Two exhibitions that occur annually at Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, “Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition” (AMPC) and “Pieces of the Puzzle: Community Outreach,” will open on March 3, which coincides with the First Friday Downtown Boone Art Crawl.

John K. Roth is a renowned and prolific scholar of philosophy, religion and Holocaust studies. He served as the founding director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights (now the Center for Human Rights) at Claremont McKenna College.

The Looking Glass Gallery in Plemmons Student Union at Appalachian presents “APProach,” an exhibition of socially conscious art works by Appalachian’s current and former students.

The Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University will present concerts March 5 and 6.

The Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University will present three concerts between Feb. 28 and March 2.

McLarney is one of the leading lights on today’s poetry scene. An assistant professor of creative writing at Auburn University, she has published two collections of poems from which she will read at Appalachian: “Its Day Being Gone” (Penguin Books, 2014), which won the National Poetry Series; and “The Always Broken Plates of Mountains” (Four Way Books, 2012).

Four seniors enrolled in the Department of Applied Design’s Interior Design Program at Appalachian State University have received top honors in the Planning and Visual Education (PAVE) 2016 Student Design Competition.

Fans of poetry and fiction will have opportunities to experience how the work of three leading writers is defying stereotypes about Appalachia. They will also become reacquainted with a prolific native of the South who guest-taught poetry at Appalachian in 2003 and was appointed California’s poet laureate two years later.