Center Stage

Documentary: "Flower and Flame" Paul J. Stankard
Directed by David Graeber
March 4 | 6 p.m.
Stonecipher Auditorium

Winner of the 2025 Mid Atlantic Emmy Award for Documentary

Andréa Keys Connell

February 13-March 26
Gallery Talk and Reception: March 26 | 4:30 p.m.

Joan Derryberry Art Gallery

Andréa Keys Connell is a Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Fine and Applied Art at Appalachian State University. Her work has been widely recognized, featured in national and international publications such as Colossal and The New York Times. She has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, including the Jane Hartsook Gallery in New York City and the Gaya Culture and Art Center in Goryeong, Korea. With over 20 solo exhibitions since 2009, she has work available through Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, NC, J Mackey Gallery in the East Hamptons, and Visions West Contemporary in Livingston, MT.

One World Multicultural Evening
March 5 | 6 p.m.

Multipurpose Room, Roaden University Center

International cuisine will be featured with authentic recipes. The Spring 2026 event will include storytelling, in which students and community members will tell stories about their culture. Speakers/storytellers will be selected based on their experiences with other cultures, their engaging and informative storytelling style(s), and their interest in sharing about their culture(s) with Tennessee Tech students and the community at large.

Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet
March 5 | 7:30 p.m.

Wattenbarger Auditorium, Bryan Fine Arts Building

The Lawrence Graduate Bayreuth Tuben Quintet is a tuben horn quintet that, fluid by design and inclination, is comprised of at least six members who identify as, know, or would like to know, someone who is LGBTQ+.

Informed by their decidedly un-Wagnerian values of inclusivity, diversity, and visibility, the LGBTuben Quintet aims to build and expand the cannon for our flexible ensemble and advance a non-hierarchical agenda that includes affecting positive social change and creating broader representation for the historically underrepresented. 

Raleigh Dailey Trio
March 12 | 6:30 p.m.

Room 101 (Haste Hall)
Bryan Fine Arts Building

Daniel Esquivia-Zapata
Drawing Exhibition
March 26-April 30 
Gallery Talk and Reception: April 30 | 4:30 p.m.
Joan Derryberry Art Gallery

Daniel’s work explores ideas about historical memory, official historical narratives, and what he terms the politics of remembering. He does this through life-size figurative drawings that combine historical texts, the human body, plants, and animals to generate strong spaces that work as poetic imagery, probing the dynamics of narratives in history and historical memory.

To create these drawings, he uses a combination of traditional figure drawing techniques, liquid charcoal and fragmented print, and hand-written texts to draw on several layers of mylar, creating life-size drawings to create news bodies that work as metaphors for political bodies intersected by history, newspaper articles, archives, looking to make visible ¨the of place of memory¨ that are our bodies among the discourses that intersect them.

International Friends Banquet
March 28 | 6 p.m.
Multipurpose Room
Roaden University Center

The International Friends Banquet celebrates the connection between Tech students, faculty, staff, the international students at Tech and the community of Cookeville represented through non-traditional host
families. There will be a potluck dinner and entertainment.
This FREE event is open to all Tennessee Tech students.

Celebration of Craft
April 5 | 10 a.m.
Appalachian Center for Craft

This free event is open to the university and public and it features a comprehensive suite of arts offerings, including: live musical performances by three different ensembles throughout the day, live art/craft demonstrations in all five of the craft studios (glass, metals, wood, fibers, clay), hands-on craft activities for children of all ages, food vendors, artwork sales by student artists and discounts in their retail craft gallery.

Katahj Copley, Assembly Quartet with TTU Symphony Band
April 8 | 7:30 p.m.
Wattenbarger Auditorium
Bryan Fine Arts Building

 I create music that tells stories. Storytelling has always been central to my life—shaped by the stories I heard as a child, the lives I’ve listened to, and the narratives I encounter every day. I believe the role of a composer is to be a storyteller: to honor the past, reflect the present, and shape the future through sound. My creative process mirrors my source of inspiration: stories.

Dumplings Around the World
April 14 | 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Multipurpose Room
Roaden University Center