NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Registrations are now being accepted for the Summer Art Academy offered by the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art. The two-week camp will meet Monday through Friday, July 8 through 19, on the SFA campus.

Students in kindergarten through sixth grade may enroll in classes that include drawing, painting and sculpture.

"The academy offers an exciting introduction to the visual arts and an immersion into specific media," said Gary Parker, SFA art instructor and director of the academy.

SFA senior art major Caleb Rose, right, is the first recipient of the Charles D. Jones Art Scholarship recently established by the SFA Friends of the Visual Arts. Jones, who taught for 41 years at SFA, is now director and master printer for SFA School of Art's LaNana Creek Press.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The SFA Friends of the Visual Arts board recently established a scholarship in honor of Charles D. Jones, long-time Stephen F.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - The Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art and Friends of the Visual Arts will present a one-night screening of "Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Impassioned Eye" at 7 p.m. Friday, June 7, at The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House. The free screening is part of the School of Art's First Friday Film Series.

SFA SRT students, from left, Thaddeus Franklin of Dallas, Ben Smith of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Nathan Wackett of Crandall are seen in the video they recorded that was selected as one of the Top 10 finalists in this year's Folgers® Coffee jingle contest. Online voting for the winning jingle is May 15 through June 19.

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - We've all heard it. We've all sung along to it, or replayed it in our heads.

Dr. Kimberly Childs

Improving educational opportunities that lead to careers in science, technology and math will be the topic of an Alumni Lunch and Learn at noon Thursday at Crown Colony Country Club, 900 Crown Colony Drive.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - The SFA Gardens at Stephen F. Austin State University will host the monthly Theresa and Les Reeves Lecture Series at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 16, in the Agriculture Building, Room 110, at 1924 Wilson Drive.

Gary Frields

NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - For more than 26 years, former Professor of Art Gary Frields inspired and guided his art students at Stephen F. Austin State University.

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - SFA Gardens Research Associate Dawn Stover will host a miniature fairy garden workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, May 11, in Room 118 of the Agriculture Building on Wilson Drive.

Participants will create a magical, mystical miniature habitat designed for even the most particular fairy. Stover will assist the aspiring "gnomescapers" in creating a fairy garden of their very own. The workshop also will include instruction on making fairy garden accessories from items collected in the garden and from home.

Recent SFA graduates Lilly Kemp and Nathan Frischmann are settling into their "dream jobs" as health screens technicians at the renowned Cooper Clinic in Dallas. Photo courtesy of Cooper Clinic.

As graduate students in SFA's Department of Kinesiology and Health Science, Lilly Kemp and Nathan Frischmann both had their hopes riding on a job at the world-renowned Cooper Clinic in Dallas. A Facebook posting by a friend prompted Kemp to apply.

A 20th-century railroad advertisement

NACOGDOCHES, Texas - An exhibit opening this week at the Nacogdoches Railroad Depot will feature 20th-century railroad advertisements for the American West.