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This Week at Austin Peay: Welcome back events continue throughout campus

Welcome Week 2022

(Posted on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022)

Welcome back events continue this week, the second week of the fall semester at Austin Peay. Get to know your fellow Govs at the following sample of events:

‘Ida B. the Queen’ book talk on Thursday

APSU’s Felix G. Woodward Library has been selected to participate in the Let’s Talk About It: Women’s Suffrage grant program, sponsored by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join facilitator Eboné Amos, assistant professor of African American studies, for the fourth book discussion in a five-part series. This event – at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1 – will be held at the Office of Equity, Access and Inclusion. and is free and open to the public. For more information visit this .

Paula Kovarik to visit campus for artist lecture, gallery talk, art-making demonstration

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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