Come kick up your boots as Piedmont University welcomes the community back to campus by presenting Real Deal Country with Katie Deal at 7 p.m. on August 7 at the Arrendale Amphitheater in Demorest. Deal and her five-piece Nashville band will lead a fun-filled evening of entertainment celebrating the music of country music greats. Featured…
Piedmont University’s artists-in-residence chamber ensemble, Piedmont Camerata, will present a free concert 4 p.m., May 23 in the Chapel on the Demorest campus. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, attendance will be limited and registration is required. Please visit our Fine Arts Event Guidelines webpage to learn more. The ensemble includes Heather Baird-Strachan, violin; Rachael Fischer, violin;…
Michael Ross: Foothills will be on display May 12 through August 19 at the Mason-Scharfenstein Museum Art (MSMA). Ross’ exhibition will be a part of the North Georgia Arts Tour on June 11, 12, and 13. The museum will host a closing reception on August 19. Ross resides in Athens, Georgia, and grew up in…
Piedmont University will present James McClure’s 1959 Pink Thunderbird April 15-18. A combination of two one-act plays, 1959 Pink Thunderbird tells the stories of a small Texas town from two very different perspectives. In the first play, Laundry and Bourbon, we meet Elizabeth, Hattie, and Amy Lee who share a daily tradition of sipping bourbon,…
As a preteen, Madison Hatfield ’21 wanted to take a “fun family weekend trip” to Andersonville, a tiny Georgia town once home to a prisoner-of-war camp. Thousands of Union soldiers died of scurvy and dysentery in the 14 months the Confederacy operated the camp during the Civil War. Dr. Beth Lovern, Associate Professor of anthropology…
Hayden Giovino’s grit, determination, focus, and passion, along with the help of art professor Rebecca Brantley, helped get him a coveted spot in a program with the High Museum in Atlanta….
Last fall, the Piedmont community was shaken by news that one of its own—freshman Anna Mackenzie Whitlock—had died in an automobile accident while on the way to campus. In August, members of Anna’s family visited the Demorest campus to celebrate her life and dedicate a memorial bench in her name. The bench, flanked by three…
In his Stewart Hall office at Piedmont, biology professor Dr. Carlos Camp has an eclectic collection. There is a framed front page of a London newspaper printed in 1814, a diorama with hand-painted toy soldiers depicting a pivotal moment in the Battle of Waterloo, and a “Jinx and Jasper” film cell from an animated short…
Haley Bolt ’20, Veronica Cappas ’20, and Breanna Kramer ’20 may have helped solve a murder that happened when they were in kindergarten. Their work is evidence of Piedmont’s powerful forensics program, one that takes students like them outside the laboratory and into real-world investigative work. Bolt, Cappas, and Kramer helped develop fresh leads in…