October 1, 2019

New Design Building

We are going to inhabit our brand-new Art & Design Building in springtime of 2017!

Here may be the formal press release from APSU:

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – whenever Barry Jones had been students at Austin Peay State University during the early 1990s, he heard rumors about a unique fine arts building rising on university. 10 years later, Jones gone back to their alma mater as an assistant professor, and then he was reassured the developing art department would shortly move out of this cramped Trahern Building.

Another ten years has actually passed away, and Jones, today chair associated with APSU Department of Art and Design, is relieved that those taunting hearsay tend to be finally more than. At 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, APSU will host a groundbreaking service for new $21.3 million, 46, 000-square-foot Art and Design Building. The state approved financing the task earlier on this season, with APSU providing a 25 per cent match of the complete budget.

“The division outgrew its space in Trahern years ago, ” Jones said. “My understanding is we’ve been on state’s listing for a unique building considering that the 90s. We’re bursting at the seams, which will probably provide us with a better created space.”

Building is anticipated to do this October, because of the brand new building and an accompanying green space occupying what exactly is today a faculty/staff parking area involving the Trahern Building and Harned Hall. The task ended up being originally conceived as an inclusion into the Trahern Building, which currently houses the APSU division of Art and Design and also the APSU Department of Theatre and Dance, but University officials quickly understood split buildings had been required for the two developing divisions.

“We’re probably renovate Trahern, mainly mechanicals and beauty on the exterior, ” Mitch Robinson, APSU vice-president of finance and administration, stated. “Theatre and Dance could take-over the majority of Trahern, with ceramics and sculpture staying in that building also.”

The division of Theatre and Dance can also be looking to convert the old Trahern Gallery into a Black Box Theatre for little, experimental productions.

The new Art and Design Building will feature professors a workplace, general purpose classrooms, a multifunction area, art studios, a photographic studio, an over-all art gallery and students gallery.

“We’re developing, ” Jones said. “In the a decade since I’ve been here, we’ve included four to five professors. Our enrollment is up in the fall, which is going to help with recruiting because our services will match the grade of training.”

Building is anticipated to just take per year, with the building set to open to pupils into the spring of 2017. Because the task will get rid of a parking good deal on university, APSU’s Parking Committee spent some time working for a year on an idea to offer the university neighborhood. Part of that program includes rezoning parking lots and placing volunteers in lots during first few days of fall semester to advise motorists where available parking are present across campus. For the semester, Public security is going to be using Twitter –@APSUPolice—and Facebook—APSU Campus Police—to announce in which available parking are found.