Piedmont University is hosting several Halloween-themed events open to students, employees, and members of the community. All events are free. These include: Movie Night on the Quad7 p.m., Oct. 14The Quad is located at the center of the Demorest campus, 1021 Central Avenue. The evening will include the premier of a student-produced short film called…
Piedmont University will host the Georgia Art Education Association for its annual conference this week, an event that will draw more than 200 teachers from across the state. The GAEA is the state’s largest professional organization of art educators, with more than 700 members. Affiliated with the National Art Education Association, the GAEA advocates for…
Dozens of Clarke County School District employees visited Piedmont University’s Athens campus on Wednesday morning to learn about their options for earning their bachelor’s degrees and becoming teachers. Like school districts across the nation, CCSD has a persistent need for teachers. To build its teacher pipeline, CCSD is encouraging paraprofessionals, as well as other non-certificated…
Piedmont University’s Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art will celebrate its current exhibition, a collection of work by celebrated Athens-based artist Art Rosenbaum, who recently passed away, with a reception on Oct. 6 from 5-7 p.m. Born in upstate New York in 1938, Rosenbaum was an artist, folklorist, and teacher. He died in early September, just…
Piedmont University Theatre’s 2022-23 mainstage season kicks off with Peter and the Starcatcher Oct. 20-23. Based on the 2004 novel by Dave Berry and Ridley Pearson, Peter and the Starcatcher features everyone’s favorite forever boy, Peter Pan, and explores themes such as greed, despair, friendship, duty, and even love. The play begins with a young…
Piedmont University alumna Joyce Lewallen is the new manager Mark of the Potter, the oldest craft shop in Georgia. It’s a position that perfectly blends her passion for art, the education she received at Piedmont, and the life experience she’s had since graduating in 2012. “There’s a Japanese concept called ikigai. When you find the…
Mystic Hall, Piedmont University’s largest, newest, and most modern residential facility, is officially home to its first class of students. Mystic was scheduled to open at the start of the fall semester, but was delayed by unforeseen labor shortages and supply chain issues. Over the weekend, Piedmont University students, employees, and supporters got to see…
The Pro Musica Orchestra, one of two new Piedmont University musical ensembles, will make its debut this Friday, Sept. 23, with a free concert at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel on the Demorest campus, 992 Central Ave. Pro Musica is comprised of more than 30 professional musicians, including several Piedmont University faculty members. “These are…
Piedmont University Assistant Professor of Biology Rebecca Godwin recently participated in the Governor’s Teaching Fellows Program, where she learned a variety of student-centered teaching strategies that she’s implementing in her genetics course this semester. Already, she is seeing a difference in how her students are responding to her, the coursework, and the assignments ahead. “It’s…
In his work as a voice teacher at Chicago’s Whitney M. Young Magnet High School — alma mater of former first lady Michelle Obama — two-time Piedmont University alumnus Micah Dingler strives to impart an important lesson to his students: They are capable of much more than they might think, no matter where they come…