NACOGDOCHES, Texas –  Want to spend part of the summer with Captain John Wesley Powell and his crew of nine crazy but loyal volunteers as they journey the course of the Colorado River and become the first “white men” to explore the Grand Canyon?

The School of Theatre at Stephen F. Austin State University will take audience members along on a wild adventure when it presents the play “Men On Boats” by Jaclyn Backhaus as part of the SummerStage Festival at SFA.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – It’s a play within a play.

That’s how Kristen Blossom, adjunct instructor in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Theatre, describes the SummerStage Festival presentation of the children’s favorite “Stuart Little,” a play based on the popular book by E.B. White and adapted by Joseph Robinette about the endearing mouse named Stuart Little who is born into an ordinary New York family.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Stephen F. Austin State University music faculty members Jacob Walburn, trumpet, James Pitts, piano, and Deb Scott, trombone, will present “Romantic and Contemporary Music for Trumpet and Piano” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, accessible on the School of Music’s website at music.sfasu.edu.

Works by Oskar Bohme, Brendan Collins, Eric Ewazen, JN Hummel, Nathan Ost, Joseph Turrin and Justin Writer will be performed.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – It was the musical composition project that almost didn’t happen. Plans were in place. Then came a worldwide pandemic, a pregnant pianist with a clear delivery deadline, and an apocalyptic Texas snow storm on the weekend participants were scheduled for performing and recording.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The first Boys and Girls Club Art Show will be presented from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 19, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

The show is part of an ongoing collaboration between art education students at Stephen F. Austin State University and the Nacogdoches membership of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Deep East Texas. On display will be artwork created as a result of art education student-lead art lessons presented at the Boys and Girls Club since March.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — Have you ever felt as though you were being watched? If so and you were a mammal roaming the 2,560-acre Stephen F. Austin Experimental Forest during fall 2019, your suspicions likely were correct.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – Despite the obstacles created by Mother Nature and a worldwide pandemic, construction and renovation work at Griffith Fine Arts Building on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus continues to move forward.

This summer, those passing the building situated on the corner of North and East College streets will see “a building rise from underground and new life be given to the existing structure,” according to Jessica DeWitt, project manager and assistant director of projects and construction at SFA.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas — For the past nine months, an SFA biology student has ignored unforeseen weather extremes and other hurdles to wade into the waters of Banita and Lanana creeks in search of a threatened fish – the Sabine shiner. The Southwestern Association of Naturalists recently recognized his efforts with the Student Field Natural History Award.
 
Zachary Hutchens, a senior from Nacogdoches, is conducting research to assess the status and habitat conditions of local populations of Sabine shiner in the Lanana Creek watershed.
 

NACOGDOCHES, Texas – The school year is over, and after a year of pandemic restrictions and limitations, East Texas residents are eagerly making plans for summer vacations and entertainment opportunities for their families.