King Street in Boone. Additionally, each of the film screenings will include discussions with participants in the films and/or the filmmakers.

  • Free Public Screening: “A Beast Touch the Mountain”
    Feb
    27
    Free Public Screening: “A Beast Touch the Mountain”

    Boone Docs Film Festival and High Country Humanities

    Friday, Feb. 27, 2026
    6 - 8 p.m.

    Boone Docs Film Festival with the generous support of High Country Humanities are thrilled to welcome James Mottern to share his documentary and post-film discussion moderated by Julie Shepherd-Powell (Appalachian Studies). “A Beast Touch the Mountain” tells the story of how a group of Appalachian women in Bent Mountain, Virginia fought for a decade to protect their land and their way of life against a fossil fuel pipeline.

  • Internship and Job Fair
    Mar
    4
    Internship and Job Fair

    Career Development Center

    Wednesday, March 4, 2026
    12 - 3 p.m.

    The Internship and Job Fair is our largest and most comprehensive career event. Serving students and alumni of all majors and skills, the event is host to many organizations across all industry sectors that are ready to network with students and introduce them to hundreds of valuable internship and job opportunities.

  • Tim Earley
    Mar
    18
    Tim Earley

    Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series

    Wednesday, March 18, 2026
    6 p.m.

    Tim Earley is the author of five collections of poems, including “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery” (Horse Less Press, 2014), winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award, and “Linthead Stomp” (Horse Less Press, 2016). He lives in Asheville, North Carolina, and teaches online courses in creative writing, Appalachian literature, British literature, and fantasy literature for the University of Mississippi.

  • Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2026
    Mar
    19
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    Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2026
    March 19 - 21, 2026

    Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world! Hot on the heels of the Festival that is held every fall in beautiful Banff, Alberta, the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour hits the road. With stops planned in over 600 communities and more than 40 countries across the globe, the Banff World Tour celebrates amazing achievements in outdoor storytelling and filmmaking worldwide.

  • Appalachian State Giving Day
    Mar
    26
    Appalachian State Giving Day

    Office of Annual Giving

    Thursday, March 26, 2026

    Mountaineers across the globe have “backed App” for 13 years, and our supporters have grown more united in giving. We are excited to share that we’ve renamed iBackAPP to Appalachian State Giving Day. This change reflects a deeper alignment with our university’s identity and the values that drive our philanthropic supporters — connection, pride and impact. Giving Day is a call to action that invites all Mountaineers to support students, faculty, programs and the future of App State.

  • Once Upon a Mattress
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    Once Upon a Mattress

    Department of Theatre and Dance

    April 15 - 19, 2026

    Many moons ago in a far-off place, Queen Aggravain decreed no couples could marry until her son, Prince Dauntless, found a bride. Princesses came from far and wide to win the hand of the prince, but none could pass the impossible tests given to them by the Queen. That is, until the “shy” swamp princess, Winnifred the Woebegone, showed up. Would she be able to pass the Sensitivity Test, marry her prince and help Lady Larken and Sir Harry to the altar? Music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer

  • Rhiannon Giddens
    Apr
    18
    Rhiannon Giddens

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts

    Saturday, April 18, 2026
    7:30 p.m.

    Rhiannon Giddens imbues her brand of folk music with miles-deep historical roots and contemporary sensibilities, pursuing an authentic understanding of the country’s musical origins through art. A two-time Grammy Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning singer and instrumentalist, MacArthur “Genius” grant recipient, and composer of opera, ballet, and film, Giddens has centered her work around the mission of lifting up people whose contributions to American musical history have previously been overlooked or erased.

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Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson

Dec. 5, 2025 – May 2, 2026
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

Pause to reorient yourself to water. Consider the source: replenishing Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and Southeastern United States. Waterways have written and rewritten this living waterscape, called by many names over time. The headwaters of the ancient New River were born millions of years ago and have flowed through countless human lifetimes. Water inscribes the landscape as a story that pools and spills and splashes in and out of range of human understandings.

Exhibitions and ongoing events

  • Philosophy and Religious Studies in the Contemporary World
    Jan
    28
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    8
    Philosophy and Religious Studies in the Contemporary World

    High Country Humanties and Department of Philosophy and Religion

  • Pet Food Drive
    Jan
    22
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    Pet Food Drive

    Veterinary Technology Program

  • Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
    Dec
    5
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    2
    Dear Body of Water: Gretchen Ernster Henderson
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
    Nov
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    Telling of the Bees: Jake Eshelman
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • contributing structure: SR Lejeune
    Nov
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    contributing structure: SR Lejeune
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • 39th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
    May
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    May
    10
    39th Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
    Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
View all exhibitions and ongoing events

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contributing structure: SR Lejeune
contributing structure: SR Lejeune

Nov. 7, 2025 – April 4, 2026
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts

“A floor” can be used to refer to a group of people, connected by their residence on the same level of a building. 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) and hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023).

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