Museum on Main Otis Redding exhibit to showcase Georgia Southern students’ work
Another chapter of the connection between Redding, the University and Statesboro will begin with the new exhibit, “Beyond the Spotlight: Otis Redding His Family, Music, and Legacy,” at the Museum on Main inside the Statesboro Convention and Visitors Bureau (SCVB). The opening reception will be held at 5:30 p.m. on May 6.
Georgia Southern Theatre presents first ever Mical Whitaker Scholarship
The Georgia Southern Theatre program presented the inaugural Mical Whitaker Scholarship for the Study of African American Theatre on April 27 to junior theatre major Tyair Blackman.
Georgia Southern project to be funded by $50,000 Teagle Foundation grant
Georgia Southern University English professor, Teresa Winterhalter, Ph.D., and her team have been awarded a planning grant of $50,000 by The Teagle Foundation for their project, “Narrative Competence for Nurses: The Liberal Arts in the Professions.” The project is a humanities-based, eight-week module that will supplement the gateway course for students entering the nursing program.
Georgia Southern to host workshop for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Georgia Southern University’s Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art will host a workshop for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day at the Armstrong Campus Fine Arts Hall in Savannah on April 28 from noon to 3 p.m. The workshop is free and open to all ages and skill levels.
Betty Foy Sanders funds student travel, donates artwork to Folk Art Collection
Betty Foy Sanders recently sent 14 art students on a 2-day art museum tour in north Georgia and added new work to the Smith Callaway Banks Southern Folk Art Collection.
Georgia Southern art education seniors to host exhibition, discuss art’s role in education
Georgia Southern University’s Senior Art Exhibition, “Mosaic,” featuring artwork by four senior artists, will run from April 22 to May 3 at the Fine Arts Gallery on the Armstrong Campus in Savannah. A reception will be held on May 3 at 5:30 p.m., and admission is free and open to the public.
Site-synchronous classrooms at Georgia Southern connecting students on all three campuses
Georgia Southern University is showing that the distance between its three campuses is just a number for students by introducing the site-synchronous classrooms pilot program, which uses state-of-the-art cameras in classrooms to connect students in Statesboro, Savannah and Hinesville.
Georgia Southern students represented University at inaugural Georgia InVenture Prize
Ghost Runner, an app designed to “gamify” running by encouraging virtual running competitions among friends, was selected for the inaugural Georgia InVenture Prize competition by panelists at the Georgia Southern University Business Innovation Group’s (BIG) annual 3 Day Startup (3DS). The app was designed by four students in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing and three College of Arts and Humanities students.
Pizza, pottery will be on display for Raku Pizza Night on Armstrong Campus
Raku Pizza Night on Georgia Southern University’s Armstrong Campus will feature a demonstration of firing the Raku kiln, and professor John Jensen will demonstrate throwing a large vase on the potter’s wheel. The event is April 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Annex 2 Courtyard across from University Police.