Spring 2024 Arts Calendar
Past Events
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
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.
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
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
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
Tue, Feb 20, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphony Orchestra Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Ensembles Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Thu, Apr 11, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Fri, Apr 12, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sat, Apr 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Opera: Once Upon a Mattress
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
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
Tue, Apr 23, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: University Singers Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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.
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
Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: UU Symphony Orchestra Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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
Tue, Sep 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Mark McDowell
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Kate Rawls
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
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
Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Worship Ensembles Concert
Location: Fellowship Bible Church Chapel
Fri, Oct 18, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sat, Oct 19, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 2:30 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Carolyn Townsend McAfee Concert: Terry McRoberts
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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
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
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
Thu, Oct 31, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: University Singers Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Tue, Nov 5, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Thu, Nov 7, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Commercial Music Ensembles Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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
Fri, Dec 6, 2024, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
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
Thu, Jan 30, 2025, 4:30 p.m.
Art Gallery: Angela Lee Lecture
Location: PAC, A-72
Exhibition runs Jan. 7 thru Jan. 30
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
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
Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Fri, Feb 21, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sat, Feb 22, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Sun, Feb 23, 2025, 2:30 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Antigone
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
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.
Sun, Mar 16, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship
Location: EBC, Sanctuary
Tue, Mar 18, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring University Symphony Orchestra Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Thu, Apr 3, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Fri, Apr 4, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
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.
Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
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
Tue, Apr 8, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Symphonic Band Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Fri, Apr 11, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Spring Semester Art Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Mother's Day Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
Thu, Sep 25, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: Kate Rawls
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)