Ron Raines

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Ron Raines, one of America's leading Broadway artists and Nacogdoches native, will be the featured vocalist in "Ron Sings Broadway," a benefit concert at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, in Mast Hall in downtown Nacogdoches. Proceeds will go toward the Strings Scholarship Fund in the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present Coleidoscope at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The annual faculty chamber music recital will feature "Romantic Quintets" by composers Theodore Dubois and Franz Schubert, according to Dr. Jennifer Dalmas, associate professor of violin and viola in the School of Music and an ensemble member.

Kerry Hughes

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Kerry Hughes, assistant professor of oboe at Stephen F. Austin State University, will perform a faculty recital at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 19, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

The recital is part of the SFA School of Music's Cole Performing Arts Series. Joining Hughes will be his wife, pianist Amanda Hughes, who is an active performer, accompanist and piano teacher in Tyler.

The SFA Press publication "The Road to Llorona Park" was recently named among NBC News' eight great Latino books of 2016. The book also was awarded the NACCS Tejas Fiction Book Award.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas -The recent Stephen F. Austin State University Press publication "The Road to Llorona Park" by Christopher Carmona has received two major accolades.

Chris Dempsey, senior garden technician for Stephen F. Austin State University's SFA Gardens, will host a public seminar aimed at teaching participants how to select, plant and prune native trees from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Jan. 28, at the SFA Pineywoods Native Plant Center, located at 2900 Raguet St.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - East Texas is blessed with an abundance of beautiful trees that thrive in southern landscapes.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The application process for the prestigious 2017 George and Peggy Schmidbauer Young Artist Competition at Stephen F. Austin State University is underway, and a number of potential contestants have submitted performance videos.

Dr. Brad Meyer

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts and School of Music will present Dr. Brad Meyer performing a faculty percussion recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 17, in Cole Concert Hall on the SFA campus.

Francisco Goya, Plate 13 from the "Disparate" series; "Modo de volar (Way to fly)," 1816-1823, will be featured in "The Collector Collects: Art from Private Nacogdoches Collections" showing in Griffith Gallery beginning Jan. 17.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Works from private Nacogdoches art collections will be featured in an exhibition that opens Jan. 17 in Griffith Gallery on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Seraph Brass Quintet will perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus as part of the College of Fine Arts' University Series.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - America's top female brass players will take the stage in a Stephen F. Austin State University College of Fine Arts' University Series performance at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 24, in W.M. Turner Auditorium on the SFA campus.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Topics ranging from discrimination in professional environments to poverty and race within the education system to the modern-day contextualization of Jesus will be discussed during the third annual Diversity Conference, to be held Saturday, Jan. 28, on the Stephen F. Austin State University campus.

Organized and hosted by SFA's Office of Multicultural Affairs, the conference gathers East Texas professionals, SFA students and faculty members, and the Nacogdoches community to join conversations about various diversity-related issues.