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Spring 2018 Arts Calendar

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Halla Exhibition

Jan 8 - Mar 1, 2018
Art Gallery: Steve Halla Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Steve Halla was born in 1972 and grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. In 1998, he learned the art of woodblock printing under the tutelage of the late sculptor Carl Bindhammer (1940-2006) at the Carving Arts Center in Plano, Texas. In 2006, Steve earned a Ph.D. in Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Today, he and his wife, Kathy, and their two daughters, Evelyn and Cora, live in Jackson, Tennessee, where he serves as a Professor of Art at Union University.

Lecture: Thursday, March 1, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery


<em>Art:</em> Annual AIGA Valentine's Day Card Sale

Fri, Feb 9, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual AIGA Valentine's Day Card Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Faculty Piano Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Feb 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Faculty Voice Recital:</em> Sabrina Laney Warren

Mon, Feb 26, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Voice Recital: Sabrina Laney Warren

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Halla Lecture & Reception

Thu, Mar 1, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Steve Halla Lecture & Reception

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Steve Halla was born in 1972 and grew up in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. In 1998, he learned the art of woodblock printing under the tutelage of the late sculptor Carl Bindhammer (1940-2006) at the Carving Arts Center in Plano, Texas. In 2006, Steve earned a Ph.D. in Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Today, he and his wife, Kathy, and their two daughters, Evelyn and Cora, live in Jackson, Tennessee, where he serves as a Professor of Art at Union University.

Lecture: Thursday, March 1, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Thursday, March 1, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery

Exhibition: Jan. 8 - March 1


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Zac Benson Exhibition

Mar 6 - Apr 5, 2018
Art Gallery: Zac Benson Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Zac Benson is an international artist who has shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and throughout the United States. He has also had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C.. His gallery work deals with the relationship between his personal faith and beliefs and his engagement with society while his public sculptures deal with the traditional relationship of scale and form. He graduated with his B.F.A. in sculpture from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2011 and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from The University of Maryland in 2017. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University where he teaches sculpture and ceramics.

Lecture: Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Tuesday, March 6, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Zac Benson Lecture & Reception

Tue, Mar 6, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Zac Benson Lecture & Reception

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Zac Benson is an international artist who has shown in Taiwan, Bulgaria, and throughout the United States. He has also had public commissions in Australia, California, New York, and Washington, D.C.. His gallery work deals with the relationship between his personal faith and beliefs and his engagement with society while his public sculptures deal with the traditional relationship of scale and form. He graduated with his B.F.A. in sculpture from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2011 and an M.F.A. in Studio Art from The University of Maryland in 2017. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University where he teaches sculpture and ceramics.

Lecture: Tuesday, March 6, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Tuesday, March 6, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery

Exhibition: March 6 - April 5


<em>Guest Piano Recital:</em> Alan and Alvin Chow

Thu, Mar 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Guest Piano Recital: Alan and Alvin Chow

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

sponsored by the Union University Lyceum and Department of Music


<em>Art:</em> Annual AIGA Poster Sale

Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual AIGA Poster Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Theatre:</em> Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Theatre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 3:00 p.m.
Theatre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Sat, Mar 17, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mon, Mar 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Tue, Mar 20, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Student Film Festival:</em> Screening & Directors' Talk

Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening & Directors' Talk

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Student Film Festival:</em> Screening & Awards

Tue, Apr 10, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening & Awards

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

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<em>Music:</em> Opera Workshop Performance

Thu, Apr 12, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Opera Workshop Performance

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Opera Workshop Performance

Fri, Apr 13, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Opera Workshop Performance

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Double Feature

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Jazz Band Concert

Thu, Apr 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Double Feature

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Sat, Apr 21, 2018, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Double Feature

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Sun, Apr 22, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Double Feature

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Thu, Apr 26, 2018, 8:00 p.m.
Music: A Magical Night at Union

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Combined Band/Orchestra Concert

FREE and open to the public
Prizes for best costume
Free refreshments
Big Screen Projection


<em>Children's Theatre:</em> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Children's Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Children's Theatre:</em> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Mon, Apr 30, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Children's Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Children's Theatre:</em> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Tue, May 1, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Children's Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Music:</em> Spring Choral Concert

Tue, May 1, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert

Location: FBC, Sanctuary


<em>Children's Theatre:</em> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Wed, May 2, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Children's Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Children's Theatre:</em> You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Thu, May 3, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Children's Theatre: You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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May 7 - May 11, 2018
Art: Annual Student Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Reception: Tuesday, May 8, 5:30 p.m.


Tue, May 8, 2018, 5:30 p.m.
Art: Annual Student Exhibition Reception

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Exhibition runs May 7-11


<em>Art:</em> Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Fri, May 11, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Megan Paige Ward Exhibition

May 16 - Sep 20, 2018
Art Gallery: Megan Paige Ward Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

M. Paige Ward is originally from Frog Jump, TN where her first love for art was expressed through building tree houses. Ward graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art with a minor in Professional Education and TN K-12 Visual Arts Teaching Licensure in the fall of 2010 from Union University in Jackson, TN. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts / Ceramics from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2017. Paige recently worked on staff in the Department of Art at Union as the Shop Technician and Ceramics Instructor at Mudslingers Studio – Annex of the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, TN. She has participated in internships at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. She is currently working in Gatlinburg, TN as an Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Lecture: Thursday, September 20, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Thursday, September 20, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery


<em>Faculty Voice, Guitar, and Clarinet Recital:</em> Bernstein Compositions - POSTPONED

Tue, Aug 28, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Voice, Guitar, and Clarinet Recital: Bernstein Compositions - POSTPONED

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

Voice, Guitar, and Clarinet performing Bernstein compositions - POSTPONED - date TBA


<em>McAfee Organ Concert:</em> Scott Dettra

Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
McAfee Organ Concert: Scott Dettra

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Artist Lecture & Reception:</em> Megan Paige Ward

Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Artist Lecture & Reception: Megan Paige Ward

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

M. Paige Ward is originally from Frog Jump, TN where her first love for art was expressed through building tree houses. Ward graduated with her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art with a minor in Professional Education and TN K-12 Visual Arts Teaching Licensure in the fall of 2010 from Union University in Jackson, TN. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts / Ceramics from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 2017. Paige recently worked on staff in the Department of Art at Union as the Shop Technician and Ceramics Instructor at Mudslingers Studio – Annex of the Dixie Carter Performing Arts Center and Academic Enrichment Center in Huntingdon, TN. She has participated in internships at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, TN and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO. She is currently working in Gatlinburg, TN as an Artist in Residence at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.

Lecture: 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: 5:30 p.m. – Gallery
Exhibition: May 16-20


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Ron Mazellan Exhibition

Sep 27 - Nov 30, 2018
Art Gallery: Ron Mazellan Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Ron Mazellan has been an illustrator for more than thirty years. His work has enriched such books as New York Times Bestsellers, You Can Be A Friend, by Tony and Lauren Dungy and The Longest Season, by Cal Ripken Jr. Other notable titles include The Harmonica, Finding Daddy, A is for Abraham and There Come Soldier. He has also been awarded, The NAACP Image Award Winner, and Christopher Award for You Can Be A Friend. The Gelett Burgess Award and Sydney Taylor Honor Book, for Irena’s Jars Of Secrets. The Sydney Taylor Honor Book and The Skipping Stones Honor Award, A is for Abraham. Ron has also has been selected by jury to appear in Communication Arts Illustration Annual 52, Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art and Design and The Society of Illustrators 48th Annual of American Illustration.

Lecture: Thursday, September 27, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: Thursday, September 27, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery


<em>Artist Lecture & Reception:</em> Ron Mazellan

Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Artist Lecture & Reception: Ron Mazellan

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Ron Mazellan has been an illustrator for more than thirty years. His work has enriched such books as New York Times Bestsellers, You Can Be A Friend, by Tony and Lauren Dungy and The Longest Season, by Cal Ripken Jr. Other notable titles include The Harmonica, Finding Daddy, A is for Abraham and There Come Soldier. He has also been awarded, The NAACP Image Award Winner, and Christopher Award for You Can Be A Friend. The Gelett Burgess Award and Sydney Taylor Honor Book, for Irena’s Jars Of Secrets. The Sydney Taylor Honor Book and The Skipping Stones Honor Award, A is for Abraham. Ron has also has been selected by jury to appear in Communication Arts Illustration Annual 52, Creative Quarterly, The Journal of Art and Design and The Society of Illustrators 48th Annual of American Illustration.

Lecture: 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: 5:30 p.m. – Gallery
Exhibition: Sept. 27 - Nov. 30


<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: PsalmFest

Location: GEC, Banquet Hall


<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Mon, Oct 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Prometheus Bound

Tue, Oct 9, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Prometheus Bound

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Opera Workshop

Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Opera Workshop

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Opera Workshop

Sat, Oct 20, 2018, 2:00 p.m.
Music: Opera Workshop

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Fall Choral Concert

Tue, Oct 23, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert

Location: FBC, Sanctuary


<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band Concert

Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert

Location: FBC, Sanctuary


<em>Music:</em> Orchestra Concert

Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Orchestra Concert

Location: FBC, Sanctuary


<em>Theatre:</em> Sherlock Holmes

Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Sherlock Holmes

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Sherlock Holmes

Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Sherlock Holmes

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Sherlock Holmes

Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Sherlock Holmes

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Sherlock Holmes

Sat, Nov 10, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Sherlock Holmes

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Sherlock Holmes

Mon, Nov 12, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Sherlock Holmes

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Jazz Band Concert

Thu, Nov 15, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Haelim Choi Allen Exhibition

Dec 3 - Feb 5, 2019
Art Gallery: Haelim Choi Allen Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

The geographical coordinates for the City of Jackson in Tennessee are: 35.6145° N, 88.8139° W. This specific point places us near the intersection of East Main and North Royal streets in downtown Jackson, TN. This junction, even though identified as being Jackson, cannot describe the various features and nuances of this city. And yet, it gives us a specific place to begin our understanding of the city in terms of its geography, politics, and citizenship, among many other characteristics.

As a transplant from the Mid-Atlantic area to the Mid-South, and before that, an immigrant from Daegu, South Korea to Hyattsville, MD in the United States, the intersections, or rather, points of location, cultures, peoples, and overall geography blend and diverge as both points in common and uncommon to each other. Interestingly, the coordinates for Daegu, South Korea are: 35.8714° N, 128.6014° E (near the intersection of Gukchaebosang-ro and Jong-ro – on one map, where the Paris Baguette shop in Daegu is located). The latitudes for both Daegu and Jackson are very close in proximity of 35.74295° N. Yet, we are, in many ways, worlds apart from one another.

This painting exhibition presents these numerous locations visited by the artist in media that are traditionally associated with the west (oil on canvas) and the east (ink on paper). Some of these spaces are layered on top of one another, while others are juxtaposed next to one another, regardless of their exact coordinates. Traversing these markers through these means reflects the in-between spaces where Allen dwells.

Opening Lecture: Thursday, December 6, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Gallery Reception: Thursday, December 6, 5:30 p.m. in Gallery


<em>Music:</em> Union Christmas Concert

Tue, Dec 4, 2018, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Union Christmas Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


Wed, Dec 5, 2018, 10:00 a.m.
Music: Union Christmas Gift to the Community

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Artist Lecture & Reception:</em> Haelim Allen

Thu, Dec 6, 2018, 4:30 p.m.
Artist Lecture & Reception: Haelim Allen

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Haelim Choi Allen immigrated to the United States in 1976 with her parents and two younger sisters. She grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. and is a three time alumna of the University of Maryland at College Park, where she received her M.F.A. in painting and sculpture. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Union University in Jackson, TN. She is married to husband Henry, and they have a son, Matthew. Her body of work represents very broad answers to complex questions of identity.

Opening Lecture: 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Gallery Reception: 5:30 p.m. in Gallery
Exhibition: Dec. 3, 2018 - Feb. 5, 2019


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Faculty Studio Recital:</em> Sabrina Warren

Fri, Dec 7, 2018, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Studio Recital: Sabrina Warren

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


Fri, Feb 8, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: AIGA Valentine's Day Card Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Simon Levin Exhibition

Feb 11 - Mar 15, 2019
Art Gallery: Simon Levin Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

I make wood fired utilitarian pottery. Behind the creation of these vessels are several driving philosophies. These philosophies guide all aspects of my work.

I believe in making pots for everyday use, that work well for the functions intended.

My work is made in harmony with the choice of firing method. Firing with wood has several inherent qualities. These kilns have a distinct wind and directionality to them. The pots I make are made of clay bodies that are reactive to variations in temperature and atmosphere. The wood produces ash which lands on the pots and melts, forming a naturally occurring glaze. The structural qualities of the pots, in form and texture, are made to catch wood ash, controlling and encouraging the pooling of this glaze. My work is made in dialogue with the effects of the kiln. As each body of work is fired, questions are answered and new ones are posed in a progressive conversation with the firing technique. Wood-firing is a process rich in variables.

I believe in making the pots with a revelation of process. I integrate throwing lines and evidence of human touch into surface design, I do not hide attachments of handles or spouts. I seek the inherent qualities in the marks different tools make and I approach each individual pot with a similar feel though the tool might differ. This revelation of process harmonizes with the choice of wood-firing. Ware from a wood kiln speaks loudly about its making. I also seek to express an integrity of emotion. Each pot holds an exploration of mood, as I harmonize the foot of the pot with the rim and the handle with the spout, in an attempt to create a unified work. Much of my work reflects a playful humor that pervades my life, and feeds my spirit.

Utilitarian pots may never be part of an avant-garde, a cup lacks the shock value typically associated avant-garde movements. Yet artistic potters are privy to a unique and subversive role in contemporary art.; whereas much of 20th Century art has been an attempt to merge art and life, pulling Art out of museums, or bringing life into the setting of the museum, the functional pot continues to hold a place in everyone's home. It is in the home, rather than an artistic institution, that I feel we potters should exploit. A cup is one of the first things we hold in morning, and often one of the last thing we touch at night. By reintroducing artistic ware into the home we can reconnect art and the everyday.

Workshop: Monday/Tuesday Feb 11-12, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. – Small Gym
Lecture: Monday, Feb 11, 6-7 p.m. – A-72

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<em>Art:</em> Simon Levin Clay Workshop - Day 1

Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Simon Levin Clay Workshop - Day 1

Location: PAC, Gym II

Please contact the Art Department about attending workshop

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<em>Artist Lecture:</em> Simon Levin

Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Artist Lecture: Simon Levin

Location: PAC, A-72

Workshop: Monday/Tuesday Feb. 11-12, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. – Small Gym
Exhibition: Feb. 11 - March 15

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<em>Art:</em> Simon Levin Clay Workshop - Day 2

Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Simon Levin Clay Workshop - Day 2

Location: PAC, Gym II

Please contact the Art Department about attending workshop

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<em>Faculty Piano Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Feb 12, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art:</em> AIGA Poster Sale

Fri, Mar 8, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: AIGA Poster Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Fri, Mar 15, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Sat, Mar 16, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Sun, Mar 17, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Mon, Mar 18, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Chris Boyd Taylor Exhibition

Mar 19 - May 16, 2019
Art Gallery: Chris Boyd Taylor Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

A child sitting in a cardboard spaceship zooms past the stars.

A woman sits on a church pew, in her Sunday best, sound in her faith while a couple sitting in a jam-packed football stadium are jubilant in theirs.

Edward Hopper allows us to ride a half empty train or enjoy a late-night meal at a diner.

A teenager sits in the driver seat for the first time as Mom or Dad teaches them how to drive.

Friends sit in camp chairs staring into a dancing fire, far away from their daily routine.

The work I create comes from a fascination with the transformative power of the places where we reside and the memories and imagination they elicit. Spectatorship, transportation, nostalgia, and the anthropomorphic object are themes driving my studio practice.

As I create work, I imagine: what would it be like to be there? or reminisce on what it was like when I was there, hoping the viewer might do the same.

Lecture: March 19, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: March 19, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery

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<em>Artist Lecture & Reception:</em> Chris Boyd Taylor

Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Artist Lecture & Reception: Chris Boyd Taylor

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Lecture: March 19, 4:30 p.m. – A-72
Reception: March 19, 5:30 p.m. – Gallery
Exhibition: March 19 - May 16

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<em>Theatre:</em> Brigadoon

Tue, Mar 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Brigadoon

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Apr 7, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: EBC, Sanctuary

Free and open to the public


<em>Student Film Festival:</em> Screening & Directors' Talk

Mon, Apr 15, 2019, 6:00 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening & Directors' Talk

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Student Film Festival:</em> Screening & Awards

Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Student Film Festival: Screening & Awards

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

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<em>Music:</em> Jazz Band Concert

Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Dr. David McClune, University Professor of Music, will retire at the end of this semester. This will be his final concert with the UU Jazz Band. Dr. McClune is the longest serving instrumental music faculty member in Union’s history. As part of his legacy of four decades of teaching, Union University alumni will be performing with the current Jazz Band for this concert. Please join us to celebrate an evening of great Jazz!


<em>Music:</em> Spring Choral Concert

Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Heroes and Villains at the U Concert

Thu, May 2, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Heroes and Villains at the U Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

The combined Union University Orchestra and Symphonic Band are excited to share their annual Spring Concert featuring heroes and villains from Marvel, DC comics, Star Wars, and Disney. The music will include Superman, Spider-Man, Batman, Wonder Woman, as well as Star Wars' Darth Vader and Disney's Mulan along with many other hero and villain characters. Costume contest with door prizes! This concert is free and open to the public.


<em>Theatre:</em> Harvey

Fri, May 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Harvey

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Harvey

Sat, May 4, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Harvey

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Harvey

Sun, May 5, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Harvey

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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May 6 - May 10, 2019
Art: Annual Student Exhibition

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

Reception: Tuesday, May 7, 5:30 p.m. in Barefoots Joe


Tue, May 7, 2019, 5:30 p.m.
Art: Annual Student Exhibition Recpetion

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

Exhibition: May 6-10 in Barefoots Joe


<em>Theatre:</em> Harvey

Tue, May 7, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Harvey

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Art:</em> Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Fri, May 10, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> He Qi Exhibition

May 21 - Sep 5, 2019
Art Gallery: He Qi Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Currently a California resident (USA), He Qi Studied at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Art Institute in China and Hamburg Art Institute in Germany. Now He is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Art Institute of RUC (Renmin University of China, Beijing)

He was the first among Mainland Chinese to earn a Ph.D. in Religious art after the Revolution (1992). He also received his Honorary Doctor Degree from Australia Catholic University in Melbourne (May, 2011). He is also a member of the China Art Association and a former council member of the Asian Christian Art Association (1998-2006). He received 20th Century Award for Achievement in recognition of outstanding achievements in the field of Religious Art Theory and Christian Art Creation of IBC in Cambridge UK. His art works have been displayed in museums, galleries, universities and churches, in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Birmingham, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Hartford, Elizabethton, Richmond, Tokyo, Kyoto, Hong Kong, Nanjing, London, Oxford, Geneva, Aachen, St. Petersburg, etc.

His art works have been introduced on numerous newspaper and magazines, such as: Washington Post, Christianity Today, Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong Cable TV, BBC-UK, ABC-Australia, Copenhagen Daily (Denmark), Bet Binnenhof Daily in the Netherlands, China “Fine Art”, Xinhua News Paper, Princeton Post, Minnesota Monthly, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Star Tribune, WCCO TV, etc. He has been invited by universities and seminaries to be a visiting professor and artist-in-residence to do lectures and art exhibits such as: Yale Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary, New College and Regent’s Park College of Oxford (UK), Toronto University (Canada), Wheaton College (IL), Luther Seminary (MN), Theological Seminary in San Francisco (CA), St. Olaf College (MN), Drew University (NJ), Samford University (AL), Millgan College (TN), Nanjing University, Renmin University of China, Alliance Bible Seminary (Hong Kong), etc.

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Fri, Aug 23, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Barefoots Concert: The New Respects


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Caleb Dow Booth Exhibition

Sep 9 - Oct 24, 2019
Art Gallery: Caleb Dow Booth Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Caleb Booth was born in Fort Worth Texas, but spent most of his formative years in Budapest, Hungary, and Alberta, Canada. After graduating from Union University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2011, Caleb spent two years in Rome, Italy, as an artist-in-residence and later as manager of Accendere Gallery. He decided to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree at the New York Academy of Art, which he completed in 2014. He has shown work in the U.S., Canada, Italy, and China, including three solo shows and three residencies, including the prestigious Eric Fischl '66 Artist-in-Residence Teaching Program. Caleb currently lives and works in NYC.

  • Lecture: Tuesday, September 10, 4:30p – A-72
  • Reception: Tuesday, September 10, 5:30p – Gallery

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Caleb Dow Booth Lecture and Reception

Tue, Sep 10, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Caleb Dow Booth Lecture and Reception

Location: PAC, A-72

  • Lecture: Tuesday, September 10, 4:30p – A-72
  • Reception: Tuesday, September 10, 5:30p – Gallery

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Fri, Sep 13, 2019, 8:00 p.m.
Barefoots Joe: Scott Mulvahill


<em>McAfee Organ Concert:</em> Christopher Jacobson

Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
McAfee Organ Concert: Christopher Jacobson

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

You're invited to join us for this free concert hosted by the Union University Department of Music.


Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Voice Recital: Kelly Garner and Sabrina Warren

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Opera Workshop:</em> Mozart's The Impresario

Thu, Oct 3, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: Mozart's The Impresario

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

Tickets: $1 for Union Students and Employees; $3 for General Admissions

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> Mozart's The Impresario

Fri, Oct 4, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: Mozart's The Impresario

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

Tickets: $1 for Union Students and Employees; $3 for General Admissions

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> Mozart's The Impresario

Sat, Oct 5, 2019, 2:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: Mozart's The Impresario

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

Tickets: $1 for Union Students and Employees; $3 for General Admissions

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Thu, Oct 17, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Cello Recital: Daniel Strawser

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Fall Choral Concert

Thu, Oct 24, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Gene Schmidt Exhibition

Oct 28 - Dec 5, 2019
Art Gallery: Gene Schmidt Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

  • Lecture: Tuesday, October 29, 4:30p – A-72
  • Reception: Tuesday, October 29, 5:30p – Gallery

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Gene Schmidt Lecture and Reception

Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Gene Schmidt Lecture and Reception

Location: PAC, A-72

  • Lecture: Tuesday, October 29, 4:30p – A-72
  • Reception: Tuesday, October 29, 5:30p – Gallery

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<em>Music:</em> Orchestra Concert

Tue, Oct 29, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band Concert

Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Theatre:</em> A Doll's House

Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: A Doll's House

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> A Doll's House

Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: A Doll's House

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> A Doll's House

Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: A Doll's House

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> A Doll's House

Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: A Doll's House

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> A Doll's House

Tue, Nov 19, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: A Doll's House

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Handel's Messiah

Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Handel's Messiah

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Featuring the University Singers and the University Symphony Orchestra.

Free and open to the public


Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 10:00 a.m.
Music: Christmas Gift to the Community

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music:</em> A Union Christmas Concert

Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 7:00 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Union University's Department of Music will continue the tradition of the annual Union Christmas by presenting an evening concert of Christmas favorites performed by Union University choral ensembles, children's chorus and orchestra.

Free and open to the public


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Chris Nadaskay Exhibition

Dec 9 - Feb 6, 2020
Art Gallery: Chris Nadaskay Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

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Fri, Feb 7, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
Art: AIGA Valentine's Day Card Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Aaron Hardin Exhibition

Feb 10 - May 14, 2020
Art Gallery: Aaron Hardin Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Aaron Hardin (b. 1985) received his MFA from the Hartford Art School International Limited Residency Program in 2016 and is currently the Assistant Professor of Visual Communication at Union University. He also curates The Coalescence; a non-profit gallery utilizing vacant downtown shop fronts to show socially minded art works.

Hardin began his career as a photojournalist for The Jackson Sun in Jackson, Tennessee in 2009. His recent accomplishments include the Photolucida Critical Mass Award (2017), the Magnum Photography Fine Art Award (2016) and a Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Emerging Artist Award (2016).

Lecture: Feb 11, 4:30p – PAC A-72
Reception: Feb 11, 5:30p – Gallery

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Aaron Hardin Lecture and Reception

Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Aaron Hardin Lecture and Reception

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Lecture: 4:30p – PAC A-72
Reception: 5:30p – Art Gallery
Exhibition: Feb. 10 - March 19

Learn More About Aaron Hardin


<em>Faculty Piano Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Feb 11, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Ariel String Quartet

Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Ariel String Quartet

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

The Music Department is delighted to host the Ariel String Quartet. Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide over the span of nearly two decades. Formed when the members were only just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel, the Ariel – celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2020-21 – was named a recipient of the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, granted by Chamber Music America in recognition of artistic achievement and career support. The ensemble serves as the Faculty Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where they direct the chamber-music program and present a concert series in addition to maintaining a busy touring schedule in the United States and abroad.

Free and open to the public. Funding provided by Union University Lyceum.


<em>Creative Writing Workshop Reading:</em> Niles Reddick

Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Niles Reddick

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Niles Reddick is author of the Pulitzer nominated novel Drifting too far from the Shore, two collections Reading the Coffee Grounds and Road Kill Art and Other Oddities, and a novella Lead Me Home. His work has been featured in eleven collections and in over two hundred literary magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, PIF, New Reader Magazine, Forth Magazine, Cheap Pop, With Painted Words, among many others. He works for the University of Memphis-Lambuth in Jackson, Tennessee, where he lives with his wife Michelle and two children, Audrey and Nicholas.

Book signing and reception at 2 p.m.


<em>Art:</em> AIGA Poster Sale

Fri, Mar 6, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
Art: AIGA Poster Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: EBC, Sanctuary

Join us as we partner with Englewood Baptist Church in Jackson for a night of praise and worship. This event is free and open to the public.


<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You

Fri, Mar 13, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Mon, Mar 16, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You

Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You

Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You

Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> You Can't Take It With You

Tue, Mar 31, 2020, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: You Can't Take It With You

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


Thu, Apr 23, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Band/Orchestra Spring Extravaganza - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

This concert guarantees to delight with music loved by all ages.


Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert - CANCELLED

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art:</em> Annual Student Exhibition Reception - MOVED ONLINE

Tue, May 5, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
Art: Annual Student Exhibition Reception - MOVED ONLINE

The Union University Art Faculty is proud to present the Annual Art Department Student Exhibition. The show features the works of Art Majors and Minors across various mediums, and their works can be seen online at our website.

We would love to see all of you in our virtual gallery space and to join us for the reception. Here is the zoom link to drop in:

Join Us Online

For etiquette in this gallery space, please mute your audio while the speakers are presenting and ask questions over chat. Excited to see you all there!

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<em>Art:</em> Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale - CANCELLED

Fri, May 8, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale - CANCELLED

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Sandra Bowden Exhibition

Sep 3 - Oct 1, 2020
Art Gallery: Sandra Bowden Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Visual artist Sandra Bowden has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than forty years. She has been acclaimed as one of the most unique, impressive and inspiring Christian artists in America. Bowden's work has been featured in books, magazines and gallery shows across the United States, Canada, Italy and Jerusalem.

Her work fuses the vivid yet traditional imagery of the Old Testament – stone tablets and artifacts, Hebrew inscriptions, architectural depictions – with images of Christ’s passion, important music scores, and God's natural creations. She has issued several series of artworks over the years: crucifixion scenes, artistic use of text and color, new interpretations of classic religious artwork, even altered books with applied textures and hues. God's grandeur and creativity shine through in each piece of her art.

"My Christian faith has been the driving force behind my art," Bowden says. "I look at the making of a piece of art as a kind of doxology, a prayer or conversation with God. I don’t mean this in any mystical way, but my ideas come out of my theology and thoughts about God. I am somewhat of a theologian, but one who translates those interpretations into visual form."

Sandra will lecture on her work on Sept 3, 4:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Art:</em> Sandra Bowden Lecture

Thu, Sep 3, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Sandra Bowden Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Visual artist Sandra Bowden has been interpreting Scripture and her own spiritual walk through mixed media for more than forty years. She has been acclaimed as one of the most unique, impressive and inspiring Christian artists in America. Bowden's work has been featured in books, magazines and gallery shows across the United States, Canada, Italy and Jerusalem.

Her work fuses the vivid yet traditional imagery of the Old Testament – stone tablets and artifacts, Hebrew inscriptions, architectural depictions – with images of Christ’s passion, important music scores, and God's natural creations. She has issued several series of artworks over the years: crucifixion scenes, artistic use of text and color, new interpretations of classic religious artwork, even altered books with applied textures and hues. God's grandeur and creativity shine through in each piece of her art.

"My Christian faith has been the driving force behind my art," Bowden says. "I look at the making of a piece of art as a kind of doxology, a prayer or conversation with God. I don’t mean this in any mystical way, but my ideas come out of my theology and thoughts about God. I am somewhat of a theologian, but one who translates those interpretations into visual form."

Her exhibition, Reflecting the Glory, will be displayed in the Art Gallery from Sept 3 – Oct 1, 2020


Sat, Sep 19, 2020, 8:00 p.m.
Theatre: Blank Slate Improv

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre


<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Thu, Oct 1, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Location: The Great Lawn

Admission: $3 students, $5 faculty, staff, seniors, and $7 general

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Fri, Oct 2, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Location: The Great Lawn

Admission: $3 students, $5 faculty, staff, seniors, and $7 general

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Sat, Oct 3, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Telephone & The Old Maid and the Thief

Location: The Great Lawn

Admission: $3 students, $5 faculty, staff, seniors, and $7 general

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Chion-Yiao Chen Exhibition

Oct 6 - Nov 19, 2020
Art Gallery: Chion-Yiao Chen Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Chiong-Yiao Chen is a native of Taiwan; she received her undergraduate education from the National Taiwan Normal University with a major in Art with focus studies in Design and Secondary Education. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from SUNY Albany in 1985 with a concentration in Graphic Art.

Trained as a lithographer, Chiong-Yiao also experiments and teaches a variety of media ranging from relief, silkscreen, and intaglio to drawing and watercolor. Her experience prior to teaching in higher education included being an assistant to master printer Robert Blackburn in New York where she worked on lithography projects by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Maqbool Fida Husain.

Chiong-Yiao has participated in over eighty exhibitions regionally and nationally, and has conducted numerous workshops and presentations for conferences, museums, and not-for-profit venues throughout the southeastern United States. Her relief prints are included in galleries, museums, and University print archives. Currently serving as Director of University Galleries at the University of North Alabama, Chiong-Yiao's expanded educational interests include study abroad, gallery practice, applied design, and inter-disciplinary collaboration.

Chion-Yiao will lecture on her work on November 19 at 4:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Fri, Oct 9, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Sat, Oct 10, 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Sun, Oct 11, 2020, 2:00 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - CANCELLED

Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - CANCELLED

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Theatre:</em> Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - CANCELLED

Tue, Oct 13, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Theatre: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - CANCELLED

Location: The Great Lawn

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<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band and Orchestra Concert

Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band and Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Music:</em> Fall Choral Concert

Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art:</em> Chion-Yiao Chen Lecture

Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Chion-Yiao Chen Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Chiong-Yiao Chen is a native of Taiwan; she received her undergraduate education from the National Taiwan Normal University with a major in Art with focus studies in Design and Secondary Education. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Art from SUNY Albany in 1985 with a concentration in Graphic Art.

Trained as a lithographer, Chiong-Yiao also experiments and teaches a variety of media ranging from relief, silkscreen, and intaglio to drawing and watercolor. Her experience prior to teaching in higher education included being an assistant to master printer Robert Blackburn in New York where she worked on lithography projects by nationally and internationally acclaimed artists such as Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Catlett, and Maqbool Fida Husain.

Chiong-Yiao has participated in over eighty exhibitions regionally and nationally, and has conducted numerous workshops and presentations for conferences, museums, and not-for-profit venues throughout the southeastern United States. Her relief prints are included in galleries, museums, and University print archives. Currently serving as Director of University Galleries at the University of North Alabama, Chiong-Yiao's expanded educational interests include study abroad, gallery practice, applied design, and inter-disciplinary collaboration.

Chion-Yiao will exhibit her work Oct. 6 - Nov. 19 in the Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> A Thankful Christmas at Union

Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 7:00 p.m.
Music: A Thankful Christmas at Union

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Hamlett Dobbins Exhibition

Dec 1 - Feb 11, 2021
Art Gallery: Hamlett Dobbins Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Hamlett Dobbins employs painting and abstraction to process experiences of pure consciousness. He has often been described as a "painter's painter" for his approach to shape and form, complex surface layering and adept color orchestration. His obsession with structure, texture and play began with his love of Legos as a child. Constructing images from basic shapes and colors allowed him to connect with his feelings in a physical way, discovering truths and narrating meaning behind once indescribable sensations. Since 2002, his paintings have been based on specific memories with family and friends. In the studio, Dobbins translates these feelings into compositions with palettes, parameters and complexities unique to the individual involved, denoted by the series of initials in their titles. Reflecting raw emotional energy, his paintings inspire the viewer to move from simply seeing to deeper perception and mindfulness.


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 4, 2020, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Megan Winter Exhibition

Feb 16 - Mar 25, 2021
Art Gallery: Megan Winter Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Exhibition featuring recent works by potter and UU Art Dept alumna, Megan Winter.


<em>Art:</em> Megan Winter Lecture

Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Megan Winter Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Megan Winter will give an artist lecture in conjunction with her Feb - March 2021 gallery exhibition.


Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 8:00 p.m.
Barefoots Joe: Arcadian Wild with Natalie Schlabs

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert:</em> Terry McRoberts

Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Terry McRoberts

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Dr. Terry McRoberts, organist, will perform an organ recital as part of the Carolyn Townsend McAfee concert series.

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<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Fri, Mar 19, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Mar 21, 2021, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: EBC, Sanctuary


<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Mon, Mar 22, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The School for Scandal

Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The School for Scandal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Art Department Faculty & Staff Group Exhibition

Apr 6 - Aug 26, 2021
Art Gallery: Art Department Faculty & Staff Group Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Exhibition featuring works by Art Department Faculty & Staff. The following will be participating: Haelim Allen, Lee Benson, Steve Halla, Chris Nadaskay, Melinda Posey, and Paige Ward

Faculty and Staff Group Panel: April 20 at 4:30p in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Art:</em> Faculty and Staff Group Panel

Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Faculty and Staff Group Panel

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

In conjunction with their exhibition running April 6 - August 26, 2021, the Art Department Faculty & Staff will discuss their work.

The following will be participating: Haelim Allen, Lee Benson, Steve Halla, Chris Nadaskay, Melinda Posey, and Paige Ward


<em>Music:</em> A Tribute to Broadway

Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: A Tribute to Broadway

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Music:</em> Spring Choral Concert

Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Reserve Your Spot


Fri, Apr 30, 2021, 8:00 p.m.
Theatre: Blank Slate Improv


<em>Art:</em> Annual Student Exhibition

May 3 - May 7, 2021
Art: Annual Student Exhibition

Reception: May 4, 5:30pm


<em>Music:</em> Jazz Band Concert

Tue, May 4, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Jazz Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art:</em> Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Fri, May 7, 2021, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Prince Exhibition

Aug 31 - Sep 30, 2021
Art Gallery: Steve Prince Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Exhibit: Salt of the Earth

Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. Prince is a mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art evangelist. He has taught middle school, high school, community college, 4-year public and 4-year private, and has conducted workshops internationally in various media.

Lecture: August 31, 4:30p in PAC A-72; Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Prince Lecture

Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Steve Prince Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Steve A. Prince is a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and he currently resides in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is the Director of Engagement and Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Muscarelle Museum at William and Mary. Prince received his BFA from Xavier University of Louisiana and his MFA in Printmaking and Sculpture from Michigan State University. Prince is a mixed media artist, master printmaker, lecturer, educator, and art evangelist. He has taught middle school, high school, community college, 4-year public and 4-year private, and has conducted workshops internationally in various media.

Exhibition: Salt of the Earth, Aug. 31 - Sept. 30


<em>Guest Voice Recital:</em> Mary Wilson - POSTPONED

Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Guest Voice Recital: Mary Wilson - POSTPONED

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

Mary Wilson's Website


<em>Guest Voice Lecture:</em> Mary Wilson - POSTPONED

Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 12:15 p.m.
Guest Voice Lecture: Mary Wilson - POSTPONED

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

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<em>Faculty Piano Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Sep 28, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Wesley Brown Lecture

Tue, Oct 5, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Wesley Brown Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Wesley Brown had schooling in the making of functional wares and sculpture and has worked and studied as an artist in such places as Indiana, North Carolina, and Jingdezhen, China. He holds an Associates of Art from Sinclair Community College, a Bachelors of Fine Art from Bowling Green State University, and a Masters of Fine Arts from Indiana University.

Exhibition: Meant; Oct. 5 - Dec. 20


Fri, Oct 8, 2021, 8:00 p.m.
Theatre: Blank Slate Improv


<em>Music:</em> Fall Choral Concert

Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Fall Chamber Music Concert

Thu, Oct 21, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Chamber Music Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Fall Band/Orchestra Concert

Tue, Nov 2, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Band/Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Fall Jazz Band Concert

Mon, Nov 8, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Jazz Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Halla Exhibition

Nov 9 - Feb 3, 2022
Art Gallery: Steve Halla Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Exhibit: In Loving Memory: Cemetery Art Photography

Lecture: November 16, 4:30p in Harvey Auditorium; Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Theatre:</em> Decision Height

Fri, Nov 12, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Decision Height

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Decision Height

Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Decision Height

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Decision Height

Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: Decision Height

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> Decision Height

Mon, Nov 15, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Decision Height

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Steve Halla Lecture

Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Steve Halla Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Exhibit: In Loving Memory: Cemetery Art Photography
November 9, 2021 - February 3, 2022


<em>Theatre:</em> Decision Height

Tue, Nov 16, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: Decision Height

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Handel's Messiah

Tue, Nov 30, 2021, 7:30 p.m.
Music: Handel's Messiah

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Start off Advent season the right way with this concert of highlights from Handel's beloved oratorio, Messiah. Admission is free and open to the public.

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Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 8:00 p.m.
Blank Slate Improv


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music:</em> A Union Christmas

Fri, Dec 3, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

A Christmas collage concert featuring our many different vocal and instrumental ensembles. Admission is free and open to the public.

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Exhibit

Feb 7 - Mar 31, 2022
Art Gallery: Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Exhibit

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Randy Johnston is recognized and exhibited internationally as an artist and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, two Visual Artist Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Distinguished teaching award in American Arts from the James Renwick Society of the Smithsonian. He is a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. He received his MFA from Southern Illinois University and a BFA in Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota where he studied with Warren MacKenzie. He also studied in Japan at the pottery of Shimaoka Tatsuzo who was a student of Shoji Hamada. Johnston has presented hundreds of lectures and guest artist presentations worldwide. He has work in numerous international museums and private collections.

Jan McKeachie Johnston studied at the University Of Minnesota, Southern Illinois University, and University Of Wisconsin at River Falls where she earned a BFA with a major in Ceramics. Since 1979 has been very active in teaching ceramic workshops and demonstrations, and working in her Wisconsin studio. She has recently had the opportunity to teach at UWRF as an adjunct professor in ceramics. For the past 25 years she has participated in important exhibitions throughout the United States. Recent exhibitions include, Solo Exhibition, Schaller Gallery, Utility2, Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA, Raw Materials, TRAX Gallery, Berkeley, CA, Gallery. Her work has also been featured in Clay Times and Ceramics Monthly, and she is represented in many private and public collections, including the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota; The Minneapolis Institute of Art; The Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; and The Tweed museum Of Art, Duluth, MN.

Workshop: Feb 7-8, 8:00a – 4:30a in PAC Small Gym

Lecture: February 7 at 6:00p in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Art:</em> Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Workshop

Feb 7 - Feb 8, 2022
Art: Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Workshop

Location: PAC, Gym II

The Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Exhibit runs Feb. 7 - March 31 in the Art Gallery.

Lecture: February 7 at 6:00p in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Art:</em> Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Lecture

Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
Art: Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

The Randy Johnston & Jan McKeachie Johnston Exhibit runs Feb. 7 - March 31 in the Art Gallery

Workshop: Feb 7-8, 8:00a – 4:30a in PAC Small Gym


<em>Creative Writing Workshop Reading:</em> Bobby Rogers

Thu, Feb 24, 2022, 1:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Bobby Rogers

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Bobby C. Rogers is the author of Social History, published in the Southern Messenger Poets Series from LSU Press, and Paper Anniversary, which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts' Arlin G. Meyer Prize in Imaginative Writing. His most recent book, Shift Work, has just been released by LSU. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Charitable Trusts, and was named a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress. His poems appear widely in such journals as Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and Image. He teaches at Union University.

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: EBC, Sanctuary

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Theatre:</em> The Count of Monte Cristo

Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert:</em> Ken Cowan

Thu, Mar 17, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Ken Cowan

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

In celebration of the 33rd annual McAfee Concert series, Union welcomes guest artist Ken Cowan, who is recognized as one of the top young organists today. He is currently on the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and he is organist and artist-in-residence at Palmere Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas. Join us for a free evening of artistry and entertainment.


Union Student Film Festival

Mon, Apr 4, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
Union Student Film Festival

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

After a pandemic intermission, we're back to celebrate our seventeenth annual Union Student Film Festival. Each year we are blessed with some great films from the student body, and we look forward to what our students will produce this year.

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Betsy Marsch Exhibition

Apr 5 - May 24, 2022
Art Gallery: Betsy Marsch Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Elisabeth Marsch specializes in portrait and figure painting on reacted copper panels. She works with acids, metal, and unusual materials to create rich substrates for her paintings, which explore the human psyche and its relationship to other people and the world. Since taking her undergraduate degree in painting, aesthetics, and philosophy from Union University (Jackson, TN), she has worked as a metal smith, artist, and art tutor while showing in solo and group exhibitions and giving talks on the practice and philosophy of art. In 2016 she attended a residency at the New York Academy of Art in lower Manhattan, upon completion of which she moved to Franklin, TN to further develop her work in portraiture. She studied briefly under the nihonga painter Makoto Fujimura in 2018 and continues to develop her work in the human figure and experimental media. Elisabeth is a member of CIVA, ACWC, American Women Artists, and the Portrait Society of America.

Lecture: April 5 at 4:30p in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Art:</em> Betsy Marsch Lecture

Tue, Apr 5, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Betsy Marsch Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

The Betsy Marsch Exhibition runs April 5 - May 24 in the Art Gallery


<em>English Annual Reading Series:</em> Natasha Trethewey

Thu, Apr 14, 2022, 6:00 p.m.
English Annual Reading Series: Natasha Trethewey

Location: GEC, Banquet Hall

Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). She is the author of five collections of poetry, Monument (2018), which was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; Thrall (2012); Native Guard (2006), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia (2002); and Domestic Work (2000), which was selected by Rita Dove as the winner of the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for the best first book by an African American poet and won both the 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. She is also the author of the memoir Memorial Drive (2020). Her book of nonfiction, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, appeared in 2010. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Beinecke Library at Yale, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. At Northwestern University she is a Board of Trustees Professor of English in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. In 2012 she was named Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi and and in 2013 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ms. Trethewey will be reading from her new memoir Memorial Drive. This event is free and open to the public.

Learn More About Natasha Trethewey Creative Writing Reading Series


Thu, Apr 21, 2022, 7:10 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Showcase

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Band/Orchestra Concert - Night at the Movies

Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Band/Orchestra Concert - Night at the Movies

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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Tue, May 3, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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Thu, May 5, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chamber Music Concert

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art:</em> Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Fri, May 6, 2022, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


May 9 - May 13, 2022
Art: Annual Student Exhibition

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

Reception: May 10 at 5:30p in Barefoots Joe


Tue, May 10, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
Art: Annual Student Exhibition Reception

Location: SUB, Barefoots Joe

The Annual Student Exhibition runs May 9-13 in Barefoots Joe


Tue, May 10, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Jazz Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Marissa Childers Exhibition

May 26 - Aug 25, 2022
Art Gallery: Marissa Childers Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Marissa Childers, Ornaments of Daily Life
Lecture: August 25, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Reception to follow in Art Gallery

Marissa Childers was born and raised in the small town of Florence, Alabama. She attended the University of North Alabama, where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019 with a focus in ceramics. Upon graduating she worked as a ceramic intern at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and is now pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma. Marissa’s work has been shown at numerous galleries across the United States and was published in the November 2020 issue of Ceramics Monthly, she received the NCECA Graduate Fellowship in 2021, and she is one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists of 2022.

Marissa’s work explores intimate moments that are shared with one another through functional handmade objects. Her work is often colorful and covered in a variety of textures found within the domestic space. Whether it is influenced by the pattern on her grandparents' curtains or the woven threads of a blanket, each piece is a little reminder of home.


<em>Art:</em> Marissa Childers Lecture

Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Marissa Childers Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Marissa Childers, Ornaments of Daily Life Exhibit runs May 26 - Aug. 25, 2022 in the Art Gallery

Reception to follow lecture in Art Gallery


<em>Art:</em> Marc Chagall and the Bible Exhibition

Sep 6 - Dec 2, 2022
Art: Marc Chagall and the Bible Exhibition

Panel Discussion - Oct. 20, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium
Reception for Artists - Oct. 20, 2022 at 6:30p in Barefoots Joe

Art Gallery (M-Th, 8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; Fridays 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.):

  • Makom in HebrewMarc Chagall's In-dwelling (September 6 – October 10, 2022)
  • Makom: Selections from Marc Chagall's Prints of the Bible (October 17 – December 2, 2022)

3rd Floor of The Logos and Barefoots Joe (M-F, 7:30 a.m. – closing):

  • Makom: Ekphrastic Responses to Marc Chagall's Visual Representations of the Bible

For more information, please contact Prof. Haelim Allen at hallen@uu.edu or Ms. Callie Wright at cwrightdesignsco@gmail.com.

The exhibit, reception, lectures, and tours are free and open to the public.


<em>Faculty Composition Recital:</em> Cody Curtis

Thu, Sep 29, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Composition Recital: Cody Curtis

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

Premiere of a piece for woodwind quintet that is based on four of Marc Chagall's lithographs on King David


<em>Lyceum:</em> Maurice Manning Poetry Reading

Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Lyceum: Maurice Manning Poetry Reading

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Maurice Manning has published seven books of poetry, including The Common Man, which was one of three finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. His first collection, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, was selected by W.S. Merwin for the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets. His most recent books are One Man’s Dark and Railsplitter, both from Copper Canyon Press. Manning’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Southern Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. He was born and raised in Kentucky and currently teaches at Transylvania University in Lexington.

Learn More About Maurice Manning

The event is free and open to the public. There will also be a reception afterwards.


<em>Faculty Piano Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Piano Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Joey Moore

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art:</em> Chagall Exhibition Panel Discussion & Reception for Artists

Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 5:30 p.m.
Art: Chagall Exhibition Panel Discussion & Reception for Artists

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Marc Chagall and the Bible Exhibition runs Sept. 6 - Dec. 2, 2022 in the Art Gallery, Barefoots Joe, and The Logos

  • Panel Discussion (5:30–6:30 p.m.) Harvey Auditorium
  • Reception for Artists (6:30–7:30 p.m.) Barefoots Joe

For more information, please contact Prof. Haelim Allen at hallen@uu.edu or Ms. Callie Wright at cwrightdesignsco@gmail.com.

The exhibit, reception, lectures, and tours are free and open to the public.


<em>Music:</em> Fall Choral Concert

Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Fall Band and Orchestra Concert

Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Band and Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Music:</em> Contemporary Ensembles Concert

Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Contemporary Ensembles Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Aaron Lee Benson Faculty Exhibition - Thank You

Dec 6 - Mar 16, 2023
Art Gallery: Aaron Lee Benson Faculty Exhibition - Thank You

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Aaron Lee Benson is a sculptor. He has been a practicing professional artist for 32 years. He has completed works in 27 states and four countries. He maintains three studios in Jackson and Kingston, Tennessee. He is Chair of the Art Department and head of the 3-D program, which he began in 1996 at Union University. He has three earned degrees, BFA, BS ArtEd, and MFA from The University of Tennessee School of the Arts. He has won numerous commissions, awards and grants, including two NEA’s and PEW. His wife of 38 years, Betty Jane Benson, and he have four grown children, three of whom are practicing artists and all of which work for Benson Sculpture LLC. They also have 10 grandchildren.

Lecture: March 16, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72.
Reception: March 16, 2023 at 5:30 p.m. in Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> A Union Christmas

Thu, Dec 8, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: WJBC, Sanctuary


<em>Creative Writing Workshop Reading:</em> Graham Hillard

Thu, Mar 2, 2023, 1:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Graham Hillard

Location: GEC, Salon III

Graham Hillard teaches creative writing and contemporary literature and is the founding editor of the Cumberland River Review, Trevecca's national literary quarterly. He holds an MFA from New York University, where he studied poetry with Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Edward Hirsch, Stephen Dunn, Phillis Levin, Tom Sleigh and Elizabeth Alexander. He has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Oxford American, the Weekly Standard and other magazines and is a regular contributor to the Washington Examiner and National Review. His poems and short stories have appeared in 32 Poems, The Believer, Epoch, Image, Notre Dame Review, Sewanee Review and numerous other journals. He has been a resident fellow on several occasions at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Tennessee Williams scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and a recipient of an individual artist fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. He is the author of Wolf Intervals: Poems (Cascade Books), released in 2022 as part of the Poiema Poetry Series.

Book signing and reception at 2 p.m.

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<em>Art:</em> Aaron Lee Benson Lecture

Thu, Mar 16, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Aaron Lee Benson Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Reception to follow at 5:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Spring BFA Graphic Design Senior Show

Mar 20 - Mar 23, 2023
Art Gallery: Spring BFA Graphic Design Senior Show

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Reception: Thursday, March 23, 2023 6-7 p.m. in the Art Gallery

Graphic Design Seniors Represented: Daniel Howe, Cayli Lambert, Makenna David, Kendra Duffey, Cassalyn Callahan, Olivia Duke, and Madison Gross


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Spring BFA Studio Art Senior Show

Mar 27 - Mar 30, 2023
Art Gallery: Spring BFA Studio Art Senior Show

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Reception: Wednesday, March 29, 2023 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery

Studio Art Seniors Represented in Show: Mia Thomas, Noah Paisley, and Joy Robbins


<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Bartered Bride

Thu, Mar 30, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Bartered Bride

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

The Bartered Bride: An opera by Bedrich Smetana

Tickets: $10 for General Admission; $5 for Student/Faculty/Staff; $3 Early Bird Student Rate until opening night

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Bartered Bride

Fri, Mar 31, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Bartered Bride

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

The Bartered Bride: An opera by Bedrich Smetana

Tickets: $10 for General Admission; $5 for Student/Faculty/Staff

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<em>Opera Workshop:</em> The Bartered Bride

Sat, Apr 1, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Opera Workshop: The Bartered Bride

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

The Bartered Bride: An opera by Bedrich Smetana

Tickets: $10 for General Admission; $5 for Student/Faculty/Staff

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Union Student Film Festival

Mon, Apr 3, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Union Student Film Festival

Location: Humboldt Plaza 3

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<em>Art:</em> Arts & Crafts Sale

Thu, Apr 6, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Arts & Crafts Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway

Items by various Union artists. Come find some goodies before your Easter break.


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Paula Kovarik Exhibition

Apr 13 - May 18, 2023
Art Gallery: Paula Kovarik Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Paula Kovarik is a full-time artist and fiber art workshop teacher from Memphis, TN. She has a BA in Design from Southern Illinois University. Her award-winning art has been juried into many international shows including Quilt National, Visions, Quilts=Art=Quilts and the World of Threads. She has been profiled in American Craft, FiberArt Now and Art Quilting Studio magazines. Her work is featured in Art Quilts Unfolding – 50 Years of Innovation and Art Quilts International Abstract & Geometric. Her book, At Play in the Garden of Stitch, summarizes her approach to stitching.

Lecture: April 13, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Art:</em> Paula Kovarik Lecture

Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Paula Kovarik Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Artist's Statement: Stitching is my second language. It reveals inner thoughts and outer barriers. I use the quilted form because of its approachable and tactile quality. I like the contrast, soft and textured, a strong line against a giving surface. The thread incises the fabric with dimension and direction. My aim is to react and reconsider as a piece evolves. Each stitch adds detail, texture and line to the whole. I believe that artists have an important role in society. We make the invisible visible and the unsaid revealed.

Website: paulakovarik.com
Instagram: @yellowbrickstudio
Online Journal: paulakovarik.com/journal

Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> Spring Band Concert

Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Spring Orchestra Concert

Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Spring Contemporary Ensembles Concert

Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Contemporary Ensembles Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert:</em> Amanda Mole

Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Amanda Mole

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Amanda Mole is one of the leading concert organists of her generation and the winner of numerous international competitions, including first-prize at the 8th International Musashino-Tokyo Organ Competition (2017), first-place and audience prize at the Miami International Organ Competition (2016), and first-place at the Arthur Poister Organ Competition (2014), and John Rodland Memorial Organ Competition (2014). She has performed at venues across the USA, Europe, and Japan and featured in recital at conventions of the American Guild of Organists (2022 Seattle WA) and the Organ Historical Society (2016 Philadelphia PA and 2018 Rochester NY). Her solo recital recording was released in March 2019 on the Naxos label. Ms. Mole is available for recitals, concertos and classes.


<em>Art:</em> Annual Spring Pottery Sale

Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Spring Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music:</em> Spring Choral Concert

Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Jesse Ring Exhibition

May 23 - Aug 31, 2023
Art Gallery: Jesse Ring Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Jesse Ring received his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Jesse was Assistant Professor of Art at Arkansas Tech University from 2017-2020. He is currently Assistant Professor of Art teaching in Ceramics, Sculpture, and WARP at University of Florida in the School of Art + Art History. He was a visiting artist at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, University of Kansas, and University of Cincinnati. He was a Windgate fellow at Vermont Studio Center, and artist in residence at Zentrum fur Keramik Berlin, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, and forthcoming at Bunho in Portugal. His work has been shown nationally and internationally in China, Germany and Hungary. Exhibitions include at Art in Craft Media at Burchfield Penny Museum of Art, Clay Landmarks at Arabia Steamboat Museum, and A Dead Recknoning: Navigating Contemporary Ceramics at Pensacola Museum of Art. Jesse’s first peer reviewed article, Material Mind: gum on walls, drifting stones, and other acts of community sculpture, will be published in Technoetic Arts : A Journal of Speculative Research, Issue 1, 2023.

Lecture: August 31, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Art:</em> Jesse Ring Lecture

Thu, Aug 31, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Jesse Ring Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Reception to follow in Art Gallery

Exhibition to run May 23 - Aug 31 in the Art Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Sarah-Anne Winchester Exhibition

Sep 7 - Nov 9, 2023
Art Gallery: Sarah-Anne Winchester Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Sarah-Anne Winchester received her BFA in ceramics from Union University in 2016 and completed a postbaccalaureate at SUNY New Paltz, NY, in 2021. Since graduating, Sarah-Anne has been a part of Baltimore Clayworks, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Natchez Clay Studio, and Women’s Studio Workshop in various roles. She has also exhibited in shows across the United States, including the NCECA Student Showcase and the San Angelo Ceramics Symposium. Winchester is working on completing her MFA in ceramics at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. When not in the studio, she takes her 20+ pound cat on “walks” and practices time-consuming hobbies such as bread making or quilting.

Lecture: November 9, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Lyceum:</em> The McCain Duo

Mon, Sep 25, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Lyceum: The McCain Duo

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

"Pushing the Needle" features standard repertoire as well as other styles from gospel to jazz

Sponsored by the Union University Lyceum and Department of Music


<em>Music:</em> Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

An exciting program of Orchestra music including Beethoven's Symphony #7 in A Major and selections from Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt.

There is no charge for admission and the concert is open to the public.


<em>Faculty Recital:</em> DJ Culp

Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: DJ Culp

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Music:</em> Worship Choir Concert

Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Worship Choir Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band Concert

Thu, Oct 19, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


Mon, Oct 23, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Ensembles

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Come hear Surrender, Bluegrass Band, the Gospel Singers, and the Union University Jazz Band. And come for the music and fellowship.


<em>Music:</em> Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tue, Oct 31, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

The Union University Symphony Orchestra will be performing Brahms Symphony #1 and music from Harry Potter.


<em>MainStage:</em> Macbeth

Thu, Nov 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
MainStage: Macbeth

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage:</em> Macbeth

Fri, Nov 3, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
MainStage: Macbeth

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage:</em> Macbeth

Sat, Nov 4, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
MainStage: Macbeth

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage:</em> Macbeth

Sun, Nov 5, 2023, 2:30 p.m.
MainStage: Macbeth

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> University Singers Concert

Tue, Nov 7, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: University Singers Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

The Union University Singers present "From Darkness to Light" with video art by Angela D. Lee, M.F.A., Professor of ARt


<em>Art:</em> Sarah-Anne Winchester Lecture

Thu, Nov 9, 2023, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Sarah-Anne Winchester Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Reception to follow in Art Gallery

Exhibition to run Sept. 7 - Nov. 9 in the Art Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Haelim Allen Exhibition

Nov 14 - Feb 15, 2024
Art Gallery: Haelim Allen Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Artist Statement: I am a transplant from the Mid-Atlantic area to the Mid-South, and before that, I was initially an immigrant from Daegu, South Korea to Hyattsville, MD, in the United States. The intersections, or rather, points of location, cultures, peoples, and overall geography of my life experiences, all blend and diverge as both points in common and as uncommon to each other. My work regards place as contributing to identity, in addition to the accumulated artifacts that serve as visible reminders of these varied experiences. Traversing these markers through juxtaposing and layering these places and artifacts reflects the in-between spaces where Haelim Choi Allen dwells.

Biography: Haelim Choi Allen is an installation artist and painter working in the colorist tradition. She immigrated to the United States with her parents and two younger sisters and grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. She is a three-time alumna of the University of Maryland at College Park, where she received her M.F.A. in painting and sculpture. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Union University in Jackson, TN, where she teaches both studio art and Art History. She has shown nationally in such places as Washington D.C., New York, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Austin, and Memphis. She is married to husband Henry, and they have a son, Matthew. Her body of work represents very broad answers to complex questions of identity.

Lecture: February 15, 4:30 p.m. in PAC A-72
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> A Union Christmas

Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music Faculty Recital:</em> Terry McRoberts

Tue, Jan 30, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music Faculty Recital: Terry McRoberts

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

McRoberts will open the recital with a sonatina by Heinrich Pfitzner found in a manuscript housed in the Vienna State Library. Pieces in Copland's American style and by Poulenc follow. The ever-popular piano pieces of Opus 118 by Brahms will be performed in their entirety. Two pieces from China conclude the program.


<em>Art:</em> Haelim Allen Lecture

Thu, Feb 15, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Haelim Allen Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Reception to follow in Art Gallery

Exhibition to run in Nov. 14 - Feb. 15 the Art Gallery


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Iren Tete Exhibition

Feb 20 - Mar 28, 2024
Art Gallery: Iren Tete Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Explorations of architecture, systems, and histories lie central to my work. Through these I communicate various facets of my tenuous existence. I am a woman, an immigrant, born in Bulgaria during the fall of communism to a Bulgarian mother whose land was stolen and home demolished and to a Turkish-Bulgarian father whose name was stripped and changed because of nationalism and Muslim hatred. Using language, material, and objects as tools of reclaiming self, I detangle a complex past while imagining possible futures.

Universal and constant, the fragility of time is an experience that is true and unaffected by era, geographical location, wealth, or social standing. Presenting a lens through which we might begin to understand, even accept, the magic of existing in the transitory space, the work serves as poems that question what separates reality from fantasy, dream from reality, past from present, permanence from impermanence.

Lecture: February 20, 4:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium, SUB
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Art:</em> Iren Tete Lecture

Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Iren Tete Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Originally from Sofia, Bulgaria, Iren is currently based in San Diego, CA where she is an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University. She holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Investigating poetic and theoretical systems of thought, seeing, and navigation, Iren’s sculptures collapse language of the industrial-infrastructural and human-organic. She has participated in residencies at the Hambidge Center, the Archie Bray Foundation, Zentrum fur Keramik, and will be in residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in summer of 2024. Iren's solo exhibitions include those at the Sarasota Art Center, Galleri Urbane, Parallelogram Gallery, and Gallery 371. Recent group exhibitions include biennials in Italy and Latvia and shows at Kouri + Corrao, the Dallas Art Fair, and Untitled Art, Miami Beach.

Exhibition runs February 20 - March 28, 2024 in the Art Gallery
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>MainStage:</em> Machinal

Thu, Feb 22, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage: Machinal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

MACHINAL is a production mounted by MainStage, Union’s student-led theater group. Tickets are only $5, and they are on sale below. MACHINAL runs Thursday, February 22nd through Saturday, February 24th, 7:00 PM in the W.D. Powell Theatre. Running time is about two hours with an intermission.

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<em>MainStage:</em> Machinal

Fri, Feb 23, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage: Machinal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

MACHINAL is a production mounted by MainStage, Union’s student-led theater group. Tickets are only $5, and they are on sale below. MACHINAL runs Thursday, February 22nd through Saturday, February 24th, 7:00 PM in the W.D. Powell Theatre. Running time is about two hours with an intermission.

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<em>MainStage:</em> Machinal

Sat, Feb 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage: Machinal

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

MACHINAL is a production mounted by MainStage, Union’s student-led theater group. Tickets are only $5, and they are on sale below. MACHINAL runs Thursday, February 22nd through Saturday, February 24th, 7:00 PM in the W.D. Powell Theatre. Running time is about two hours with an intermission.

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<em>English:</em> Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Christine Bailey

Thu, Feb 29, 2024, 1:00 p.m.
English: Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Christine Bailey

Location: GEC, Salon II

Christine Bailey writes young adult fiction and has published multiple novels. Her most recent, Burning Little Lies, will be released in February 2024. Her doctoral research/dissertation explores creative writing research and pedagogy within the composition classroom and is titled "The Role of Aesthetic Artifacts in Creative Writing Research: Casting Student Identity Narratives as Cultural Data." Before coming to Union University, Bailey worked as a journalist, a marketing/PR writer, and a book editor. She currently serves as Director of Composition Support. Bailey's areas of interest include composition and rhetoric, YA literature, creative writing, professional writing, editing, and publishing. She is the editor of the Journal of the Union Faculty Forum — a journal comprised of faculty-written submissions, encompassing a wide range of academic and creative topics.

Book signing and reception at 2 p.m.

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<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Mar 3, 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: Fellowship Bible Church, Jackson

The service will include music selections that celebrate the Majesty of our Savior, the work that He accomplished for us at Calvary, and the present and future hope we enjoy because of our salvation. Groups leading worship represent the combined choirs of Union Department of Music and the Union Studio Orchestra.


<em>Lyceum:</em> Lorrie Moore

Thu, Mar 7, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Lyceum: Lorrie Moore

Location: GEC, Banquet Hall

Free and open to the public. Book signing to follow.

Lorrie Moore has been referred to by The New York Times as “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation.” She is the author of six collections of short stories, four novels, a children’s book, and a collection of essays and criticism. Her most recent work, I am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, is a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist and a New Yorker Essential Read. Moore’s accolades include the O. Henry Award, the Rea Award for the Short Story, the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction, an NEA Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2006, where she is currently a member of the Board of Directors. Her work has been published in over a dozen languages. Moore is the Gertrude Conway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.


<em>Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert:</em> Organist Jens Korndörfer

Tue, Mar 26, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Organist Jens Korndörfer

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Reception at 6:30 p.m.


Apr 2 - Apr 4, 2024
Art Gallery: Student Show

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

The students of the Union University Art Department showcase some of their work in this Annual Exhibition that is open to the public.

Awards Ceremony: April 4, 4:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery


<em>English:</em> Receive, Reconcile, React: A Reading to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Fri, Apr 5, 2024, 12:15 p.m.
English: Receive, Reconcile, React: A Reading to Celebrate National Poetry Month

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

This event is free and open to the public to attend. It is also a come and go event.

Guest Readers:

  • James E Cherry is a poet, fiction writer, professor, literary activist, and impresario. He is the author of four books of poetry, two novels, and a collection of short fiction. His latest collection of poetry, Between Chance and Mercy, is forthcoming from Willow Books. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award, and a Next Generation Indie Book Award. His writings have been published in journals and anthologies both in the U.S. and internationally.
  • Dr. Patricia Hamilton, Professor of English at Union University, is the author of The Distance to Nightfall (Main Street Rag). She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry, and her poem "Lipstick" was a Plainsongs Award poem in 2022. She has received three Pushcart nominations for poetry. Her work has been published in the U.K., Ireland, and Australia as well as in numerous journals in the U.S.

Apr 8 - Apr 11, 2024
Art Gallery: BFA Studio Art Show

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

The BFA Studio Art Seniors present their work as a final exhibition before they graduate. This show shows their best work that they have created throughout their senior year.

Lecture: April 11, 4:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery


Unon Student Film Festival

Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:00 p.m.
Unon Student Film Festival

Location: Humboldt Plaza 3

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<em>Music:</em> Commercial Music Ensembles Concert

Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Ensembles Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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Apr 15 - Apr 18, 2024
Art Gallery: BFA Graphics Show

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

The BFA Graphic Design Seniors present their work as a final exhibition before they graduate. This show shows their best work that they have created throughout their senior year.

Lecture: April 18, 4:30 p.m. in the Art Gallery


Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Worship Ensembles Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


Apr 23 - May 28, 2024
Art Gallery: Richard Lou Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Lecture: April 23, 4:30 p.m. in Harvey Auditorium, SUB
Reception to follow in Art Gallery


Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Art: Richard Lou Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Exhibition runs April 23 - May 28, 2024 in the Art Gallery

Reception to follow in Art Gallery


<em>Music:</em> University Singers Concert

Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: University Singers Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Symphony Orchestra Concert

Fri, Apr 26, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

We enthusiastically invite you to be our guests for our final Spring Symphony Orchestra Concert. The Department of Music presents the Union University Symphony Orchestra (UUSO) under the baton of Dr. John D. Kinchen, III and Dr. D.J. Culp in an exciting program of Orchestral music including Tchaikovsky’s Marche Slave, Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphosis, and selections from Jurassic Park by John Williams and Marvel Studios Suite by Alan Sylvestri. Also, performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is special guest, Dr. Jamie Weaver. This concert will also feature the world premiere performance of a new student original work, “Genesis”, by student composer Jacob Thompson. There is something for everyone in this last concert of the 2023-2024 UUSO concert season.

There is no charge for admission and the concert is open to the public.


<em>Music:</em> Worship & Technology Conference - POSTPONED

Fri, May 17, 2024, 9:00 a.m.
Music: Worship & Technology Conference - POSTPONED

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

Set aside a day to enhance skills and learn new ideas for your church's worship and technology ministries.

Sponsored by the Department of Music

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<em>Music:</em> UU Symphony Orchestra Concert

Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: UU Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Jason Stout Exhibition

Aug 13 - Oct 17, 2024
Art Gallery: Jason Stout Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Jason Stout, In My Room, Alone with Everyone an exhibition of paintings

Jason Stout received his BFA in studio art from the University of Tennessee at Martin in 2001 and a MFA in Painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2004. Stout’s work visually deals with elements of formal and figurative abstraction, while exploring such themes as power, history, and identity, especially through the guise of southern culture. His work exists in several private and public collections, including the University of West Georgia, Jacksonville State University, The University of Texas at Tyler, and the University of Tennessee at Martin. During his career he has participated in several solo exhibitions and has been a part of several group exhibitions as well. He currently serves as Professor of Art at the University of Tennessee at Martin. Stout was named TAEA Higher Education Art Educator of the Year for 2015-16 and Best of Show at Art of the South 2016. Stout was also the recent recipient of the 2017-2018 Ray and Wilma Smith Award for creative research, the 2019 UTAA Outstanding Teacher Award, and the 2022 Cunningham Teacher/Scholar Award. His work is featured in New American Paintings South Edition 2020, Thought Art Magazine Issue 5 2022, and various other national exhibition catalogues. In 2023 Stout was awarded the David Southern Best of Show at the Rio Brazos Art Exhibition at Tarleton State University and the Dorothy Carson Merit Award at the annual Fletcher Political Art Exhibit at East Tennessee State University.

Reception: Tuesday, October 17 @ 4:30 pm in Harvey Auditorium


<em>Faculty Recital:</em> Mark McDowell

Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Mark McDowell

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Faculty Recital:</em> Kate Rawls

Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Kate Rawls

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Jason Stout Reception

Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Jason Stout Reception

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Exhibition runs Tuesday, August 13 thru Thursday, October 17, 2024


<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Almost, Maine

Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Worship Ensembles Concert

Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Worship Ensembles Concert

Location: Fellowship Bible Church Chapel


<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Almost, Maine

Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Almost, Maine

Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Almost, Maine

Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert:</em> Terry McRoberts

Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Terry McRoberts

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Elizabeth Weber Exhibition

Oct 22 - Dec 19, 2024
Art Gallery: Elizabeth Weber Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Elizabeth Weber, an exhibition in wood craft work

Lecture: Tuesday, October 22 @ 4:30 pm in PAC A-72


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Elizabeth Weber Reception

Tue, Oct 22, 2024, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Elizabeth Weber Reception

Location: PAC, A-72

Exhibit runs Tuesday, October 22 thru Thursday, December 19, 2024


<em>Music:</em> UU Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: UU Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

The Union University Symphony Orchestra will be performing Mozart's Symphony 40 in G Minor


<em>Music:</em> University Singers Concert

Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: University Singers Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band Concert

Tue, Nov 5, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Commercial Music Ensembles Concert

Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Ensembles Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Faculty Recital:</em> Brian McLemore

Tue, Nov 12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Brian McLemore

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)


Thu, Nov 14, 2024, 8:00 a.m.
Art: 2-D Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art:</em> Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Music:</em> A Union Christmas

Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 7:30 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>Art Gallery:</em> Angela Lee Exhibition

Jan 7 - Jan 30, 2025
Art Gallery: Angela Lee Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Angela Lee, an exhibition in photography and videography

Lecture: Thursday, January 30 @ 4:30 pm in PAC A-72


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Angela Lee Lecture

Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Angela Lee Lecture

Location: PAC, A-72

Exhibition runs Jan. 7 thru Jan. 30


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Kourtney Stone and Thaddeus Erdahl Exhibition

Feb 4 - Mar 20, 2025
Art Gallery: Kourtney Stone and Thaddeus Erdahl Exhibition

Location: PAC, Art Gallery

Kourtney Stone and Thaddeus Erdahl, an exhibition in figure sculpture

Lecture: Tuesday, February 4 @ 6 pm in Harvey Auditorium

Workshop: February 4-5


<em>Art Gallery:</em> Kourtney Stone and Thaddeus Erdahl Lecture

Tue, Feb 4, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Art Gallery: Kourtney Stone and Thaddeus Erdahl Lecture

Location: SUB, Harvey Aud. (LR-22)

Exhibit runs Feb. 4 thru March 20

Workshop: February 4-5


<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Antigone

Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Antigone

Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Antigone

Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel

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<em>MainStage Theatre:</em> Antigone

Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 2:30 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Creative Writing Workshop Reading:</em> Courtney Miller Santo

Thu, Feb 27, 2025, 1:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Workshop Reading: Courtney Miller Santo

Location: GEC, Salon II

Book signing and reception at 2 p.m.

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<em>Music:</em> Night of Worship

Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship

Location: EBC, Sanctuary


<em>Music:</em> Spring University Symphony Orchestra Concert

Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring University Symphony Orchestra Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Music:</em> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Location: PAC, Powell Theatre

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<em>Music:</em> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

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Union Student Film Festival

Sat, Apr 5, 2025
Union Student Film Festival

Location: EF, yield2Yield Conference Center (EF-319)

Don't miss this celebration of storytelling that unites students, alumni, and film enthusiasts! This milestone event, scheduled for April 5, will showcase a mix of fresh talent and festival classics, featuring screening blocks that span from the early 2000s to the 2020s. Experience interactive workshops with industry professionals, plus fantastic networking opportunities - all set in Union's newest building The Ethos Forum (being dedicated 2 weeks before the festival!).

The night will reach its peak with a red carpet screening of the latest student submissions, competing for top honors in the 2025 festival. Stick around for a director Q&A and the highly anticipated awards ceremony celebrating the best in student and alumni talent.

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<em>Music:</em> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

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<em>Music:</em> Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Mon, Apr 7, 2025, 10:00 a.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)

Showing for school children and their teacher/chaperones Residence home/nursing home residents

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<em>Music:</em> Symphonic Band Concert

Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert

Location: PAC, Savage Chapel


<em>Art:</em> Spring Semester Art Sale

Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Spring Semester Art Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway


<em>Art:</em> Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Mother's Day Pottery Sale

Location: SUB, Main Hallway