This Week at Austin Peay: Welcome to fall semester, Govs!

(Posted on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022)
We made it to another fall semester, Govs! The first day of classes is Monday, Aug. 22.
We have a bunch of events planned this week to welcome you back to campus (or to campus for the first time). Here are a few.
Monday, Aug. 22
- at 9 a.m. in the Morgan University Center’s (MUC) Room 112.
- at 7:30 p.m. in the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center parking lot.
Tuesday, Aug. 23
- GreekFest at 5 p.m. in the Intramural Field.
Wednesday, Aug. 24
- at 11 a.m. in the MUC Plaza.
- at 5 p.m. in the Wilbur N. Daniel African American Cultural Center.
Thursday, Aug. 25
- at 11 a.m. in the MUC Plaza.
- NPHC Yard Show at 7 p.m. in the MUC Plaza.
Friday, Aug. 26
- at 11 a.m. at the Newton Military Family Resource Center.
- into the 80s at 6 p.m. in the Red Barn (Memorial Health Building.
Saturday, Aug. 27
- Freshman Service Project from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at various locations.
‘Paula Kovarik: Herd’ launches new season at The New Gallery
Artist – who expresses herself through the medium of fabric and thread – is the first exhibition of The New Gallery’s 2022-23 season, and it runs through Sept. 16.
Kovarik also will visit Austin Peay’s Clarksville campus for a 6 p.m. artist lecture on Aug. 31 at the Art + Design building, Room 120.
She’ll have a reception and gallery talk from noon-1:30 p.m., Sept. 1, at The New Gallery in the Art + Design building.
And during Clarksville’s First Thursday Art Walk – from 5-7:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 – she’ll have an art-making demonstration at The New Gallery.
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