Arts & Culture

In September 2011, about 500 people attended the grand opening of the new MTSU Dairy.

On Thursday, Sept. 27, people can see and hear the dairy in action — and the rest of the MTSU Farm in Lascassas, too.

The annual Ag Field Day, which showcases the MTSU Experiential Learning and Research Center, will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. at the farm, which is located at 3211 Guy James Rd.

President Sidney A. McPhee and Middle Tennessee State University are extending an invitation to the public to attend the ribbon cutting and official opening of the Student Union Building.

It will start at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, outside the main entrance with the revolving door and faces west toward the courtyard and College of Education Building. In the event of rain, the event will move inside to the ballroom.

Wondering what’s happening tonight, tomorrow, this weekend or next month at MTSU? 

Beginning today, the university now has a one-stop website for the campus community — and the rest of the world — to learn about upcoming activities at MTSU: www.mtsu.edu/calendar.

MTSU physics and astronomy professor John Wallin will share his expertise about the $390 million Large Synoptic Survey Telescope at the initial First Friday Star Party of the fall.

Wallin will discuss “The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: A New Telescope for the Digital Millennium” at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 7, in Room 102 of Wiser-Patten Science Hall.

Interior designer/author Cathy Whitlock, who chronicles in print and online how films get their distinctive — and award-winning — looks, plans a special lecture in Murfreesboro on Tuesday, Sept. 11. 

Whitlock’s lecture is co-sponsored by MTSU’s student chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers/International Interior Design Association and the Department of Electronic Media Communication in the university’s College of Mass Communication. It will begin at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 11 in Maney Hall at the Oaklands Historic House Museum. 

MTSU’s Department of Art is celebrating the fall 2012 semester with “Painting Painters Paint,” an exhibition of the collected works of 15 innovative current artists, in the Todd Art Gallery through Thursday, Sept. 20.

Art Professor Sisavanh Houghton, who envisioned the exhibit, and fellow professors Melissa Newman, Bob Durham and Charles Clary invited colleagues from across the Midsouth to participate. 

The result is an outstanding collection of style, interpretation and process, according to gallery curator Eric Snyder.