WT Event Roundup: Lovin’ the Arts, Stuart Book Signing, Liberty Roundtable

Copy by Chip Chandler, 806-651-2124, cchandler@wtamu.edu

CANYON, Texas — An opera fundraiser and concert, a book signing and a roundtable discussion on liberty are on tap over the next several days through various arms of West Texas A&M University.

Each demonstrates ways in which WT is responsive to the region’s needs, as laid out in the University’s long-term plan, WT 125: From the Panhandle to the World . That plan is being fueled by the historic, $125 million One West campaign.

Lovin’ the Arts

Patrons of WT Opera can get a free concert and tour of a new film studio in Amarillo at a fundraiser for the program.

Lovin’ the Arts will begin at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Sharpened Iron Studios, 1314 S. Polk St.

The evening will include a tour of the studio, followed by performances by Esquire Jazz and Opera Cowgirls, which includes Sarah Beckham-Turner, WT assistant professor of music and director of WT Opera.

Admission is free, but donations will support WT’s upcoming performances of “The Magic Flute” and “Gallantry.” RSVPs are requested.

For information, call 806-651-2840.

Claudia Stuart Book Signing

Claudia Stuart, a WT professor emeritus and 2021 Distinguished Alumni award winner, will sign copies of the third edition of her book “Poetry, Prose and Penguins.”

Stuart will sign books at 3 p.m. Oct. 26 on the first floor of WT’s Cornette Library.

“This signing is open to the WT campus community and the community at large,” Stuart said. “Students, in particular, are always seeking, and that’s what you need to appreciate poetry.”

Stuart also will have other books and her penguin paintings on porcelain tiles on hand.

For information, call 806-651-2229.

Remnant Trust Discussion

As part of the ongoing exhibition of texts on liberty through the Remnant Trust, WT Department of History will host a roundtable discussion featuring faculty and graduate students.

The discussion will begin at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in Legacy Hall in the Jack B. Kelley Student Center.

“At this concluding event for our Remnant Trust exhibition, all of the volumes will be available for viewing, and our panel will discuss selected authors, including Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and John Milton,” said organizer Dr. Bruce Brasington, the Twanna Caddell Powell Professor of History. “We expect that their points of agreement and disagreement will lead to lively discussion among the presenters and the audience.”

Participants are scheduled to include Brasington; Dr. Marty Kuhlman, WT’s Jenny Lind Porter Professor of History; Dr. Brian Ingrassia, associate professor of history; Dr. Matthew Reardon, associate professor of history; and Courtney Crowley, instructor of history. History graduate students Alexis Torres of Amarillo, Kirbi Kelly-Diaz of Amarillo and Katelyn Denney of Amarillo also will participate.

The Remnant Trust’s exhibition “The Theme Is Freedom,” cosponsored by WT’s Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities and the Department of History, will be on view in Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum’s Research Center and WT’s Cornette Library through Oct. 28. To reserve a time at the museum, contact Warren Stricker at wstricker@wtamu.edu. The volumes at the library may be viewed between 7:45 a.m. and midnight Mondays through Thursdays, 7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Saturdays, and 2 p.m. and midnight Sundays

For information, call 806-651-2426 or email bbrasington@wtamu.edu .

About West Texas A&M University

WT is located in Canyon, Texas, on a 342-acre residential campus. Established in 1910, the University has been part of The Texas A&M University System since 1990. WT, a Hispanic Serving Institution since 2016, boasts an enrollment of about 10,000 and offers 60 undergraduate degree programs, 40 master’s degrees and two doctoral degrees. The University is also home to the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, the largest history museum in the state and the home of one of the Southwest’s finest art collections. The Buffaloes are a member of the NCAA Division II Lone Star Conference and offers 14 men’s and women’s athletics programs.

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