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The Music Preparatory Division of the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Music is accepting scholarship applications for its fall and spring classes for the 2019-20 academic year.

The music program features the study of a variety of musical instruments and choral techniques. Upper-level musicians as well as SFA faculty and students teach classes and private lessons.

Partial scholarships are awarded to music students based on need, according to Pat Barnett, Music Prep director. Application forms and information about the various programs offered are available on the Music Prep website at www.music.sfasu.edu/prep. Deadline to apply for scholarships is Aug. 1.

A Music Prep open house will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at 3028 Raguet St.

“New and returning students and their parents are invited to attend the open house at the Prep House to speak with faculty and to register for private and group lessons,” Barnett said. “Piney Woods Youth Orchestra auditions are on the same day of the open house, and auditions begin at 10 a.m.”

The Piney Woods Youth Orchestra will feature two separate ensembles this year – The Philharmonic Orchestra and The Chamber Orchestra, according to Alba Madrid, orchestra director. For more information about the audition process, contact Madrid at madrida@sfasu.edu.

Students may enroll for 16 private lessons or 12 private lessons for the semester. In addition to the Piney Woods Youth Orchestra, Music Prep offers an Intermediate Adult Piano Class, Music Theory Adventures for beginning and intermediate students, and the Raguet Strings adult ensemble.

Music Prep offers private music lessons in piano, harp, violin, Suzuki violin, flute, cello, trumpet, trombone, voice, percussion and more.

Private lessons begin the week of Aug. 19 for 16-week upper level faculty instruction and the week of Sept. 9 for 12-week SFA music major instruction.

The Music Prep office is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For additional information, call (936) 468-1291 or email musicprep@sfasu.edu. Visit the Facebook site at SFA Music Prep.

Open Meeting Notice

The Board of Regents of Stephen F. Austin State University will convene a special called two-day meeting Friday and Saturday in the Montgomery Room and San Antonio Room B at the Houston Airport Marriott at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, 18700 John F. Kennedy Blvd.

Agenda:

8 a.m. FRIDAY, July 19

CALL TO ORDER IN OPEN SESSION

The board will immediately move to executive session for consideration of the following item: Consideration of Individual Personnel Matters Relating to Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Assignment, Duties, Discipline, or Dismissal of an Officer or Employee, including but not limited to the president (Texas Government Code, Section 551.074) Presidential Search.

Estimated recess 9 p.m. The board will return to open session with no action expected.

8 a.m. SATURDAY, July 20

CALL TO ORDER IN OPEN SEESION

The board will immediately move to executive session for consideration of the following item: Consideration of Individual Personnel Matters Relating to Appointment, Employment, Evaluation, Assignment, Duties, Discipline, or Dismissal of an Officer or Employee, including but not limited to the president (Texas Government Code, Section 551.074) Presidential Search

Estimated recess 9:00 p.m. The board will return to Open Session with no action expected.

Where appropriate and permitted by law, executive sessions may be held for the above listed subjects (Section 551.071). Possible action may be taken in open session on matters considered in executive session. Further details regarding the posted agenda are available for public review in the Office of the Board of Regents, Austin Building 308, Telephone (936) 468-4048.

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The regents regularly scheduled quarterly board meeting begins on the SFA campus at 1 p.m. Sunday with an executive session expected to end at 5 p.m.

On Monday, Regents will convene in open session from 8 a.m. until approximately noon for meetings of the building and grounds committee and the academic and student affairs committee. After a 1:30 p.m. ground-breaking ceremony for the new Basketball Performance Center adjacent to Johnson Coliseum, regents will reconvene at 2 p.m. The afternoon schedule includes items to be discussed by the finance and audit committee and is expected to conclude at 4:30 p.m. The regents are expected to convene as a committee of the whole and will hear a report on the university’s strategic plan.

On Tuesday, the meeting will continue at 9 a.m. and is expected to end at 11 a.m.

For more information about the meetings, visit sfasu.edu/regents.

The 35th Watercolor East Texas juried exhibition will open with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, July 27, in The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.

This year’s juror is Houston artist Carla Gauthier, who is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society. She has degrees in fine art, art history and education. She is also a member of Canadian Society of Painters and Watercolor Art Society- Houston (WASH). She works in both watercolor and oils. She has received numerous awards on regional, national and international levels. Her paintings are in collections throughout Canada, United States and Europe.

Her artist statement: “Painting, for me, is an opportunity to make sense of an increasingly visual world. I get to enjoy the image making process, choosing the contrast, color and light that suit the subject at hand and the story being told. It is a pursuit which has its challenges and successes, but it is about the process, and the small gains made along the way.”

The exhibition runs through Aug. 25.

The Cole Art Center is located at 329 E. Main St. For more information, contact WET member Carol Athey at atheycj@sfasu.edu or call the art center at (936) 468-1131.

Watercolor East Texas (WET) was founded in 1983 by Reese Kennedy and other community artists to promote the knowledge and enjoyment of art, to expand the public appreciation of water media painting, and to stimulate art education. Membership is open to all water media artists. WET invites water media artists to attend a meeting and join this group of regional artists. Next meeting is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, in Regions Bank community room, 300 E. Main St., Nacogdoches.