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App State Announces Major Arts Collaboration for Spring 2026: Theatre & Dance and School of Music Join Forces for “Once Upon a Mattress”
Nov 23, 2025

by Keith Martin

BOONE, N.C. – For only the second time since 2014, the Appalachian State University Department of Theatre & Dance and the Hayes School of Music are collaborating on a co-production of a popular Broadway musical.

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Appalachian's Smith Gallery presents "Fuse Box" Feb. 16-26
Feb 13, 2017

The Smith Gallery at Appalachian State University will present "Fuse Box," a graphic design student exhibition, Feb. 16 through Feb. 26 with a...

App State at the NCTC Regional Play Festival

The North Carolina Theatre Conference to honor Appalachian with its College/University Award
Feb 10, 2017

Appalachian State University has received the 2016 College/University Award of the North Carolina Theatre Conference (NCTC), a Greensboro-based...

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Appalachian’s Sustainable Development Department to host author Jeff Biggers Feb. 17
Feb 9, 2017

The Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development at Appalachian State University welcomes noted author, performer and educator Jeff...

Appalachian alumnus and professor gives back through student scholarships
Feb 8, 2017

Theatre Professor Gordon Hensley ’97 has always been drawn to Appalachian State University. First as a theatre education student, and now as a...

The Netherlands

Appalachian State University students expand horizons with travel scholarship
Feb 8, 2017

By Madalene Smith

Senior graphic design students Alex Amaya and Anna Cantrell will be traveling to the Netherlands this May through the...

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IlaSahai Prouty named associate dean of Appalachian’s College of Fine and Applied Arts
Feb 2, 2017

IlaSahai Prouty, assistant professor in the Department of Art at Appalachian State University, has been named associate dean of the College of...

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Appalachian students awarded top honors in product design competition
Jan 30, 2017

Appalachian State University industrial design seniors Rickey Bell of Davie County, Myers Welborn of Lexington and Nathan Haeme of Boone each...