College of Fine and Applied Arts

Jessica Meyer, My Life, My Love, and My Lady is the Sea, Lithographic Tattoo. Photo by Michael Gilchrist.

The Catherine J. Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University is pleased to announce a lithographic tattoo workshop and showcase by Jessica Meyer.

Artist Jessica Meyer will be on campus from Nov. 9 through 13 for a week-long workshop that culminates in a public event. This event includes an artist talk and tattoo showcase at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in the Catherine J. Smith Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Printmaking becomes performance and intersects with popular culture as artist Jessica Meyer (a.k.a. Tattoo Jessica) guides students through the process of making skin transferable lithography. Informed by the historical and cultural roles of the tattoo, workshop participants will create a variety of prints that will be worn on the skin. At the end of this week-long workshop, students will display their tattoos and invite their audience to participate in a living picture gallery of illustrated flesh. Tattoo will also be available for visitors who are interested in wearing one of these unique works.

All programs take place in the Catherine J. Smith Gallery on the Appalachian State University campus unless otherwise noted. The Gallery is located in Farthing Auditorium at 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC. Hours are Monday through Friday from 10 AM to 5 PM. Admission is free for all events. For information, please call 828-262-7338 or email servonjm@appstate.edu

Advertising student Sarah Hostyk has been selected as one of the Top 20 finalists in the “Pitch Your Idea in 90 Seconds” contest, sponsored by 3tailer of Charlotte and Magic Cycles of Boone. The competition had 185 submissions this year.

As a finalist Sarah will present her 90 second presentation on Friday, Nov. 6, in Raley Hall, Room 1020 at 1:30 p.m. This immediately follows the 8th Annual Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur Summit. First prize is $1,000, secondnd prize is $500 and third prize is $250. Other prizes may be awarded as well.

Business owners speaking at the Entrepreneur Summit will serve as the judges for the contest.

Appalachian State University Department of Technology graduates, Adam Sacora, Andy Fulton and Alan Watts, are recognized in the latest edition of the FLS Energy newsletter.

Sacora and Fulton are recognized for their work on the company’s Canton Solar Farm.

According to FLS, at the Evergreen Landfill site in Canton, NC, the first phase of FLS Energy’s solar photovoltaic farm is ready to be turned on. So far, 15 FLS Energy designed units have been installed as part of the first of six phases. Each solar unit has 12 panels, and a panel can generate 240 watts of electricity. There will be 90 units once the project is complete by the end of February 2010.

A crew of five led by Adam Sacora and Andy Fulton has been working with Progress Energy and Evergreen for the past five weeks to plan, design and build a system that can adapt to the potential settling of the old landfill.

“It’s been a fun challenge trying to figure out how to build on a landfill site with restrictions on the ground,” Sacora said. “There is a two-foot cap over the debris and we cannot penetrate the cap, so everything has to start at the ground level. That makes it unique for any type of construction.”

To provide a base for the solar units, FLS Energy constructed concrete pads on top of the soil. Sacora said the pads will provide counterweight against high winds to the solar units, as well as support on the ground.

For more information about the project, visit http://firstlightsolar.com/blog/?p=28.

In addition, Fulton, Sacora and Watts passed the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) Certification Exam for Photovoltaic. They are now certified NABCEP installers for Photovoltaic systems. Sacora also is certified in Solar Thermal.

The NABCEP provides a voluntary certification process that offers the public a high degree of protection because practitioners have to meet standards or qualifications and pass an exam.

A solar energy company near Asheville, FLS Energy specializes in Solar Hot Water (Solar Thermal) and Solar Electricity (Photovoltaic) Systems. The company’s Solar Energy Systems provide clients a hedge against rising energy costs and a clean, renewable source of energy.

The Department of Theatre and Dance Presents “A Still Life with Iris,” by Steven Dietz

Wednesday, Oct. 28, through Saturday, Oct. 31 7 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 1 2 p.m.

Tickets are $12.00 for adults and $6.00 for students. The Box Office is open Monday-Friday, 2-5pm, and one hour prior to show time. Purchase tickets in person, by phone at (828) 262-3063, or online at http://www.theatre.appstate.edu/performances/.

Still Life with Iris, by Steven Dietz is a fantastical adventure which centers on a little girl’s search for the simplest of things: home. Iris (Ariel Nicastro), lives with her mother in the land of Nocturno, a magical place in which workers make, by night, all the things we see in the world by day. For example: flower painters are busy painting all night the colorful blooms of the next day. In Nocturno, memories do not reside in people’s minds, but in their coats, called “PastCoats.” The rulers of Nocturno, the “Great Goods,” are determined to have the “best” of everything on their island, and therefore take Iris away from her home and bring her to Great Island to be their daughter. The Great Goods take her PastCoat away in order to ease the pain of being taken from her family. Fortunately, Iris was able to keep a single button from her coat, which serves as a clue to help her get back home. With the help of friends she meets along the journey, Annabel Lee (Colleen Longo) and Mozart (L.B. Brown), she frees herself from the Great Goods and returns to Nocturno, having found her past and her home once again.

A beautiful story full of magic, empowerment and hope, Still Life with Iris is the first play for young audiences to receive the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays Award.

Currently one of the most widely-produced plays for young audiences in the country, Still Life with Iris is an interdisciplinary art experience, with stunning visual images, magic effects, and an underscore of music by Mozart. Teresa Lee directs the production.

The Valborg Theatre is located at 480 Howard St., behind the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Parking is available on campus in faculty lots, the parking garage behind the Carol G. Belk Library and Information Commons, and behind the Turchin Center.

Students from Appalachian’s Thomas W. Reese Center for Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology thank the 10th Annual C-GAIT Golf Classic sponsor, NAPCO. The students are (left to right) Jack Hand, Carl Parker, Andrew Boehm, Emily Vidovich and Elizabeth Bond.

Appalachian State University’s Thomas W. Reese Center for Graphic Arts and Imaging Technology (C-GAIT) held its 10th annual Thomas W. Reese C-GAIT Golf Classic Thursday, Oct. 22, at Lake Hickory Country Club in Hickory.

NAPCO served as the sponsor of the event, and Harper Corporation sponsored lunch for the players.

Winning the Joe Seaman Spirit Award for low gross score was Appalachian’s Department of Technology team of Kevin Howell, Steve Jesseph, John Krumrine and Jeff Tiller. Winning The Colonel’s Cup for low net score was the Appalachian College of Fine and Applied Arts team of Greg Langdon, Richard McDevitt, Doug Rice and Glenda Treadaway. This is the second year that the team won the cup.

In the individual awards for men and women, Phil Garrison of the Printing Industry of the Carolinas, Inc., (PICA) team won the Longest Drive competition for the men, and Maggie Whitman of the Winston Packaging team won for the women.

In the Longest Putt competition, Rod Ambrose of the Fuji team won for the men, and Maggie Whitman won for the women. In the Closest to the Pin competition, John Krumrine won for the men, and Glenda Treadaway won for the women.

Funds raised from the tournament will benefit the GAIT program.