Spring 2022 Arts Calendar
Past Events
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
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
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
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
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.
Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sat, Mar 12, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Sun, Mar 13, 2022, 2:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Mon, Mar 14, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
Tue, Mar 15, 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Theatre: The Count of Monte Cristo
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
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.
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.
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
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
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
Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Band/Orchestra Concert - Night at the Movies
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Tue, May 3, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Thu, May 5, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Chamber Music Concert
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
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
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.
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
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.):
Marc 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.
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
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.
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)
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.
Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Choral Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Tue, Nov 1, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Fall Band and Orchestra Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Fri, Nov 4, 2022, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Contemporary Ensembles Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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
Fri, Dec 9, 2022, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
Sun, Feb 19, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Music: Night of Worship
Location: WJBC, Sanctuary
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
Thu, Apr 13, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Band Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Tue, Apr 18, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Orchestra Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Tue, Apr 25, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Contemporary Ensembles Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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.
Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Spring Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
Fri, Apr 28, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Spring Choral Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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
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
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
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
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.
Tue, Oct 10, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Faculty Recital: DJ Culp
Location: JEN, Hartley Recital Hall (JEN-123)
Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Music: Worship Choir Concert
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
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.
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.
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
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
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
Thu, Dec 7, 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Music: A Union Christmas
Location: PAC, Savage Chapel
Fri, Dec 8, 2023, 8:00 a.m.
Art: Annual Christmas Pottery Sale
Location: SUB, Main Hallway
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.
Music: Worship Ensembles Concert
Location: Fellowship Bible Church Chapel
Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 7:00 p.m.
MainStage Theatre: Almost, Maine
Location: PAC, Powell Theatre
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)