Tickets are now on sale now for a performance by the venerable Lipizzaner Stallions at Western Carolina University. The famed “dancing white stallions” will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 15, at Ramsey Regional Activity Center on the WCU campus.
The thesis show by acclaimed potter Joel Queen, a Master of Fine Arts candidate at Western Carolina University, will be on view from Saturday, Dec. 6, through Wednesday, Dec. 31, at the Grove Arcade Arts & Heritage Gallery at 1 Page Ave. in downtown Asheville. A reception for Queen will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, at the gallery.
Richard Starnes, head of the history department at Western Carolina University, was appointed to the North Carolina Historical Commission.
Western Carolina University’s grants office announced more than $1 million in funding recently awarded to faculty and staff.
David Dorondo, associate professor of history, has been elected as an at-large member to the board of the North Carolina Association of Historians.
Noted Cherokee scholar Robert J. Conley, a prolific author with 80 books to his credit during a career spanning 40 years, is the new Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University.
