Wednesday, February 28

Art in Response to Connie Bostic’s Art Show
Time: 3:00-6:00 p.m. Location: Weizenblatt Gallery (Moore Fine Arts Building)
Patrons will have the opportunity to experience Connie’s work and then respond by creating their own art piece (supplies provided) which will be hung at the entrance to the gallery. Hosted by PSY321 & the Women’s Studies Program.

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Friday, March 2

Legends: Bailey Mountain Cloggers Spring Concert
Time: 7:00 p.m. Location: Moore Auditorium
The Bailey Mountain Cloggers will be honoring legends of music from jazz/blues, country, rock, pop, and hip hop. Through clogging and other forms of dance, the students will recreate famous performances and create new tributes to these legends of music. The show is great for all ages and is $10, with ages 6 and under free. The event is free to college students with id and group rates are available for groups more than 10 people.

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Saturday, March 3

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Sunday, March 4

Legends: Bailey Mountain Cloggers Spring Concert
Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: Moore Auditorium
The Bailey Mountain Cloggers will be honoring legends of music from jazz/blues, country, rock, pop, and hip hop. Through clogging and other forms of dance, the students will recreate famous performances and create new tributes to these legends of music. The show is great for all ages and is $10, with ages 6 and under free. The event is free to college students with id and group rates are available for groups more than 10 people.

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Tuesday, March 6

Crossroads Chapel Service
Time: 11:00 a.m. Location: Broyhill Chapel
Speaker: Samantha Gonzalez-Block, Associate Pastor at Grace Covenant Church of Asheville.

Flute Recital
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Broyhill Chapel
Student recital by Mary Jo Fabon.

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Wednesday, March 7

Native American and African American Nurses in Appalachia
Time: 3:00 p.m. Location: Broyhill Chapel
LaShanda Sell, assistant professor of nursing at Appalachian State University, will discuss the history of Native American and African American nurses in Appalachia. This event is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Department and the Judge-McRae School of Nursing.

Art-Side Chat
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Weizenblatt Gallery
Ann Peiffer, psychology professor and chair of the Women’s Studies program, will talk with artist Connie Bostic about Bostic’s exhibit, currently on display in the gallery.

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Thursday, March 8

The View from Home: Images of Appalachia and the Rural-Urban Divide
Time: 6:00 p.m. Location: Ramsey Center for Regional Studies
In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, news media used Appalachia as a convenient illustration of the “angry, white, rural voter” that common wisdom said determined the election. Like generations of journalists before them, media-makers found exactly what they were looking for. But this time around, the image-making occurred within an increasingly complex media environment that can serve niche audiences based on factors like geography, ideology, shopping habits, or romantic interests. How does the contemporary communications system affect the way we and others perceive Appalachia? Is there a national urban-rural divide? And if there is, where does Appalachia fit in that picture? Tim Marema will present and lead discussion.

Marema is editor of the Daily Yonder (www.dailyyonder.com), a national news site that covers rural economics, politics, and culture. He is a founding staff member of the Center for Rural Strategies (www.ruralstrategies.org), which publishes the Daily Yonder and facilitates a wide range of communications and organizing activities for rural advocates around the country. Part of the Appalachian Evenings lecture series.

Clarinet Recital
Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: Broyhill Chapel
Guest clarinet recital featuring Denise Gainey.

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Friday, March 9

Introduction of Next Mars Hill University President
Time: TBA Location: TBA
The Mars Hill University Board of Trustees will introduce John Anthony “Tony” Floyd, J.D., as the institution’s 22nd president. Floyd will succeed Dan G. Lunsford, who retires at the end of this academic year. Floyd currently is executive vice president of Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina, where he also serves as coordinator of the political science major and coordinator of the pre-law specialization. He will begin his position at Mars Hill on June 1.

Spring Break Begins at Close of Classes

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Ongoing:

The Civil War In the Southern Highlands: A Human Perspective
Exhibit runs through March 4 at the Rural Heritage Museum
This exhibition presents an account, using rare original letters and newly-discovered documents, of the personal struggles of the people living in Madison County and the Southern Appalachian Mountains during the middle of the 19th century.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and by appointment.

When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African-American People in Far Western North Carolina
Exhibit runs through March 9 at the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies
Curator Ann Miller Woodford’s exhibit uses Black church music as the narrator for this project focused on the musical traditions in African American communities in far WNC, as manifested in churches, schools, and workplaces. The Black community is miniscule (1.6%) in the region. That causes them to seem invisible in a place where Scots/Irish and Cherokee history is emphasized. Most of the far WNC African American history has passed away with the deaths of elders and their oral traditions. This project will answer the question, “Do any African Americans live here?” and if so, who and where are they?

Connie Bostic Art Exhibit
Exhibit runs through March 23 at the Weizenblatt Gallery
This is a collaborative exhibition featuring Asheville artist Connie Bostic and work from the MHU Women’s Studies Program. Bostic’s work will serve as a springboard for several conversations on campus that will discuss gender expectations, women’s health, violence against women, and identity development. Bostic’s artwork focus is on women – young girls to women – and vulnerability and concerns about their sexuality. Her images contain symbols referencing her views as an 80-year-old mother and grandmother.

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Upcoming

Spring Break
Week of March 12
No classes all week; some administrative offices will be closed March 12 & 13

EXPO Madison
March 17
Community and business event showcasing local businesses, food vendors, artists, nonprofits, and government organizations.

Understanding our Past, Shaping our Future.
Exhibit opens March 19 – Rural Heritage Museum This interactive exhibition, based on Cherokee language and culture, employs sound recordings as the basis for presenting a coherent Cherokee story in words, text, and artifacts.

“The War From Above: William Barnhill and Aerial Photography of World War I”
Exhibit opens March 19 – Ramsey Center for Regional Studies

Presidential Lecture & Performance Series
March 22
Jessica Bandel of the N.C. Office of Archives and History, author of “North Carolina and the Great War, 1914-1918.”

April 3 (tentative) – Presidential Lecture & Performance Series
U.S. Rep. David Price (D-NC 4th District), a member of the Mars Hill class of 1959

April 12 – Appalachian Evenings: A Lecture Series at the Ramsey Center
Between Slavery and the Want of Railroads: Reconstruction in Western North Carolina

April 16 – Around Here: Coffee and Conversation at the Ramsey Center
Awareness: A Community Responsibility — a discussion of the impact of the opioid crisis on mountain communities.

April 25 – Reel Appalachia: Films at the Ramsey Center
First Language, with Dr. Sara Snyder, Director of WCU’s Cherokee Language Program

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