A week and a half ago Jessica James, a senior at Daniel Boone High School, was in an automobile accident and later died at Johnson City Medical Center. A week and a half ago Anna Nicole Smith, 1993's Playmate of the Year, died in a Hollywood, Fla., hotel room.
Traylor Woodall, owner of Five Stone Studios in Franklin and former senior designer and animator at Country Music Television (CMT), will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 19, in the Brown Hall auditorium at East Tennessee State University. Woodall will discuss "CMT's 'Outlaws Concert' Promotional Campaign," an insider's view of a grueling six-week project that tested the skills of a team of animators, required thousands of "render farm" hours, and involved a green screen film shoot plus custom script programming.
The East Tennessee State University Chamber Winds and Concert Band will present a Winter Concert Tuesday, Feb. 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the D.P. Culp University Center's Martha Street Culp Auditorium. The Chamber Winds will open the concert with the first three movements of "The Good Soldier Schweik," a six-movement suite by Robert Kurka based on a true literary satire about a soldier who was drafted for World War I and his opposition to the war.
East Tennessee State University's Dr. Ted Olson, musician, author, and an associate professor who teaches courses in Appalachian Studies, English, bluegrass, and the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies programs, is the editor of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual.
(U-WIRE) - For an aspiring artist, getting discovered can be a monumental task. Someone pours their heart and soul into a piece of art and produces something meaningful, but how will it be noticed? "Everyone wants to be an artist these days, millions of 22-year-olds, and they all have this feeling that they can be the next Picasso," Darby Bannard, professor of painting at the University of Miami said.