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LOCAL ARTISTS' WORK AVAILABLE THROUGH SFA FUND-RAISER
Saturday, July 11, 7 to 9 p.m.
The School of Art is offering its summer program for students with an interest in Studio Arts. The Art Academy is scheduled for June 8 - 19. Classes meet from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, in the Art Building on Wilson Drive. Enrollment is open to students K-6th grade and is limited to ensure personal attention and instruction. Classes are arranged by approximate age and will include Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture.
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2009 SUMMER ART ACADEMY
Monday, June 8 to Friday, June 19
The School of Art is offering its summer program for students with an interest in Studio Arts. The Art Academy is scheduled for June 8 - 19. Classes meet from 9 a.m. to noon, Monday through Friday, in the Art Building on Wilson Drive. Enrollment is open to students K-6th grade and is limited to ensure personal attention and instruction. Classes are arranged by approximate age and will include Drawing, Painting, Photography and Sculpture.
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SFA ART EDUCATORS' RETREAT: RENEW YOURSELF IN ART!
Sunday, June 21 to Thursday, June 25
Join the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art for a revitalizing four-day summer art retreat for community college, elementary, middle and high school art educators! Create art in studio workshops - Peels, Pours & Photo Transfers by Peter Andrew, Nature Speak with Aloma Marquis, Metalworking Magic by Lauren McAdams, and Drawing by James Snyder. Scott Robinson will speak on Why Are There So Many Naked People In Art? and The Flatland Factor: Landscape Interpretation.
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SFA ART AND POETRY INCLUDED IN 'PEN AND PIGMENT'
Tuesday, April 14 - Friday, April 17, Griffith Gallery
Stephen F. Austin State University students enrolled in advanced painting and intermediate poetry classes will exhibit the results of a collaborative project, "Pen & Pigment," Tuesday, April 14, through Friday, April 17, in Griffith Gallery on the SFA campus. For the project, the art students each created a painting that was inspired by a partner-student’s poem, and the poets each wrote a poem that was inspired by a partner-students’ painting. The written and visual creations will be hung side-by-side for the exhibition...
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SFA STUDENT ART EXHIBITION OPENS MONDAY
Monday, April 6, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art will open the 26th Annual Art Alliance Spring Student Art Show with a reception and awards presentation from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 6, in the Art Building Galleries off of Wilson Drive...
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SFA OFFERS VISITING ARTIST'S FELTING WORKSHOP
Friday, March 27, 2009, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Registrations are now being accepted for an all-day felting and non-traditional embroidery workshop with visiting artist Mindy Sue Meyers on Friday, March 27, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House. The 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. workshop will begin with a short lecture by Meyers, followed by lessons on techniques she uses in creating her artwork. A one-hour lunch break is included in the schedule.
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MENTAL HEALTH/MENTAL ILLNESS PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW TO OPEN AT SFA'S COLE ART CENTER
Friday, March 6, to Sunday, March 29
The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts, School of Art and Nacogdoches Community Collaborative will open a photography exhibition, "Fine Line: Mental Health/Mental Illness" at 6 p.m. Friday, March 6, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches. The exhibition by San Antonio based photographer Michael Nye combines black-and-white portraits with audio recordings of the subjects' stories in an effort to confront stereotypes and reveal the courage and fragility of those living with mental illness.
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2009 ART EDUCATORS' RETREAT ANNOUNCED
Sunday, June 21, to Thursday, June 25
Join the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art for an energizing four-day summer art retreat for community college, elementary, middle and high school art educators! For information, please visit http://www.art.sfasu.edu/retreat/ or contact Dr. Marsha Blount (blountmarsh@sfasu.edu).
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CREATIVE ART SATURDAY
Saturday, February 28
Area 6- to 12-year-olds may register for an art class offered by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 28, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main Street in downtown Nacogdoches, as part of the Creative Art Saturday program. Participants will view the kinetic works of Alexander Calder, including his famous circus performance, and create kid-friendly wire kinetic sculptures of their very own circus figures. The $5 registration fee covers the cost of materials. Parents may pre-register at The Cole Art Center during normal hours (12:30 to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday) or by e-mailing Blount at blountmarsh@sfasu.edu. Class size is limited to 20.
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SFA TO OPEN EXHIBITION OF 'SEWN DRAWINGS'
Friday, January 23 - Sunday, March 15, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Art will open “Everything Old Is New Again: The Sewn Drawings of China Marks” with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 23, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.
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ITALIA: ART AND MUSIC IN ROME, FLORENCE, AND VENICE
The Schools of Music and Art in association with the Office of International Programs are offering the opportunity for any student at Stephen F. Austin State University to travel with the SFA A Cappella Choir to Italy while earning degree credit. All students at SFA must fulfill the core requirement of either an art, music or theater appreciation class. The hybrid appreciation class (art/music) will be offered during Maymester 2009. The course will be taught by Drs. Jill Carrington and David Howard and will trace the development of music and art from the Renaissance through the Baroque. Students should contact Dr. Carrington (jcarrington@sfasu.edu) or Dr. Howard (howardd@sfasu.edu) for further information.
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SFA TO OPEN EXHIBITION ON TEXAS MODERNISTS
Friday, November 21, 5 p.m., Ledbetter Gallery, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
(The Cole Art Center will be closed Sunday, Dec. 21, 2008, through Friday, Jan. 2, 2009, for the semester break.)
The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts, School of Art and University Series will open "Texas Modernists: Selections from the Collection of Carl R. McQueary" at 5 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21. McQueary will speak at 5 p.m. about his collection of paintings, sculptures and ceramics that illustrate the evolution of the Modernist movement in Texas art.
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Sunday, June 21 - Thursday, June 25, 2009
Join the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art for an energizing summer art retreat for community college, elementary, middle and high school art educators! Check here for details and updates to be announced soon.

LOCAL ARTISTS' WORK AVAILABLE THROUGH 'HOOKED ON ART' SCHOLARSHIP FUND-RAISER
Saturday, November 8, 6-9 p.m., The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
The SFA Friends of Visual Arts will unveil 24 glass ornaments bearing original works of art by local artists during the opening of a scholarship fund-raiser, "Hooked on Art," from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.
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SFA PRESENTS FILM SCREENING OF 'THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN'
Friday, November 7, 7:30 p.m., Ledbetter Gallery, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
As part of its monthly film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free one-night screening of "The Real Dirt on Farmer John" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 7, in the Ledbetter Gallery of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House.
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LOCAL ARTISTS' WORKS TO BE EXHIBITED IN 'THE WEBSTER SHOW'
Friday, October 24 - Sunday, November 9, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
The Nacogdoches Art League will open "The Webster Show" at Friday, Oct. 24, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches. The exhibition is the brainchild of local artist Wally Knight, who has chosen 26 pages from a dictionary, one page for each letter of the alphabet. In turn, 26 local artists and members of the Nacogdoches Art League have each taken a page and used it as inspiration to create art in a variety of media.
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ART DAY 2008 ANNOUNCED
Friday, November 14; activities begin at 8:30 a.m.
You and your select junior and senior art students are invited to participate in Art Day at SFA on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2008. This event will consist of a full -length, college-level art studio class tailored to give your students a taste of college life as an art major at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Details available at the Art Day Website

SFA TO SHOW AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY, 'WAR DANCE'
Friday, October 10, The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House
As part of its monthly film series, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a free one-night screening of the award-winning documentary "War Dance" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House, located at 329 E. Main St. in downtown Nacogdoches.
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SFA STUDENTS' ARTWORK ON DISPLAY AT THE HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
On display through September 30, Houston Museum of Natural Science
Visitors to the Cockrell Butterfly Center of the Houston Museum of Natural Science expect to see hundreds of live butterflies in a natural setting, various species of arthropod housed in the Insect Zoo and thousands of preserved specimens of butterflies, moths and other insects in the Brown Hall of Entomology. What they probably don't expect to see is a juried exhibition of artwork by Stephen F. Austin State University art students that was inspired by a lecture on the Sphingidae Family of moths common to East Texas. But, there, hanging in one of the most heavily attended museums in the United States, are drawings, paintings and jewelry by nine SFA students, said Chad Erpelding, SFA assistant professor of art. The exhibition is the result of a collaborative project begun by Erpelding and Dr. William Godwin, entomologist in the SFA Department of Biology, to create a way for the SFA art and science communities to work together.
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SFA PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENTS RECAPTURING HISTORIC VIEWS OF NACOGDOCHES
The city of Nacogdoches, Texas, dates all the way back to the 1700s and is, in fact, known as the "oldest town in Texas." Intrigued by the town's past, a group of art students at SFA set out to recapture historic locations throughout the town. Using a group of old photos found at the East Texas Research Center in the Ralph W. Steen Library on the SFA campus as a guide, they attempted to pinpoint the exact positions where the pictures were originally taken and re-photographed the area to show the development of the town over the past 100 years.
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