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This is Dance/Music: New Works by Collaborative Process and Music Composition Students
Oct 20, 2025

BOONE, N.C. – Students from the Department of Theatre and Dance Collaborative Process class have paired with Hayes School of Music Composition students to create new original dances with new original music to be performed together live. An informal showing of these new collaborative dance+music...

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App State Theatre and Dance Presents the Play, “Orlando" — Sarah Ruhl’s Adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Novel Opens Oct. 29
Oct 15, 2025

“The longest and most charming love letter in literature.”

by Keith Martin

Interior Design professor participates in SAI Faculty Fellowship
Oct 17, 2017

Jeanne Mercer-Ballard, associate professor of Interior Design at Appalachian State University, was selected as a faculty fellow through the SAI...

Appalachian State University & Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture to host The 2017 Food Summit
Oct 13, 2017

The 2017 Food Summit, a gathering of scholars, farmers, and food lovers, is organized around the theme...

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Appalachian Theatre and Dance presents "Much Ado About Nothing;" Audiences are invited to participate in Shakespeare’s classic play
Oct 10, 2017

The Appalachian State University Department of Theatre and Dance invites you into the world of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing...

Tori Mellot (Competition Juror and Traditional Home Magazine Contributing Editor), Ben Bridges (2nd Place), John Barton (3rd Place),Jill Waage (Traditional Home Magazine Editor-in-Chief), Brian F. Davies (Applied Design Chair).

Appalachian State University students take home honors in furniture design competition
Sep 29, 2017

Two Appalachian students in the College of Fine and Applied Arts’ Department of Applied Design took home honors in the International Furniture ...

Sandi Finci Solomon and partner Tony Luis

Community Fall Shag Dance scheduled for Sept. 30
Sep 26, 2017

The Boone Shag Club and Appalachian State University Department of Theatre and Dance will host the second annual community-wide Fall Shag Dance...

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Open House at the Farm
Sep 25, 2017

September 30  |  1-4 p.m.

You’re invited! Come out to Appalachian's Teaching and Research Farm at the Blackburn Vannoy Propery...

Students rehearse a scene from "Radium Girls"

Appalachian State University presents “Radium Girls” Oct. 4-8
Sep 21, 2017

By Amy Briggs, Maddie Kiger, Hannah Harvey and Michele Zaremba

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App State's new HOW Space is the university's latest evolution in innovation, interdisciplinary education [WNCMagazine.com]
Sep 18, 2017

“Solving difficult problems—what we call ‘wicked problems’—requires multiple perspectives,” says Assistant...

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AppLab 3.0 kicks off with IBM Design Thinking workshop
Sep 11, 2017

This fall, 30 Appalachian State University students enrolled in the first cohort of AppLab 3.0, a multi-disciplinary, six-credit Design Thinking...

Students act in the 2017 24-hour Arts Festival

Appalachian’s Playcrafters presents the 24-hour Arts Festival Sept. 10
Sep 8, 2017

By Julia Ridenhour

Playcrafters, a campus organization for students interested in theatre, will present its fourth annual 24-hour Arts...