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The Arts at Appalachian

Schaefer Center for the Perfomring Arts

The Russian National Ballet on the stage of the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. Photo: Troy Tuttle

Art for Life: All across our campus, Appalachian presents diverse and vibrant arts programs that enrich the cultural and intellectual climate of the campus and region.

Arts Events & Venues

Join us for an event or exhibition — you can find one nearly every day of the year, for nearly every age level and interest.

Arts Venues
  • An Appalachian Summer Festival
  • Appalachian Young People’s Theatre
  • The APPlause! Series for K-12 audiences
  • Smith Gallery
  • Craft Enrichment Program
  • Looking Glass Gallery
  • Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
  • Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
  • Department of Theatre & Dance performances
  • The Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
  • Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
  • Hayes School of Music performances
  • Appalachian Popular Programming Society (APPS)

Arts as Curriculum

The arts offer innovative ways to learn about the world. Appalachian's academic arts programs are varied and diverse, and students have many opportunities to experience, interpret, understand, record and shape culture through the arts at Appalachian.

Arts Curriculum
  • Department of Applied Design
  • Department of Art
  • Department of English
  • Expressive Arts Therapy
  • Hayes School of Music
  • Department of Theatre & Dance
  • Robert F. Gilley Recording Studio
  • Split Rail Records
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Sculpture

Tier 2000
by Ann Melanie
From the Rosen Outdoor Scuplture Exhibition

Find your Art at the Turchin Center

Bale Folclorico comes to App and watch what happens!

Arts Calendar

  • Appalachian Symphony Band: “Images, Visions, Dreams”
    Apr
    22
    Appalachian Symphony Band: “Images, Visions, Dreams”
    April 22, 2018
    2:00 pm

    The Symphony Band is conducted by Kevin Gray Richardson. The program includes "Across the Halpipe" by Samuel Hazo, "Of Sailors and Whales" by W. Francis McBeth, "Down a Country Lane" by Aaron Copland, "At Dawn They Slept" by Jay Bocook and "Unter dem Doppeladler" by Josef Franz Wagner.

  • Appalachian Musical Theatre Club: “Miscast”
    Apr
    22
    Appalachian Musical Theatre Club: “Miscast”
    April 22, 2018
    2:00 pm

    “Miscast” is a variety show featuring actors who sing dream roles from musicals in which they would never be cast due to their unsuitability for a given part. For example, genders may be swapped or unconventional costumes and voices may be employed. The show puts aside stereotypes and allows students the opportunity to do something the world might say they can’t.

  • Duo Piano Recital, Melissa Lesbines and Rodney Reynerson
    Apr
    22
    Duo Piano Recital, Melissa Lesbines and Rodney Reynerson
    April 22, 2018
    4:00 pm

    The Hayes School of Music presents Duo Piano Recital featuring faculty members Melissa Lesbines and Rodney Reynerson with James Douthit and Bair Shagdaron. The program includes works by Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré and John Philip Sousa.

  • Trash Fashion Show
    Apr
    22
    Trash Fashion Show
    April 22, 2018
    Kids' creative activities begin at 4:30. Fashion shows at 5:30 and 6:30. Afterparty at the Local.

    Trash Fashion is a community movement that values the invention of fashionable products created out of goods deemed useless, unwanted, imperfect, or disposable.

  • Appalachian Musical Theatre Club: “Miscast”
    Apr
    22
    Appalachian Musical Theatre Club: “Miscast”
    April 22, 2018
    5:00 pm

    “Miscast” is a variety show featuring actors who sing dream roles from musicals in which they would never be cast due to their unsuitability for a given part. For example, genders may be swapped or unconventional costumes and voices may be employed. The show puts aside stereotypes and allows students the opportunity to do something the world might say they can’t.

  • Solar Vehicle Team - “Runnin’ on Shine”
    Apr
    23
    Solar Vehicle Team - “Runnin’ on Shine”
    April 23, 2018

    Join Team Sunergy for a screening of the new documentary video “Runnin’ on Shine,” which chronicles the recent history of Appalachian State University’s solar vehicle team. A panel discussion with team members will also be held.

  • Appalachian Wind Ensemble: “Wind Dances, A Multi-Media Event!”
    Apr
    23
    Appalachian Wind Ensemble: “Wind Dances, A Multi-Media Event!”
    April 23, 2018
    8:00 pm

    The program features Juwan Alston from the Charlotte Ballet, Visual Artists Carolyn Crocker Rue and Abigail Arnett and Ariel Shores, Appalachian Wind Ensemble Concerto winner.

  • STEAM Expo 2018
    Apr
    24
    STEAM Expo 2018
    April 24, 2018
    9:00 am - 2:00 pm

    For the seventh time, Appalachian will host the annual STEAM Expo in conjunction with the North Carolina Science Festival. Over 26 schools with students from grades 6 through 12 will be attending this free event over 2500 students currently registered to attend. The North Carolina Science Festival is an annual statewide celebration of STEM that occurs every April across North Carolina.

  • Anthony Oliver-Smith and Elizabeth Marino: Community, Culture & Climate Justice
    Apr
    25
    Anthony Oliver-Smith and Elizabeth Marino: Community, Culture & Climate Justice
    April 25, 2018
    5:30 pm

    Public seminar by two scholars whose work addresses climate displacement and other climate injustices faced by communities around the world. Dr. Anthony Oliver-Smith has a long record of award-winning research, publications and consultation on issues relating to disasters and displacement in Peru, Honduras, India, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Japan, and the United States. Dr. Elizabeth Marino’s research explores the relationships among climate change, vulnerability, slow and rapid onset disasters, human migration, and sense of place.

  • CANCELED: Conservation and Recreation: Finding “middle ground” in the High Country and beyond
    Apr
    25
    CANCELED: Conservation and Recreation: Finding “middle ground” in the High Country and beyond
    April 25, 2018
    6:00 pm

    This event has been canceled. The moderator is attempting to reschedule it. Andrew (Drew) Jenkins, M.S., Lecturer and Curator of the I.W. Carpenter Jr Herbarium at Appalachian State University will serve as moderator for this panel discussion that explores a multidiscipline approach to address the science and policies for balancing recreation and conservation in imperiled natural areas.

  • TCVA Open Studio: Creative Wednesday
    Apr
    25
    TCVA Open Studio: Creative Wednesday
    April 25, 2018
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    The Turchin Center will open its studio space Wednesday and Thursday to Appalachian students. All supplies provided and no experience necessary. Explore the world of texture, color and design. Play with paint, collage, pastels and pen and ink. Open Studio is free and open to Appalachian students only.

  • Film: Brother Bear (2003)
    Apr
    25
    Film: Brother Bear (2003)
    April 25, 2018
    7:00 pm

    When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.

  • Linda Hogan – Craft Talk: “Intuition: The Inner Voice”
    Apr
    26
    Linda Hogan – Craft Talk: “Intuition: The Inner Voice”
    April 26, 2018
    3:30 pm

    Linda Hogan is a former faculty member at the Indian Arts Institute, Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation, and Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado. Recent volumes include “DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems”; “Indios”; “Rounding the Human Corners”; and “People of the Whale.” She is also the author of “Mean Spirit,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Book sales and signing will follow.

  • TCVA Open Studio: Aha Thursday!
    Apr
    26
    TCVA Open Studio: Aha Thursday!
    April 26, 2018
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    The Turchin Center will open its studio space Wednesday and Thursday to Appalachian students. All supplies provided and no experience necessary. Explore the world of texture, color and design. Play with paint, collage, pastels and pen and ink. Open Studio is free and open to Appalachian students only.

  • Linda Hogan
    Apr
    26
    Linda Hogan
    April 26, 2018
    7:30 pm

    Linda Hogan is a former faculty member at the Indian Arts Institute, Writer in Residence for the Chickasaw Nation, and Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado. Recent volumes include “DARK. SWEET. New and Selected Poems”; “Indios”; “Rounding the Human Corners”; and “People of the Whale.” She is also the author of “Mean Spirit,” a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Book sales and signing will follow.

  • The Ruse of Medusa: A surrealist play
    Apr
    27
    The Ruse of Medusa: A surrealist play
    April 27, 2018
    6:00 pm

    “The Ruse of Medusa,” a surrealist play by French composer and pianist Erik Satie, was translated into English by M.C. Richards — a poet, potter, essayist, translator and painter who taught at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s. The performance will be given by Dr. Christina Sornito's class, BMCS Fellows and the Department of Anthropology. Refreshments begin at 6 p.m. and the performance begins at 7 p.m.

  • Film: Brother Bear (2003)
    Apr
    27
    Film: Brother Bear (2003)
    April 27, 2018
    7:00 pm

    When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back.

  • Blurred Boundaries: Our Own Stories
    Apr
    28
    Blurred Boundaries: Our Own Stories
    April 28, 2018
    10:00 am - 1:00 pm

    On this, our final meeting, participants will share their own stories of the experience of war and are encouraged to create their stories through a variety of written and/or visual media.

  • Spring 2018 Fashion Showcase
    Apr
    28
    Spring 2018 Fashion Showcase
    April 28, 2018
    4:00 pm

    Each April, the Apparel Design and Merchandising Program hosts an open fashion showcase featuring student and faculty creations. The student collections are judged by a panel of industry experts, and family, friends, faculty and the community are invited to attend this capstone event honoring the achievements of seniors.

  • Paint Night for Appalachian Students
    Apr
    30
    Paint Night for Appalachian Students
    April 30, 2018
    6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Unleash your creative spirit with a step-by-step paint class! Follow along with our instructor to create your own little masterpiece.

  • Steely Pan Steel Band
    Apr
    30
    Steely Pan Steel Band
    April 30, 2018
    8:00 pm

    The concert will feature traditional Trinidad-style compositions such as Under the Sea, as well as those in other styles, including Cantina Band (Star Wars) and Danny Boy. All age groups will enjoy the variety of music and high energy performance by the Appalachian students.

  • 15th Anniversary Celebration — First Friday at the Turchin Center
    May
    4
    15th Anniversary Celebration — First Friday at the Turchin Center
    May 4, 2018
    6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

    The community is invited to join in the celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. This festive evening will include live music by Boone’s favorite classic jazz band, The Lucky Strikes. In addition to the refreshments, cash bar and incredible art, interpretive dancers, birthday cake and other special activities will make this anniversary extra-special.

  • TAC Talk — Jeffery Beam presents “Jonathan Williams: Lord of Orchards”
    May
    17
    TAC Talk — Jeffery Beam presents “Jonathan Williams: Lord of Orchards”
    May 17, 2018
    6:00 pm

    Join poet Jeffery Beam as he discusses poet Jonathan Williams, one of the last students at Black Mountain College. Williams was an early and sometimes first-time publisher for many of the writers who became known as the Black Mountain Poets. Eventually his press championed scores of other avant-garde and ignored writers and artists of the 20th century.

  • The Elephantine in the Anthropocene: Kelsey Merreck Wagner
    Jul
    6
    to
    Jan
    12
    The Elephantine in the Anthropocene: Kelsey Merreck Wagner
    Jul 6, 2018 - Jan 12, 2019

    “The Elephantine in the Anthropocene” will explore historic hunting practices in African countries as linked to the ivory trade in Asia, and how modern conservation is working to save the species.

  • The Persistence of Weeds: Hannah Cole
    Jul
    6
    to
    Jan
    12
    The Persistence of Weeds: Hannah Cole
    Jul 6, 2018 - Jan 12, 2019

    The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts welcomes Hannah Cole: “My paintings are at once rooted in the unique experiences of my own life, and in conversation with the larger history of American painting.”

  • Sustained Ingrain: Contemporary Woodcuts from East to West
    Jul
    6
    to
    Nov
    3
    Sustained Ingrain: Contemporary Woodcuts from East to West
    Jul 6 - Nov 3, 2018

    The Turchin Center announces “Sustained Ingrain,” featuring twelve artists from China, and twelve artists from North America. Diverse in its range of cultural context, creative vision, and innovative process, each artist works extensively in the enduring, wild and wonderful medium of woodcut.

  • Black and Gold Convocation
    Aug
    20
    Black and Gold Convocation
    August 20, 2018
    10:00 am

    Judy Shepard, mother of the late Matthew Shepard and president of the Matthew Shepard Foundation, will speak at Appalachian’s Black and Gold Convocation. Appalachian’s Common Reading Program selection “The Laramie Project” by Moisés Kaufman is a play about the community of Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, who was a gay student at the University of Wyoming.

  • Moisés Kaufman: Theater in 2018 - The Vicinity of Hope
    Sep
    17
    Moisés Kaufman: Theater in 2018 - The Vicinity of Hope
    September 17, 2018
    7:00 pm

    Moisés Kaufman is the founder and artistic director of Tectonic Theater Project, a Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and a 2015 recipient of the National Medal of Arts. His play “The Laramie Project” is about the community of Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, who was a gay student at the University of Wyoming. The murder, which was denounced as a hate crime, sparked a national debate.

  • Reading and book signing with ‘The Laramie Project’ author Moisés Kaufman
    Sep
    18
    Reading and book signing with ‘The Laramie Project’ author Moisés Kaufman
    September 18, 2018
    9:30 am

    Moisés Kaufman — playwright, director and author of the 2018-19 common reading book selection, “The Laramie Project” — will read from his work and sign copies of the play.

News

  • Inside the World of “Sweeney Todd”
    Inside the World of “Sweeney Todd”
    April 6, 2018

    A team of student dramaturgs, working under the tutelage of Dr. Derek Davidson, assistant professor of theatre arts, has been hard at work for more than a year leading up to the production of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

  • Appalachian’s Zack Vernon co-edits new collection of essays on Ron Rash
    Appalachian’s Zack Vernon co-edits new collection of essays on Ron Rash
    March 21, 2018

    “Summoning the Dead: Essays on Ron Rash” is the first book-length collection of scholarship on professor and award-winning author Ron Rash. The volume was co-edited by Appalachian professor Zack Vernon.

  • Appalachian professors co-author book about contemporary perspectives on war
    Appalachian professors co-author book about contemporary perspectives on war
    March 15, 2018

    Appalachian sociology professors Cameron Lippard and Pavel Osinsky, along with Lon Strauss, co-authored “War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World,” a new textbook examining interdisciplinary perspectives on war.

  • Appalachian’s Common Reading Program announces 2018-19 selection
    Appalachian’s Common Reading Program announces 2018-19 selection
    February 16, 2018

    “The Laramie Project,” a play about the community of Laramie, Wyoming, following the murder of Matthew Shepard in 1998, is Appalachian’s 2018-19 Common Reading Program selection for first-year students.

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