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Topic: Arts and Humanities

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  • Ancient Footprints Help Appalachian State Researcher Walk Back in Time [faculty featured]
    Ancient Footprints Help Appalachian State Researcher Walk Back in Time [faculty featured]
    UNC-TV
    Sep. 28, 2020

    Dr. Cynthia Liutkus-Pierce, professor of geology and director of the environmental science program at App State, is featured in this article on the largest human fossil footprint site ever discovered in Africa – 400 or so prints near the volcano called Ol Doinyo Lengai, which means “mountain of God.”

  • App State furniture design program awarded $12K grant to support student scholarships
    App State furniture design program awarded $12K grant to support student scholarships
    Sep. 23, 2020

    The American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) Furniture Foundation has awarded $12,000 in grant funding to App State’s furniture design program to support student scholarship opportunities. This is the 17th AHFA grant awarded to the university since 2002.

  • Sumner ’75 supports launch of AppTV mobile studio, shares his thoughts on looking — and giving — back
    Sumner ’75 supports launch of AppTV mobile studio, shares his thoughts on looking — and giving — back
    Sep. 18, 2020

    Wayne Sumner ’75 was on-site with support and equipment at Appalachian State University’s mobile TV studio debut during Founders Day 2020. He reflected on his time at App State and shared his thoughts on giving back to the university.

  • Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joseph Bathanti, Author of “Coventry” [faculty featured]
    Allen Mendenhall Interviews Joseph Bathanti, Author of “Coventry” [faculty featured]
    Southern Literary Review
    Sep. 16, 2020

    Appalachian State University English professor Joseph Bathanti is interviewed about his novel “Coventry,” which is set in a prison camp, and his experiences leading writing programs in North Carolina prisons.

  • 4 lauded authors to appear in App State’s first virtual Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
    4 lauded authors to appear in App State’s first virtual Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
    Sep. 11, 2020

    The author lineup for Appalachian’s fall 2020 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series, to be held virtually due to COVID-19, includes novelist Jacinda Townsend, creative nonfiction author Graham Hoppe and poets Jacinta White and Nickole Brown.

  • #ShowYourLove in the High Country
    #ShowYourLove in the High Country
    Sep. 11, 2020

    App State partnered with AppHealthCare on the High Country “Show Your Love” public health campaign, which encourages residents and visitors to follow the 3Ws: wear a face covering, wait 6 feet apart and wash your hands often or use hand sanitizer.

  • Artist Duo Brings Life Into A Boring Old Stairway By Painting A Bright And Colorful Rug-Shaped Mural
    Artist Duo Brings Life Into A Boring Old Stairway By Painting A Bright And Colorful Rug-Shaped Mural
    deMilked
    Sep. 4, 2020

    A Baltimore-based artist duo known for their bright and vivid large-scale murals recently completed the painting of an outdoor stairway at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. The geometric-painted stair runner begins at the top of the 36-step staircase, flowing to the bottom of the steps and beyond, and ends with fringe.

  • Find Your Sustain Ability: David Karlsgodt
    Find Your Sustain Ability: David Karlsgodt
    Sep. 3, 2020

    What is the future of sustainability on college campuses? David Karlsgodt joins Lee Ball on the latest Find Your Sustain Ability.

  • From Hollywood to the High Country — App State’s mobile TV studio to serve as a learning lab on wheels
    From Hollywood to the High Country — App State’s mobile TV studio to serve as a learning lab on wheels
    Aug. 28, 2020

    The studio, which got its start as a Hollywood movie prop, will serve as a mobile learning lab for Mountaineer students covering High Country news and events through AppTV. The truck’s first stop? Appalachian’s 2020 Founders Day celebration.

  • From the Triassic to Appalachian — Archie the aetosaur makes his bronze debut on campus
    From the Triassic to Appalachian — Archie the aetosaur makes his bronze debut on campus
    Aug. 28, 2020

    A four-year collaboration of faculty and students in Appalachian’s Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences (GES) and Department of Art is now on display — Archie “is the largest and most accurate aetosaur sculpture in the northern hemisphere and one of the best in the world.”

  • App State’s College of Fine and Applied Arts names trio of department chairs
    App State’s College of Fine and Applied Arts names trio of department chairs
    Aug. 27, 2020

    The three chairs — Dr. Jim Toub, Michael Helms and Dr. Scott Welsh — “are recognized leaders within their faculty, excellent teachers and mentors … and well prepared for the challenges ahead,” according to Dr. Janice T. Pope, interim dean of Appalachian’s College of Fine and Applied Arts.

  • ‘Poetry that slams the page’ — App State names 2020–21 winner, runner-up of Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship competition
    ‘Poetry that slams the page’ — App State names 2020–21 winner, runner-up of Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship competition
    Aug. 21, 2020

    Appalachian English majors Jay Phillips and Victoria Goff have been named winner and runner-up, respectively, of the university’s Truman Capote Literary Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing in poetry for 2020–21. As the winner, Phillips was awarded a $3,649 scholarship.

  • Top Army writing award fulfills App State student’s 2nd grade prophecy
    Top Army writing award fulfills App State student’s 2nd grade prophecy
    Aug. 11, 2020

    Appalachian senior and U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Mary Junell has been named the 2019 Paul D. Savanuck Writer of the Year — a top communications honor awarded by the Army. She is set to graduate from Appalachian with a degree in communication, advertising in 2021.

  • A career high note — 2 App State alumni nominated for 2021 Music Educator Award
    A career high note — 2 App State alumni nominated for 2021 Music Educator Award
    Aug. 3, 2020

    Appalachian alumni Jenny S. Lanier ’01 and Kameron L. Radford ’08 are among 216 music educators recognized nationally as quarterfinalists for the 2021 Music Educator Award, presented by the Recording Academy and Grammy Museum.

  • 2 App State students receive awards for creative poetry, prose on life amid COVID-19
    2 App State students receive awards for creative poetry, prose on life amid COVID-19
    July 29, 2020

    Appalachian senior Abigail Miles and alumna Barclay Ann Blankenship ’20 are the recipients of Appalachian’s inaugural David Hodgin English Award. They will each receive a $350 scholarship and their creative works will be published in Appalachian’s literary journal, Cold Mountain Review.

  • ‘A history told by the people’: ‘Junaluska: Oral Histories’ features Boone’s historic Black community
    ‘A history told by the people’: ‘Junaluska: Oral Histories’ features Boone’s historic Black community
    Watauga Democrat
    July 21, 2020

    Appalachian’s Belk Library and Information Commons hosted an online book talk on “Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community,” a collection of narratives from Boone’s historically Black community edited by Dr. Susan Keefe. The retired Department of Anthropology professor worked closely with the community since the 1970s.

  • App State art professor awarded fellowship for book on spatial history of British colonial prisons in India
    App State art professor awarded fellowship for book on spatial history of British colonial prisons in India
    July 13, 2020

    Appalachian art professor Dr. Mira Rai Waits has been named a 2020 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow for her book project “Colonial Carcerality: The Birth of the Modern Prison in India,” which explores the spatial history of British colonial prisons in India.

  • Changing up the beat — App State music classes adapt to an online score
    Changing up the beat — App State music classes adapt to an online score
    June 30, 2020

    Faculty and students in Appalachian’s Hayes School of Music adapted to online classes — experiencing music education in new creative ways.

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